Virtual Meeting on November 19, 2014

Attendees

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As a reaction to the discussion on the mailing list, initiated by Peter, participants tried to figure out how to improve development procedures for porting efforts.
Agreement was made that the wiki page on Development Procedures (2019-01-16: moved to CONTRIBUTING.md) should state that porting for a new board should always require to create a wiki page for this board first.
This wiki page should then point to an issue in the tracker coordinating porting tasks.
For maximum visibility, a pointer to this information should be put into the README and on the wiki start page.
Peter volunteered to add this information and pointers - by a PR and/or mailing list.

Oleg proposed to create a release branch, where we can already merge some pending PRs (particular the network refactoring ones) for early testing.
Hauke counter-proposed to have this branch not in the RIOT repository, but in Martine's fork.
Participants agreed on Hauke's solution - assuming that Martine will agree, too.

Referring to #1724 and #2012 it was discussed if the flash target should depend on all or not.
Consensus was made that this would be most logical.
However, it would be nice to specify different file names for one application to make it possible to flash different versions of an application.

Peter pointed to #2021 and asked for comments.
Consensus was made that having this meeting every two weeks is good.
For the upcoming Hack'n'ACK party in Berlin, we'll try to connect with a similar event in Hamburg using PlaceCam over a single video conferencing setup (mic, speakers, cam, screen) per site.
Minutes of these meetings should go into the wiki (sic!). For the next meeting we'll have to agree on a minute taker before the meeting starts.