sc-dev Meeting Minutes

Hey all,

Thanks to everyone who attended the sc-dev meeting! Minutes of the meeting
are below. You can find archived minutes from all our meetings on our
GitHub wiki page:
https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/wiki/Dev-Team-Meeting-Minutes

The next meeting is planned for the weekend of WEEKEND_DATES. A meeting
time poll will be sent out early in the week. If you'd like to attend but
our usual meeting times aren't good for you, respond to this thread or
email me privately and we'll try to work something out! We are always
interested in getting new people involved in the development community.

Regards,
Brian

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Meeting Minutes 2020-03-29

Members present: Brian H, James S, Nathan H, Marcin P, Patrick D, Clare M,
Tejaswi P

3.11.0 release:
- Josh P will make new sc3-plugins release and source tarball for sc 3.11.0
as soon as possible

3.11.1 release:
- #4703 close to merge
- #4583 waiting on Brian's review
- discussed Wayland issue
- discussed cherry-picking
    - Nathan suggested documenting git process w/branches in readme
- #4826 - no progress yet, will revisit

Patrick brought up #4136 GPU issue on macOS

3.12.0:
- Nathan suggested we should make sure we decide on / have at least one new
big feature before making a minor release
- RFC process needs a bit of a kick-start
- Patrick wanted to have a release in <1 year
- Clare talked about her experience with release schedules
    - what worked: commit to a regular release schedule (quarterly at her
work)
    - just release whatever is available (could be patch or minor)
- discussion about release schedules & universities
    - more frequent releases => departments install more recent versions

other:
- Nathan would like to release some new (personal) UGens soon
- Clare would like to start contributing again in the next few months
- Patrick wants to help with the sc3-plugins release
- discussed anxiousness about reviewing
- discussed review behaviors and commit messages