IRC community meeting summary (July 15)

* 2.7.5 release

We want to do another release soonish due to some pending security fixes. We're not 
sure the changes will be ready for next week, or whether we need another two weeks. 
Will need to reassess at the start of next week.

* Amount of open changes in the queue

Some discussion about the number of open patches (e.g. about 120 open changes in 
Gerrit). We definitely need to look into our processes again and how to spread all 
that work reviewing, testing, and integrating. Likely also a topic for the 2026 
Community Meetup in Paderborn. djpig is working on better documenting the current 
processes, see e.g. #1776 ("Start a new document CODE_CHECKLIST") in Gerrit.

* Coordinating big changes

A related discussion is how to handle big changesets (e.g. currently the multipeer 
changes from plaisthos and the oob changes from lev). There was some unhappiness 
that these changesets are dropped without sufficient context and that makes it hard 
to keep track of all the developments. One advise is that developers that want to 
have big (or many) changes merged are encouraged to write a mail to the mailing 
list to provide a "cover letter" for the patch set and a convenient place to 
discuss the overall direction without getting bogged down in the discussion of 
individual changes. We have lost this practice since not generally using mail-based 
patchsets anymore. That can be also a good opportunity to point out dicussions 
happening in PRs for the RFC document.

Regards,
-- 
  Frank Lichtenheld