2020-04-16 Meeting notes

Old Business

• Developer Onboarding wiki pages for review and enhancement - /wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/894533891
• Rubocop - Keep this on a the agenda but currently no activity
• Dave - Anything from the Ad Hoc API group
• Steve -investigating other database backends other than mysql
• Mark and Lora - Exploring front end tests and how to improve
  • Where do we want to document this?
    • In tech docs and the wiki?
• Decoupling tech docs from a release
• Open Calls
  • Can now be facilitated in slack but first will probably still be in Zoom
  • Online Forum participation (May 18-21)

Notes on testing:  

This can probably get removed as a standing item.  

The tests have been improved and are all working! 

Travis tests are still there but tests are also now run in GitHub actions.  Tests can be split for what GitHub calls "workflows," meaning front end, back end etc and you can elect to run a test on just one "workflow."

These tests should improve overall consistency.

By default the tests run heedlessly but you can configure this.

Tests work with Firefox and all but the front end test works with Chrome. 

You can monitor the status of your tests in slack.  The sidebar will turn green or red depending on if it passes or fails. 

Jessica will work to get this documented tech docs and will review the developer onboarding wiki pages to see what they say about testing and correct there. 

Takeaway: Tests can now be considered reliable and a pass should be considered required to move forward

New Business/Open Discussion

• Upcoming release and code freeze

The next release is tentatively scheduled for mid-May so a code freeze is expected at the start of May.  

If you think you will have trouble getting your assigned PRs reviewed and merged by then, this is totally understandable, just let Lora know as soon as you can.