Attendees

• Andrew Carr

• Colin Eberhardt

• Matt Richards

• Will Salt

• Antony Welsh

Minutes

Will Salt gave a summary of discussions held earlier around v1 release requirements

• A bug review determined that there are no outstanding bugs blocking the v1 release.

• The concept of "rules" will be removed from the profile schema before the v1 release.

• The only other outstanding feeature required for the v1 release is integration with Faker.

We discussed the likely v1 release schedule

• All agreed the project is now very stable and the release of v1 before the end of the year remains feasible.

• It was agreed the members of the steering committee should try the generator out prior to release.

  • ACTION: WS to update the online version of Data Helix and circulate details to the committee.

We discussed post-release promotion

• We agreed we should hold an internal demo following the release.

• We should also find a good internal project to trial it, and ensure all internal team leads are aware.

• Colin mentioned the difficulties of getting feedback from open source users and measuring the userbase size. He would like us to publicise the project's internals through blogging.

  • ACTION: WS to start drafting a blog post on an aspect of Data Helix internals.

• AC is keen to promote Data Helix to the South West England development community.

  • ACTION: AC to consider how best to demo Data Helix externally

• All agreed that after v1 has been released, we should start working on the roadmap of future features.