Minutes April 13th

[ellie timoney]

Oh, I also got Norbert Warmuth's patches from the mailing list into
phabricator:

https://git.cyrus.foundation/T157
https://git.cyrus.foundation/T158
https://git.cyrus.foundation/T159

They applied fine and they seem alright, but I'd like more eyes on them

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 12:33 PM, ellie timoney wrote:
> > We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code
> > work to c99 best practices.  First we need to make sure existing code
> > compiles with c99.
> 
> I came in on the tail end of this part of the conversation.
> 
> Yesterday afternoon I spent about half an hour doing a first pass
> towards getting it compiling with -std=c99 (it didn't end up being a
> trivial set of changes so I backed it out without even a local commit)
> 
> Things that become interesting with a strict -std=c99 compile are common
> things like strdup() not being strictly part of c99, but rather POSIX or
> BSD things (so you need a #define __USE_BSD or whatever somewhere
> appropriate).   strcasecmp and strncasecmp (both of which we use quite a
> bit) need to be included from strings.h rather than string.h (the latter
> usually automagically includes the former, but not in strict c99 mode).
> 
> Targetting -std=gnu99 was easier, from memory I only had to add
> strings.h to the files using str[n]casecmp to get it building
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > Present: Bron, Jeroen, Ken, Matt, Simon, Ellie
> > 
> > Anthony has resigned from the Cyrus Foundation due to personality
> > conflicts and cultural mismatch with the team.  I have reverted the
> > commits that happened during the week that I was was away, and then
> > cherry-picked the ones that I was satisfied were stable or easily
> > fixable.
> > 
> > We still plan to go ahead with simplifying the configure script - but
> > we'll do it as small, testable changes and make sure they keep working
> > with our target plaforms and don't block everyone else's workflow.
> > 
> > We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code
> > work to c99 best practices.  First we need to make sure existing code
> > compiles with c99.
> > 
> > Ken: has a bunch of commits almost ready to go, but just needed to track
> > down one more bug first.
> > 
> > Matt: has been away for a month, moving and had a good holiday.  Welcome
> > back.  Is going to work on cleaning up lib/ - working with Jeroen to make
> > sure it all works with the configure changes.
> > 
> > Ken: libical - almost everything currently used by Cyrus in is libical
> > git.  There's a bug on nonsense recrurrence startdate which causes it to
> > spin forever - needs to be fixed.
> > 
> > Ellie: new sync code on master.  Will back it out from 2.5 for 2.5.1
> > release - probably tomorrow.
> > 
> > Bron: got it compiling with clang.  Bugfixes for some issues at FastMail.
> >  Master is on FastMail testing now, with Ellie's changes.  Worked
> > together to make sync backwards compatible back to 2.4.  Planning to ship
> > master code to FM production tomorrow if issues with dav database can be
> > tracked down.
> > 
> > We have a potential new programmer who applied to FastMail at just the
> > right time, and is interested in working on Cyrus.  He's a programming
> > student in France.  Bron and Pierre to Skype interview during the week. 
> > Hoping to meet in person while Bron is in Europe in early May.
> > 
> > Cyrus talk at openSUSE/Kolab summit: need to prepare Abstract and Bio -
> > Hans is on my case!
> > 
> > Due to the daylight savings changes squashing Europe closer to Australia,
> > the UTC 2200 time doesn't work so well any more, so the next meeting will
> > be pushed later on Thursday:  2015-04-16T11:00:00Z.
> > 
> > Bron.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >   Bron Gondwana
> >   brong at fastmail.fm