DNN TAG Meeting 01-15-2019

Participants: Daniel Valadas, Oliver Hine, Stefan Kamphuis, Peter Donker, Clint Patterson, John Cornelison, David Poindexter, Daniel Aguilera, Sebastian Leupold, Brian Dukes, Mitchel Sellers, Andrew Hoefling, Ash Prasad, Will Strohl, Daniel Aguilera, Matt Rutledge

1. Review and adoption of agenda

2. Approval of minutes from last meeting
3. Finished business / Reports / Announcements
   
   1. 9.3.0 RC0 is out
      Available at https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/releases/tag/v9.3.0-rc0
   2. Persona Bar Updates.
      Dependencies where all updated and modules fixed to support those.
   3. Guidance for Third-Party Developers.  
      Available at https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/156674/upgrading-persona-bar-components-for-dnn-93
4. Unfinished business / Status updates
   1. Testing.  
      Managed.com will give us a hand with testing. Please test 9.3.0 RC with new and upgraded sites, your preferred modules, etc. and report any issues.
   2. Evoq Compatibility/Development.
      Conversation with Ash regarding versioning and differences between Platform and Evoq, see https://www.dnnsoftware.com/docs/developers/product-versions.html  we also discussed showing the Platform version and Evoq version separatelly if ever the versions diverge. We discussed a possibility of revamping the installer. See RFC at https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/issues/2537
5. New business
   1. Next version (9.3.1 or 9.4.0)
      We are probably going with:

      9.3.1 stabilization release (bugs, minor UI issues, some Accessibility improvements, etc.)
      9.4.0 Persona Bar improvements (Accessibility, missing features,, things that we are not comfortable shipping in a stabilization release, etc.)
      10 Technology (Async, Cloud support for scheduler, etc.)
      Timelines will be discussed next week.

   2. 9.3.0 RC1 branch
      There is a release/1.7.0 for AdminExperience and release/9.3.0 in the other repos, please submit pull requests targeting those branches for things that need to go in 9.3.0
   3. Approvers, labels, milestones rules

      Please label pull requests and issues with either “bug” or “feature”, Also add “Noteworthy” if it is worth mentioning in the release notes. Always set a milestone before merging.

   4. AdminExperience versioning:
      We discussed a possibility of syncing the admin experience versions to allow updating them individually. There would be work to do in order to permit that such as updating the platform dependency version in each module and enabling the installer to skip packages older than the already installed one without failing. Modules also depend on the common bundle which could be a problem. We need to discuss this further but it looks like a longer term project.