P1076 Minutes from February 20, 2020

Attendees

Jim Lewis, Patrick Lehmann, Peter Flake, Ryan Hinton, Rob Gaddi, Ken Campbell, Peter LaDow

Meeting Discussion

• Review of items deferred from VHDL-2019 (see here)
  • Three previous items (LCS-2016-007a, LCS-2016-028, and LCS-2016-070) were marked for review for 202x
  • LCS-2016-002a through LCS-2016-026b were tagged as done otherwise or marked for review for 202x
• Reminder about updates to VITAL was mentioned. This is an item for 202x to consider/include.
• Discussion about the use of LaTeX
  • Jim noted the need for full context diffs for review, including the ability to do strikethrough and red text for changes.
  • Lots of discussion about the process to generate and revew LCS items, manage changes, generate drafts, etc.
  • There is a need for an administrator to manage the pull requests, merge, draft generation, etc.
  • Suggestion to create a document (perhaps the README.md in the Gitlab repository) with details, such as how source .tex files are organized, how to generate pull requests, branching strategies, etc.
  • Patrick demonstrated some tools, incluing MiKTek and TeXWorks

Next Meeting

Thursday March 5th, 202, 11 am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)

Comments

-- Peter LaDow - 2020-02-28