[Zope-dev] Minutes from this weeks meeting

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On 04/16/2010 05:18 PM, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:31:32PM +0200, Christian Theune wrote:
>> On 04/15/2010 11:27 PM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>> On 2010-4-15 17:59, Christian Theune wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> here's the minutes. As I've been adventurous, I'll add a few comments:
>>>>
>>>> * I've started diving into the matter of how to manage items that we
>>>> park/defer/postpone/wait for and thus started using an online system.
>>>> (The only one I was able to find anyway.)
>>>>
>>>> * The output is a PDF which is currently a bit messy as I wanted to get
>>>> rid of my text files that had the open issues sitting in there and
>>>> thus had to add all of them to our agenda on Tuesday and then defer
>>>> them. I think next week will become less noisy.
>>>
>>> Will next week be text again?
>>
>> Probably not - the system currently only allows for PDF output, but I've
>> mailed them a question about getting plain text.
>
> I've attached the output of pdftotext (from xpdf-utils on a debian
> system) Seems pretty clean to me. Long lines aren't wrapped (a quick
> pass through fmt seems to do little damage, though: attached as well).
>
> I'm a great fan of the IRC meetings and the notes, by the way: any tool
> that helps you get these done is a good thing.  However, text is so much
> more flexible for these reports to the list: the followup quoting issue
> alone is a big one.

Yeah, I looked through the pdftotext output earlier today as well and 
figured that I can probably get away with it and a little automated 
cleanup. I'll try that the next time.

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