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From YouTube: Brigade Community Meeting -- 2022-01-04

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A recording of the Brigade Community Meeting on 2022-01-04

A

Hello, everybody and welcome to the brigade community meeting for january 4th 2022 not used to saying that yet um our first community meeting of the year- and we have a lot of interesting things to share today uh so I'll briefly bring up the agenda and.

A

Here we go, everybody can see that. Is it big enough.

B

A

Okay, so our um first item, which which I uh added at the last moment, just because I thought it was especially brag worthy- um you can now install the brigade, cli otherwise known as brig using homebrew. If you are on a mac- and I recently learned that you can also use homebrew on some linux distributions, so that's pretty cool too, um so that uh is kind of exciting it. Just you know I'm just kind of nerding out here, um oh- and I see uh I think bridget is editing the agenda right before my very eyes.

A

Thank you. um So, since we last met, um we did miss one regularly scheduled occurrence of this meeting because of the holidays. uh But since we last met we did have our first minor release of brigade2, so that was brigade v210.

A

um I want to address why we had a minor release only two weeks after the major release- um and it was you know basically that we've been following through on uh whipping each of the gateways into shape and, as we've been doing, that we have occasionally discovered a bug or the need for a feature, so that sends us back to brigade to get that taken care of.

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So in this case there was a minor feature that I really wanted released sooner rather than later, so that I could take advantage of it in the github gateway that I was working on um so brigadev220.

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We expect to be shipping later today, there's a blog post already um drafted and ready to go um about that, and once again it's a feature that we in this case wanted more so than needed, but it was also a critical bug fix. There will be more details on both of those in the blog post.

A

um So since we've had two minor releases in a very short period of time, I think it's worth you know addressing the plans or expectations in terms of release cadence. We don't at this time, have any preset release schedule that we're adhering to um it's pretty much releases are on an ad hoc basis.

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um So, as um you know, obviously we're voracious users of our own software.

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So as we find the need for features that we have already added that are sitting there in the the tip of the main branch, we're going to just go ahead and release so we'll see a lot of minor releases that are small batches of small incremental improvements, which is kind of just the way just the way we like it right, very low risk, um a few updates on um gateways, so the github gateway is the one where most of my attention has gone up to this point, because I feel it's probably our most important gateway.

A

It's certainly the gateway that internally we have exercised the most. So we personally get a lot of bang for our buck by working on that and making it just as awesome as it possibly can be, but I think that this can probably uh go ga within the next couple of weeks. um Also arturo, who is a um a cloud? I'm sorry, uh not arturo, it's um jorge, who is a cloud developer advocate, um has contributed a chrome gateway, um so that just needs.

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um You know the uh the edges sanded a little bit, but mostly it's. It's really good, pretty awesome and I believe he's uh donating that and we'll move it over to the brigade core organization um shortly. The only other announcement that's actually on the agenda is something that uh nobody really planned, for. It was just a sort of a happy accident. um When we developed the plan for brigade v2, we did not make any uh specific plans regarding porting koshi, which is the web ui from v1x over to v2.

A

There was no specific plan for that. However, over the break I started, learning react just because my front-end development skills have atrophied to a frankly pitiful state, so I felt the need to um you know read up on that stuff and I I was finding reacts to be um so wonderfully easy um that I said hey.

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Why not just have a go at implementing kashti um a v2 compatible kashti, that is with react and it's um coming along uh at a very quick pace actually, but I am new to react so uh you know if anybody has uh more experience with it than I do anyone in the community.

A

I would be very grateful for help. I promise I don't set the bar very high in terms of react knowledge, so anybody who's done anything with it probably knows more than I do.

C

Can I interrupt oh yeah and- and you can contribute too, if you want, contribute actual contributions? Far be it from me. I know a bunch of react specialists, and uh so, if you, you know want me to wire them up and maybe they're bored in the new year, they're all refreshed and energized, you.

A

Know possible that would be welcome and awesome.

C

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I'll do that yeah. So so um you know for for the moment, I have it on the the back burner and I'm working on it just as time allows because it never was part of the original plan, but I'm still happy to say that it is now a thing that will materialize fully at some point.

A

Oh and ralph you're going.

C

Bye-Bye, it was nice to see you happy new year. I'm sorry I didn't show up in the very very beginning, but uh busy busy. I just wanted to say hi to everybody and see how things were going so I'll watch the rest of it later all right. Thanks ralph.

A

Chris, so that covers the whole agenda, um and usually we have time set aside for questions from the community as well. um Is there anything that uh anybody else would like to bring up bridget or karen.

A

Come on, don't let me off the hook that easy.

D

um I mean I, I guess I have a question, but we're like we are. We also have a meeting on thursday, but I want to make sure it's something we need like um what? Where are we with like docs and like someone uh bridget free contacts like someone from the aks docs team reached out and they're like hey, like I'm, trying to see, if like it makes sense for us to help.

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D

um Because they're trying to do more open source work, so I'm wondering like- or maybe we should start thinking about like what, if and what we want help with in terms of docs, if that's even a place that needs looking at right now,.

A

Yeah I mean I mean, in my opinion,.

D

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Documentation is one of those things that's never done and can.

D

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Be improved, so you know absolutely absolutely positively. Yes, if, if anybody is volunteering, help with the docs, oh my god, yes, yeah.

D

Okay, cool um yeah just want to get the ball rolling on that um cool.

A

Awesome so that so, though, that's two very nice pleasant surprises that we can maybe get help with docs and we can maybe get help with react so so cool. I'm glad. I came.

A

All right: well, I guess that's it, so uh I believe, let's see the next regularly scheduled occurrence of this would be two weeks from today. So I think that's january 18th, um so we will tentatively see everybody then, but there is a possibility that we will change the day or the time of this. We will of course make sure that we announce that. um That's because jorge um has um noted a lot of interest from uh collaborators that that he has worked with. Who are um international he's got some people in brazil.

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He's got some people in australia. So if we move the time we might be able to accommodate a wider number of time zones. So that's something we're not committed to yet, but looking into.

B

All right sounds good.

D

B

D

For that, or is there just like a clear time that should work for people.

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um We're we're still kind of working it out, um because I I need to look at all the time zones involved and I think that um we might have to move the day as well, because if, if we find a time that works for most people, it might not still work on tuesday for, for myself at least um because tuesday's a busy day for me, so thursdays or wednesdays might possibly be better I'll I'll I'll talk to both of you about it as well, because I don't want to exclude anybody who's already regularly attending um so all right cool.

A

Well. Thank you. Both very much and I'll see you on the internet.