diff --git a/Meeting-Notes-from-Scrapy-1.0-release-on-March-5,-2015.md b/Meeting-Notes-from-Scrapy-1.0-release-on-March-5,-2015.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..365b5d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Meeting-Notes-from-Scrapy-1.0-release-on-March-5,-2015.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +## Catch up on March 5, 2015 + +_[Scrapy 1.0](/scrapy/scrapy/milestones/Scrapy%201.0) tickets review_ + +### Attendees +* Pablo Hoffman ([@pablohoffman](/pablohoffman)) +* Daniel Graña ([@dangra](/dangra)) +* Mikhail Korobov ([@kmike](/kmike)) +* Julia Medina ([@curita](/curita)) + +### Updates +* Python logging is nearly finished on [[WIP] Python logging](/scrapy/scrapy/pull/1060) PR +* We no longer have someone assign for Python 3 port + +### Decisions +* We’ll try to wrap 1.0 between this month (Q1 goal) +* New [Scrapy 1.1](/scrapy/scrapy/milestones/Scrapy%201.1) milestone for wanted issues that we’re not going to tackle for 1.0. + Issues moved to 1.1: + * [Centralized Request fingerprints](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/900) + * [Promote a new CrawlSpider that allows overriding \`parse\`](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/712) + * [Python 3 support](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/263) (mainly because of time concerns, it’s still a project idea for GSoC) +* New features for Scrapy 1.0: + * [allow spiders to return dicts instead of Items](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/1064) + * [Modules relocation](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/1063) + * [item_scraped signal is not fired when crawler is called via API](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/451) (we should check first this is in fact happening, and fix it since it’s related to the API changes) + +### Further work +* Send a poll (on the next Scrapinghub newsletter) for the name of the ‘extract_first’ feature for selectors in [xpath1, xpath_one or xpath_first](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/568). + Contenders: + * extract_one + * extract_first + * extract1 + * get + * first + * one + + After that merge [#624](/scrapy/scrapy/pull/624) PR (and close all related issues/PRs) with the winning name +* Assign someone to help with pending tickets, especially the documentation ones +* [Support relative urls better](/scrapy/scrapy/issues/548): for now, just add urljoin() to response. +* Continue with [[WIP] Changes to crawler API](/scrapy/scrapy/pull/873) (Assigned: Julia). There are two different tasks here: + * Clean up what’s currently developed, this is the intent of that PR + * Improve APIs usability. We should start with making examples on how we want to use the API as a library, and investigate their feasibility + +### Follow up +* Wed Mar 11, 2015 at 17:00 UTC \ No newline at end of file