Meeting:Board meeting 2008-02-12
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Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-02-12
Roll Call
Attendees: Paul Frields, John Poelstra, Chris Aillon, Mike McGrath, Steve Dickson, Matt Domsch, Dennis Gilmore, Karsten Wade, Jef Spaleta, Seth Vidal, Bill Nottingham, Bob McWirther
Followup to Previous Business
fedora-board-list (2008-02-06)
- Recalibrating list membership to only include Fedora Project Leader, current board members, and board secretary
- Make sure conversations involving others happen on fedora-advisory-board-list
- OWNERS: Max Spevack & Paul Frields
- RESOLUTION: completed
Publican (documentation-devel) Update (2008-01-13)
- IRC meeting on 2008-02-13 with Red Hat Docs team and Fedora Docs team
- Demo of what publican can do and how Fedora might want to use it
- 2008-02-14 02:00 UTC
- freenode.net #fedora-docs
- OWNERS: John Poelstra and Paul Frields
Status of FUDCon Survey
- Results available at http://www.keysurvey.com/report/185839/-1/2bea
- OWNER: Paul Frields
- ACTIONS:
- Other types of analysis are available upon request
- Paul will add information about the survey to the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Surveys
- Paul to work with Community Architecture Team (Greg, Max, and Jack) to create a survey in advance of FUDCon Boston 2008 that it can be administered at the event
Fedora Account System (2008-02-06)
- Discussion with Mike McGrath
- Ricky and Mike are working on FAS2
- Targeting completion before Fedora 9 beta
- User authentication
- using ldap at this point being as ldap neutral as possible
- exploring and keeping options open for an openID implementation in the future
- Using turbogears
- signing the CLA will done through a web page if pending legal approval that this is sufficient
- Discussed CLA and need for ssh and gpg keys and if a lighter weight approach is possible in the future
- Infrastructure needs a design document if we are able to go that route in the future
- OWNER: Paul Frields
- ACTIONS
- Review past legal guidance on CLA usage
- Meet with legal if deemed necessary
Timeliness & Format of Board Minutes (2008-01-29)
- Will seek to alleviate concerns raised on fedora-advisory-board-list@redhat.com by holding public meetings
- Once each month
- Targeted start date March 2008.
- ACTIONS:
- Talk to Mike McGrath and Infrastructure team to determine technical hurdles
- Engage community to help overcome technical hurdles
- OWNER: Paul Frields
- FOLLOWUP on 2008-02-12
- Mike McGrath attended board meeting
- Still need to get kinks out of Asterisk service before having a large town hall meeting
- If want to meet March 2008 date would need to re-prioritize tasks of infrastructure team
- RESOLUTION:
- Board voted to hold IRC based town hall meeting on 2008-03-18
- Board voted to revisit possibility of an audio town meeting for 2008-04-15, though this could be impacted by upcoming release of Fedora 9
Post-release updates of custom spins (2008-01-29)
- Should the board have to approve them?
- We will hosts as many spins as we have space for
- Need to determine the hosting requirements and limits
- How long will spins stay around?
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/SpinsProcess
- ACTION: Jef to review Rahul's proposal and report back to board
- OWNER: Jef Spaleta
- FOLLOWUP on 2008-02-12
- Jef is waiting for feedback from Jeremy Katz on release engineering's perspective
- Reference: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2008-feb-11
- People are still not clear on exactly what is required to create an official "Fedora Spin"
- Need a clear list of guidelines of what a spin owner is responsible for and what they are required to test
- Hoping a test will come from Jeremy Katz as part of feedback from release engineering
- We are only talking about spins that use GA packages, thus testing for GA should have given us enough comfort that risk is minimized
- We only need to be concerned with new combination of packages that a spin would present
- ACTIONS & OWNERS:
- Paul Frields--followup with Fedora Release Engineering and QA contingent to discuss testing requirements
- Jef Spaleta to formulate specific guidelines for review prior to or at next board meeting (dependent on feedback from release engineering)
New Business
LWN 10th Birthday
- Board voted to make contribute to LWN in commemoration of its 10th birthday
- Contribution went toward purchasing 75 subscriptions which start on March 1, 2008
- In the future (when there is more lead time) look into ways to use things like this as rewards for strong Fedora leadership and community participation
- OWNER: Jef Spaleta
- ACTION: Jef to followup Max Spevack who made original arrangements and then post to fedora-advisory-board list soliciting feedback on the best way to create a lottery to give these out to Fedora people who can use them.
Meeting Quality
- How are we doing?
- Tracking previous business is a positive improvement that helps us focus on things that need to get done
- Sometimes get too carried away discussing the implementation details of technical topics
Future Business (discuss at a future meeting)
Google Start Page
- Project has changed ownership within Red Hat to Greg Dekoenigsberg
- Update on status of the project and where it goes from here
- OWNER: Paul Frields
- ACTION: Invite Greg to next meeting, currently scheduled for 2008-02-19 at 14:00 EST
Next Meeting
- TIME: 14:00 EST
- DATE: Tuesday, 2008-02-19
