Meeting:Board meeting 2008-07-29

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-07-29

Roll Call

Attendees: Tom Callaway, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Harald Hoyer, Jesse Keating, Bill Nottingham, Chris Tyler, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade

Codecs (2008-05-13)

• Need to restart discussion on fedora-advisory-board redhat com to get plans in place at the start of F10
• Chris Aillon to make contact with Bastien Nocera to find out what current plans are
• Waiting on bug 438225 to proceed
  • this change will enable auto-provide for codec information
  • For Fedora 10 removing Codeina and using the distribution's built-in mechanism to install packages (if 438255) is implemented
  • For Fluendo to continue to provide codecs to Fedora they will need to provide them as packages in a yum repo
  • This errs on the side of more "free-ish" software

RESOLUTION:

1. ACTION :: Paul - request feature page from developer
2. FESCo should track bug 438225 since this falls into their mandate

Updates (2008-07-15)

• Some board members are concerned that too many updates are being made to our stable releases

ACTIONS:

• Board request more information from FESCo on the following:
  1. Statistics from bodhi about the number updates and bugs fixed
  2. Regression statistics from bugzilla
  3. Is there a policy against updating shared library versions in stable releases?
• FESCo delivered statistics for updates
  • Are these updates skewed by new packages? (Spin-off issue, see "Package Reviews" below)
• Board to review update statistics and discuss before further consideration

Privacy Policy (NEW)

• Tom's draft has been at TomCallaway/PrivacyPolicyDraft for two weeks and comments have been handled
  • We cannot guarantee FAS submitted email addresses' privacy because an outside (non-@fp.o) email address must be used for Bugzilla
  • No retention clauses exist in the draft, people should be able to request a purge if they leave
• Voting application could be further refined to disconnect voting data from accounts
• Board to reconsider policy for a vote

1. ACTION :: Tom - Make change that allows email address to be public
2. ACTION :: Tom - Add a retention policy
3. ACTION :: Tom - Create Infrastructure ticket with details on decoupling voting data from account data

Package Reviews (NEW)

• Board wants to ensure FESCo is driving interest in package reviews
• Board also wants to ensure it is helping FESCo create an adequate basis for getting that additional contributor help
  • Queue is very lengthy, over 800 packages at last count
  • This may drive update statistics

RESOLUTION:

1. ACTION :: Paul - Request contributor to produce statistics for review queue on a regular basis in Fedora Weekly news
2. ACTION :: Karsten - On Docs team, drive priority wiki gardening of the packaging and package review guidelines to make contributor uptake easier

Education Spin (NEW)

• Education spin trademark usage approval requested here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-July/msg00141.html
  • Only Fedora software included
  • This spin is a partnership between previously disparate groups

RESOLUTION:

1. Board unanimously approves Education spin for use of "Fedora" marks.