Meeting:Board meeting 2012-02-29

Fedora Board Meeting, 2012-02-29

• Secretary: Jaroslav Reznik
• Meeting Type: Phone

Attendees

• Robyn Bergeron
• Peter Robinson
• Jaroslav Reznik (gobby only, still trying)
• Jon Stanley
• Christoph Wickert
• Toshio Kuratomi
• Rudi Landmann
• Rex Dieter
• Guillermo Gomez

Regrets

• David Nalley

Agenda

• Trademark guidelines updates
• Google Summer of Code - thoughts? Mentor org apps due March 9, need a wrangler/leader/noisemaker
• Review of Board member goals: Rudi and David
• Ticket #130: Make the board less of a single point of failure: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/130
• Ticket #133: Fedora LTS and a single rapid release proposal: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/133

Meeting Notes

• Trademarks update
  • No update at the moment

• GSoC
  • How many people did we have last summer?
  • We need someone (or more than one) who is happy to commit for the full duration of the program
  • Robyn to write blog post about needing a volunteer to wrangle GSoC, get time estimate from Karsten by tomorrow
  • Gomix will try to involve some people from rpmdev latam area (Nushio was at GSoC last year AFAIK)

• Board Goals
  • Going to write these up on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_personal_goals

• • Rudi
    • Help to streamline the docs publishing process
    • Process is somewhat cumbersome
    • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Automating_publishing
    • Multifaceted including a number of teams
    • Focusing on procedural
    • Infrastructure - hw requests, testing etc.
    • Gomix working on new docs in not english as first language, just as a reminder on procedures for such kind of documents (as SMG).

• • Rex
    • Try to sponsor over the next release cycle sponsor/mentor 3 new contributors
    • Small goal due to time contraint with aim for quality new contributors

• • Christoph
    • the question is - how to make the three different election guidelines more streamlined, to have one common guideline (from the Board member perspective)
    • to have someone from FESCo to cooperate on this task, Christoph to go with FAmSCo

• Ticket #130 - The Board less of a single point of failure
  • Toshio added a section on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/sopa-post-mortem
  • He's busy until March 15th, will fill it in then or someone else can work on it first

• Ticket #133 - Fedora LTS and rolling release
  • sounds like a question whether Red Hat would be interested to help with?
  • LTS for Fedora versions that will become RHEL later (but not overlapping with RHEL?)
  • What is the question to put to Red Hat?
  • What would Red Hat be willing to provide towards implementing a Fedora LTS?
    • More hardware to Fedora for hosting packages, building, etc?
    • More infrastructure system admins to maintain the hardware?
    • Pay engineers to work on their packages throughout the lifecycle of the LTS?

• Ticket #80 - Ways to improve Board Q&A
• Ticket #89 - Discuss possible support burden from Fedora Remixes
  • very old ticket, close and ask Jóhann for more input

• There are several TM tickets

• https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/117 - Suggestion regarding to Fedora on Launchpad.net
  • Christoph to take the ticket to contact Launchpad again to clarify the use of it

• https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/83 - revisit updates vision
  • the idea was to revisit update vision language after a release/two (how does it work)
  • "... only fix bugs and security issues" language, reported by Rex

Open Floor

• CoC enforcement
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement
  • open ended to be flexible, case by case

• Robyn will be gone for next week's IRC meeting
  • Jaroslav Reznik will run next week's IRC meeting
• Toshio will be gone for the next two weeks

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be IRC on 2012-Mar-07 at 18:30UTC.