Meeting:Board meeting 2008-02-12

= 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

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)

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

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