Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20080320

= 2008 March 20 FESCo Meeting =

Present

 * Brian Pepple 	(bpepple)
 * Jason Tibbitts	(tibbs)
 * Dennis Gilmore	(dgilmore)
 * Bill Nottingham	(notting)
 * Warren Togami	(warren)
 * Kevin Fenzi 		(nirik)
 * Jesse Keating	(f13)
 * Josh Boyer		(jwb)
 * David Woodhouse     (dwmw2)
 * Jeremy Katz		(jeremy)
 * Tom Callaway		(spot)

Absent

 * Christian Iseli	(c4chris)
 * Christopher Aillon  (caillon)

Bugzappers proposals

 * FESCo approved a proposal to clear out bugs for unsupported versions. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra/BugzillaExtremeMakeOver
 * For: notting, bpepple, jeremy, warren, f13, tibbs, nirik, jwb
 * Against:
 * Abstain: dgilmore, dwmw2, spot


 * FESCo also approved a proposal to apply a consistent process to open Fedora bugs. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
 * For: nirk, bpepple, notting, jwb, jeremy, warren, dgilmore, tibbs
 * Against:
 * Abstain: spot, dgilmore, dwmw2

Should packages(java, etc) enter Fedora w/o approved packaging guidelines?

 * FESCo approved a proposal for the Fedora Packaging Committe (FPC) to determine when guidelines are needed for a type of packages, and will hold all such packages from entering until a basic set of guidelines is approved. *Please note that Java guidelines are up for approval at next week's FPC meeting.
 * For: bpepple, dwmw2, tibbs, nirik, f13, warren, spot, dgilmore
 * Against: jeremy
 * Abstain: notting, jwb

F9 Release Schedule

 * Discussed whether the final release date for F9 needed to be slipped due to the recent slips in the Alpha & Beta release. Since no one from the QA was available during the meeting, it was decided that a decision would be made at next week's FESCo meeting.

F9 Features

 * The following features were dropped from F9:
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Swfdec
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HandwritingRecognizer

IRC log can be found at: http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2008-03-20.html