Meeting:Board meeting 2011-10-18

= Fedora Board Meeting =


 * Meeting secretary: Toshio Kuratomi

Present
Jared Smith David Nalley Peter Robinson Jon Stanley Rex Dieter Toshio Kuratomi Rudi Landmann

Not Present
Guillermo Gómez

Regards
Jaroslav Reznik Joerg Simon

Fedora 16 Schedule

 * Have a test compose out.
 * Hopefully won't have to slip anymore (already slipped two weeks)

Vote 1: cwickert's proposal

 * jstanley -- don't want to set precedent about Board setting a team's internal workflow
 * jsmith -- cwickert specifically asked for Board "approval" and feedback

Decided that we'll vote on this as "we like" rather than "we approve". Spins wrangler/SIG has control over approval of their own workflow


 * Unanimously "liked" by the Board

Vote 2: whether to make the desktop/KDE spin go through the spin's process

 * Currently desktop and KDE do not go through process
 * Confusion about whether the kickstart is ready, wallpaper is what we intend, etc.
 * This would be a way to get a checklist of readiness into the process
 * Haven't seen much feedback from either design team or desktop team on list


 * Seems that Board is leaning towards approval as:
 * Fairness
 * Exercising the process will hopefully make sure the process works
 * Will hopefully keep some types of last minute readiness bugs out


 * jsmith will take this to the design team and desktop team mailing lists for feedback
 * Had taken to individuals on both teams and hadn't gotten feedback yet
 * notting was hesitant about this proposal (see fab list)

Discussion on a dedication for Dennis Ritchie

 * start.fp.o -- let's do it now
 * ask the websites team if they'd be willing to put something onto start.fp.o
 * also talk to translators about this
 * Release notes/Release announcement
 * In favor of doing this
 * translators if they're willing to do this
 * Release name
 * Seems like it involved a lot more work by different teams at a late date
 * Disenfranchises the people who voted for the name in the first place


 * #action jsmith to ask translators if they're okay with the two approved dedications

Elections Schedule
October 19-21: Announce election schedule, call for Town Hall volunteers October 25-November 5th: Nominations open (nomination period closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on the 5th) November 6-12: Organize town hall schedule November 6-12: Candidates answer questions, send responses to Wrangler November 12: Deadline for questionnaire responses from candidates November 13-14: Wrangler presents questioinnaire answers, posts to wiki November 15-22: Town Halls November 21-22: Finalize online voting application November 23-December 5: Voting Period (voting period closes promptly at 23:59:59 on the 5th) December 6: Announce results


 * Board agrees to this schedule

Other Notes

 * Next Board meeting will be a public IRC meeting on Tuesday, October 25th at 16:00 UTC