Meeting:Board meeting 2011-03-29

= Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-02-29 =

Present
Toshio Kuratomi David Nalley Jaroslav Reznik (secretary) Stephen Smoogen Tom "spot" Callaway Jared Smith Jon Stanley

Regards
Máirín Duffy (leave of absense) Joerg Simon Rex Dieter (late, appointment)

Agenda

 * Schedule updates
 * Ways you can help

Slip the schedule a week before Beta

 * Decision to slip the schedule a week before the Beta due to NetworkManager 0.9 update
 * Link to the updated schedule is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule
 * FESCo granted an exception, rel-eng and QA asked for time to properly test intrusive changes
 * Beta 19 April, GA 24 May (assuming no more splits), TC1 today or tmrw

Ways you can help!

 * How contributors can help in getting ready for the Fedora 15 release
 * The docs team is always looking for help in getting the various beats of the Release Notes completed
 * The Marketing team is looking for people to help write feature profiles and help put together marketing materials for Fedora 15

F16 naming

 * Several things combined to mess up F16 naming schedule
 * The Board and FPL were slow in vetting the names
 * RH legal has taken longer to review the names
 * ACTION: jsmith to follow up with RH legal regarding the review of F16 name suggestions
 * ke4qqq to act as election wrangler this cycle (if no one else steps up)
 * http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-elections.html

FUDCon EMEA

 * FPL waiting to hear back from FAMSCo regarding FUDCon EMEA
 * Date discussed April 2nd
 * FAmSCo ticket #152

SXSW spin issues

 * abadger1999 asked how the Board is addressing the issues raised by the SXSW spin
 * spot informs:
 * the spin was generated by rel-eng
 * the art was generated by Fedora Design
 * the funding came from Community Arch (should be FAMSCo)
 * ke4qqq will update the thread with the message that the board is discussing and will plan to give another status update after next weeks call

Q&A

 * gholms: Thanks for doing all the board-y stuff for us all. :)
 * Tac asked for ability to set up install with /home on it's own partition to make upgrading "easier"
 * Board answered that this issue should be addressed by FESCo as a technical body
 * jjmcd_ wanted to thank jsmith for mentioning the beats. We get much higher quality prose when those the most familiar with the feature explan them
 * jds2001 asked if it is not a requirement that feature owners write up release notes for their features
 * jjmcd_ aswered yes, that is the expectation, but those relnotes are often omitted or not much more than a placeholder and we have lots changes that aren't features
 * rbergeron said she spot for release notes in the feature pages is often filled with one line of very, very basic information
 * jreznik said that sometimes it's not easy to write release notes before you have anything in hands and then...
 * rbergeron noted that this will likely be part of looking at doing feature process overhaul
 * Venemo asked what degree of Fedora branding or other changes (compared to upstream) will we see in F15's gnome-shell?
 * spot answered a custom background and some Fedora icons
 * jreznik said it is not a question for board but for gnome/design team
 * discussion continued on the topic how to make the transition easier for users
 * rbergeron wondered if having a small flyer/handout available at conference for folks along the lines of "getting started with Fedora/GNOME3" might be a good idea
 * hircus_work asked if is there a reason #fedora-desktop is in GimpNet and not Freenode?
 * jsmith answered because upstream gnome discussion happens there

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