Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20060309

Summary
Present from FESCo: thl, warren, ensc, thomasvs, scop, skvidal

Topics:


 * Mass rebuild of Extras for FC5


 * See http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status
 * most things rebuilt
 * if some of your packages do not build, and you won't fix them, you can announce them as orphans
 * the rest: leave the remaining things as they are and create bug reports for the rest
 * bug reports should be created by maintainers (who have time until next Thursday to do so)
 * ensc will see if he can recover his 2002 massmailer script for this purpose
 * scop to ask mschwendt to send a mail about all currently missing deps using repoclosure


 * branching of CVS for FC5


 * jeremy plans on doing this on Monday, list will be warned, repo will be locked. Jeremy will deal with the floodgates reliably and responsibly as decided by consensus.
 * orphaned packages might get their "devel" branches removed from CVS completely, but this will be discussed after FC5 is out


 * Kernel module standardization


 * xen changes were fine
 * buildsys issues still unclear
 * deferred to next week


 * Weekly sponsorship nomination


 * Toshio Kuratomi: accepted


 * Free discussion


 * scop asks for fedora-usermgmt noise stoppage, agreed upon but countered with request for solution