Meeting:Board meeting 2008-03-18

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-03-18 =

Roll Call
Attendees: Matt Domsch, Karsten Wade, Paul Frields, Steve Dickson, John Poelstra, Seth Vidal, Bill Nottingham, Chris Aillon, Dennis Gilmore

Regrets: Jef Spaleta, Bob McWirther

Secondary Arch Hosting (2008-02-19)

 * Can Fedora host binaries for secondary architectures?
 * Change from original proposal
 * makes it easier to get new mirrors and use mirror manager
 * DECISION: board approves of Fedora hosting binaries for secondary architectures
 * FOLLOWUP 2008-02-26
 * Infrastructure group raising issue with lack of space
 * Are distribution methods a concern for growing secondary architectures?
 * OWNERS: Seth and Matt; Spot also assisting
 * ACTIONS: reach out to existing relationships and pursue storage opportunities
 * FOLLOWUP 2008-03-04
 * Seth to do more followup with BU--potentially 150G
 * Spot reports 450G from HP
 * RESOLVED on 2008-03-18
 * The board supports using resources for this purpose and leaves discretion for space usage to the Fedora Infrastructure group
 * The board also supports an infrastructure decision of 'sorry, can't do that now - not enough space' if that is the case too
 * Board members will continue to pursue additional opportunities for storage space with different vendors

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 2008-03-18
 * Jef was unable to attend today--deferred to next meeting.

Codeina (2008-02-26)
1. Review email thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-November/msg00050.html 1. Move discussion to fedora-advisory-board list to formulate a solution there 1. Propose patching out other for sale non-free plugins 1. Bill Nottingham to make sure that live spin includes codeina correctly 1. Three members absent 1. One abstention 1) What to do w/ codeina package? a) remove the orphaned package from Fedora" -- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/orphan b) include a new package to do what original intention was 2) What should guiding philosophies of the board and Fedora be?
 * Still not comfortable that we are pointing people to content that is not "Free and Open Source software"
 * Cannot suitably fix codeina in the Fedora 9 time frame
 * ACTIONS:
 * FOLLOWUP on 2008-03-11
 * Majority board vote in favor of patching out all other for sale non-free plugins leaving the freely available mp3 codec
 * Paul to check with codeina maintainer (Bastien Nocera) and Fluendo (Thomas Vander Stichele)
 * Paul to send followup to fedora-advisory-board-list
 * FOLLOWUP on 2008-03-18
 * Discussion of past week's events in blogs and fedora-advisory-board list
 * Several different philosophical viewpoints on the board
 * It appears that the board itself needs to further refine its philosophical beliefs
 * This should provide clearer guidance in the future for making decisions like this
 * Could we tie-in to marketing plan that marketing SIG is working to give greater focus and backing?
 * Impasse seems to center around "Free Software" vs. "Customer Usability"
 * Take discussion to fedora-advisory-board
 * Does the issue with swfdec-mozilla, on top of the community discontent, show that we are not having enough communication with FESCo?
 * We need to find the balance between FESCo issues and Board issues and make sure we're empowering them to decide matters when needed.

GPLv2 distribution

 * Fedora distributes under section 3a and not section 3b
 * ACTIONS:
 * Paul Frields to send link to Ambassadors providing guidance on compliance
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Distribution

Next Meeting

 * Date: 2008-03-25
 * Time: 14:00 EDT