Meeting:Board meeting 2008-07-15

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-07-15 =

Roll Call
Attendees: John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Jef Spaleta, Seth Vidal, Harald Hoyer, Jesse Keating, Karsten Wade, Chris Tyler, Spot Callaway, Bill Nottingham,

Mingw
ACTIONS:
 * Cross compiling certain applications for Windows
 * Board is considering from a perspective of overall affect on Fedora Project
 * Leave technical details and implementation to FESCo
 * Fedora should be in support of furthering open source software even if it doesn't run on Linux
 * How far should this be taken?
 * Special casing each new instance of cross compiling
 * Board supports such an effort as long as it is self contained and separated from the main package respository
 * Board expresses concern on potential future resource issues
 * 1) Ask SIG to fill out request for resources with Infrastructure
 * 2) Karsten to start a new thread on fedora-advisory-board concerning trademarks

Release Stability
ACTIONS:
 * Some board members are concerned that too many updates are being made to our stable releases
 * Board request more information from FESCo on the following:
 * Statistics from bodhi about the number updates and bugs fixed
 * Regression statistics from bugzilla
 * Is there a policy against updating shared library versions in stable releases?