Meeting:Board meeting 2008-07-29

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-07-29 =

Roll Call
Attendees: Tom Callaway, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Harald Hoyer, Jesse Keating, Bill Nottingham, Chris Tyler, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade

Codecs (2008-05-13)
RESOLUTION:
 * Need to restart discussion on fedora-advisory-board redhat com to get plans in place at the start of F10
 * Chris Aillon to make contact with Bastien Nocera to find out what current plans are
 * Waiting on bug 438225 to proceed
 * this change will enable auto-provide for codec information
 * For Fedora 10 removing Codeina and using the distribution's built-in mechanism to install packages (if 438255) is implemented
 * For Fluendo to continue to provide codecs to Fedora they will need to provide them as packages in a yum repo
 * This errs on the side of more "free-ish" software
 * 1) ACTION :: Paul - request feature page from developer
 * 2) FESCo should track bug 438225 since this falls into their mandate

Updates (2008-07-15)
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?
 * FESCo delivered statistics for updates
 * Are these updates skewed by new packages? (Spin-off issue, see "Package Reviews" below)
 * Board to review update statistics and discuss before further consideration

Privacy Policy (NEW)

 * Tom's draft has been at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/PrivacyPolicyDraft for two weeks and comments have been handled
 * We cannot guarantee FAS submitted email addresses' privacy because an outside (non-@fp.o) email address must be used for Bugzilla
 * No retention clauses exist in the draft, people should be able to request a purge if they leave
 * Voting application could be further refined to disconnect voting data from accounts
 * Board to reconsider policy for a vote
 * 1) ACTION :: Tom - Make change that allows email address to be public
 * 2) ACTION :: Tom - Add a retention policy
 * 3) ACTION :: Tom - Create Infrastructure ticket with details on decoupling voting data from account data

Package Reviews (NEW)
RESOLUTION:
 * Board wants to ensure FESCo is driving interest in package reviews
 * Board also wants to ensure it is helping FESCo create an adequate basis for getting that additional contributor help
 * Queue is very lengthy, over 800 packages at last count
 * This may drive update statistics
 * 1) ACTION :: Paul - Request contributor to produce statistics for review queue on a regular basis in Fedora Weekly news
 * 2) ACTION :: Karsten - On Docs team, drive priority wiki gardening of the packaging and package review guidelines to make contributor uptake easier

Education Spin (NEW)
RESOLUTION:
 * Education spin trademark usage approval requested here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-July/msg00141.html
 * Only Fedora software included
 * This spin is a partnership between previously disparate groups
 * 1) Board unanimously approves Education spin for use of "Fedora" marks.