Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20080320

2008 March 20 FESCo Meeting

Members

Present

• Brian Pepple (bpepple)
• Jason Tibbitts (tibbs)
• Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
• Bill Nottingham (notting)
• Warren Togami (warren)
• Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
• Jesse Keating (f13)
• Josh Boyer (jwb)
• David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
• Jeremy Katz (jeremy)
• Tom Callaway (spot)

Absent

• Christian Iseli (c4chris)
• Christopher Aillon (caillon)

Summary

Bugzappers proposals

• FESCo approved a proposal to clear out bugs for unsupported versions. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra/BugzillaExtremeMakeOver
  • For: notting, bpepple, jeremy, warren, f13, tibbs, nirik, jwb
  • Against:
  • Abstain: dgilmore, dwmw2, spot

• FESCo also approved a proposal to apply a consistent process to open Fedora bugs. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
  • For: nirk, bpepple, notting, jwb, jeremy, warren, dgilmore, tibbs
  • Against:
  • Abstain: spot, dgilmore, dwmw2

Should packages(java, etc) enter Fedora w/o approved packaging guidelines?

• FESCo approved a proposal for the Fedora Packaging Committe (FPC) to determine when guidelines are needed for a type of packages, and will hold all such packages from entering until a basic set of guidelines is approved. *Please note that Java guidelines are up for approval at next week's FPC meeting.
  • For: bpepple, dwmw2, tibbs, nirik, f13, warren, spot, dgilmore
  • Against: jeremy
  • Abstain: notting, jwb

F9 Release Schedule

• Discussed whether the final release date for F9 needed to be slipped due to the recent slips in the Alpha & Beta release. Since no one from the QA was available during the meeting, it was decided that a decision would be made at next week's FESCo meeting.

F9 Features

• The following features were dropped from F9:
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Swfdec
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HandwritingRecognizer

IRC log can be found at: http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2008-03-20.html