http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-02-12
== Roll Call ==
Attendees: Paul Frields, John Poelstra, Chris Aillon, Mike McGrath,
Steve Dickson, Matt Domsch, Dennis Gilmore, Karsten Wade, Jef Spaleta,
Seth Vidal, Bill Nottingham, Bob McWirther
== Followup to Previous Business ==
=== fedora-board-list (2008-02-06) ===
* Recalibrating list membership to only include Fedora Project Leader,
current board members, and board secretary
* Make sure conversations involving others happen on
fedora-advisory-board-list
* OWNERS: Max Spevack & Paul Frields
* RESOLUTION: completed
=== Publican (documentation-devel) Update (2008-01-13) ===
* IRC meeting on 2008-02-13 with Red Hat Docs team and Fedora Docs team
* Demo of what publican can do and how Fedora might want to use it
* 2008-02-14 02:00 UTC
* freenode.net #fedora-docs
* OWNERS: John Poelstra and Paul Frields
=== Status of FUDCon Survey ===
* Results available at http://www.keysurvey.com/report/185839/-1/2bea
* OWNER: Paul Frields
* ACTIONS:
* Other types of analysis are available upon request
* Paul will add information about the survey to the wiki at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Surveys
* Paul to work with Community Architecture Team (Greg, Max, and
Jack) to create a survey in advance of FUDCon Boston 2008 that it can be
administered at the event
=== Fedora Account System (2008-02-06) ===
* Discussion with Mike McGrath
* Ricky and Mike are working on FAS2
* Targeting completion before Fedora 9 beta
* User authentication
* using ldap at this point being as ldap neutral as possible
* exploring and keeping options open for an openID implementation in
the future
* Using turbogears
* signing the CLA will done through a web page if pending legal
approval that this is sufficient
* Discussed CLA and need for ssh and gpg keys and if a lighter weight
approach is possible in the future
* Infrastructure needs a design document if we are able to go that
route in the future
* OWNER: Paul Frields
* ACTIONS
* Review past legal guidance on CLA usage
* Meet with legal if deemed necessary
=== Timeliness & Format of Board Minutes (2008-01-29) ===
* Will seek to alleviate concerns raised on
fedora-advisory-board-list@xxxxxxxxxx by holding public meetings
* Once each month
* Targeted start date March 2008.
* ACTIONS:
* Talk to Mike McGrath and Infrastructure team to determine
technical hurdles
* Engage community to help overcome technical hurdles
* OWNER: Paul Frields
* '''FOLLOWUP on 2008-02-12'''
* Mike McGrath attended board meeting
* Still need to get kinks out of Asterisk service before having a
large town hall meeting
* If want to meet March 2008 date would need to re-prioritize
tasks of infrastructure team
* RESOLUTION:
* Board voted to hold IRC based town hall meeting on 2008-03-18
* Board voted to revisit possibility of an audio town meeting for
2008-04-15, though this could be impacted by upcoming release of Fedora 9
=== 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 2008-02-12'''
* Jef is waiting for feedback from Jeremy Katz on release
engineering's perspective
* Reference:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2008-feb-11
* People are still not clear on exactly what is required to create
an official "Fedora Spin"
* Need a clear list of guidelines of what a spin owner is
responsible for and what they are required to test
* Hoping a test will come from Jeremy Katz as part of feedback
from release engineering
* We are only talking about spins that use GA packages, thus testing
for GA should have given us enough comfort that risk is minimized
* We only need to be concerned with new combination of packages
that a spin would present
* ACTIONS & OWNERS:
* Paul Frields--followup with Fedora Release Engineering and QA
contingent to discuss testing requirements
* Jef Spaleta to formulate specific guidelines for review prior
to or at next board meeting (dependent on feedback from release engineering)
== New Business ==
=== LWN 10th Birthday ===
* Board voted to make contribute to LWN in commemoration of its 10th
birthday
* Contribution went toward purchasing 75 subscriptions which start on
March 1, 2008
* In the future (when there is more lead time) look into ways to use
things like this as rewards for strong Fedora leadership and community
participation
* OWNER: Jef Spaleta
* ACTION: Jef to followup Max Spevack who made original arrangements
and then post to fedora-advisory-board list soliciting feedback on the
best way to create a lottery to give these out to Fedora people who can
use them.
=== Meeting Quality ===
* How are we doing?
* Tracking previous business is a positive improvement that helps us
focus on things that need to get done
* Sometimes get too carried away discussing the implementation details
of technical topics
== Future Business (discuss at a future meeting) ==
=== Google Start Page ===
* Project has changed ownership within Red Hat to Greg Dekoenigsberg
* Update on status of the project and where it goes from here
* OWNER: Paul Frields
* ACTION: Invite Greg to next meeting, currently scheduled for
2008-02-19 at 14:00 EST
=== Next Meeting ===
* TIME: 14:00 EST
* DATE: Tuesday, 2008-02-19
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