= Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-02-29 = == Roll Call == === Present === Toshio Kuratomi David Nalley Jaroslav Reznik (secretary) Stephen Smoogen Tom "spot" Callaway Jared Smith Jon Stanley === Absent === === Regards === MÃirÃn Duffy (leave of absense) Joerg Simon Rex Dieter (late, appointment) == Agenda == * Schedule updates * Ways you can help == Slip the schedule a week before Beta == * Decision to slip the schedule a week before the Beta due to NetworkManager 0.9 update ** Link to the updated schedule is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule * FESCo granted an exception, rel-eng and QA asked for time to properly test intrusive changes * Beta 19 April, GA 24 May (assuming no more splits), TC1 today or tmrw == Ways you can help! == * How contributors can help in getting ready for the Fedora 15 release ** The docs team is always looking for help in getting the various beats of the Release Notes completed ** The Marketing team is looking for people to help write feature profiles and help put together marketing materials for Fedora 15 == F16 naming == * Several things combined to mess up F16 naming schedule ** The Board and FPL were slow in vetting the names ** RH legal has taken longer to review the names * ''ACTION'': jsmith to follow up with RH legal regarding the review of F16 name suggestions * ke4qqq to act as election wrangler this cycle (if no one else steps up) ** http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-elections.html == FUDCon EMEA == * FPL waiting to hear back from FAMSCo regarding FUDCon EMEA ** Date discussed April 2nd ** FAmSCo ticket #152 == SXSW spin issues == * abadger1999 asked how the Board is addressing the issues raised by the SXSW spin * spot informs: ** the spin was generated by rel-eng ** the art was generated by Fedora Design ** the funding came from Community Arch (should be FAMSCo) * ke4qqq will update the thread with the message that the board is discussing and will plan to give another status update after next weeks call == Q&A == * gholms: Thanks for doing all the board-y stuff for us all. :) * Tac asked for ability to set up install with /home on it's own partition to make upgrading "easier" ** Board answered that this issue should be addressed by FESCo as a technical body * jjmcd_ wanted to thank jsmith for mentioning the beats. We get much higher quality prose when those the most familiar with the feature explan them ** jds2001 asked if it is not a requirement that feature owners write up release notes for their features ** jjmcd_ aswered yes, that is the expectation, but those relnotes are often omitted or not much more than a placeholder and we have lots changes that aren't features ** rbergeron said she spot for release notes in the feature pages is often filled with one line of very, very basic information ** jreznik said that sometimes it's not easy to write release notes before you have anything in hands and then... ** rbergeron noted that this will likely be part of looking at doing feature process overhaul * Venemo asked what degree of Fedora branding or other changes (compared to upstream) will we see in F15's gnome-shell? ** spot answered a custom background and some Fedora icons ** jreznik said it is not a question for board but for gnome/design team ** discussion continued on the topic how to make the transition easier for users ** rbergeron wondered if having a small flyer/handout available at conference for folks along the lines of "getting started with Fedora/GNOME3" might be a good idea * hircus_work asked if is there a reason #fedora-desktop is in GimpNet and not Freenode? ** jsmith answered because upstream gnome discussion happens there == IRC Log == * [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2011-03-29/fedora-board.2011-03-29-16.00.log.html Full IRC log text] * [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2011-03-29/fedora-board.2011-03-29-16.00.html Meetbot summary] _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
