Meeting:Board meeting 2008-02-12

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 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@redhat.com 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