FESCo meeting process

FESCo meeting process

This guide explains how to manage and run a FESCo IRC meeting. Many of the steps here could well apply to other groups that hold regular IRC meetings as well.

Pre-meeting

On Wednesday (or at least Thursday!) before the Friday meeting, do the following tasks:

1. First, check for any open issues:

https://pagure.io/fesco/issues

2. For each issue, make sure to check with and invite stakeholders who may not be CC'd in the issue. Consider deferring issue if stakeholders have not had adequate notice and are not available for discussion.

3. When an issue is ready for discussion, click on 'Edit Metadata' and add the 'meeting' tag.

4. You may want to ping the Change Wrangler to ask if there are any new Changes to discuss

5. Go through the report of 'meeting' issues, and add them to a copy of the template below.

https://pagure.io/fesco/report/meeting_agenda

6. Generate an email to the devel@lists.fedoraproject.org list with the following template:

 
Schedule for Friday's FESCo Meeting (2025-01-10)

 

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the
FESCo meeting Friday at 16:00UTC in #fedora-meeting on
irc.freenode.net.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto

or run:
  date -d '2025-01-10 16:00 UTC'


Links to all issues below can be found at: 
https://pagure.io/fesco/report/meeting_agenda

= Followups =

#topic #NNN Title of issue
.fesco NNN
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/NNN

= New business =

#topic #NNN Title of issue
.fesco NNN
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/NNN

= Open Floor = 

For more complete details, please visit each individual
issue.  The report of the agenda items can be found at
https://pagure.io/fesco/report/meeting_agenda

If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can
reply to this e-mail, file a new issue at
https://pagure.io/fesco, e-mail me directly, or bring it
up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note
that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting. 

Replace NNN with the issue numbers and add in Title of issues.

Sample:

Schedule for Friday's FESCo Meeting (2014-10-01)

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo
meeting Friday at 16:00UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto

or run:
  date -d '2014-10-01 16:00 UTC'

Links to all issues below can be found at: 
https://pagure.io/fesco/report/meeting_agenda

= Followups =

#topic sponsor request - sdake
.fesco 724
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/724

#topic Working Group Status Reports
.fesco 1221
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1221

= New business =

#topic F17 Feature: DIET - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F17_DIET
.fesco 751
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/751

#topic F17 Feature: Rework Live CD - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/ReworkLiveCD
.fesco 752
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/752

#topic F17 Feature: ABRT Backtrace Deduplication - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRTBacktraceDeduplication
.fesco 754
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/754

#topic F17 Feature: Font Configuration Tool - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FontConfigurationTool
.fesco 755
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/755

#topic F17 Feature: English Typing Booster - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/english-typing-booster
.fesco 756
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/756

= Open Floor = 

For more complete details, please visit each individual issue.  The
report of the agenda items can be found at
https://pagure.io/fesco/report/meeting_agenda

If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to
this e-mail, file a new issue at https://pagure.io/fesco/,
e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during
the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until
the following meeting.

Day of meeting

1. Send out a reminder IRC message a bit before the meeting to the #fedora-devel IRC channel.

2. Generate a text file from the following template:

 
#startmeeting FESCO (2025-01-10)
#meetingname fesco
#chair maxamillion dgilmore jwb nirik paragan jsmith kalev sgallagh Rathann
#topic init process
#topic #NNN TICKET TITLE
...
#topic Next week's chair
#topic Open Floor
#endmeeting

Note that mmaslano and stickster are FESCo liaisons for the Environment and Stacks and Workstation WGs, respectively, and not voting FESCo members.

You can copy and paste in lines from this file as the meeting progresses.

3. Start an email replying to the agenda post. Change the subject to: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2025-01-10)>

Meeting time

1. Use the lines up to 'init process' to start the meeting.

2. Wait a few for people to show up. Confirm there are at least (5) voting members present for Quorum. If not, cancel meeting.

3. Go through each topic. Watch time on each and if 15minutes are reached, ask if people want to keep discussing that topic or move on.

Post meeting

1. When #endmeeting runs it displays links for the logs. Use the .txt and then .log.txt files in your email created above. Send out right after meeting. (If you wait, it's very easy to forget).

The subject should be:

 
Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2025-01-10)

2. Process through tickets comment/close them as appropriate.