Meeting:Board meeting 2008-07-15

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-07-15

Roll Call

Attendees: John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Jef Spaleta, Seth Vidal, Harald Hoyer, Jesse Keating, Karsten Wade, Chris Tyler, Spot Callaway, Bill Nottingham,

Mingw

• Cross compiling certain applications for Windows
• Board is considering from a perspective of overall affect on Fedora Project
  • Leave technical details and implementation to FESCo
• Fedora should be in support of furthering open source software even if it doesn't run on Linux
  • How far should this be taken?
  • Special casing each new instance of cross compiling
• Board supports such an effort as long as it is self contained and separated from the main package respository
• Board expresses concern on potential future resource issues

ACTIONS:

1. Ask SIG to fill out request for resources with Infrastructure
2. Karsten to start a new thread on fedora-advisory-board concerning trademarks

Release Stability

• Some board members are concerned that too many updates are being made to our stable releases

ACTIONS:

• Board request more information from FESCo on the following:
  1. Statistics from bodhi about the number updates and bugs fixed
  2. Regression statistics from bugzilla
  3. Is there a policy against updating shared library versions in stable releases?