Meeting:Board meeting 2012-07-11

Attendance

Present:

• Eric Christensen
• Peter Robinson
• Robyn Bergeron
• Garrett Holmstrom
• Toshio Kuratomi
• Jaroslav Reznik
• John Rose
• Nick Bebout (late)

Absent:

• Christoph Wickert
• David Nalley

Today's lucky secretary: John Rose

Minutes

Announcements & welcoming new folks

• Congratulate Jaroslav on his new role as Fedora Program Manager

Follow-up: Release naming process

• Come up with new processes for suggesting release names
• Concern that some proposals are too narrow to be "fun"
• Is "Having a theme" is a proposal or is "The theme is names of trees" a proposal?
• Some think that having a new art theme each release makes Fedora fun for consumers to "look" at each release.
• Critique about current proposals -- should include who/how names would be chosen. For instance, with most theme proposals, there really isn't a need for people to vote on choices like "redwood, sequoia, or oak" every release
• Action: Eric Christensen to start conversation on the board list on release name process and rules to be taken to the community for input.

New thread: Clarifying fedora positions

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-July/011709.html
• Board is interested in listing the roles and responsibilities within Fedora but doesn't see the value in specifically listing who is employing them.
  • Many roles are created by a person interested in the role, not necessarily by someone being hired
• Action: Robyn and Jaroslav to document the responsibilities of the Program Manager Role

Secure Boot ticket

• Topics
  • FSF criticism of being able to run a non-third party dependent service:
    • Users should be able to run this without the MS key.
    • Be able to give people a key that they can import into their UEFI
    • Have a shim that is signed by our key
    • Questions about whether we can have the installer give the choice or detect which signed shim was needed for a system that it is installing on
  • Legal documentation
    • What are our terms of service with MS for the key?
    • Multiple people unhappy with not having a document that lays out ways that a key gets blacklisted, and so forth. Makes people worried about that the key signer doesn't have to treat all signed keys equally.
  • Fairness
    • Desire to mitigate the unfairness to third party repos/remixes where possible
    • Tools and documentation for how to generate keys in Fedora that can be imported into UEFI
    • Answer to what pjones meant when saying we could build tools to import keys (into the kernel?) and whether we can use that to mitigate unfairness