Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-06-24

Roll Call

Attendees: Harald Hoyer, Jesse Keating, Paul Frields, Steve Dickson, Chris Aillon, John Poelstra, Bill Nottingham, Matt Domsch, Jef Spaleta, Karsten Wade
Regrets: Seth Vidal, Spot Callaway, Dennis Gilmore

Welcome and Congratulations
Process for filling remaining Red Hat appointed seat
- Re-balancing board from a Red Hat perspective (which includes taking the community into perspective too).
- Decision to be made by end of the day 2008-06-25
- Submit additional suggestions to Paul Frields by end of business today

Thoughts and take-aways for next time
Wondering if Red Hat Summit helped or hurt
We didn't have a lot to show the "drive-bys" from the Summit who came by the hackfest session
What about having a much larger booth as part of the exhibitors floor similar to LinuxTag?
Summit does provide the advantage of having more Red Hat people on hand
Really difficult for people to do two events at the same time
Surprised at number of first time people that came to FUDCon
Carry additional discussion items to fedora-advisory-board@redhat.com mailing list
- What could be a better FUDCon ?

Confirm regular meeting time and date going forward
Take into account new members
- Figure out on mailing list--Paul Frields will set up matrix

Many thanks to departing board members Steve Dickson, Dennis Gilmore, and Chris Aillon for their guidance and support to Fedora
This is their last meeting

Joint meeting with Board and FESCo held on 2008-06-09
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-06-09
- Proposed roles: User:Pfrields/Drafts/Roles
The board has not change its stance that FESCo owns the feature process
Lengthy discussion about the path forward
Board is waiting for detailed write-up from FESCo from meeting on 2008-06-12
NEXT STEPS:
1. Board to update wiki page describing its role
2. Board agrees with FESCo's defined role as defined: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20080612
3. Board asks FESCo to update wiki page described

Need to restart discussion on fedora-advisory-board@redhat.com to get plans in place at the start of F10
Chris Aillon to make contact with Bastien Nocera to find out what current plans are
RESOLUTION:
- waiting on bug 438225 to proceed
- this change will enable auto-provide for codec information
- For Fedora 10 removing Codeina and using the distribution's built-in mechanism to install packages (if 438255) is implemented
- For Fluendo to continue to provide codecs to Fedora they will need to provide them as packages in a yum repo
- This errs on the side of more "free-ish" software
- Revisit progress of Bug 438225 thirty days from now

Put forward by Bill Nottingham for 2008-06-10 agenda
ia64 is close to coming online and two issues need to be resolved to move forward:

Packages are signed with a fedora-ia64 specific key and the repository keys are hard coded in the fedora-release package as the main Fedora and Fedora beta keys.
The download baseurl (outside of the mirror lists, which are correctly handled) will be at secondary.fedoraproject.org (or whatever). Therefore they can not spin a release from Fedora packages.

RESOLUTION: No discussion. This is a technical issue to be resolved by FESCo (if necessary) and not the board.