16:02:38 #startmeeting Env and Stacks (2013-11-05) 16:02:38 Meeting started Tue Nov 5 16:02:38 2013 UTC. The chair is mmaslano. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:02:38 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 16:02:42 * samkottler is here 16:02:47 Yay 16:02:50 #meetingname Environment and Stacks 16:02:50 The meeting name has been set to 'environment_and_stacks' 16:02:56 * handsome_pirate waves from the crows nest 16:03:01 Hi 16:03:04 hi 16:03:06 * pkovar is here 16:03:13 * mmaslano just arrived 16:03:29 hhorak: is here, hi 16:03:31 * abadger1999 here 16:03:41 Hi 16:03:57 * hhorak is greeting 16:04:23 * handsome_pirate will be right back 16:04:46 Jens is not here 16:04:57 I am Jens :) 16:05:05 great :) hi 16:05:25 I'll do table of members for next week... 16:05:34 #topic init process 16:06:10 so let's discuss what other groups already discussed 16:06:15 #topic communication channels 16:06:28 We have mailing list 16:06:51 do we want to setup a new IRC channel? 16:07:42 Regarding the mailing list, I just updated its description a couple of hours ago 16:08:00 I think an IRC channel for env and stacks would be helpful 16:08:05 Open to suggestions/improvements, though 16:09:16 I don't feel we need a new IRC channel (yet) 16:09:35 why not? 16:09:45 what's the disadvantage of having it? 16:10:07 samkottler: Just though mailing-list is where discussion should take place 16:10:36 samkottler: And there are plenty of existing IRC channels 16:10:40 better than a new irc channel would just being able to find everyone on irc but given the difficulty setting up a common meeting time, that's probably a wishlist item ;-) 16:10:41 discussion with friends about a problem is fine, but discussion about future of something is different thing 16:10:50 abadger1999: yeah 16:11:06 abadger1999, hehe :) 16:11:25 do you want to vote about every topic or we just agreed on something? 16:11:37 well I don't mind but also feel that irc channel is not so urgent 16:11:46 I think we can use general concensus in this case 16:11:55 most people don't want a new channel :-) 16:12:13 I'd also prefer discussions of mailing list, it's more transparent for everyone.. we can set irc channel later.. 16:12:16 I'm fine with both, voting and consensus 16:12:19 #info mailing list was set env-and-stacks@lists.fedoraproject.org 16:12:36 ok, it also looks like consensus to me 16:13:00 #info no new irc channel because of many time zones most of the communication will be happening on mailing list 16:13:34 if someone's unhappy about anything, then please say so 16:13:42 otherwise next topic 16:13:45 makes sense, I agree with the no IRC. 16:14:14 we could all idle in #fedora-devel I suppose. 16:14:37 everyone is already there (I guess) 16:14:40 I think most of us already do 16:14:44 * handsome_pirate returns 16:14:59 * abadger1999 hasn't been but could start.... it was domnated by desktop flame wars for a while :-/ 16:15:14 actually... let's just talk about irc channels later. 16:15:21 fine by me 16:15:26 #topic Meeting frequency and times 16:15:30 when outsiders start asking where to find us on irc. 16:15:55 * handsome_pirate isn't in #fedora-devel by default, but will be from now on 16:16:12 I am usually there 16:16:50 As far as meeting frequency, while we're hashing things out, we may want to have them fairly often 16:16:53 Weekly 16:17:10 * masta looks in and lurks 16:17:10 Tuesday is better than Monday 16:17:20 Fedora QA meeting is Mondays at this time 16:17:26 handsome_pirate: you are evil :) 16:17:32 mmaslano: heh 16:17:45 juhp_: abadger1999: I was wondering if you wish to go to every second meeting 16:17:49 mmaslano: We can set it up to alternate time each week so we get the most coverage 16:17:57 so you don't have to be up in strange times 16:18:06 that might be good 16:18:27 16:00 UTC on tuesdays works really nicely for me 16:19:14 +1 16:19:18 But, I can do otherwise 16:19:51 alternate times seem good and 16:00 works for me as one of the alternatives 16:20:00 it could be better, but okay 16:20:23 I'm fine with weekly meetings, but I would prefer less meetings when there are less things to discuss 16:20:32 let's do another whenisgood for odd and other for even week 16:20:34 +1 16:20:35 tjanez: I agree 16:20:42 sounds good 16:20:45 I just see that right now we likely have plenty to do 16:20:55 This can be revisited later 16:21:04 So, one time is Tues, 1600 16:21:24 So, how about another time? 16:21:27 juhp_: which time and day do you prefer 16:21:33 Ok. Tuesday, 16:00 UTC works for me for the next couple of months 16:21:41 it's 1:00 in the morning for you, so you can pick 16:21:44 I don't think we need another whenisgood, we just need to pick up the second time. 16:22:19 * abadger1999 has noticed that biweekly meetings tend to have lower overall attendance (maybe because people forget which week they're in?) 16:22:43 mmaslano, well roughly 12:00 from now +-4 hours would be fine 16:22:49 abadger1999: that's for smart telephones are ;-) 16:22:53 but might still be easier to use whenisgood :) 16:23:11 mmaslano: yeah.. but people book other meetings and events as well... 16:23:18 juhp_: also bkabrda can't in this hour, so maybe he should specify his preference too 16:23:24 right 16:23:46 I agree with juhp_, use whenisgood and make precedence to bkabrda and juhp_ 16:24:14 abadger1999: do you want to setup another whenisgood 'cause you know how to do it properly on first time? :) 16:24:27 Why don't we just use the same one? 16:24:46 and select the best time that includes slavek? 16:24:49 http://whenisgood.net/fedenvstk/results/q3gmp7 16:25:15 abadger1999 good point :-) 16:25:25 agreed, thinking out of the box :-) 16:25:48 maybe people should adjust/amend their general availability? 16:25:55 Tuesday, wed, fri 13:00 or 14:00 16:26:00 so around 13:00 UTC might work 16:26:06 yeah 16:26:47 there seems to be no other option including bkabrda on Tue 16:27:31 and probably not better option in other days either 16:27:34 * handsome_pirate is +1 Tues 16:27:35 13:00 UTC is 5am local time for abadger1999 and it's a little early for me 16:27:44 Keep it somewhat simpler 16:27:45 * samkottler would like ot keep the meeting on tuesdays generally 16:27:59 samkottler: We can both show up to the office a bit early :) 16:28:01 samkottler: I kinda thought that the idea was that I wouldn't be able to make this alternate meeting? 16:28:11 and from the looks of it drieden won't either. 16:28:25 samkottler: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20131105&p1=1960&p2=43&p3=248 16:28:30 samkottler: it's hard :) 16:29:04 Anyway, how about ML for this one? 16:29:10 We ought to move on 16:29:12 abadger1999 13:00 is tricky for me, I'm getting my kids ready for school, but can be available sporadically at that time. 16:29:34 mmaslano: yeah it's difficult, we'll figure it out on the list :-) 16:29:38 it is 10pm here but that is okay 16:30:02 #info odd and even weeks will have different time for meetings because of time zones 16:30:04 drieden: I take it 14:00 Wed is even worse for you? 16:30:20 (since you have the hours after that blocked off as well) 16:30:32 abadger1999 Yes 14:00 wed is a regularly scheduled meeting 16:31:00 #agreed 16:00 UTC for week starting 19th November 16:31:36 let's stare into whenisgood and write on mailing list 16:31:49 we have still lot to do today 16:31:52 mmaslano: +1 16:32:12 mmaslano +1 16:32:37 +1 16:33:08 +1 16:33:17 +1 16:33:47 So, should we move on to trac? 16:33:54 Sure 16:33:54 +1 16:33:58 #info everyone will look at whenisgood and will try to pick second date. The preferred time by juhp_ and bkabrda should be acceptable for most of the group 16:34:03 nirik: You around? 16:34:06 #topic trac 16:34:12 handsome_pirate: yes, but in meeting. 16:34:32 nirik: Roger 16:34:39 I'm not sure if we need trac, but we probably need some wiki with information about us and our goals 16:34:45 nirik: I pinged because we may be asking for a trac 16:34:53 +1 to wiki 16:35:03 * handsome_pirate doesn't know about trac 16:35:04 Does anyone have an idea what would be in the trac? 16:35:23 meeting items probably primarily 16:35:26 handsome_pirate: please file an infrastructure ticket with what you need. 16:35:30 we could trac process of some issues, but that can be done differently 16:35:31 I think trac is nice if we need ticketing but otherwise... not needed. 16:35:46 Indeed 16:35:51 a lot of the work we have to do is with fesco and other groups so we can use their bug trackers 16:35:52 trac might be good for collecting todo's and such rfe's etc 16:35:58 Yeah, we can likely make do with action items 16:36:12 drieden: you might know about something better for tracking progress. But I'm not sure what do we need trac right now 16:36:36 +1 for wiki, but not sure if we need git/ticket system for anything.. 16:36:47 I'd say, let's get started using the wiki and just stay aware that when we start accumulating things that look like tickets, we then ask to have a trac instance. 16:36:51 mmaslan Trac can be set up with git for storage and landing page, and for tracking issues, but I don't really use trac for tracking issues. 16:37:07 hhorak, abadger1999: +1 16:37:12 abadger1999, sounds reasonable 16:37:44 mmaslano wiki sounds good for now. I should have said that I haven't had to use trac for tracking issues. 16:38:13 16:38:40 * handsome_pirate will set up wiki bit 16:38:41 s 16:38:51 let's stick with the fedora wiki. i think that's what other groups are also using 16:39:01 Aye 16:39:07 I mean in Fedora's wiki 16:40:23 seems like consensus to me 16:40:33 who will create wiki? 16:40:42 * handsome_pirate will 16:41:28 #info handsome_pirate will create wiki for our WG 16:42:01 #topic Discussions around the WG governance charter 16:42:08 I'll get everything done up, then ping links to the list for approval/editing 16:42:13 handsome_pirate: great 16:42:23 cool 16:42:55 handsome_pirate yee be a good fellar yee bee (pirate accent) 16:43:30 heh 16:43:40 arrr 16:43:49 deadline is next week? 16:44:04 Indeed 16:45:14 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud/Governance is Cloud's 16:45:20 * juhp_ hasn't seen any of the (draft) charters yet... 16:45:21 I propose we do similar 16:45:24 aha 16:45:35 * handsome_pirate is a fan of simple and flexible 16:46:11 yeah -- the only thing I'd change is how abstentions are counted in voting. 16:46:18 yeah probably a good idea to base the initial charter off other's work? 16:46:20 abadger1999: do you what we should do about governance charter? I thought FESCo I picked voting members and that's it 16:46:45 so, can we just adopt that Making Decisions part on the cloud page? 16:46:46 juhp_: That's what others are doing, is basing their charters off each other 16:46:50 abadger1999: ah, true. Do you want to be able vote before or after meeting via email? 16:46:54 mmaslano: fesco determined that the initial seeding of the group was at your (the liason's) discretion. 16:47:06 but it's our job to decide how the group is governed in the future. 16:47:11 Aye 16:47:24 We would want to add a section on succession 16:47:27 sp? 16:47:41 ie, to figure out members to come after us 16:47:44 we could say "in the future, there's one person who has absolute authority" or "anyone can vote and after one week the most votes wins". 16:47:51 or anything in the middle :-) 16:48:07 * handsome_pirate is for nominations from the community 16:48:23 ie, any intersted parties can be nominated or self nominate 16:48:41 But, maybe have current voting members vote 16:48:42 * abadger1999 thinks the cloud governance is good looking. 16:49:01 Indeed 16:49:35 I guess the only doubt I have about adopting hte cloud model is that we might be a bit different in our goals. 16:49:46 the cloud group is producing a product. 16:50:01 My impression from mattdm is we're more a research and development group. 16:50:31 ie, where all the fun stuff happens :) 16:50:40 true 16:50:41 Another question I have is what happens after FESCO elections if the current FESCO appointee is not re-elected? 16:50:52 less about making decisions, more about working to enable wholly new things. 16:51:05 tjanez: Good point, that 16:51:18 tjanez: I can't speak for future fescos but I think current fesco would say: 16:51:28 fesco just has to agree to the liason. 16:51:46 so if the new fesco doesn't have a problem with the current liason, they'd continue in that capacity. 16:52:08 only if the new fesco sid "We don't can't work with $person" would the liason need to change. 16:52:12 *said 16:53:17 abadger1999: I agree, FESCO will not be causing problems :-) 16:53:40 abadger1999: sounds good to me 16:53:48 +1 16:54:28 +1 16:54:34 I'm OK with serving as long as we are able to/willing, maybe it just sounds very autocratic to outsiders 16:54:45 Indeed 16:55:04 (of course, each WG can also say that they don't want to be represented by a certain liason as well). 16:55:24 But on the other hand, I really don't see ourselves as a ruling body 16:55:27 I guess group can pick who will be voting members, no problem 16:55:35 but rather an enabler for people to work 16:55:40 -- for some things I think a certain amount of autocracy is good... where precedent and knowledge of what came before is important. 16:55:41 tjanez: yeah, I'd rather see us as working body :) 16:55:50 not sure if that's a concern for this gorup or not. 16:56:07 right 16:56:38 So maybe we should first ask, what is our role in Fedora? 16:56:41 What do we do? 16:57:58 Well, I would say use only as much birocracy as we need for working and develop it later as we define our mission and goals more clearly 16:58:21 You know, I suddenly find myself leaning to the way that QA does things: Whoever wants to do something does it 16:58:33 tjanez: we should solve this question until next week, when is deadline 16:58:54 I think the Governance document can be separated from the "charter or what we do document" 16:59:21 drieden: -- but I think governance depends on the charter. 16:59:30 * samkottler unfortuatenly has to leave now 16:59:37 I'll read the transcript later on 16:59:49 +1 17:00:03 does someone want to take a stab at a draft charter? 17:00:05 For governance, I'm fine with something simple (e.g. similar to Cloud WG governance) 17:00:23 tjanez +1. Consistency across the groups would be helpful 17:00:27 Okay, I'm +1 not having governance in charter 17:00:43 We'll just have to change the thing with trac (they use trac) 17:00:52 So 17:00:56 +1 for simplicity 17:01:01 What is it that we'll actually be doing? 17:01:10 * juhp_ should look at the workstation draft too... 17:01:23 handsome_pirate: I summarized what all of you told me 17:01:44 I think only slavek replied to your email 17:01:46 handsome_pirate: languages, programming environments, setup databases, ... 17:01:51 How about this -- let's adopt something very similar to the cloud wg governance but revisit the govenerance doc after f21 is out? 17:02:01 abadger1999: +1 17:02:08 +1 17:02:09 +1 17:02:10 +1 17:02:11 when we know about what we're actually doing in practice. 17:02:29 sounds ok to me but good to review a draft together next week 17:02:31 +1, maybe we can only be more specific (or change later) what "few days" mean and so on.. 17:03:06 (or by next week:) 17:03:17 Okay, so we'll want to push things like python 3 17:03:20 hhorak sounds good. It is a little vague right now 17:04:20 k 17:04:26 I'll put together a draft. 17:04:29 I will try to have a quick look at what other WGs are doing on their charters so far 17:04:55 If next week's meeting is at 13:00 I won't be around to present it but I can send a link to the list. 17:05:00 Is there a link to the other charters? 17:05:29 #info abadger1999 will put together a charter draft 17:05:37 err 17:05:40 drieden: I guess they send links to devel maling list 17:05:41 mmaslano: governance draft 17:05:46 #undo 17:05:46 Removing item from minutes: 17:05:57 #info abadger1999 will put together a governance draft 17:06:05 Regarding other charters, we should probably have in mind, we are very much different from the three product WGs 17:06:15 I think driedenwas making the separation that charter is more -- what are we going to do... which we don't know yet. 17:06:23 server one looks similar https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Governance_Charter 17:06:25 17:06:29 * hhorak don't think other WG have much sofar either (just a guess) 17:06:36 didn't read carefully yet though 17:07:12 Yeah, looks like everyone is making their 'charter' a governance doc 17:07:19 We may want to avoid this 17:07:21 (I believe the Workstation draft was posted to desktop - I didn't have time to look at it yet) 17:07:31 Charter is more for purpose than governance 17:07:35 server's seem to be very similar to cloud's one 17:07:45 Yes, I meant the "What we do" charters for the other groups. I'm okay with the Cloud Governance charter wiki about the governing structure. 17:08:13 drieden: Yes, I was also talking about the "what we do" charter 17:08:27 juhp_: the workstation one is here https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2013-November/008259.html 17:08:28 So, the hard part is to expand "languages, programming environments, setup databases, ..." into a proper document 17:08:36 pkovar, thanks 17:10:08 I was sort of hoping people will post their ideas on mailing list 17:10:29 I think a good starting point for "what do we do" is mmaslano's mailing post 17:10:30 Well, how about this: I'll start a ML thread on this? 17:10:36 and slavek's answer 17:10:50 I spoke with most of you and create some points 17:11:04 for example documentation - there is not much to add 17:11:18 pkovar has imho a good plan 17:11:39 We should somehow separate the "what we are doing currently" from "what this WG will enable so people can develop/package new stacks/environments 17:11:49 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2013-October/008245.html 17:12:21 we might have a problem, that other WG believe we should do something else. I already heard we should do containers, but I refused 17:12:34 I guess none of us is aware of details of containers 17:12:49 lightweight virt? 17:13:02 probably all of them, maybe pick the best 17:13:08 juhp_: oh yeah, that's the actual charter :-) 17:13:10 I guess Base group took it back 17:13:19 Hmm... maybe we should be enabling people to do containers... but our role there would be supporting the people who know about it. 17:13:46 maybe 17:14:13 i'm fine with taking this to the Base WG discussion and see what they think about it. 17:14:16 or who want to learn about it? 17:14:17 My feeling might be.. let's say containers is a new technology that only a few people are aware of. We'd help them document containers, see what they can do. 17:14:52 create a proof of concept or two around them (which might be actual working software in fedora) 17:15:19 and then if it was something that should really permeate all of fedora, we'd pass them along to the base design wg. 17:15:51 who would see how containers could be applied throughout the OS. 17:15:56 abadger1999: do you have someone in mind who will do it? 17:16:07 abadger1999: +1, but maybe not pass it to the base design WG, but to a "Fedora commons in ring 2" 17:16:12 mmaslano: nope. 17:16:25 hrm 17:16:36 someone would have to come to us in that example. 17:16:38 We all ought to look into it 17:16:47 abadger1999: me neither which is reason why I didn't want it 17:17:18 did we agreed on something yet? 17:17:58 perhaps it is something we could discuss later on the ml? I am not sure either if it is in our scope or not 17:18:12 Indeed 17:18:12 we all probably should learn the basics about containers if we need to talk/vote about it in the future.. 17:18:23 Anyone here a decent writer? 17:18:29 hhorak: +1 17:18:33 I guess I see us s -- "wild ideas come here first, get incubated, and then when they're no longer wild and unknown ideas, they go onto a different part of fedora to be integrated more heavily" 17:18:35 I would prefer to discuss the general "what will we do" on the ML 17:18:51 hence my comment above about all of us looking at it 17:19:00 abadger1999: +1 17:19:17 Do we still have time until next week's meeting? 17:20:05 I guess so 17:21:08 Maybe we should also advertise our ML and WG on the devel and point people there for a discussion on "what will we do" 17:21:19 yes 17:21:22 I think its critical to define what is in our scope and what not 17:21:29 * handsome_pirate just popped an email off to the M/L 17:21:37 agreed 17:21:38 So that other WG won't have wrong expectations 17:21:50 which will cause problems later... 17:22:11 sorry, I'd need to leave.. will read the log later. 17:22:14 handsome_pirate: thanks! 17:22:48 tjanez: +1 17:23:14 who will write it? 17:23:44 Who's a good writer? 17:23:47 I can write it -- but not until we decide what we want it to say :-) 17:24:05 abadger1999: Hence the ml thread I just started 17:24:38 handsome_pirate: Did you get moderated? it didn't show up i nthe archives. 17:25:41 handsome_pirate: I also can't see your email 17:26:13 It got moderated: Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list 17:26:44 handsome_pirate: but you seem to be subscribed jdulaney at fedoraproject.org 17:26:55 I just resent it 17:27:09 With right email address 17:27:35 Cool. 17:28:01 So yeah -- we can discuss this on the mailing list and I can start drafting next week. 17:28:03 I can write an email to devel and advertize this thread, if we agree to it? 17:28:10 works for me. 17:28:39 +1 17:28:50 +1 17:29:04 great 17:29:06 If you disagree with the direction handsome_pirate and I proposed, be sure to say that so that we get discussion about the alternative directions we could move in :-) 17:30:51 well, should we wrap up this meeting? 17:31:14 do we have action item for this topic? 17:31:46 mmaslano: Discussion on ml thread, abadger1999 to write up charter 17:32:15 handsome_pirate starts the discussion on the ML, tjanez will write an email to devel asking for contribution from non-members 17:32:26 Note -- I can promise a governance doc for next week but I can't promise a Charter Document for next week. 17:32:28 #info rest of the discussion will happen on mailing list. abadger1999 will write up the charter as soon as we will know what do we want to do 17:32:30 Only the start of it. 17:32:37 that's fine by me 17:32:41 Cool. 17:32:54 +1 17:33:34 +1 17:33:56 +1 good 17:34:18 +1 17:34:20 +1 17:34:23 * juhp_ is still a bit unclear about goverance vs charter but probably will become clearer as we discuss 17:34:35 erm governance 17:34:45 probably 17:34:59 #topic Open Floor 17:35:03 anything else? 17:36:28 * handsome_pirate is good to go 17:36:41 I don't have anything 17:36:53 nothing more from me 17:37:46 let's go home 17:37:56 * abadger1999 will start work! 17:37:56 ;-) 17:37:58 #endmeeting