17:00:17 #startmeeting Council (2015-07-20) 17:00:17 Meeting started Mon Jul 20 17:00:17 2015 UTC. The chair is mattdm. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:00:17 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:00:18 #meetingname council 17:00:19 The meeting name has been set to 'council' 17:00:20 #chair mattdm jreznik jwb cwickert rdieter langdon sgallagh decause 17:00:20 Current chairs: cwickert decause jreznik jwb langdon mattdm rdieter sgallagh 17:00:22 #topic Introductions, Welcomesy 17:00:30 Hi everyone! 17:00:31 .hello 17:00:31 decause_OSCON: (hello ) -- Alias for "hellomynameis $1". 17:00:37 .hello langdon 17:00:40 langdon: langdon 'Langdon White' 17:00:48 .hello decause 17:00:49 .hello sgallagh 17:00:49 decause_OSCON: decause 'None' 17:00:52 sgallagh: sgallagh 'Stephen Gallagher' 17:01:09 hi remy, langdon, stephen! 17:01:17 hi! 17:01:20 hi there 17:01:21 mattdm: Welcome back 17:01:41 thanks! been digging out all morning, can almost see the surface of the ground 17:01:45 at least, I think that's ground 17:01:58 hello 17:02:02 hi josh! 17:02:55 * mattdm waits a few minutes for cwickert, jkurik, rdieter_work 17:03:10 * mattdm updates template to s/jreznik/jkurik/ 17:03:48 .hellomynameis kushal 17:03:49 kushal: kushal 'Kushal Das' 17:03:56 hi kushal! 17:04:02 for the record... 17:04:04 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council_meeting_process 17:04:15 is a handy template for running a Council IRC meeting 17:05:01 Okay, let's go ahead and get started. 17:05:04 #topic Today's Agenda 17:05:24 By the council meeting schedule, this is our tickets and ongoing work checkin 17:05:37 as I said on the mailing list, i don't want us to get in the habit of being bound by that... 17:05:46 but we should also make sure we don't forget to go through things. 17:05:50 So: 17:06:01 1. Globalization FAD request 17:06:05 2. PRD reviews 17:06:11 3. Dopr service 17:06:17 4. Fedora Student 17:06:25 5. Who do we want next for subproject status report? 17:06:28 Anything else? 17:06:44 flock council session? 17:07:06 decause_OSCON: hmmm maybe make that the focus of next week's open floor? 17:07:13 kk 17:07:21 +1 17:07:27 * mattdm makes note 17:07:31 oooh 17:07:51 #info next week we'll make the Flock council session the focus of the meeting 17:08:21 #topic Globalization FAD request 17:08:31 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/39 17:09:02 I'm generally in favor of this. I'm generally in favor of anything that brings unity and cohesiveness to some of our scattered groups 17:09:21 The requested budget is a little high for a fad -- usually those target $5k or so 17:09:42 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_G11N_2015 17:10:19 isnt 3 days longer than normal (perhaps resulting in >5k)? 17:10:49 yeah, i'm a bit concerned where the money would come from 17:10:51 langdon: I think the releng fad was 4. they kind of vary. 17:10:59 particularly with the number of FADs we've had recently 17:11:11 * langdon might be only attending 1-2 days of fads that are longer :) 17:11:37 It also isn't directly aligned with one of our medium-term objectives, even though as the proposal shows, it clearly benefits our _general_ objectives. 17:11:53 decause_OSCON: as the OSAS connection, can you look into the budget situation? 17:12:23 * jwb notes that Ruth is on PTO 17:12:46 isn't ruth at OSCON with decause_OSCON? 17:13:02 mattdm: yes, to both 17:13:07 hm. i might be mixing her schedule up then 17:13:07 ah :) 17:13:12 i know it's crazy the next few weeks 17:13:25 yeah. summer. :) 17:13:26 anyway, the total budget is already noted at $6445 17:13:28 so more than 5k 17:13:49 and that's just travel 17:13:53 another $2200 for hotel 17:14:33 it does look like they're getting that 2200 from Red Hat's G11N group rather than needing Fedora funding 17:14:55 not confirmed 17:15:30 So, I guess we really need to know what the budget situation is before confirming this. 17:15:40 Also they're asking for $550 for a social event. 17:15:47 Err, $555 17:15:55 So a total of $7000 from the Fedora coffers. 17:16:06 yeah. so the total request is either $7k or $9220 17:16:54 might as well round up to $10k, since the longer we delay, the more likely flight costs go up 17:17:27 I'm not aware of any competing FAD proposals currently. If the money _is_ available in the budget, would we want to commit it to this, or hold back for other possible FADs? 17:18:07 * jwb shrugs 17:19:19 I guess I am inclined to vote for it (assuming availablity of funds, or possibly for a reduced-funding version), unless there are in-the-works plans for a FAD more closely aligned with immediate objectives 17:19:37 But that vote is definitely conditional on the state of the budget 17:20:03 decause_OSCON can you #action yourself to discuss that with ruth when she is not on PTO? 17:20:20 yes 17:20:36 decause_OSCON: thanks :) 17:20:46 #action decause talk to ruth about budgegt 17:21:01 Does anyone think this is a _bad_ use of Fedora's FAD funds? 17:21:27 no. and to be honest, i don't like the unless part. seems easy to game. should be first come first serve 17:22:36 I *would* like to see people laying out their plans for these earlier, so we can weigh better. I _don't_ think first come first serve is necessarily the best for the project given our limited resources. 17:23:00 quarterly deadlines could help 17:23:02 But I also have a lot of sympathy in favor of people who actually do the planning work for something like this. 17:23:32 i just don't want someone to see "oh, the council has $10k to spend. quick, let's throw together a FAD around Cloud" 17:23:39 (not picking on cloud) 17:23:45 decause_OSCON: yeah. can you work on a plan for that? seems in line with your role :) 17:24:05 we should also note that as the fiscal year moves on, funds become much harder to come by 17:24:08 jwb, awww :p 17:24:14 * decause_OSCON needs to have an 17:24:22 jwb: oh, definitely. I meant specifically to prioritize FADs in line with the approved 12-18 Month Community Objectives 17:24:29 proper full discussion on budgetg 17:25:13 in the meantime, since we're 25 minutes in... let's take this back to the mailing list and ticket, awaiting update from Remy on budget 17:25:16 #action decause set a meeting with mattdm abd ruth about highlevel budget process 17:25:30 #topic PRD reviews 17:25:55 So, I don't want to actually *talk* about these here 17:25:59 I just want to remind everyone of 17:26:06 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/31 17:26:16 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/32 17:26:21 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/36 17:26:34 #info that's updated PRDs for Server, Workstation, and Cloud 17:26:51 people put a lot of work into those, so we owe them at least an ACK 17:27:12 17:27:25 I'm including myself in the nagging there, too, of course. :) 17:27:43 and moving on :) 17:27:47 #topic DOPR service 17:28:05 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/38 17:28:15 we had some discussion about this in the ticket 17:29:25 I think it's a generally cool idea, but I have a lot of concerns 17:29:50 If I'm the council member who cares about it the most, I guess I can continue to work on those concerns 17:29:59 anyone else have input? 17:30:13 #action mattdm to continue working on this 17:30:28 mattdm, i have a bit over concern with overlapping service with centos 17:30:40 but... that isn't really a "trademark" question 17:31:13 langdon well, if we're putting the fedora trademark on centos, that seems like a trademark question :) 17:31:20 lol 17:31:31 i meant centos infra is also building something similar 17:31:39 like a "docker build service" 17:31:50 that can build fedora images IIRC 17:32:24 that's not confusing at all. 17:32:35 is it the same Red Hat team working on both, or different? 17:32:41 jwb, its docker.. everything is possible 17:32:56 mattdm, the ssame?!?! of course not 17:32:56 and aobut 1% of it is advisable! 17:33:05 langdon, it's software. everything is possible. that doesn't mean it's a great idea. 17:33:29 * langdon mutters should remember some Jurassic park quote here 17:33:41 langdon, i know exactly which you mean 17:33:53 so.. the goals are slightly different, of course... but the output is kind of the same 17:33:59 nuke it from orbit! it's the only way to be sure. 17:34:22 wait, wrong movie. 17:34:35 i also think spot's idea and your idea (#13 and #14) are really the way to go.. i don't think I ever realized they would show up in the "fedora account" 17:35:59 what if we asked them to get a specific, new account "Fedora DOPR" or something, to distance it from the official Fedora-produced images? 17:36:30 mattdm, the name is still there. 17:36:37 *Fedora* 17:36:41 mattdm, i wouldn't want that as a user.. right? i want the "credit" for the images.. maybe? and.. kushal +1 17:36:49 That will be enough to confuse people. 17:37:30 how do other distros deal with it? 17:37:41 they don't have any cool service like this. 17:37:42 so.. i would suggest that the next step is to try to get a meeting together between the cent folks and the fedora folks working on this.. then maybe see what the actual goal/requirements are.. cause.. like.. i am not sure I see the point in copr->d-file->docker-hub under u/fedora 17:37:43 * decause_OSCON is a docker hub n00b 17:38:15 d-file -> /u/langdon .. now that might make sense in the way copr does... 17:38:31 langdon, yeah, agreed 17:38:35 i put something together i want to share with people while it grows up 17:38:50 the objection, I guess, is that upstream Docker doesn't have an API for this, so we'd have to hold their credentials 17:39:38 only if we wanted auto-sync 17:39:49 mattdm, yeah.. i don't know.. i am just not sure I understand the goal 17:39:57 if we built the image (?) and then told the user it's there, they could download/upload themselves 17:40:06 i mean, ideally they'd do that anyway to make sure it isn't totally broken 17:40:34 jwb, well.. and why wouldn't they just use a webhook from github->docker 17:40:49 like where is the "copr advantage"? or stuff 17:41:09 or even generic git repo -> commit hook -> docker hub 17:41:27 langdon: can you organize meeting with the dopr people and centos people? 17:41:35 if the only advantage is auto-syncing, i'm not sure it's really worth proping up resources to do that 17:42:08 mattdm, yeah.. i can try.. i am not sure it will be an easy answer though 17:42:13 "auto-syncing" sounds trivial. But it's more than that -- it's "push a button and my copr is available as a docker image" 17:42:27 so why wouldn't we just make that another output of copr itself? 17:43:12 jwb: for that to really work, copr would have to act as a docker registry 17:43:16 and? 17:43:18 well.. when i had discussed this a while ago.. it was "copr build -> fedmsg -> docker-b-service -> fedmsg -> user can go get the image" .. perhaps in a registry perhaps as a tar 17:44:04 #action langdon to try to get team working on this talking with centos 17:44:23 so.. i say.. let's stop the convo here.. and ill invite you to the meeting.. and we can get answers vs just theorizing 17:44:36 langdon++ 17:44:36 mattdm: Karma for langdon changed to 4: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 17:44:51 * langdon wonders if this should be an envs&stacks "ticket" 17:44:51 also, looking at clock anyway. further dicussion back to ticket and lists! 17:45:09 * decause_OSCON could stand to learn a lot from this, so please keep me in the loop langdon :) 17:45:17 well, the trademark is still on us. but maybe we can say -- waiting on trademark until some technical issues are resolved. 17:45:25 anyway next topic 17:45:30 #topic Fedora Student 17:45:30 #agreed 17:45:34 kushal ping :) 17:45:38 * langdon will invite council, optionally 17:45:40 oops 17:45:43 kushal++ 17:45:55 * typing 17:46:16 So I had a meeting with decause_OSCON, we both agreed that this is a good idea to go forward. 17:46:28 #agreed 17:46:50 additionally, a fedora badge would be great too 17:47:07 #undo 17:47:08 Removing item from minutes: 17:47:21 But till the time the design for the letter pad gets ready, and decause_OSCON creates something like letterhead@fedoraproject.org for the same kind of workflow of logos, I need the permission to get the students start working. 17:47:30 decause_OSCON, so let's not use zodbot commands for personal agreement 17:47:39 context, btw: 17:47:42 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/37 17:47:50 For the same, I need the permission of the council :) 17:47:55 jwb: understood 17:48:06 and of course ties into 17:48:08 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/University_Involvement_Initiative 17:48:18 ye 17:48:27 yep* 17:48:31 yeah, I'm in favor of this. +1 17:48:36 so.. kushal decause_OSCON is this to answer "just" the ticket? or more broadly than that? i am not quite sure i understand where it has evolved too? 17:49:35 langdon, to start with, just the ticket, meanwhile decause_OSCON will come up with the wiki pages along with the full plan/workflow, I will help him out with this as required. 17:49:37 there also seems to be disagreement in the ticket about the "physicality" of the output 17:49:44 kushal, ack 17:49:59 from what i understand, having a template for a Fedora certificate and letter head will be useful outside of just Kushals usecase 17:50:17 decause_OSCON, +1 17:50:24 * langdon is in favor of a physical cert as an addition (for "coolness" reasons) to a digital proof for the university 17:50:33 i'm confused who these students are that are waiting on a certificate from us, and what they've actually done 17:50:48 spinning up an analog to logo@fp.o to request letterhead 17:50:59 langdon, so we will give them actual letters explaining the work. 17:51:02 * mattdm is okay with signing physical certificates as long as it is not a daily chore :) 17:51:20 nod nod 17:51:42 specifically, this comment: 17:51:45 "There are many students who are waiting for a response from us for long time on the same. So fast tracking this will help us a lot." 17:51:46 * langdon notes, they make stampers.. and we could put all the council members on it with like 50 bucks in stampers ;) 17:52:03 jwb, student can be anyone who wants to do an unpaid project work under Fedora, any upstream contributor can mentor them. Only a few selected ones will have the letterheads to print and sign. 17:52:17 kushal, so who is waiting on us? 17:52:33 jwb, so at least in India we keep getting emails from various college students who wants to work under Fedora project. 17:52:42 because i don't want to retroactively approve this for a bunch of people that we then have to go and verify the work they actually did 17:52:52 jwb, i think the phrasing is off 17:53:08 jwb, No work has been done yet. 17:53:12 jwb, i think kushal means he has peeps who could *do* work if they had a way to get credit 17:53:19 hence my question 17:53:21 lalatenduM, +1 17:53:24 oops 17:53:26 * langdon notes, he read it the way jwb did 17:53:27 langdon, +1 17:53:44 i'm fine with this if it's a fresh start going forward 17:53:56 though i'm curious what work qualifies 17:54:01 now can i #agree 17:54:03 ? 17:54:07 ;) 17:54:13 decause_OSCON: sooooon :) 17:54:16 decause_OSCON, no, because blank #agree isn't informative 17:54:17 jwb, Yes, this is for a fresh start, students can work for 1 month, or much longer time. 17:54:27 kushal, right. but what kind of project qualifies? 17:54:28 decause_OSCON, #agree with a text :) 17:54:30 kushal: do you have an example of a specific project? 17:56:09 jwb, mattdm For example previously students worked on getting particular features into ask-fedora upstream+packaging the dependencies. 17:56:09 jwb, mattdm they have worked for desktop applications. 17:56:10 so should decause_OSCON be tasked with approving a project before work begins as the University/outreachy guy? 17:56:10 jwb, mattdm Projects like GSOC level. 17:56:10 who's tracking that? 17:56:10 * decause_OSCON is more than willing to do so 17:56:23 Actually lesser than GSOC in many cases. 17:56:24 the idea in general is great. we just need to make sure the details are handled 17:56:26 can i propose something else... i am not sure i care how *much* work it is .. as long as it is "formal" ... so .. i think to be eligible for a letter... you must have 1) written a formal proposal with goals and deadlines 2) have a mentor who approves 3) complete on time (as assessed by mentor) 17:56:41 langdon, yes, excellent 17:56:42 jwb, Yes, there should be accountability. 17:56:52 langdon: *nod* 17:56:58 langdon: nailed it 17:57:08 jwb, langdon, yes,we can easily lend the rules from gsoc stories we do under Fedora project. 17:57:13 same style. 17:57:48 and... my "3" there is to allow the mentor to "adjust" the timeline in their judgement of the "scene on the ground" 17:57:50 mattdm, also it should not required for you to sign the letters physically all the time, as sending them out is costly based on the place :) 17:58:06 langdon, I thought that is given :) 17:58:21 kushal, mattdm i disagree.. i think the "physical paper" is important.. but i could just be old 17:58:33 if we need to find budget for it, let's do it 17:58:46 langdon, what I am saying is that the physical paper does not have to be signed by FPL 17:58:58 that letter in the mail won't be prohibitively expensive 17:59:04 * mattdm can make a rubber stamp with his signature 17:59:17 kushal, we can make a stamp of matt's sig, and get 3 of them made.. put them around the world 17:59:21 langdon, the local mentor (or the person in charge with letter heads) can sign along with the digital signature of the FPL> 17:59:40 langdon, Yes, any similar idea :) 17:59:40 and decause_OSCON +1 17:59:41 kushal how many of these are we talking about? 17:59:46 what a wonderful problem to have: "too many students need letters approving their contributions" 17:59:54 40 a day 17:59:55 decause_OSCON true! 18:00:09 i am in favor of matt having to spend all day signing these things :) 18:00:15 langdon: lol 18:00:24 I know you're not joking, is the sad part :) 18:00:30 mattdm, It depends, if we are okay to go with small scale project works, then 10+ students in any month is easy. 18:00:45 mattdm, well.. it was really to decause_OSCON 18:00:48 's point 18:00:51 Anyway, I'm okay either way :) 18:00:52 with enough mentors, we can get 50-100 students :) 18:01:03 * langdon holds breath 18:01:23 From a country where a million+ engineering students are passing out every year, number is always high :) 18:01:24 Since it's 2:00... can we get some of the specifics like langdon put forth in the ticket, and then do final approval there? 18:01:30 * decause_OSCON is happy to sign as many as necessary 18:01:48 decause_OSCON, you still have to send them from USA to India, which is freaking expensive. 18:02:15 decause_OSCON, that is why I am asking for local responsible mentors whom you approve with letterheads :) 18:02:24 sign, scan, print locally? 18:02:37 afk for a few min 18:02:39 decause_OSCON, that is the digital signature I was talking about :) 18:03:04 FAX! 18:03:06 kushal: is $2.38. 18:03:10 I can handle this :) 18:03:21 Oh okay :) 18:03:27 agreed 18:03:38 Btw, passing out == Getting the college engineering degree 18:03:48 In this case :p 18:04:00 in the US college students pass out from other causes 18:04:09 rofl 18:04:16 overstuduiousness mostly 18:04:24 lol 18:04:24 decause_OSCON yes, of course. 18:04:35 anyway. let's take this to the ticket 18:04:44 #topic subproject report for august 3rd? 18:04:57 * mattdm checks calendar 18:05:00 #info that's definitely a monday 18:05:21 by the schedule I put forward, we'd do another subproject report in two weeks 18:05:39 I don't have anyone lined up... is there a particular group y'all'ld like to hear from? 18:06:37 whos left? 18:06:52 SO much. 18:07:08 interns? not a subproject, but would be good timing 18:07:30 docs, design, ambassadors (including various regions), all the g11n stuff, and a lot more 18:07:39 they span many projects, but there is some *great* work coming in 18:07:48 mattdm, who have we done so far? we need to make a page with a list and links to the videos 18:08:08 * decause_OSCON should get that action item 18:08:13 langdon: marketing, qa, and the engineering overview which I haven't watched yet. 18:08:21 right after we make the "org structure" pic :) 18:08:30 and fedora editions 18:08:56 these are commops tasks 18:09:06 decause_OSCON yes please :) 18:09:43 #action decause commops create council report page with links to video 18:09:54 decause_OSCON So speaking of which, do you think your commops thing will be in solid enough initial form to report on in two weeks? 18:10:33 sorta speaking of... whatever happened to the "contributor blog" conversation? 18:10:40 with oscon, prolly not. the initial meeting happened, but we're going to need to build more steam 18:10:44 cause this content might be good on their too 18:10:54 *there 18:10:57 langdon: dunno. I need to ask ryan about that. 18:11:06 and yeah, that would be exactly the place for this. 18:11:16 decause_OSCON: okay. :) 18:11:24 * langdon knows the "there" he wants.. but his fingers decide on other one(s) 18:11:34 so, without any other suggestions, maybe I'll ask design team? 18:11:58 mattdm, decause_OSCON maybe commops should ask design, no? 18:12:04 what about g11n? they propsed that fad? 18:12:10 right? cause it "should be" in their wheelhouse? 18:12:35 their = commops.. 18:12:40 * mattdm does not much care who does the asking :) 18:13:11 decause_OSCON: okay, sure, g11n it is. :) 18:13:20 * langdon doesn't care which human.. but which org matters for long term ownership 18:13:26 #action mattdm to ask new g11n team if they want to present on efforts in two weeks 18:13:54 mattdm++ 18:14:07 langdon: I'm okay with doing it for the purposes of organizing the council meetings. I agree that design is commops-aligned in general 18:14:24 and anyway. lookit the time. we lost this meeting by a good 14 minutes :) 18:14:43 nod nod 18:14:46 thanks for joining everyone! 18:15:14 #endmeeting