#meeting:fedoraproject.org: Ad Hoc Council meeting about the proven packager process and recent FESCo decision on proven packager rights removal

Meeting started by @amoloney:fedora.im at 16:10:54 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@amoloney:fedora.im, 16:11:18)
    1. INFO: We just concluded a brief video call to discuss the situation. dcantrell filled us in on the background from his perspective, and @mattdm added some other notes (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:13:15)
    2. ACTION: ffmancera volunteered to compile a factual timeline of events and the decision (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:13:34)
    3. INFO: We avoided making any decisions -- we just wanted to understand the situation. now we're in this meeting for transparency before making any actual decisions. (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:14:47)
  2. TOPIC:Discuss and decide, where appropriate, action items regarding this topic (@amoloney:fedora.im, 16:16:03)
    1. AGREED: Council asks that FESCo's decision to revoke Peter Robinson's proven packaging privileges should be put on hold (that is, being given back for now) until the Council completes our investigation. (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:30:21)
    2. INFO: Jason Brooks abstains, noting that he doesn't see an urgency to staying or reverting the decision (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:30:44)
    3. INFO: As he is also a FESCo member, David Cantrell abstains from the Council vote (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:38:22)
    4. ACTION: mattdm to open a ticket to FESCo following this meeting making councils request (@amoloney:fedora.im, 16:39:23)
    5. ACTION: ffmancera will conduct a review of proven packager policy and the apparent violation of such and subsequent decision to remove packaging rights of those in apparent violation (@amoloney:fedora.im, 16:40:15)
    6. INFO: There is a lot more to unpack and learn from from this decision, and the Council and FESCo should find time to work together in 2025 to solutionize a better way of handling sensitive and impactful issues for the projecet (@amoloney:fedora.im, 16:41:36)
    7. LINK: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3305 (@mattdm:fedora.im, 16:41:37)


Meeting ended at 16:42:47 UTC

Action items

  1. ffmancera volunteered to compile a factual timeline of events and the decision
  2. mattdm to open a ticket to FESCo following this meeting making councils request
  3. ffmancera will conduct a review of proven packager policy and the apparent violation of such and subsequent decision to remove packaging rights of those in apparent violation


People present (lines said)

  1. @amoloney:fedora.im (30)
  2. @mattdm:fedora.im (29)
  3. @zodbot:fedora.im (22)
  4. @asamalik:fedora.im (12)
  5. @jbrooks:matrix.org (10)
  6. @conan_kudo:matrix.org (8)
  7. @salimma:fedora.im (7)
  8. @decathorpe:fedora.im (6)
  9. @bookwar:fedora.im (6)
  10. @ffmancera:fedora.im (5)
  11. @dcantrell:fedora.im (3)
  12. @rwright:fedora.im (3)
  13. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)