18:30:38 #startmeeting Fedora Board IRC Meeting 18:30:38 Meeting started Wed May 30 18:30:38 2012 UTC. The chair is rbergeron. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:30:38 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 18:30:44 #meetingname Fedora Board IRC Meeting 18:30:44 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_board_irc_meeting' 18:30:52 #topic Who's around? 18:30:56 Hello, world! 18:31:20 hola 18:31:44 #info rbergeron, gholms, pbrobinson, rdieter present 18:31:50 * jreznik is here, hey all! 18:31:55 #info jreznik present 18:32:06 #chair gholms pbrobinson rdieter jreznik 18:32:06 Current chairs: gholms jreznik pbrobinson rbergeron rdieter 18:32:56 okay, i'll hang for a minute before I dive into other things 18:33:08 * jreznik was afraid he's the invisible goody 18:33:14 ghost 18:33:24 Hooray for auto-correct! 18:33:24 #info cwickert, ke4qqq absent (travel) (also, happy birthday cwickert) 18:33:30 jreznik: ;) 18:33:55 #info jds2001 present 18:34:04 #chair jds2001 18:34:04 Current chairs: gholms jds2001 jreznik pbrobinson rbergeron rdieter 18:34:15 #topic Agenda 18:34:37 sorry, i didnt realize my irc client hosting machine rebooted for some reason 18:35:10 #info A few things on agenda today: Announcements, Open Floor / Open Q & A, Discussion on release naming, Tickets (board as single point of failure), Any other business I forgot about. :) 18:35:31 And with that, I'll just dive into the super-quick-announcements portion. 18:35:35 jds2001: no worries :) 18:35:39 #topic Announcements 18:36:34 #info Townhalls for elections are ongoing, including one not long after board meeting (20:00 UTC) 18:36:42 #info See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections for details 18:37:17 #info Also: Voting for elections begins on June 1st, and ends June 7th at 23:59:59pm UTC 18:37:34 #info This is Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo elections. 18:37:46 Let's see. Anything else interesting or "beefy" to announce? 18:37:46 :) 18:38:03 well, we released yesterday! 18:38:05 yay!Q 18:38:09 \o/ 18:38:14 wooohooo! 18:39:04 #info Fedora 17 has been released. He's Beefy! He's Miraculous! Beefy Miracle is downloadable now: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora 18:39:23 Anyone else with announcements? 18:39:28 hot dogs already ordered for our release party 18:39:36 ;-) 18:39:39 jreznik: excellent 18:39:47 jreznik: you providing plane tickets from the US? :D 18:39:57 any plans for releases on secondary arches? 18:40:04 jds2001: might take a miracle 18:40:30 mrunge_: ask the secondary arch teams, they'd be the ones in the know 18:40:32 ;-) 18:40:57 mrunge_: which one(s) in particular is of interest to you? 18:41:17 in general, try poking #fedora- 18:41:21 Oh, I thought they should announce, if there's something to announce 18:41:34 mrunge: the ARM folks had their F17 beta last week; i'm sure they will make more noise as needed :) 18:41:37 there will be a release for ARM at some point in the not too distant future 18:41:49 nice 18:41:51 great to hear pbrobinson! 18:42:03 and we'll shout it from the roof tops you can be sure of that ;-) 18:42:23 okay, shall we move to Open Floor? :) 18:42:43 I'll shut up. thanks! 18:43:11 hey, comments are welcomed around here :) 18:43:22 #topic Open Q & A / Open Floor 18:43:27 ! 18:43:33 #info Have burning questions? Ask them now! 18:43:35 jsmith: yes 18:43:48 I just want to say congrats to rbergeron and the rest of the Fedora leadership team on a great F17 release 18:44:06 * gholms concurs 18:44:09 EOF 18:44:15 * pbrobinson seconds jsmith 18:44:36 thanks ;) 18:45:03 * rbergeron is pretty sure the thanks should go to everyone else :) everyone did a fabulous job. 18:45:37 "it was a beefy release" 18:45:49 Anyone else? I'll hang out for a bit and see if anyone has questions, comments, etc. 18:46:40 All this talk of beef makes me want burritos. :-| 18:46:48 awww. 18:46:59 gholms: go find the nearest chipotle :D 18:47:02 A delicious eucalyptus-scented burrito. 18:47:14 jds2001: Good idea! After the meeting. 18:47:18 rbergeron: And yuck. 18:47:50 gholms: I'm about to light up the BBQ for dinner :) 18:47:55 jds2001: thanks for volunteering to wrangle the townhall. (and thanks to everyone else who has done so as well!) 18:48:05 pbrobinson: hot dogs? 18:48:38 rbergeron: np :) 18:48:43 rbergeron: well sausages minus buns as I forgot those, plus a number of other bits :) 18:49:01 pbrobinson: LOL. poor beefy. 18:49:25 rbergeron: eucalyptus-scented burrito? Is that a real thing? 18:49:36 pbrobinson: only if you work at eucalyptus 18:49:48 eucalyptus is a smelly, messy tree. 18:49:48 pbrobinson: so gholms, obino, mull, gregdek might know. :) 18:49:57 And they suck up all the water. 18:50:02 And they explode when they catch fire. 18:50:16 okay, i'm going to ... move onwards, and if anyone has Q&A stuff then we can catch it at the end. 18:50:20 Good idea. 18:50:20 is that kosher? :) 18:50:32 gholms: it depends of the type, there's 100s of them :) 18:50:43 pbrobinson: :) 18:51:14 okay! 18:51:24 #topic Release Naming 18:51:47 * gomix show's up late, apologies... 18:52:09 jreznik: I recall from my haze of the past 2 weeks that perhaps you were going to take the lead on poking at people to get this moving or discussion / consensus happening 18:52:27 unless i'm crazy :) 18:53:17 * pbrobinson vaguely remembers rbergeron's recollection being correct 18:53:19 rbergeron, I was out the whole week, so sorry 18:53:39 jreznik: no worries. do you want to go poking at it now / still? :) 18:53:42 but tmrw I'll start poking 18:53:52 #action jreznik to start poking at the release naming stuff 18:54:39 i'll try to use whenisgood to find time for meeting, we have to start somehow 18:54:43 okay then. :) 18:54:43 yeah. 18:55:18 alrighty. 18:55:37 gholms: way to pitch the product! "smelly, sucks up resources, will sometimes explode." 18:55:58 gregdek: :D 18:56:02 gregdek: The tree is no longer part of the branding, so I can now complain about it again. :) 18:56:07 kind of like gregdek, really :) 18:56:16 * rbergeron hugs gregdek and is totally kidding 18:56:21 Ah, right. A Eucalyptus is not a tree, and a Fedora is not a hat. 18:56:32 rbergeron: :P 18:56:38 Hooray for marketing! 18:56:45 LOL 18:56:47 lol 18:56:47 gregdek: open door, had to walk through it, sorry :) 18:56:56 * gregdek glares at rbergeron. 18:57:08 gregdek: if eucalyptus burritos aren't your thing, we will have hot dogs at SELF. And stickers. 18:57:29 STICKERS!!!! 18:57:37 or you can punish me later. :p 18:57:40 MOving onwards. 18:57:43 abadger1999: are you about? 18:59:06 okay, perhaps we'll come back to the SPOF thing. 18:59:25 /me is still waiting for stickers from rbergeron and hopes he doesn't miss out! 18:59:48 #topic Clarification on Localization of spins 19:00:15 #info Ticket 136, for the record 19:00:20 rbergeron: I am here 19:00:27 pbrobinson: I know you said you'd get with cwickert when he got back. 19:00:34 * abadger1999 day late and a dollar short as usual :-) 19:00:39 to work this on the spins list within the spins sig. :) 19:00:57 pbrobinson: so I guess this is just friendly reminder, I know cwickert is out today 19:01:06 rbergeron: I dropped cwickert an email and I've not had a response yet 19:01:08 abadger1999: ah, awesomes. 19:01:18 pbrobinson: yeah, he's like, travellin' man. 19:01:23 he was really buddy 19:01:27 busy 19:01:36 he's really buddy, too :D 19:01:39 hot dogs at linuxtag :) 19:01:40 ah, autocorrection 19:01:41 yes he is! 19:01:53 yea, which was why I dropped him a mail and figured when he got a moment he would respond 19:01:54 kuala lumpur... 19:02:45 * rbergeron nods 19:02:46 * pbrobinson waves to gregdek 19:02:55 okay, so back to abadger1999 19:02:57 i'll ping him later today 19:02:59 #topic Board as SPOF 19:03:11 pbrobinson: hey man :) 19:03:14 he should be on amb. meeting 19:03:19 There's a new draft -- I think I got all the changes people requested two meetings ago 19:03:56 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Board_single_point_of_failure 19:04:14 https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AToshio%2FBoard_single_point_of_failure&action=historysubmit&diff=289236&oldid=287069 19:05:32 Announcement from my owner (nirik): Fedora Town Hall at 20:00 UTC (4pm US-Eastern) with the Fedora Board candidates. Visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls for information on how to participate and pose questions to the candidates 19:05:50 abadger1999: I think it looks way better. I do wonder what other non-board-peeps think. 19:06:44 it's poetry 19:06:58 I like it 19:07:00 full of win 19:07:07 * jds2001 likes too 19:07:17 any non-board peeps around? 19:07:39 * inode0 will read it but can't right now 19:07:53 * mrunge_ is currently digging through that document 19:09:17 abadger1999: I think it looks lovely. I know we're dragging this out but do we want to wait a few days post-meeting for feedback? Or are we cool with it? 19:09:23 ok, I like that proposal! 19:09:32 * abadger1999 has no preference. 19:09:46 If it's approved and found lacking it can be fixed. 19:09:49 imo, let's adopt/ratify it. if there's further tweaking to be done later, so be it 19:09:58 * gomix i like it too ! 19:10:05 everyone likes it :) 19:10:12 heh :-) 19:10:13 okay, seeking proposals: rdieter, wanna do it? :) 19:11:15 ok, I propose to formally adopt that document for board decision-making 19:11:26 +1 19:11:31 +1 19:11:32 +1 19:11:34 +1 19:11:34 +1 19:11:35 +1 19:11:46 +1 19:12:06 8 up, I think that's quorum :) 19:12:10 is that everyone here? jreznik? 19:12:58 #agreed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Board_single_point_of_failure is adopted for board decision-making 19:13:25 abadger1999: did you want to move that out of your userspace, or would you like someone else to do so? :) 19:13:46 I can do it. where would we like to link it from? 19:14:29 Ummmmmmm. 19:14:30 Category:Board for starters, we can add more later I suppose 19:15:12 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board ? 19:15:14 it might get interwoven with http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#Keeping_track_of_open_issues as well 19:15:22 +1 19:16:12 Okay, I'll get that linked in and moved into place. 19:16:43 #action abadger1999 to move SPOF into board-space on wiki 19:16:52 okay! :) 19:16:53 Thanks! 19:17:03 woooo 19:17:29 okay, moving onwards then 19:17:43 #topic More Open Floor / Q&A / Other Business 19:17:51 Okay, so... back to if anyone has questions, etc. 19:17:52 oh, sorry +1 19:17:54 Or if I forgot anything. 19:18:31 for spof 19:19:18 jreznik: :) 19:19:42 #info Next IRC Meeting is on.... Wednesday, June 13, 18:30 UTC 19:20:49 #info This will be post elections, so, a hearty thank-you to our elected folks whose terms are ending, whether or not they are running again :) 19:21:10 thanks guys! 19:21:17 +1000 19:21:32 Indeed! 19:21:55 Oh: If any of y'all have made any awesome progress on your goals, would love to hear about it. :) 19:22:34 np, happy to do it :D 19:22:47 * rbergeron holds the fort another minute before ending meeting 19:22:51 wrt goals, I've achieved my initial goal of sponsoring 3 new contributors (packagers). 19:23:17 yay! 19:23:18 \o/ 19:23:26 hoping for another 2-3 over the next week or 3 19:23:40 first free of 300! 19:23:40 rdieter: very nice :) 19:23:51 rdieter, sounds great 19:25:20 * gomix also mentored a new one ;) from Argentina 19:25:49 gomix: awesome. 19:26:15 thanks abadger1999 for sponsoring alvesadrian ... 19:26:34 Okay, folks. I'm goign to end meeting; thanks for coming today :) 19:26:57 #endmeeting