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| * Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-03 | |
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| * Review actions from last meeting * ''jono to finalise DMB'': discussions have been documented, the new MOTU-preservation movement may add to it but it's under way and documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard * ''Keybuk to drive units policy to completion and vote by e-mail'': no new information * ''cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights for ubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu in email'': deferred * ''smoser to formulate ARI / AKI / AMI update policy, and work on system to find right root filesystem'': done. ACTION: Scott Moser to continue working on a system to find the right root filesystem * Archive reorganization: * A DMB meeting was held which made progress unblocking some issues. * MC have expressed a desire to retain MOTU in some form [ACTION] sabdfl will engage with MC * Python packaging in Debian and Ubuntu * Steve McIntyre and sabdfl discussed convening TB and DTC to see if consensus can be reached * TB agrees to participate [ACTION] sabdfl will draft invitation with steve mcintyre * Community Bugs: none this week * Next meeting: pitti to chair * Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-17: * Archive reorganization: * Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved * [ACTION]: Martin to talk to Jonathan about making DMB an admin of kubuntu-dev (done now), and to announce new members to devel-permissions@ and kubuntu team list * [ACTION] Martin to talk to Mario about adding DMB as admin of ~mythbuntu-dev and add wiki page about new member procedure * Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved * Upload delegation for kubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above * Upload delegation for mythbubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above * [ACTION] Colin to document edit_acl invocation for setting team upload delegation * [ACTION] Colin to implement delegations for these three teams after above fixes * Units Policy: |
* Technical Board meeting, 2009-12-01 (chair mdz) * Prior action review, leaves the follow still to do: * [ACTION] cjwatson checking on IS RT #36139 to add devel-permissions |
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* Change of Ubuntu Translations permission policy: approved; Martin changed the permissions on Launchpad and asked David Planella to announce to -translators@. * 10.04 LTS release plan: * updated wiki page to point out that different products might have different LTS states * LTS status for Kubuntu 10.04 is currently being discussed at UDS * In the future we will clearly announce which products have which LTS status at the beginning of the cycle, so that developers and customers can plan better * Ubuntu Licensing Policy: |
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| * Execute Permission Policy: * The current policy will not handle all potential cases, such as OO.o macros or application cases which wer are unaware of * Colin: we should point out an alternative approach instead of just saying "No" * current impact: kill GNOME desktop "do you want to run it anyway?" question, remove a few MIME handlers * To be continued in the next meeting |
* Archive reorganisation (ColinWatson) * [ACTION] cjwatson to create a wiki reference for development teams to participate in the reorg |
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| * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy: deferred, out of time | * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy * Would be good to outline a regression handling policy as well. * Default to assuming users want stability. * [ACTION] ScottK to revise proposal based on TB meeting discussion |
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| * DMB items: deferred, out of time; [ACTION] Martin to announce DMB meeting next week | * When is it a good idea to fail out of a maintainer script? (mdz) * Generally, failing preinst is preferred to failing postinst. * Generally, daemon start-up failure should not fail postinst. * May help to make a distinction between devel and release upgrades. * No clear "philosophical" state of being configured, so it's is non-obvious how to decide what should be considered a failure. * Would be beneficial to present a straw-man proposal to the Debian TC to coordinate this. * Will continue at the next meeting. |
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| * Check on community bugs: None | * Community Bugs * https://launchpad.net/bugs/485569 "TB term length is unclear" * elections single-year staggered with resulting positions having a two-year term. * [ACTION] sabdfl to update LP/wiki/www to reflect the actual term length for TB * https://launchpad.net/bugs/485971 "Technical Board mailing list archive is private" * blocked on IS, now that DMB is up and running. * [ACTION] cjwatson to nudge RT 35428 |
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| * Chair for next meeting: Kees | * Next meeting: kees to chair |
- Technical Board meeting, 2009-12-01 (chair mdz)
- Prior action review, leaves the follow still to do:
- [ACTION] cjwatson checking on IS RT #36139 to add devel-permissions
- [ACTION] Scott to redraft Units policy to address Scott's and Matt's concerns and clean up language
- [ACTION] Colin to clarify trademark/license distinction on licensing policy
Archive reorganisation (ColinWatson)
- [ACTION] cjwatson to create a wiki reference for development teams to participate in the reorg
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy
- Would be good to outline a regression handling policy as well.
- Default to assuming users want stability.
- [ACTION] ScottK to revise proposal based on TB meeting discussion
- When is it a good idea to fail out of a maintainer script? (mdz)
- Generally, failing preinst is preferred to failing postinst.
- Generally, daemon start-up failure should not fail postinst.
- May help to make a distinction between devel and release upgrades.
- No clear "philosophical" state of being configured, so it's is non-obvious how to decide what should be considered a failure.
- Would be beneficial to present a straw-man proposal to the Debian TC to coordinate this.
- Will continue at the next meeting.
- Community Bugs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/485569 "TB term length is unclear"
- elections single-year staggered with resulting positions having a two-year term.
- [ACTION] sabdfl to update LP/wiki/www to reflect the actual term length for TB
https://launchpad.net/bugs/485971 "Technical Board mailing list archive is private"
- blocked on IS, now that DMB is up and running.
- [ACTION] cjwatson to nudge RT 35428
- Next meeting: kees to chair
- Prior action review, leaves the follow still to do:
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