- 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
- Out of time, deferred further review to next meeting
- Next meeting: kees to chair
- Prior action review, leaves the follow still to do:
- Technical Board meeting, 2009-12-15 (chair kees)
- Prior action review
Excepting tasks covered under the UnitsPolicy and Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy discussions below, prior actions were all done.
- Generally okay, but some minor clean-ups still needed. Could coordinate with Debian.
- [ACTION] mdz to fix language wrt cmdline meaning in Unit policy
- [ACTION] kees to present Units policy to Debian TC via bdale
- Status of ARM port vs. archive publishing (slangasek, mdz)
- ARM is considered supported for Karmic and later, even though it lives on ports.
- [ACTION] cjwatson to document meanings of archive vs. ports, cdimage vs. releases, etc.
Archive reorganisation (ColinWatson)
[ACTION] cjwatson to add a bit more intro to UbuntuDevelopment/TeamDelegation, and link it from appropriate places
- [ACTION] cjwatson to follow up with kubuntu-dev and mythbuntu-dev to get ubuntu-core-dev added
- Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy
- [ACTION] ScottK to update policy based on kubuntu upstream feedback
- [ACTION] kees to follow up with ScottK on Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy updates
Execute Permission Policy (KeesCook)
- [ACTION] kees to clean up further and re-present at next meeting
- Check up on community bugs (standing item)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/485559 "Mark Shuttleworth has no expiration date set in the tech-board LP team"
- [ACTION] sabdfl to propose to CC that the TB is a CC delegate, and clarify his role
- [ACTION] sabdfl to update bug with status and discussion
- When is it a good idea to fail out of a maintainer script? (Matt Zimmerman)
- Deferred, ran out of time.
- Next meeting is Jan 12, 2010. Chair: cjwatson
- Prior action review