December
Revision 7 as of 2009-12-11 21:59:52
Clear message
- 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: