- Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-03
- 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
- Review actions from last meeting
- 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:
- [ACTION] Scott to redraft Units policy to address Scott's and Matt's concerns and clean up language
- 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:
- [ACTION] Colin to clarify trademark/license distinction on licensing policy
- 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
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy: deferred, out of time
- DMB items: deferred, out of time; [ACTION] Martin to announce DMB meeting next week
- Check on community bugs: None
- Chair for next meeting: Kees
- Archive reorganization: