- Technical Board meeting, 2009-09-08
- Debian technical committee participation in techboard
- Bdale Garbee has put himself forward to participate and help define the role
- ACTION received: cjwatson to respond to Bdale, make arrangements for him to participate
- Java SRU policy
Passed: proposed Java SRU policy at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#sun-java* as amended for appropriate smoke testing by pitti/kees.
- ACTION received: pitti to update SRU document per vote
- Removal of sun-java6 from Karmic
- Passed: remove sun-java6 from karmic in favor of openjdk-6, contingent on approval from the maintainer (Matthias Klose).
- ACTION received: kees to confirm removal of sun-java6 with doko
- Developer Membership Board
- Scott has set up the appropriate teams in Launchpad
- The DMB now needs to be communicated, and start doing the work of processing membership applications
- ACTION received: cjwatson to announce DMB to MC, -devel announce
- Action: jono to update documentation
- Archive reorganisation (Colin Watson)
- Colin had a couple of minor items to confirm with the TB before throwing the switch on package sets
- Ubuntu package sets are now implemented in Launchpad
- Community bugs (none)
- select a chair for the next meeting (kees)
- Debian technical committee participation in techboard
- Technical Board meeting, 2009-09-22
- reviewed actions from last meeting
ACTION: Keybuk to find Bdale at LinuxCon to hash out participation
- Removal of sun-java6
- Based on feedback all around, it was agreed that it is still early for sun-java6 to be dropped. However, it was not yet clear if responsibility for the package should be changed.
- ACTION: kees to drive sun-java6 email thread and get resolution on responsibility
- Developer Membership Board
- Striking the right balance between openness and privacy combined with the desire to not change existing processes too radically continues to be a non-trivial issue.
- ACTION: cjwatson to drive DMB email thread to conclusion
Discuss UnitsPolicy
- Excepting some clarifications to the language surrounding file sizes, the Policy is nearly ready.
- ACTION: Keybuk to finalize unit policy and email to TB for vote
- Community Bugs (none)
- Archive reorganisation (Colin Watson)
- There was general agreement that team admins have been delegated the responsibility to grant upload privileges, but that how they choose developers is not entirely clear.
- Daniel expressed a concern that team admins should follow a standard transparent process when dealing with applicants.
- Scott proposed having it split into "application" (standard) and "approval" (up to the admin)
- Martin proposed that the TB would approve a set of possible application processes an admin could choose from.
- ACTION: cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights for ubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu in email
- Select a chair for next meeting (pitti)
- reviewed actions from last meeting