* Meeting 2011-06-02
  * Chair: Matt Zimmerman
  * Present: Scott James Remnant, Kees Cook
  * Apologies: Colin Watson, Mark Shuttleworth
  * Meeting transcript and topical links: http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20110602_1256.html
  * ffmpeg vs. libav
   * The ffmpeg project has forked upstream into ffmpeg and libav
   * Ubuntu is currently shipping libav only, because the ffmpeg package maintainer chose to package this version
   * The consensus of the Technical Board at the meeting was to regard these as separate software projects, which implies:
    * The choice of what to package is rightfully made by the maintainer. The Technical Board does not decide what software individual maintainers choose to package.
    * If another developer wished to package ffmpeg for Ubuntu, this would be welcome
    * If that were to happen, we would address any technical conflicts as they arose
  * Setting the Ubuntu series release manager in Launchpad to ubuntu-release
   * This was proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/174375/comments/21
   * Bug Bug:451390 is now fixed, so this can proceed
   * The TB members present at this meeting did not feel confident enough to make a decision about whether we should proceed immediately, and wanted more input from members familiar with archive administration
   * Deferred to the next meeting
  * Measuring installation success/failure
   * Evan Dandrea proposed that we collect data on successful vs. failed installation attempts from end users
   * The TB was asked for a policy ruling on whether this would be acceptable, or under what conditions
   * Various concerns have been raised, including:
    * Implementation considerations, such as whether useful data can be collected without leaking identifying information
    * Utility considerations, such as whether this data would in fact be useful for improving the installer
    * Privacy considerations, such as whether it is appropriate require explicit consent from the user before sharing this data
    * Transparency considerations, such as whether the raw data collected should be shared with the general public
   * The discussion in the meeting focused mainly on the privacy concerns
   * No clear consensus was reached, and clearly more discussion is necessary
   * To be continued by email and in the next TB meeting
  * Policy proposal for partner repository
   * Nicolas Barcet submitted a proposal for a technical policy to be applied to packages in the Canonical partner repository: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-May/000875.html
   * There was some discussion of whether this policy should be unified across the Canonical partner repositories and the -extras repositories
   * It was suggested that some reference should be made to the Ubuntu Policy Manual
   * To be continued by email (time pressure)
  * Launchpad stakeholder for Ubuntu project
   * Bryce Harrington confirmed his willingness act as a Launchpad stakeholder on behalf of Ubuntu
  * ubuntu-techboard celebrity in Launchpad
   * Francis Lacoste proposed a code change to Launchpad which would affect the permission model for Ubuntu branches, and asked for input from the technical board
   * No issues were raised other than those already raised by James Westby by email

 * Meeting 2011-06-30
  * Chair: Martin Pitt
  * Present: Mark Shuttleworth, Colin Watson, Kees Cook
 
  * Setting the Ubuntu series release manager in Launchpad to ubuntu-release 
   * No further problems with this expected, Colin agreed to doing the switch
   * Things to check:
    * non-release-team core-devs can target tasks to oneiric * ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/451390/comments/10|already tested]])
    * non-core-dev release team members can modify oneiric milestones
 
  * Measuring installation success/failure, [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-June/000935.html|updated proposal from Evan Dandrea]]
   * the purpose of collecting the data is to make Ubuntu better
   * while we won't make the data entirely public (avoiding unexpected privacy concerns, and competitive questions), people with technical/research projects who have a need for it can ask the TB for data (this includes Canonical employees)
   * for opt-out we need to write a privacy policy
   * people who are concerned about what data we're collecting can of course examine the client source code; we won't correlate IP addresses with this
   * we need to discuss data security (against theft) with IS
   * This proposal, under above conditions, got 4 out of 4 votes from the present TB members; for the record, Scott James Remnant mentioned that he'd prefer having all the data being public
 
  * [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-June/000915.html|SRU microrelease exception for Banshee]]
   * Upstream clarified and documented patch backporting and QA policy: https://live.gnome.org/Banshee/StableReleasesPolicy
   * Got 4 out of 4 votes from the present TB members, accepted; wiki page updated accordingly
 
  * [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-June/000944.html|DMB voting procedure]] was discussed quickly, but we ran out of time. Will be discussed via email or carried to next meeting.
 
  * [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-May/000875.html|Policy proposal for partner repository]]: Ran out of time, carried to next meeting.