June

Meeting 2013-06-24

Attendees

  • Colin Watson
  • Dave Walker
  • Kees Cook
  • Matt Zimmerman
  • Soren Hansen
  • Stéphane Graber (chair)
  • Steve Langasek

Notes

Development series alias on archive.ubuntu.com and for uploads

During the last Ubuntu vUDS Rick Spencer was tasked with finding a good name for the new development series alias which would allow users to stick to whatever is the current development release (or to use it as an upload target). Rick came up with "rolling" as the suggested name. After a bit of discussion between the present TB members, it appears the members prefer "next" instead. The main concern about using "rolling" is added confusion with regard to the how Ubuntu is developed as it'd surely be interpreted by some as Ubuntu being on a Rolling Rlease schedule which it's not.

The Technical Board didn't make a final decision on the name though as Rick couldn't attend the meeting himself to defend his proposal. As a result, the Technical Board feels that Colin should go ahead with the implementation of the feature in Launchpad but not put it live until after our next meeting (8th of July) so to leave until that time for Rick to defend his proposal (on our mailing-list or at our next meeting) or for someone else to propose a better name. In any case, we expect to make a final decision on the matter on the 8th.

Packages linking against OpenSSL

Discussion is on-going on the Technical Board mailing-list about whether OpenSSL should be considered as "system library" allowing packages to link against it without the need to include a special exception in the license of the software. We expect to vote on this at our next meeting, discussing the various interpretations of the license on our mailing-list until then.

Micro release exceptions

Stefan Bader asked for a micro release exception for Xen, unfortunately nobody from the Technical Board had time to look into this and reply to his request but we expect this to move forward soon. There are some concerns regarding how much regression testing happens on Xen and whether this is enough for us or if we need to do more on our side. This discussion will be continued on our mailing-list.

Kees also brought up that we have a few "provisional" exceptions that should be reviewed to either become full MREs or be withdrawn.

Topics for the next TB meeting

Based on the above, the following will be discussed at our next scheduled meeting:

  • Final vote on the development series alias name
  • Final vote on the OpenSSL system library discussion
  • Review our current "provisional" Micro Release Exceptions

Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-06-24-20.10.log.html

Next meeting

  • 2013-07-08 21:00 London time (mdz to chair).

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