# 2024.05 VMA

Date: 2024-06-03 10:00
Moderator: Kevin
Location: https://meet.jit.si/RIOT-VMA-2024-02
Venue: https://hackmd.io/@aMZMi_yxTsKCkbWol63_kA/BkxkQXSm0
Forum entry: https://forum.riot-os.org/t/virtual-maintainers-assembly-vma-2024-05/4164
Previous VMA forum entry: https://forum.riot-os.org/t/notes-virtual-maintainer-assembly-vma-2024-02/4118
Minutes: Emmanuel, chrysn, marian

Attendees (TBD)
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- Martine
- Karl
- Kevin
- Emmanuel
- benpicco
- Marian
- mikolai
- Koen
- chrysn
- Teufelchen

Agenda
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- Agenda Bashing - 1min (Kevin)
- VMA 2024.08 Moderation - 2min (Kevin)
- 2024.04 Release debrief from Release Manager - 5min (Teufelchen)
- Outlook on upcoming 2024.07 Release - 5min (Mikolai)
- 2024.10 Release Manager - 5min (Martine)
- CI maintainership
- Maintainer Ping
- Summit Keynote Speaker?

#### Agenda Bashing

(no input)

#### VMA 2024.08 Moderation

Kevin: Volunteers?

**Marian** was volunteered.

#### 2024.04 Release debrief from Release Manager

Teufelchen: Did release, but a bit late.

Teufelchen: Had 12 security advisories in late stage of release. Got Open PRs down, but not faster than new were opened, so briefly we had <300.

Maribu: We had goals in the content area; Windows setup. Can we find someone who can test Mac onboarding process?

Teufelchen: Linux was on me, but did not get to it. Also have a Mac, could do that too if needed

Marian: Baby steps made; that's good, but we have more to do. Planned to get more of home automation community onboard, but have not done that yet.

Kevin: (...) Still open PRs in release area, eg. same broken node getting selected over and over again.

#### Outlook on upcoming 2024.07 Release

Mikolai: Martine already started forwarding release tests to me, getting flashing failures on IoT lab.
see https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/actions/runs/9327082599/job/25676496361

Kevin: Can help with that, randomization PR will help. Non-M3 devices can't indicate that error.

Emmanuel: send issues to iot-lab mailing list? (Which boards are failing mostly? Kevin: apparently Io6-lab-M3 boards, so randomization might not help)

Mikolai: Report to Matrix channel failed … which channel should that be?
Martine: Should be maintainer channel, but never really worked outside of testing.
Teufelchen: Please just remove it.
Martine: Can someone else try to remove this, maybe then someone else gets fail notifications, too.
Mikolai: Will do.

Mikolai: Liked what Teufelchen did with the last release in terms of goals, aiming at <300 PR. Reluctant to put onboarding goal there, b/c can't contribute much realistically.

#### 2024.10 Release Manager

Martine: Script only has Mikolai, Teufelchen (and Ben from next tier) in current eligible set. Dice suggest Ben.

Ben agrees.

Kevin volunteers for the one after that

#### CI maintainership

Kevin: Kaspar is stepping down. Anybody interested stepping up?

Karl: Part of CI is run on Kaspar's home computer, right?
Kevin: CI is on tattooine; HIL runs at university computers. Who is still in FU?
Emmanuel: Kaspar is still there, even if he steps down; as am I.

Teufelchen: I hate doing CI stuff, but if nobody else does it, I can do it. Let's ask about it at the next VMA again.

#### Maintainer Ping

Martine: Looking at release script showed old names.
Teufelchen will ping old maintaners.

#### Summit Keynote Speaker

- chrysn: we don't have anyone yet
- Emmanuel: was mentioning this guy from ST software team https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-finco-b73b86b/ but did not get much resonance
- chrysn: process? Other names were proposed (Nicole, Emmanuel's ST person...)
- Emmanuel: pretty "flexible", historically. Anyone can propose (keynote) speakers to summit@ and the proposals are vetted there (summit@ is Matthias, Thomas, Emmanuel, Oleg, IIRC)
- chrysn: That vetting just got stuck. That "IIRC" is a big issue.
- chrysn: proposal: go through the list from first to last, contact people with ~1week deadline`
- chrysn: people nodding, let's do that
- Teufelchen: who is the ST person?
- Emmanuel: Eric Finco. Part of their software division, talked to him in Milan at their bi-annul technical meeting. Very aware of RIOT, Zephyr and the ecosystem. Lots of background, knows how to speak. Invited us to talk at their summit.
- chrysn: @Emmanuel please contact that person with a deadline (1 week)
- Teufelchen: Proposed Raptor (Marco Ivaldi), security researcher of the January.
- Martine: Good talk, but don't think it's good keynote material. chrysn: +1
- Teufelchen: So I'll ping him for CfP.

### AOB

- None