2023-11 CentOS board meeting

https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/B1RoGTRla

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2023-11 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

Attendees

Board members

• Thomas
• Pat
• Josh
• Amy
• Mike
• Davide
• bex
• Shaun

Directors Absent

• Jonny
• Celeste

Guests

• Lance
• Neal
• Brian
• Peter Georg
• benny Vasquez

Agenda

• Previous minutes

  • https://hackmd.io/_bgH9QYAScO5zbLPW0rYww

• CentOS Docs Update

  • Amy met with RHEL Docs team
  • man 2 web - https://github.com/thkukuk/rpm2docserv ?
    • Various discussion on this item: define value, amount of work needed, etc…
    • Proposal to formalize Docs SIG first
  • Quickstart on howto to contribute to Docs
  • Quickstart for installing CentOS
  • Docs sig ticket – https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/121
  • Create space in gitlab

On going discussion

• Chartering the CentOS Technical Steering Committee

  • https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/123
    • Ticket paused
    • Create a smaller discussion group - BrianS and Shaun

• Vote on DOCS SIG

  • Approved !

Issues

https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues

Issues to be discussed

• #67 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/67

  • Waiting on some technical implementations from Microsoft
  • Also requires the technical/oversight group to be finalized as one function of this group is the keys

• #116 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/116

  • https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal/issue/29
  • Context: fedora infra ticket created #11554
  • IRC bridge is gone and not likely to come back
  • Setup official rooms
  • Davide: Policy, do we want to move to Matrix ? Keep IRC ?
  • Shaun to check budget constrains

• #114 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/114

• #113 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/113

  • No update from legal

• #122 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/122

  • Review proposal for next Month
  • Add it to the SIG guide

Issues to be closed (ACTION close all of them if no objection)

• #3 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/3

  • DONE and closed.

• #120 - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/120

  • To be closed

New issues

Issues on hold

• None

Community Architect updates

• CentOS Connect 2024 announced: https://connect.centos.org/
  • CFP open for both sessions and meetups.
  • Registration open.
  • Room block coming soon (will be good thru FOSDEM dates).
  • ACTION: Add closing date to the website
• Distros devroom accepted at FOSDEM. CFP soon.

SIG Reports

AOB

• Thomas - Re-distribution of RHEL kernel sources
  • Last update from Bex 2023-09: "No update, it is still being worked on internally"
  • Path forward given to the Kmod SIG
  • Some engineering work need to be done
  • Thomas to create the ticket to track it and sort out technical details.
    • https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/124
• Next Meeting 13th of December

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