# 2025-04 CentOS board meeting

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# 2025-04 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

# Attendees

## Board members
* Amy
* Davide
* Jack
* Jefro
* Mike
* Pat
* Steve
* Thomas
* Troy

## Directors Absent

* Jonny

## Guests

* Michel
* Neal

# Agenda

* Previous minutes
* https://hackmd.io/zxUK5fYPTdicSUrOS12G9Q

* FRCL (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Leadership) check in?
* Matrix room created and people invited to join.
* Jack: In person meeting ? Targeting Thursday Afternoon Summit Week.

* GitLab update
* Shaun and Davide met with Gitlab. No issue on gitlab.com in term of licenses.
* Hyperscale use it extensively
* Datacentre move plan deciding what to do with git.centos.org
* Figure out where we want to move old archives but profit from the datacenter move to do it.
* no clear list of things on pagure.io that are CentOS specific
* Davide: moving everything to one place creates unification
* Neal: the lookaside is also important and suggests not git-lfs
* Shaun: also the board repo and public website is on git.centos.org
* Thomas: Make an inventory of things outside of rpms/ - add a comment fo the mailing list thread to see if there are some concerns.
* Davide: Talk about Github also, if we want to unify those repos too.

* Proposed Updates SiG
* Pat: Is there pending issues ?
* Michel: Released RPMs for CS9 / CS10. It's going well. Working on the website.
* Shaun: short lifecycle of packages / worth doing a Monthly recap ? Consume the list in the newsletter.
* Pat: maybe pick a summary of interesting packages ?
* Jack/Amy: maybe a link to the website ?
* Thanks for all the work !

## On going discussion

## Issues

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

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

* None

**New issues**

* [#156 Permission to publish official CS WSL images in Microsofts distribution manifest](https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/156)
* Troy: Alternate images SIG, let's do official WSL images
* Vote on the idea ? and feedback from Steve on Red Hat position.
* Shaun: There were some blocker on Microsoft/Red Hat legal
* Jack: Effort from Microsoft to unblock the situation
* Troy: Microsoft changed their model few months ago. A better model is now available, image pushed every 3 to 6 months.
* Q: Is somebody against the idea until we confirm Red Hat approval with Steve ? Voting async on the ticket.

* See below

**Issues on hold**

* [#67 Trusting the SIGs by default, from a CentOS Project perspective (Secureboot)(https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/67)
* Secure boot update ?
* Shaun: Bootloader team on top of it
* Davide: movement in the SHIM ticket - work still pending for SIGs

## Community Architect updates

* Showcase had a good turnout. Videos later this week.
* Met with GitLab. Discussed in GitLab update above.
* I filed reviews for all SIGs. Please have a look at them.

## SIG Reports

* None

## AOB

* Next meeting : `date -d "2025-05-14 20:00 UTC"`

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