2024-02 CentOS board meeting

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2024-02 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

Attendees

Board members

• Amy
• bex
• Davide
• Jefro
• Johnny
• Josh
• Pat
• Shaun
• Thomas

Directors Absent

• Mike (sick)

Guests

• Benny V
• Brian S
• Jack A
• Lance A
• Neal G

Agenda

• Previous minutes

• Docs Day Update

  • Minutes : https://hackmd.io/a7FK6OUyQpygNXpWR5JNtw
  • Amy: Very productive day
  • Outreachy intern for CentOS
  • https://gitlab.com/CentOS/docs

• CentOS Project and Infra SiG

  • Fedora is working on a policy to set priorities for their Infra team
    • https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3157
  • Sort out internal and external tickets
  • Not sure if needed, follow-up with the SIG Council and SIG Infra (Fabian)
  • Bex: Understand how much time they need, but not assigning tasks
  • Amy: interested in visibility and better communication
  • Johnny: Infra team pretty reactive
  • Neal: true for Core but may need some work for the SIG requests

• #124: Re-distribution of RHEL kernel sources

  • Thank you bstinson and arrfab for working with Kmods SiG to get this resolved
  • Kudos !
  • Blog post could be interesting ? Shaun will follow up with the team

On going discussion

• Nothing to report.

Issues

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

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

• None

New issues

• #125: Board Activity clarity in governance
  • Formalize it in the governance
  • https://www.centos.org/about/governance/board/
  • Work in progress
• #126: Charter the SIG Council
  • Brian: Coordinating SIG and activities throug the SIG Council
  • Simpler proposal - key member + SIGs + RH engineering to get together on a regular basis
  • Report to the board on regular basis
  • Governance will be set by the SIG with the Board of Directors input
  • Synergy with EPEL ? EPEL could join when needed - Optional Group on the invite ? To be addressed in the ticket after discussion
  • Amy propose to have an async voting on the Pull Request for the website
  • Brian: It should sorted out by next meeting - accepted

Issues on hold

• None

Community Architect updates

• Connect videos up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRtbOXpVDjA30Q8EQzJBjfl0gCFo8vpK
• Let's say something about Outreachy if Amy didn't already - see above
• Also something about docs working day if Amy didn't already - see above
• SCaLE upcoming with workshop and booth
• Red Hat Summit planning, will be featured in Community Day
• Do we want to talk about a board face-to-face?
  • Flock : no date/location yet (prefered option by Bex & Thomas)
  • Devconf : https://www.devconf.info/us/
• Discuss vote process for new board member
  • List of nominees sent to the Board
  • Proposal from Davide : https://www.rcv123.org/
  • Accepted ! Open the vote for 10 days

SIG Reports

AOB

• Davide: Inactive SIG process, Shaun will follow up for cfg mgt, altarch, etc…
• Fabian will be chairing the Infra SIG

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