# 2025-05 Board F2F @ Summit

Date: Sunday, May 18
Location: Red Hat Boston office (something something room)

`date -d "2025-05-18 14:00 EST"`

Do you want to go to a 7:15 baseball game with Shaun on the Saturday arrival day?
* Amy - should be there in time

## Attendees

YES:
* Name (ARRIVAL DEETS)
* Amy - Saturday 3:30 Friday 11am?
* Davide - Saturday ~8pm, Element
* Jefro - Sunday lunchtime, will dial in the am session, yotel
* Jack - Sunday morning, driving up from NYC
* Pat - Arrive Sat 11am
* Troy - Saturday 4:00pm, DoubleTree by Hilton Boston Bayside
* Shaun - Saturday 1:45, Homewood Suites Seaport

MAYBE:
*

VIRTUAL:
* Thomas (up to 15:00 - 15:30)
* Mike
* Jefro in am

NO
* Steve
* Johnny

## Agenda

(Shaun arriving ~10:30)
Sig Council
CentOS distro
Secureboot? - I want to invite some folks working on it to FRCL
9:00 - Setup and give Jack time to get here
10:00 - Community health metrics - Davide

* move to gitlab gives us improved data
* PRs when they're opened and when they're merged
* new Proposed Update SIG
* Would give Shaun stats for the newsletter
* Troy has data on how many users
* Carl said it would be an easy script change to give us data on how many folks are connecting to SIG repos
* Would also allow us to give us an early feeling on SIG health
* https://gitlab.com/dcavalca/centos-contributor-stats found the old script I wrote
* Could help us with getting the missing metrics for the Success Doc

11:00 - CentOS Quarterly - Distro (I think before we meet with Mike is a good time in case we want to ask any questions)

* Highlight the composes more strongly
* pin/snapshot and run the compose
* SIGs aren't composed and you need to pin all the things
* Adding something new would add more confusion
* promote Alt Images and SIG output more?
* WSL images (quarterly PR vs same pace for dot releases)
* quarterly images may be too big to run an update on
* How would we deal with CVEs?
* Could we get repo information to patch CVEs - updateinfo?
* OVAL files contain this sort of information
* this would be so we can check for CVEs and then update the local machine
* Release quarterly images and snapshot the repos monthly for the quarterly images to update from
* Could we use Neal's Kurchu to do for the SIGs as well? - https://blog.centos.org/2025/05/introducing-kurchu-for-centos-sig-content-collections/
* Present the options as 3 cadences for change - slow, quick and quicker
* Lifecycle would be the same as Stream so when Stream is EOL all CentOS Quarterly are EOL even the most recent
* Expectation is that you would run the current quarterly.
* dnf vars should be updated to return the correct quarterly you are on
* need a way to populate this value
* need a link to the "current" quarter
* Maybe just have a `centos.quartly` repo that is the one target
* Could update quarterly to stream (main) and update stream (main) to a future quarterly
* Could use Elevate to update from 10 to 11
* There are storage concerns maybe we could possibly use the AWS account sponsored by Amazon(same as Fedora?)

11:30 - Jefro: discussion about RISC-V (likely 15 mins)

11:45 - Elections

* Thomas is willing to stay on past July so we can have a more organized election and work around Shaun's PTO.

12:00 - SIG Council what's left and how can we get it going?
* https://hackmd.io/IRjvfNKJRdiSb9ujLpGCWQ

Lunch(12:30) - https://www.panasiarestaurant.com/chinese-food-delivery-boston-fort-point
I think this will be a somewhat working lunch but we'll need to go downstairs to pick up and such.
- lunch topic?

13:00 - Mike McGrath
* put together a mock presentation of CentOS inviting RHEL Users to the community
* Which spaces?
* Promote CentOS as a way to be ready for next release of RHEL
* Tech Preview vs Beta?
* AI its coming
* More AI added in like log detection
* Freeing up engineers to spend more time interacting with communities
* QE, keeping code up to date and testing it
* Train to help write spec files? - Davide
* patchpal - Open Sourced by RH
* work with other distros(Debian) to come up with a standard?
* Failure is ok! Perhaps even expected

14:15 - Break and grab badges at BCEC? (not open until Mon am ?)

15:15 - our prep for FRCL to make sure we get out of it that we need with so many folks there.
* Actionable things!
* secureboot!
* Improved engagement between between maintainers and community
* Not a useful interaction without someone from RHEL Engineering

16:00 - General discussion various topics and tangents:)

17:00 - RHEL docs
* docs on how to do docs
* enterprise-docs
* no 10 folder - wait a week

17:30 - bag drops
19:00 - Dinner at Legal Sea Foods - Long Wharf

List for Security
Board mtg
Davide Cavalca - [e-mail]
Jack Aboutboul - [e-mail]
Pat Riehecky - [e-mail]

Additions for FRCL
Michel Lind - [e-mail]
Neal Gompa - [e-mail]