# August 31st 2021
# Cloud Custodian (C7n) Community Meeting Minutes

###### tags: `Meeting`

:::info
- **Meeting URL:** [meet.google.com/mii-evqh-esh](meet.google.com/mii-evqh-esh)
- **Date:** August 31st, 2021 (2:00 PM (ET) / 11:00 PM (PT) / 6PM (UTC))
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- **Host:** Jorge Castro
- - **Meeting Contact:** Jorge: <[e-mail]>
- **Permalink:**
- **Video Link:**
- **Board**: [Community Board](https://github.com/cloud-custodian/community/projects/1)
- **Participants:**

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## Agenda Items

- Introductions and Announcements [@castrojo]`5m`
- Cool c7n talk, AWS reinforce keynote, how [HBO Max uses Cloud Custodian](https://youtu.be/H3LTjVWSQ6g?t=2657)
- Agenda Items `15m`
- Regular weekly doc sprints sessions [@liz-acosta]
- GitHub forms are coming, pr inflight:
- https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian/pull/6864
- [Check out the forms here!](https://github.com/ajkerrigan/cloud-custodian/issues/new/choose)
- Proposal for `@cloud-custodian/docs` for PR/issue review for docs
- Jorge to file an issue, me, liz, AJ.
- Kapil: Server side filters without having to spelunk to find them.
- Resource and source specific
- If anyone has an idea on how to approach this it'd be useful. How do we generate reference material for it? Still an open question.
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- Pull Request Party `15m`
- Spare/Extra time will be dedicated to PR reviews. (See below)

:house: Events

- Governance as Code Day is coming!
- [Register now](https://hopin.com/events/governance-as-code-day-with-cloud-custodian-hosted-by-stacklet) to attend
- [SUBMIT A CFP](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1BFr6HJZ2eT8V3pKLL0o6d4NPFrl9tBJ2Lbnipp87K058Cw/viewform)
- :new: Deadline for talk submissions is now September 8th
- :new: Schedule to be posted September 10th! (We're starting at 9am Pacific Time!)
- **Reminder: You do not need to be registered to KubeCon to attend!**
- We'll go virtual if there are changes to KubeCon's schedule
- Upcoming Cloud Custodian Days (Resuming in Novermber!)
- [Workshop (for beginners)](https://app.livestorm.co/stacklet-io/cloud-custodian-101-workshop?type=detailed)

:books: Backlog
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- Contributor Guide [@liz-acosta]
- https://cloudcustodian.io/docs/contribute.html
- Should we make a video for local dev environment?
- Priority backlog for the cloud providers. [@kapilt]
- Enhancements/Feature Process [@kapilt]
- Rename master->main in github [@kapilt]
- https://github.com/github/renaming#renaming-existing-branches
- GitHub how supports this, we can try this now.
- afaict it's low risk, I'll keep investigating.
- No progress this week, kapil will sanity check it this week if he can.
- Make-gitter-easier [@castrojo]
- More to report in the future.
- Todd: drone.io just recently switched from gitter to slack and introduced a proposal github repo for this same problem set: https://github.com/drone/proposal
- Recommend [pipx](https://pypa.github.io/pipx/) for non-contributor installs? [@ajkerrigan]
- Do we [support brew](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/c7n)?
- Version is old, should we consider updating that?
- Jorge to file an issue, see if there's a volunteer person who's into this.
- Policy Testing ([spec](https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian/issues/6407)) [@marcoceppi]
- Soliciting feedback, please check it out and comment on the issue!

:mag: PR/Issue Review
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- :new: [Improper paging when invoking EC2:DescribeSnapshots](https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian/issues/6873) [AJ]
- :new: [Document support for server-side filters via the query block](https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian/issues/6874) [AJ]

:closed_book: Action Items
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## Chat Logs

00:03:55.624,00:03:58.624
AJ Kerrigan: https://github.com/ajkerrigan/cloud-custodian/issues/new/choose

00:06:37.075,00:06:40.075
Kapil Thangavelu: Andy Sonny, doh

00:12:01.511,00:12:04.511
Umair Khan: my email is [e-mail]

00:18:50.517,00:18:53.517
Todd Stansell: back on the enhancement/feature process topic ... drone.io just recently switched from gitter to slack and introduced a proposal github repo for this same problem set... might be worth seeing if we should mimic them ;) https://github.com/drone/proposal

00:19:25.727,00:19:28.727
Jorge Castro: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/c7n

00:19:28.324,00:19:31.324
AJ Kerrigan: I think the issue with Slack was some users/contributors had work policies preventing slack use :(

00:19:57.592,00:20:00.592
Todd Stansell: yeah, not saying we should move to slack ... they just had the same discussions as us around that and a formal proposal process... :)

00:24:11.269,00:24:14.269
AJ Kerrigan: Ah good call

00:29:31.872,00:29:34.872
Jorge Castro: https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian/issues/6873

00:32:37.745,00:32:40.745
Kapil Thangavelu: Or 6875

00:33:13.602,00:33:16.602
Kapil Thangavelu: Pr

00:34:19.218,00:34:22.218
Jorge Castro: Thanks todd wrt the slack link, I will go check out that link and see what I can learn!

00:35:02.756,00:35:05.756
Liz Acosta: +1 to that