Fedora Meeting Status Report

Colin Charles

colin@fedoraproject.org

http://www.bytebot.net/

What happened

Gathered a few people into a room...

Got some random call-in's...

Brought out the baseball bats...

and eventually...

sorted some things out

while we had lots of coffee and Krispy Kreme

What came out of it

Assumptions, action items, and goals

Some of which were:

Build system in Raleigh; got moved to Arizona, to a co-lo

Core and Extras needed the same build system

release early, release often – Extras will have a different/simpler/open build system

Core packages must not depend on Extras at all

Other architectures that need supporting (like PPC or Sparc) need Extras build boxes

Wiki/slash type system on fedora.redhat.com

Want: single spec file to manage a package across all kinds of Fedora's, or RHELs; we need packaging guidelines

More goals

(and you'll see progress for this almost real soon now)

Build system for Extras will be out in public CVS

we want it to be easily replicated on developer machines

Extras system, needs to be track-able, for security reasons

virtualization is something we are thinking about

Regular meetings with the relevant people, with published meeting minutes will be available

We are going to COMMUNICATE!

Action Items

Say it again: we need a build system. CVS module should be available soon.

Gain further internal (Red Hat) acceptance for resources/scheduling, minimizing blindspots to the community

Leadership document is to be re-written

Databases and Bugzilla automation to automate approved packages, entries, states – workflow management

Packaging guidelines

How can we bless external sites – legal liability

Website in CVS for external contributors

Legacy terminology fixed; Alternatives removed

fedora-maintainers@redhat.com; fedora-maintainers-readonly@redhat.com

need to be a package maintainer to be on it

Fedora Security

Fedora Extras Steering Committee

Newly created

Mixture of Red Hat and community members

There'll be a list, and a form of communication that people (YOU!) can contact the Steering Committee

Warren Togami

Cristian Gafton

Greg DeKoenigsberg

Colin Charles

Seth Vidal

Enrico Scholz

Michael Schwendt

Ville Skyttä

Dams Nadé

Dave Lawrence

Jeremy Katz

Tom 'spot' Callaway

Jesse Keating

Thanks!

To Red Hat for hosting the meeting (and FUDCon)

Boston University that decided to host us for FUDCon

The crazy people that attended the useful meeting:

Dave Lawrence

Elliot Lee

Warren Togami

Greg DeKoenigsberg

Jeremy Katz

Cristian Gafton

Bill Nottingham

Paul Nasrat

Seth Vidal

Tom 'spot' Callaway

Karen Bennet

Michael Tiemann

Jesse Keating

Havoc Pennington

Peter Jones

Jack Aboutboul

Colin Charles

Jef Spaleta/Dams Nade (via bad VoIP connection)

They're all making a difference to the project for you!

2005-02-18T22:28:50