13:59:13 #startmeeting tac 13:59:13 Meeting started Wed Jun 6 13:59:13 2018 UTC. The chair is dfarrell07. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:59:13 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 13:59:13 The meeting name has been set to 'tac' 13:59:36 rpaik: beat me by 3 seconds ;) 13:59:42 #info Daniel Farrell 13:59:53 #chair kennypaul 14:00:10 #info Tim Irnich 14:00:15 #info Xiaojun Xie 14:00:25 we'll get started in a minute or two 14:00:28 #info Jason Hunt, IBM 14:01:47 #info Rossella Sblendido 14:01:52 #info edwarnicke 14:02:52 #info Tapio Tallgren 14:02:58 #info Andre Fredette 14:02:59 #info Wenjing Chu 14:03:19 #info Frank Brockners 14:03:34 #topic agenda bashing 14:03:42 #info Ray Kinsella for Rajesh Gadiyar. 14:05:42 #info ONS - EMEA, Jira-federation were was suggested as topics 14:05:56 #topic LFN GB representation 14:07:02 #info GB does not what to enlarge the board size 14:08:35 #action @rpaik to sent invite to the board meeting to TSC chairs 14:09:45 #info TSC Chairs to provide top updats to GB on a quarterly basis 14:11:50 #info dfarrell07 and edwarnicke expressed concerns that quarterly communications may not be efficient/fast enough for critical issues 14:14:41 #info forwarding looking release discussions may not be effective in open source communities 14:14:43 #info concerns raised that distributed decision making will not make readouts on themes in advance of little value 14:15:06 #info retrospectives of nigh value however 14:15:15 #undo 14:15:34 retrospectives of high value however 14:15:43 #info retrospectives of high value however 14:16:43 #info dfarrell07 and others seem to think that infrequent "what we plan on doing" updates are almost impossible to create in healthy open source communities, where decision making happens in a bottom-up, distributed manor 14:17:12 #info dfarrell07 suggests the Board reconsider their recommendation, find a way to enable frequent, short updates from TAC projects 14:18:05 #info dfarrell07 would go as far as saying that these types perspectives are hand-wavy BS, not worth anyone's time 14:18:11 #undo 14:18:11 Removing item from minutes: 14:18:47 #info dfarrell07 would go as far as saying that these types "what the community will work on" are hand-wavy BS, not worth anyone's time 14:21:41 #info edwarnicke suggests monthly updates of community pain points to board 14:24:55 #info frankbrockners notes that email updates could complement "periodic" updates in GB meetings 14:26:46 #info dfarrell07 thinks it's also important to build relationship between board and communities, better to build that in small informal updates than infrequent, large emails 14:27:17 #topic budget request process 14:27:31 #action dfarrell07 to go write recommendation to prefer frequent, small, informal updates over infrequent, formal updates 14:29:23 #info edwarnicke suggests discretionary budget being placed in the hands of the TSCs 14:29:31 #info edwarnicke talks about pool of budget for communities to handle themselves vs layer of indirection at TAC 14:29:58 #info in general, edwarnicke dfarrell07 and others feel need to build more bottom-up structures, fewer top-down 14:30:07 #info discretionary budget being defined as "events, marketing, pr, and other items" and not as "infra, personnel, etc" 14:32:17 #info projects would come to TAC to notify, which would allow chances to find ways to collab to save money, but would not be asking for TAC approval 14:39:08 #info what do we need to updated in this Gerrit to include the discussion today? https://gerrit.linuxfoundation.org/infra/#/c/10545 14:39:13 #info discussion on discretionary spending per project and rpaik noted that the amount needs to be discussed with the GB 14:40:15 #action edwarnicke to go modify 10545 to include budget ideas discussed today 14:45:02 #info the above Gerrit patch could be discussed with the A&F committee 14:47:33 #info suggestion to invite Jonne (LFN Treasurer) to the next GB meeting 14:49:55 #info request to have Jonne attend the next TAC meeting to provide a budget readout - caveat regarding that there are aspects of the budget can actually be shared in a public meeting like the TAC vs. Board 14:50:16 #topic community process documents 14:55:02 #action rpaik to schedule a meeting sometime next week to work on/review documents 14:58:16 #info encourage everyone to review/provide feedback on documents (incl. Lifecycle doc) 15:01:48 edwarnicke: you might want to consider making that "Any Open Source Project JIRA that ever asks" ;) 15:01:56 edwarnicke: maybe we should just smash them all into one gerrit 15:02:07 dfarrell07: That solves my problem 15:02:10 dfarrell07: maybe for the lfn/process repo we should avoid making patches with dependencies. that always trips up new users. 15:02:12 they are related changes 15:02:23 * edwarnicke is trying to have a problem to be solved, not a solution that must be done! 15:02:35 #endmeeting