# Board Meeting Minutes 11 July 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Bryan Lunduke - Tomas Chvatal - Gertjan Lettink - Andrew Wafaa (Treasurer) ## Absent - Kostas Koudaras - Sick ## General Items ### Devel Project Maintainers Board is concerned about reports from Package maintainers that their submissions are being ignored or over-ridden by Project Maintainers. The Board would like to remind Devel project maintainers are responsible for encoraging and supporting Package maintainers. Submitters should be supported, if their submission doesn't pass muster then teach them how to do it better, don't just reject it or replace it with your own (especially if your own doesn't resolve the issues the Package maintainer was trying to resolve) ### Mailinglist Behaviour AI: Tomas to send 1 formal warning to a misbehaving mailinglist poster. ### oSC 16 It was lovely, went really well, complete success. Thanks to all who made it happen. ### oSC 17 Board discussed and agrees that oSC 17 should hopefully occur in Nuremberg, during the first week of June. ### openSUSE Asia No news from the openSUSE Asia team, everything seems to be going smoothly. ### TSP All submissions who have returned receipts have been accepted. Still one outstanding. ### Trademark Request The Board have heard from the members with the outstanding Trademark request. Local legal requirements complicate our proposed solution. Negotiations ongoing. ### Membership Tidyup First and Second round of reminders are sent, some responses recieved, a few more days will be left AI: Richard to make openSUSE Emeritus group. AI: Mical to send the final warning and start migrating inactive members to the Emeritus group ### Infrastructure The Board remains concerned about ongoing Infrastructure issues. Board notes that some efforts have been made to improve the situation with www.opensuse.org and other Provo hosted openSUSE services, but would like to see a sustainable long term solution. The Board is also concerned by the long lead time on tickets to admin(a)opensuse.org. Richard had a meeting with Roland. Roland shares the Boards concerns. MicroFocus IT are not able to process requests in a timely manner, so SUSE IT are stepping up to replace some infrastructure which will be easier for the community to also maintain and support. AI: Richard to have regular meetings with Roland and Lars. ### SLE Packages The Board has spotted a number of cases in Leap 42.2 Alpha 2 where packages inherited from SLE are newer than the ones available in Tumbleweed or Devel Repos. Reminders seem to have helped, but problem still ongoing. AI: Richard to send both general and directed reminders internally at SUSE to remind them of the SUSE company policy to contribute to Tumbleweed before/in parralel/in sync with their work on SLE. ### KDE KDE are forming an Advisory Board. Board is nominating Antonio Larossa to represent openSUSE on this Board. We're very pleased to see Plasma start offering LTS releases with 5.8, which hopefully might smooth out some of the issues we've faced with KDE in Leap. ## Action Item Review Due to the large number of action items, the progress of these will be split into 3 sections - DONE; This task is complete and will not be discussed in future meetings - WIP; This task is in progress, and will be discussed in future meetings - TODO; This task is still waiting for some progress by the Board ### DONE ### WIP Board + Ludwig to figure out what to do with all the Volunteers for the "openSUSE Release Team" *Richard & Ludwig to discuss* Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling and maintenance. Tomas has talked with Craig about OBS team preparing the code for maintaner tidyup *Feature in OBS teams TODO* Bryan has started arrange informal exploratory discussions with ownCloud, nextCloud and Kolab about closer relationships. Had some good chats at oSC 16. *Bryan to keep driving* Kostas is reaching out to our few bloggers on lizards.opensuse.org about moving to other platforms. Richard has been talking to Douglas about the possibility of moving news.opensuse.org to a new blogging platform. Richard's personal blog is running a potential candidate (Jekyll with custom openSUSE theme) http://rootco.de ### TODO Board to request release-team(a)opensuse.org list for the Release Team Board to investigate alternatives for voting & membership management _To be done after the Membership Tidy Up_ Tomas will investigate Helios voting system for openSUSE Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark enquiries don't get lost Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter Board intends to create a skeleton of the getting started guides to help people get started with Using, Joining, and Partnering with openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org