Minute of 2010-05-18

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Meeting of the TB, 2010-05-18

    * Chair: sabdfl
    * Present: cjwatson, kees, keybuk, mdz, pitti, sabdfl

    * Review of Actions
          o On Reinhard's patent question: pitti got a reply from Amanda
            [Canonical legal] and replied to Reinhard and tb@
          o cjwatson has sync'd MoM
          o pitti has switched Soyuz' sync-source.py
    * 10.10.10
          o The Board continued their discussion on the proposed release
            date for Maverick Meerkat. Concern was expressed about
            releasing on a Sunday: it was agreed that the release would
            need to be prepared by the previous Friday. Various
            stakeholders (webmaster, marketing) will be ready for the
            release on the Sunday, but the bulk of the work should wrap
            during the previous work week and only a skeleton team need
            be in place over the weekend, barring a release crisis.
          o

            The updated release schedule, with 10.10.10 has been
            published, and should now be considered canonical :-)

    * Releases to 12.04
          o The Board discussed Robbie's data on the factors affecting
            actual development time during releases. It's now clear that
            April releases get reduced developer time, due to the number
            of Western holidays during the cycle. As a result, we would
            like to release the October release a little earlier than we
            have in the past.
          o The Board voted and approved a proposal to ask Jorge Castro
            to engage with the GNOME release team, to see if they have
            similar dynamics in their cycle, and are amenable to
            aligning in this way. In addition, we asked Jorge to explore
            the possibility of publishing a schedule of release dates
            for 10.10 till 12.04, now. That would allow us to fix the
            dates of conferences, sprints and other events further in
            advance.
          o The Board also discussed avoiding the final week of the
            month for releases, but the idea did not carry and no
            consensus emerged.
    * Sparc and IA64 Status
          o

            Keybuk pointed the Board
            at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchitectureStatus which lists
            architectures and gives an indication of their degree of
            support in Ubuntu.

          o The Board approved that Keybuk publicise that page, together
            with the statement that SPARC and IA64 are declining in
            levels of usage and maintenance to the point where they are
            candidates for decommissioning. In the case of SPARC, the
            issues are severe, with kernel and toolchain causing
            problems to the point of SPARC being unusable. In the case
            of IA64, there was some discussion of benefits to the team
            of having IA64 builds, and a recognition of the fact that
            kernel and toolchain are in better shape. Nevertheless, the
            decision was taken that unless a substantial community
            effort rallies around IA64, it should also be
            decommissioned, and Keybuk will frame the mail that way.
    * Derivative hosting requests
          o Persia asked if the TB needed to be involved in questions
            about new derivatives, and the decision was that yes, if the
            request involved hosting or modifications to key
            infrastructure and build services, then requests should be
            addressed by the TB.
    * The chair for the next TB will be Keybuk.


Thanks all,
Mark
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