Minute of 2010-05-18
Mark Shuttleworth
mark at ubuntu.com
Tue May 18 16:47:06 BST 2010
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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