Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-17

[Martin Pitt]

Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-17

= Attendees =
 * Martin Pitt (chair)
 * Mark Shuttleworth
 * Kees Cook
 * Colin Watson
 * Scott James Remnant

= Topics =

 * Archive reorganization:
   * Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved
   * [ACTION]: Martin to talk to Jonathan about making DMB an admin of kubuntu-dev (done now), and to announce new members to devel-permissions@ and kubuntu team list
   * [ACTION] Martin to talk to Mario about adding DMB as admin of ~mythbuntu-dev and add wiki page about new member procedure
   * Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved
   * Upload delegation for kubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above
   * Upload delegation for mythbubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above
   * [ACTION] Colin to document edit_acl invocation for setting team upload delegation
   * [ACTION] Colin to implement delegations for these three teams after above fixes

 * Units Policy:
  * [ACTION] Scott to redraft Units policy to address Scott's and Matt's concerns and clean up language

 * Change of Ubuntu Translations permission policy: approved; Martin changed the permissions on Launchpad and asked David Planella to announce to -translators at .

 * 10.04 LTS release plan:
  * updated wiki page to point out that different products might have different LTS states
  * LTS status for Kubuntu 10.04 is currently being discussed at UDS
  * In the future we will clearly announce which products have which LTS status at the beginning of the cycle, so that developers and customers can plan better

 * Ubuntu Licensing Policy:
  * [ACTION] Colin to clarify trademark/license distinction on licensing policy

 * Execute Permission Policy:
  * The current policy will not handle all potential cases, such as OO.o macros or application cases which wer are unaware of
  * Colin: we should point out an alternative approach instead of just saying "No"
  * current impact: kill GNOME desktop "do you want to run it anyway?" question, remove a few MIME handlers
  * To be continued in the next meeting

 * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy: deferred, out of time

 * DMB items: deferred, out of time; [ACTION] Martin to announce DMB meeting next week

 * Check on community bugs: None

 * Chair for next meeting: Kees

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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