Tech Board Meeting 24 May 2005 - Summary

[Jane Weideman]

A special Tech Board meeting was held today (Tuesday 24 May 2005) at
20:00 UTC.

The regular meeting was scheduled for last week, Tuesday 17 May 2005 at
20:00 UTC, however as both mdz and sabdfl were not present at last
week's regular meeting, it was felt that the Maintainer Candidates for
approval on the agenda could not be considered at that time, so these
were carried over to this week's meeting.

1. The first item discussed was the time of the Tech Board meeting.
This is currently at 20:00 UTC every second Tuesday.
This was discussed at length with many people voting for a cycled time,
or even 2 alternating times for the meeting. Here 06:00 and 20:00 UTC
alternating was suggested as a start.
An equal number of people feel that any time will end up being bad for
someone, so should just be kept as is.
It was noted that as Matt Zimmerman - mdz, chairs these meetings, they
should be during his awake cycle ;).
After much debate it was agreed that mdz will approach sabdfl for an
opinion on the matter. 
For now the next meeting remains scheduled at 20:00 UTC on Tuesday 31
May 2005. 

2. Maintainer candidates for approval. The list of candidates awaiting
approval was reviewed. Only the people specifically listed on the agenda
were available, so the remainder of the list will be carried over to the
next meeting. The folowing candidates were considered and approved at
the meeting.

Maintainer Candidates Approved:
  *  DanielHolbach (dholbach) as uploader for main. 
        
      *  GerardoDiGiacomo (astharot) as uploader for universe. 
        
      *  StephanHermann (\sh or shermann) as uploader for universe. 
        
      *  BrandonHale (tseng) as uploader for main for Mono transition. 
        
      *  ReinhardTartler (siretart) as uploader for universe. 
        
*REMINDER* all approved MOTUS, please put yourself on the MOTU page in
the wiki *REMINDER*

3. Finally the release schedule was discussed briefly, with a request
for major changes to be announced and communicated effectively at least
3-4 days before they are uploaded. This would allowing co-ordination
between team members and allowing breakages to be fixed in time.

The full meeting log can be found at:
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-current.html

  Regards,
-- 
JaneW
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Jane Weideman
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Canonical Ltd.