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Minutes from the Ubuntu Technical Board meeting

From:  Martin Pitt <martin.pitt-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  Ubuntu Development Announcements <ubuntu-devel-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject:  Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-10-06
Date:  Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:29:28 +0200
Message-ID:  <20091006152928.GE2310@piware.de>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

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= Attendees =

Martin Pitt (chair)
Mark Shuttleworth
Matt Zimmerman
Scott James Remnant
Colin Watson

= Notes =

* Review actions from last meeting

 * ''Keybuk to find Bdale at LinuxCon to hash out participation'': done; Bdale will watch a few
meetings, then have a discussion. He is on the TB mailing list now.
 * ''kees to drive sun-java6 email thread and get resolution on responsibility'': Neil is
soliciting migration plans; needs to be discussed in-depth at next UDS; Colin made a note about
handling it in the foundations track
 * ''cjwatson to drive DMB email thread to conclusion'': followup happened, voting is ongoing
 * ''Keybuk to finalize unit policy and email to TB for vote'': deferred
 * ''cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights for ubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu in email'':
Blocked on DMB email thread conclusion, deferred


* Archive reorganization:

  * There is a [[https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-dev]] team now which has been blessed by the
Kubuntu council; Colin will follow up
 

* Naming of new packages:

 * mdz raised the problem that newly created projects often change their name shortly after they
get introduced to the wide audience (example: software-store ? software-center, espresso ?
ubiquity); is there a possible process enhancement for this?
 * Keybuk: renaming packages later is better than introducing packages later (and getting fewer
feedback) 
 * pitti: does not happen often enough to be a major concern
 * cjwatson: we don't need to do this for packages that aren't really significantly user-visible
 * mdz will come back with a list of packages which were renamed and how much developer effort was
wasted, to see whether any followup is required


* core-dev application process

 * TB ? DMB application handling is currently in flux, and there were objections against the
proposed process
 * DMB meeting next Tuesday 1400 UTC to settle on a process


* Select a chair for the next meeting
 * Keybuk


* Actions from this meeting:
 * Keybuk to finalize unit policy and email to TB for vote
 * cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights for ubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu in email
 * pitti to announce DMB meeting next Tuesday 1400

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