19:02 #startmeeting Technical Board 19:02 Meeting started at 19:02:26 UTC. The chair is rbasak. Information about MeetBot at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology 19:02 Available commands: action, commands, idea, info, link, nick 19:02 #topic Apologies 19:02 #info amurray sends his apologies 19:03 Maybe vorlon is around? 19:03 #info vorlon and seb128 are absent 19:03 #topic Action review 19:03 * rbasak rbasak to draft a proposal of the DMB-proposed inactivity expiration policy for TB ratification 19:04 This is in progress. The draft is pretty much ready to convert to Markdown for Discourse. Please see my final edits to see if you're happy with them. I will continue regardless unless there are any objections. 19:04 #action Oh I'm sorry. That's for the next item. 19:04 * meetingology Oh I'm sorry. That's for the next item. 19:04 * vorlon waves 19:04 #undo 19:04 Removing item from minutes: ACTION 19:04 sorry I'm late 19:04 o/ 19:05 Oooh, didn't know about the undo feature! 19:05 The DMB item is in the queue behind this other one 19:05 #action rbasak to draft a proposal of the DMB-proposed inactivity expiration policy for TB ratification 19:05 * meetingology rbasak to draft a proposal of the DMB-proposed inactivity expiration policy for TB ratification 19:05 #action rbasak to open wider discussion on third-party repo policy 19:05 * meetingology rbasak to open wider discussion on third-party repo policy 19:05 as above 19:05 vorlon to look into scripting for packages in flavor-specific overlays 19:05 well 19:06 carry-over :) 19:06 #action vorlon to look into scripting for packages in flavor-specific overlays 19:06 * meetingology vorlon to look into scripting for packages in flavor-specific overlays 19:06 seb128 to continue working with SRU, AA, Release, Backporters and Security teams to document their membership process and link to it from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard#Team_Delegations 19:06 He isn't here so I'll carry over. 19:06 #action seb128 to continue working with SRU, AA, Release, Backporters and Security teams to document their membership process and link to it from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard#Team_Delegations 19:06 * meetingology seb128 to continue working with SRU, AA, Release, Backporters and Security teams to document their membership process and link to it from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard#Team_Delegations 19:06 sil2100 to follow up on the Cinnamon 24.04 LTS Qualification re the number of contacts listed for the flavor 19:06 So regarding this one 19:06 I'm fine in proceeding, but wanted to ask around if we still think this is necesasry 19:07 Cinnamon has been labelled LTS for 24.04, if we think chasing down on this is still a valid action, I can do that 19:07 I still want clarification of the contacts 19:08 Fine by me, the doc does show quite a mish-mash of people there 19:08 as we still need to be able to manage point releases of this flavor for years 19:08 Let me start drafting an e-mail then 19:08 Shall I carry this one over then? 19:08 Yes please 19:08 #action sil2100 to follow up on the Cinnamon 24.04 LTS Qualification re the number of contacts listed for the flavor 19:08 * meetingology sil2100 to follow up on the Cinnamon 24.04 LTS Qualification re the number of contacts listed for the flavor 19:08 #topic Scan the mailing list archive for anything we missed (standing item) 19:08 There are a couple 19:09 "Ubuntu Studio Minimal ISO" from Eickmeyer 19:09 #subtopic Ubuntu Studio Minimal ISO 19:09 Is there any action for the TB or can it be left to the release team to handle? 19:09 I think this is with the release team for now 19:09 THanks 19:10 #agreed There is no TB action on this at the moment. We will leave this for the release team to handle 19:10 AGREED: There is no TB action on this at the moment. We will leave this for the release team to handle 19:10 #subtopic Extended Ubuntu Flavor Build Failure 19:10 I only just moderated this one through 19:10 It's in the archive if you haven't seen it yet: 19:10 #link https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2024-July/002933.html 19:11 What action do we need to take, if any? 19:11 in this morning's release team meeting I asked that the TB be informed that a flavor has been broken for a while in devel and that the flavor contacts have not been responsive 19:11 I don't think there's any action to take at this time for the TB 19:11 Thanks 19:11 they're not currently out of compliance w/ the release guidelines 19:11 Do we need to assume that there won't be a Mate release then, going forward, unless something changes? 19:11 I just don't want it to come as a surprise to anybody if they miss oracular 19:12 it's currently not releasable for oracular, yes 19:12 #agreed No specific TB action to take, but we won't expect there to be an Oracular release for Mate unless we make contact with their leads again 19:12 AGREED: No specific TB action to take, but we won't expect there to be an Oracular release for Mate unless we make contact with their leads again 19:12 oh - I see the email mentions "flavor lead", but of course the LTS qual guidelines now say there must be multiple flavor contacts :) 19:12 +1 19:13 I don't know who all has been contacted, I'll follow up to the mail to make sure 19:13 Do you want an action item for that? 19:13 you can 19:13 #undo 19:13 Removing item from minutes: AGREED 19:13 Oh, hmm. 19:13 #topic Scan the mailing list archive for anything we missed (standing item) 19:14 #subtopic Extended Ubuntu Flavor Build Failure 19:14 #action vorlon to follow up on Ubuntu Mate lead contact by email 19:14 * meetingology vorlon to follow up on Ubuntu Mate lead contact by email 19:14 #agreed No specific TB action to take, but we won't expect there to be an Oracular release for Mate unless we make contact with their leads again 19:14 AGREED: No specific TB action to take, but we won't expect there to be an Oracular release for Mate unless we make contact with their leads again 19:14 #topic Check up on community bugs and techboard bugs 19:14 #info No community bugs listed 19:15 #info No new techboard bugs; the existing ones have action items 19:15 #topic Select a chair for the next meeting 19:15 #info The next chair will be seb128 with vorlon as backup 19:15 #topic AOB 19:15 AOB? 19:16 Nothing from me 19:16 #info No other business 19:16 #endmeeting