Minutes for December 30, 2010
Minutes of the Plone Foundation Board of Directors
Housekeeping
Attendance
Attending: Matt, Calvin, Steve, Mark, Jon, Geir, Alex
Approve Minutes for December 16th, 2010 board meeting
Approval moved by Mark, unanimously approved (Calvin abstaining)
Old business
Domain acquisition progress
No change
Guidelines for hosting User Group websites on Plone.org
Mark sent out a set of proposed guidelines; a couple of changes suggested;
Jon moved approval subject to suggestions; Calvin seconded
Unanimously approved
Setting up two new landing pages on plone.org - one for user groups, one for education
Approved last time; in the works.
Plone roadmap
Plone 3.3.6 release date?
Alan is on holiday; Matt will check to see when that ends
Plone 5 roadmap document status
Laurence has gotten a tech document out;
Geir will work on getting UI side information
Geir and Mark will work on getting this information to the point that it’s useful outside the core development community
Committers/contributor agreement auditing -- ongoing
Jon is continuing his audit of contributor agreements / core access matchup and is extending this to check on very old and very new agreements and actual commit history
Membership Committee
Jon has a handful of applicants, will update us by email for choice at next meeting
Hosting of version control server
Geir volunteered to lead this discussion in the development community; tentative agreement emerging that distributed version control won’t happen fast enough to alleviate need for our own server. Also, general agreement that the OSU deal looks good. Git or mercurial complete move may be more like a couple of years.
Ended discussion with general agreement that we’re willing to buy hardware and work via OSU. Calvin will work with admins on getting a good hardware spec and price.
SFLC legal details on patches
Geir is continuing to work on this
New business
Fund a Windows license for testing purposes
Jon is investigating feasibility of licensing for full retail windows for automated testing.
Possibly technet via techsoup.
Sprint Funding Mechanisms
Steve asked if we are OK with having the PF receive contributions earmarked for approved sprints, noting that we'd dome something similar with the strategic planning summit.
General agreement that this is OK. Steve will check with Toby on mechanisms.
Meeting adjourned at 1:10pm
Next meeting Jan 13