Plone Foundation Board Minutes June 24, 2021

Meeting called to order at 19:03 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present:Chrissy Wainwright, William Fennie, Erico Andrei,  Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba, Jens Klein

Absent:Paul Roeland (excused)

Approval of the minutes of June 10, 2021

Erico moved to approve, Jens seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

• Chrissy signed the LoudSwarm contract

Incoming Correspondence

• Letter of Recommendation for Rodrigo Ferreira de Souza

  • Board will provide 
• Zope.de site - it does not look like the Board needs to take any action. Erico will forward to infrastructure team.

New Business

• PSF Bylaw Changes

  • bylaws are in github repo as markdown files

    • Erico motions, Chrissy seconded
    • Andy volunteers to move PF bylaws to markdown in a github repo

  • Helios voting system https://vote.heliosvoting.org/

    • other open source orgs are using helios voting system e.g. OSI
    • Erico volunteers to set this up

• Plone Foundation may want to consider moving towards Helios

  • trial run perhaps

Review Ongoing

• Security Team Meeting

  • Issues discussed:

    • more people need to be involved and active

    • support releases for 6.0, 5.2 with security fixes. 

      • only latest versions are supported e.g. if 6.1 is out, security fix goes to that version, 6.0 is not supported
      • hotfix testing, 6FU will help with this, hotfix maintainer will get more feedback

      • Plone security github repo is private

        • Github actions have hour limits, perhaps need to raise the limit
• Marketing team, dev team timeline coordination for Plone 6

Andy moved to adjourn, Victor seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:34 UTC