Board minutes 2014-03-26

Attendees

Jim to write up list of actions / content to address export control requirements

Jim: need to sell the sanity aspect in light of new sigs
Jim: not a fan of cute names
Karsten: names are memorable
Mike: the names don’t have to be cute
Ralph: don’t want the name to be too long. dates are good/practical
Carl: need to avoid fragmentation. no names per variants
KB: Year and month is enough. It takes days to get content on the mirrors
Mike: let’s enumerate the different classes of sigs/variants and think about how naming should work in each case
Mike: we want to avoid giving the appearance of EUS-type support
Fabian: consider chef/puppet variables
could break various puppet modules/etc
Karsten: can we provide major/minor number where necessary without using it at top level?
Jim/KB: vendor validation
Jim: too drastic a change too fast could cause a user revolt
KB: just drop the subrelease altogether. E.g. centos-6-atomic
Karsten: need to really think about how we will present this to the community
folks will point out holes in plan
we’ll have an iterative process
KB: let’s take the rest of this offline/email

Karsten: the laws are complex, but we need a simple policy
Karsten: software contributions imply access to software, which may be prohibited
Karsten: we’re not here to take a political stance
let’s not let folks force us into taking one
people should not be using us to make a political statement
Jim: some details about Fedora’s approach
KB: a lot of people in Iran use Centos
users may be deliberately trying to push the boundaries
Carl: we don’t have to be police, just state the facts (in a nice way)
Jim: they can always get it from kernel.org
Fabian: what / how do we communicate mirror requests
needs wording up
ToDO: firewall off content from mirror-?.centos.org ( the ones hosted at redhat )
desireable to have elsewhere, but not essential
ToDo: add notes to rsync header, mirrorlist node to say content is not acceptable for use in some areas
Jim to write up list of actions / content to address export control requirements