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