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Focus Meeting Minutes - May 9th, 2008

Development

Current items in development:

  • Firefox 3 (Beta 5): In QA as of the first week of May, promoted to fl:2 by the end of the month
  • Mono: Need to get Mono bumped to the latest version, and all of Mono rebuilt to make it multi-lib safe
  • System wide dictionary: Moving from aspell to hunspell
  • NetworkManager:  Still buggy, but even Fedora shipped the same version with the same bugs, so more than just a Foresight issue (Latest version isn't connecting automatically on wired networks)
  • New kernel to be promoted to 2:qa next week
  • Promote 2:qa branch to fl:2 by the end of the month
  • PackageKit updates from 20/20 in next PK release (better update information)

Priorities:

  •  2-qa pushed to fl:2
  • Mono bumped
  • Kernel promoted to 2-qa

Future Development (after the above is completed):

  • Python 2.5
  • KDE promoted to 2-qa
  • OpenOffice.org Beta scheduled for 2:devel in August

Shuttle Partnership

  •  Ken built an install appliance for Shuttle (Pxe, dhcp, nfs, etc)
  • Wrote kickstart configs
  • Deployed with a TG application to collect installation information to faciliate audits
  • Should reduce installation mistakes by Shuttle going forward

Foresight Versions

  • KDE:  Focusing on 3.5 Alpha release
  • Need to get group-kde promoted to 2:qa for testing
  • Council to schedule monthly cross-version team meeting (XFCE, GNOME, KDE) with Mark__T, int, jtate, kenvandine and doniphon
    • Discuss milestones and goals to facilitate communication to users
    • Needed infrastructure (Groups, images, etc)
    • Possibly Fridays after Focus meeting
    • Paul to reach out to version leads and schedule

Misc. Updates

  • Wiki re-organization 80% complete using wiki layout discussed at 20/20
    • Need to update the Getting involved space and organize by team
    • Add tasks by team
    • Update the Community section to provide transparenency
    • Include list of formalized users and developers and get better at the agenda for adding more members
  • gxti working on mirrors for Foresight appliance and caching appliance for PackageKit
  •  JIRA: Needs additional workflows added, gxti may be willing to help, but needs additional direction on what needs to be done (gxti to focus on mirrors first)
  • Packaging Contest: Need tor review packages, recipes and assign points by the end of the month (Paul to follow up with pscott)
    • Tetnatively scheduled sprint to review for May 23rd - May 25th
  • Monthly Communication: Paul to follow up with sub-team leads for a monthly updates from the sub-team leads (Marketing, QA, Versions, etc)
    • Just a few bullets
    • Faciliate conversation between teams
    • Provide updates for users
    • Revive newsletter and help provide content for that

Next meeting:  Friday, May 23rd