#ubuntu-meeting: Ubuntu Technical Board

Meeting summary

1. Apologies (cyphermox, 20:00)


2. Action review (cyphermox, 20:01)
   1. ACTION: Wimpress To follow-up on-list with design review to address MATE Boutique security/consent concerns. (cyphermox, 20:01)
   2. ACTION: formal ratification of third party seeded snap security policy, depends on: (cyphermox, 20:02)
   3. ACTION: vorlon to circle around with store, snapcraft, et all, and revise the snap source revision policy to be more clear with regards to rebuildability and GPL compliance. (cyphermox, 20:03)
   4. ACTION: vorlon to reply to seeded snap upload permissions question on list (cyphermox, 20:06)
   5. ACTION: xnox to start a draft summarizing the OEM archive portion of the meeting which vorlon, infinity, and mdeslaur will review, edit, and ratify before we move on to figuring out the next step ([2/3 subquorum required if one of us slacks, to avoid holding up the process]) (cyphermox, 20:07)
   6. ACTION: mdeslaur to follow up with xnox about OEM archive documentation (cyphermox, 20:08)
   7. ACTION: mdeslaur to follow up on xnox's track clarification post to the list from 2020-08-12 (cyphermox, 20:08)
      1. ACTION: sil2100 to follow up with xnox about OEM archive documentation (cyphermox, 20:11)


3. Other agenda items (cyphermox, 20:11)


4. Pending mailing list items (cyphermox, 20:12)
   1. Proposal for exception to existing fwupd SRU policy (cyphermox, 20:12)
      1. ACTION: cyphermox to respond to Mario's SRU exception request, this is handed back to the SRU team. (cyphermox, 20:18)
      2. Updating thunderbird from 68 to 78 in focal (cyphermox, 20:18)
      3. AGREED: vorlon's thoughts on thunderbird process (cyphermox, 20:24)
      4. Use of the TB mailing list (cyphermox, 20:25)
      5. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2021-January/002532.html (rbasak, 20:28)
      6. AGREED: Make use of rbasak's copy suggestion for updating the mailing list's "About" section. (cyphermox, 20:31)
      7. ACTION: teward / community council to update TB mailing list "About" section with agreed upon wording (teward, 20:31)
      8. AGREED: TB does not need admin access to the ML at this point in time (cyphermox, 20:33)
      9. Back on thunderbird (cyphermox, 20:33)
      10. ACTION: rbasak to write up proposal for how to do decision documentation for the future (cyphermox, 21:04)
      11. AGREED: thunderbird changes should include a summary of the decisions / changes written somewhere; left at the discretion of the developers (cyphermox, 21:04)


5. Community bugs (cyphermox, 21:05)


6. Chair for next meeting (cyphermox, 21:06)
   1. ACTION: cyphermox to pester the release team before next meeting about documentation for the HWE changes in focal. (cyphermox, 21:27)

Action items

1. sil2100 to follow up with xnox about OEM archive documentation
2. cyphermox to respond to Mario's SRU exception request, this is handed back to the SRU team.
3. teward / community council to update TB mailing list "About" section with agreed upon wording
4. rbasak to write up proposal for how to do decision documentation for the future
5. cyphermox to pester the release team before next meeting about documentation for the HWE changes in focal.

Action items, by person

1. cyphermox
   1. cyphermox to respond to Mario's SRU exception request, this is handed back to the SRU team.
   2. cyphermox to pester the release team before next meeting about documentation for the HWE changes in focal.
2. rbasak
   1. rbasak to write up proposal for how to do decision documentation for the future
3. sil2100
   1. sil2100 to follow up with xnox about OEM archive documentation
4. teward
   1. teward / community council to update TB mailing list "About" section with agreed upon wording

People present (lines said)

1. cyphermox (150)
2. rbasak (91)
3. teward (54)
4. vorlon (38)
5. sil2100 (27)
6. mdeslaur (21)
7. meetingology (12)
8. sarnold (5)
9. ubottu (1)