Fedora Release Engineering meeting summary for 2010-10-29

[Dennis Gilmore]

Minutes:        http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2010-10-29/fedora-releng.2010-10-29-17.03.html
18:44 < zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2010-10-29/fedora-releng.2010-10-29-17.03.txt
Log:            http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2010-10-29/fedora-releng.2010-10-29-17.03.log.html

Meeting summary
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* Roll Call  (Oxf13, 17:03:38)
  * present are nirik dgilmore rdieter skvidal Oxf13  (Oxf13, 17:06:12)

* Fedora 14 Release  (Oxf13, 17:06:20)
  * notting also present  (Oxf13, 17:07:14)
  * smooth from releng  (Oxf13, 17:09:39)
  * only needed one RC, and it was delivered on time  (Oxf13, 17:09:46)
  * almost ready to go, just need to create torrent configs  (Oxf13,
    17:09:54)
  * ACTION: Oxf13 to finish creating torrent configs and contact
    pre-seeders  (Oxf13, 17:10:04)
  * poelcat is also present  (Oxf13, 17:14:01)
  * Plan to unlock mirrors and torrents the evening before release
    (Oxf13, 17:14:14)
  * releng tasks would be complete for release morning.   Release
    afternoon/evening will do mirrormanager redirect change.  (Oxf13,
    17:14:37)

* Fedora Release Engineering Future  (Oxf13, 17:18:45)
  * Oxf13 (Jesse Keating) to step down as Fedora Release Engineering
    lead for a years time to work on internal Red Hat source migration
    (Oxf13, 17:23:17)
  * dgilmore (Dennis Gilmore) to take over as Release Engineering Lead
    (Oxf13, 17:23:37)
  * Transition to happen in 1~ month's time after dgilmore returns from
    vacation  (Oxf13, 17:23:56)
  * Oxf13 to remain available for contact and knowledge base throughout
    this time  (Oxf13, 17:24:32)
  * ACTION: dgilmore to take over Fedora releng meetings, potentially
    arranging a new time  (Oxf13, 17:32:31)
  * Oxf13 to continue working on fedpkg.  (Oxf13, 17:36:22)
  * ACTION: nirik to be on point for updates for the next few weeks
    (Oxf13, 17:38:54)

* Fedora 15 Schedule  (Oxf13, 17:45:22)
  * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4233   (poelcat,
    17:46:04)
  * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/467   (nirik, 17:50:23)
  * AGREED: Move feature freeze and all later dates 2 weeks later to
    make way for FUDCon and Ubuntu release  (Oxf13, 18:03:49)
  * AGREED: Release Engineering accepts amended F15 schedule  (Oxf13,
    18:05:29)

* Package Signing  (Oxf13, 18:07:40)
  * releng plans on reducing to one key to sign all rpms and
    automatically signing every official build that comes through koji
    with it.  (Oxf13, 18:09:06)
  * Changes coming in package signing, desire to move to detached
    signatures, and no longer using gpg for the signatures  (Oxf13,
    18:10:01)
  * effort led by RHT security team  (Oxf13, 18:11:03)
  * hopeful timeline is to be able to make x509 sigs by F15, but not
    necessarily include them  (Oxf13, 18:27:27)
  * skvidal is planning to do a FUDCon session about this.  (Oxf13,
    18:30:25)
  * yum api break may be happening soon  (Oxf13, 18:34:25)

* Rawhide and deltas  (Oxf13, 18:34:38)
  * xz had api change, which results in an odd deltarpm situation
    (Oxf13, 18:35:05)
  * delta generation currently broken in rawhide, will attempt to
    re-enable after inheritance fixes are done.  (Oxf13, 18:39:13)
  * ACTION: Oxf13 to break inheritance between F15 and anything earlier,
    and force tag all currently inherited packages into dist-f15
    (Oxf13, 18:39:35)
  * developers who want a new build to show up in rawhide will have to
    explicitly build for rawhide.  (Oxf13, 18:39:48)

* Open Floor  (Oxf13, 18:41:54)

Meeting ended at 18:44:16 UTC.




Action Items
------------
* Oxf13 to finish creating torrent configs and contact pre-seeders
* dgilmore to take over Fedora releng meetings, potentially arranging a
  new time
* nirik to be on point for updates for the next few weeks
* Oxf13 to break inheritance between F15 and anything earlier, and force
  tag all currently inherited packages into dist-f15




Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* dgilmore
  * dgilmore to take over Fedora releng meetings, potentially arranging
    a new time
* nirik
  * nirik to be on point for updates for the next few weeks
* Oxf13
  * Oxf13 to finish creating torrent configs and contact pre-seeders
  * Oxf13 to break inheritance between F15 and anything earlier, and
    force tag all currently inherited packages into dist-f15
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)