2024-04-17 - Officially Supported Technologies - Upkeep

Date

17 Apr 2024

Attendees

Discussion items

Time	Item	Who	Notes
1 min	Scribe	All	Florian Gleixner is next, followed by Marc Johnson Reminder: Please copy/paste the Zoom chat into the notes. If you miss it, this is saved along with the meeting recording, but having it here has benefits.
	Community Council Meeting		CC meeting just before our meeting next monday. TC meeting will be canceled and topics will be handled asynchrounsy in Slack
	Developer Advocate		Jeremy had a meeting with Patrick. Idea: Jira could be used to manage and keep track work of the developer advocate. Marc Johnson: Could generate overhead work, but if it works for Patrick, it is OK. Maccabee Levine & Jeremy Huff Slack could also work, but lets give him autonomy to decide. Jeremy Huff will announce how to interact with Patrick in the CC meeting and in Slack
*	Officially Supported Technologies - Upkeep	All	Topic: How to manage and update OST pages Zak Burke: Introducing new software versions is hard, because many different parties / audiences have to be asked and notified: developers, devops, sysops, integrators, hosting providers. Communication pipeline and timeline has to be appropriate. Jeremy Huff: OST pages in the TC space are a attempt to coordinate these audiences. Does this nod work? Zak Burke: Different purposes: help people plan, but also hard to propose new technologies. Jeremy Huff: Granuality of versions in OST documents should be discussed. Better go away from exact versions Marc Johnson: Document is not sufficient for all purposes, it is only good as reference. We need processes for communication decisions and for updating the OST pages. Some things in decisions are not written down, for example the availability of AWS tooling on decisions. Also some versions really matter like yarn while others like junit do not really matter. Jeremy Huff: So, changes on OST have to be coordinated with all stakeholders. Marc Johnson: Decisions have to be conductible - we need also people to do changes Zak Burke: confirms Marc Johnson: Even if build tool versions may not be crucial, for long term support devops and developers need some stability here. Things like Lombok, Junit, Sonar are used, and it helps the community to maintain consistency in development process Zak Burke: Using the OST described tools also helps being a good citizen in the community Jeremy Huff: OST document became really useful, and is now a reference.