2022-02-16 Meeting notes

1 min

Scribe

All

@Steffen Köhler  is next, followed by @Chulin Meng 

5 min

Review outstanding action items

All

10-15 min

TCR Board Review

All

• TCR-12 is still ongoing, no update yet. Maybe next week

• TCR-09 no news

• TCR-14 is a new submit, assigned to @Zak_Burke 

10-15 min

Technical Council Sub Groups Updates

All

• New Module Tech Evaluation:

  • Created a PR concerning language to be consistent,

  • WIP

• Tech Eval Process Subgroup:

  • Question @Chulin Meng : How to organize the team work?

    • Where is no guideline yet. Organize on your own.

  • Update next wednesday seems to be possible

10-15 min 

Council Goals/Objectives

All

Previous Notes:

@Tod Olson advised that a new document has been created for this

@Craig McNally stated that the goal of this is for the TC to form it's own objectives

@Tod Olson asked if folks could provide feedback on this document

Today's discussion:

@Zak_Burke @Jeremy Huff : Ongoing work is a capacity issue

@Jeremy Huff : Would a working group approach a good idea?

@Vijay Gopalakrishnan to spend some time on this document to extract relevant paragraphs

@Craig McNally : found a new working group? @Tod Olson It's okay, work and have discussions parallel to regular meetings

• see "Technical Council Sub Groups" page, there the goals and deliverables are defined with @Tod Olson as subgroup owner

• targeted end date is the end of March 2022

10-15 min

Consolidated process/voting/etc. decisions

@Vijay Gopalakrishnan 

As a group, review the list of decisions we made previously on these topics

• Is there any cleanup required?

• Do any of them conflict?

• Do we need to clarify anything?  Provide more detail? 

Technical Council - Governance Decisions

one question has arisen: "What is the half-plus-one rule?"

@Zak_Burke  and @Jeremy Huff  stated, the Quroum is half plus one.

@Tod Olson clearifies: A quorum is how many member of the TC must vote. @Jakub Skoczen : Proxies have the right to voted and therefore are counted like TC members.

• 6 or more needed for a vote.

• There is already a draft about code of conduct for meetings

• @Jeremy Huff should we rename the above page to a more specific name? @Tod Olson : Governance? Process?

Time permitting

Hosted AWS environments

@Jakub Skoczen 

No update, to be discussed in the future.

2022-01-26 discussion

• @Jeremy Huff open question is to whether this is really under TC's purview? TC Charter explicitly says "resourcing" is not our thing, so this feels like a bit of a gray area. @Mike Gorrell but ... if not TC then who? By process of elimination, feels like TC is best suited to offer advice here. @Jakub Skoczen we have also been asked to review requests for new envs. Feels like this could/should be handled by a dedicated group from devops/sysops. Maybe @Peter Murray and OLF sysops group is in a place to offer good info here? Folks on TC don't look at the bills, so not the best-placed group to make decisions. @Jeremy Huff we can describe usefulness of different envs, but leave decision to a group that actually deals with bills/funding. But we probably need a somewhat systematic way to keep these evals fresh so is not laborious every time we are asked for input. @Tod Olson soliciting input from outside TC is likely crucial here. @Jakub Skoczen to ask @Peter Murray to help organize such a group.
  
  

Get an update on this if @Jakub Skoczen  is present.