| bryce | = Inkscape Board Meeting = | Nov 01 10:02 |
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| bryce | Agenda: | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | ------- | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * Software Release status | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | - Inkscape 1.0beta | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | - Inkscape 1.0 | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * GSoC | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * Hackfest planning | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * Infrastructure | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * Bug migration off Launchpad | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | * Other Business | Nov 01 10:02 |
| bryce | Nov 01 10:02 | |
| bryce | Mc, mind kicking us off with a status report on release matters? | Nov 01 10:02 |
| Mc | mmh | Nov 01 10:04 |
| ScislaC | I got booted from rocket chat? | Nov 01 10:04 |
| Mc | not much to report | Nov 01 10:04 |
| RdH | FYI everything after the agenda did not make it RockeChat | Nov 01 10:04 |
| ScislaC | And it finally reconnected... weird | Nov 01 10:04 |
| Mc | some progress, some delaying stuff | Nov 01 10:05 |
| Mc | IMO the decision to change how texts are selected during the beta was a bad idea | Nov 01 10:05 |
| bryce | Mc, because it was a last minute change, or for other reasons? | Nov 01 10:06 |
| Mc | and the fact that we have no serious way to measure rendering perf in the general case makes for weird discussions when one wants to improve a specific corner case | Nov 01 10:06 |
| Mc | because it was a last minute change | Nov 01 10:06 |
| Mc | and a very big one that had implications | Nov 01 10:06 |
| ScislaC | What was the reason for it? | Nov 01 10:06 |
| Mc | 🤷 | Nov 01 10:07 |
| Mc | I did not see any big activity on the issue of blank non-drawn gtk widgets | Nov 01 10:08 |
| Mc | (but I consider it an upstream issue so not sure we could do much about it) | Nov 01 10:08 |
| Mc | apart from that, no big blocker issues were reported lately afaict so we could be on track for a christmas release or so | Nov 01 10:09 |
| Tav | Hi! | Nov 01 10:09 |
| bryce | yeah, last minute changes are always tough calls. Tav did a couple in recent releases that set a good standard for how to do them properly; IIRC they went smoothly and issues got tracked and resolved nicely. But generally they often carry unknown unknowns that add too much risk. | Nov 01 10:09 |
| Mc | also we should decide if (and when) to release a beta2 | Nov 01 10:11 |
| bryce | Mc, how does the bug list look? have the high priority issues been getting sufficient attention? | Nov 01 10:11 |
| ScislaC | @ Tav Bonjour! (and that's about 1/4 French words I know that weren't co-opted by English) ;) | Nov 01 10:11 |
| RdH | I need a beta2 to get rid of the launch script on macOS (solves Cataline issues). This also entails me having to change C++ code, setting up the environment. | Nov 01 10:13 |
| Mc | no blocker or critical bugs in the tracker except 3 macos specific bugs, a few "high" bugs | Nov 01 10:13 |
| Mc | @RdH When would you see it possible ? | Nov 01 10:13 |
| doctormo | Some corner cases with extensions still need fixing (some options on the more complex ones), but in any situation the branch can be synced for beta2 | Nov 01 10:15 |
| RdH | I'm giving it a first go this weekend, using what Gimp is doing as a template. I can give a better answer once I gave it a first try. I'm hoping for getting this done this or next weekend. | Nov 01 10:15 |
| Mc | also I'm thinking about branching ~soon | Nov 01 10:15 |
| Mc | but this can be postponed till december | Nov 01 10:16 |
| doctormo | Do we have a consensus on running a bug squashing event early december? | Nov 01 10:17 |
| Tav | Definitely! | Nov 01 10:18 |
| bryce | maybe all of December? | Nov 01 10:19 |
| Mc | a specific "onsite" one | Nov 01 10:19 |
| bryce | onsite? | Nov 01 10:19 |
| Tav | Both onsite and offsite... | Nov 01 10:20 |
| bryce | oh an in person event? | Nov 01 10:20 |
| doctormo | Yes the idea was to host an on site event in Europe and I would spec out one here at RedHat, although probably no one else would come to the US side. | Nov 01 10:21 |
| doctormo | but the EU one should have people | Nov 01 10:21 |
| Tav | Onsite would be at Mc's new lab, a mini-hackfest. (It's 20 minutes from my place so at least two would show up.) | Nov 01 10:21 |
| Mc | I'm 99% sure I could book a room for ~ 10 people for a few days | Nov 01 10:22 |
| bryce | gotcha, sounds good | Nov 01 10:22 |
| doctormo | bryce: fancy a weekend in Boston :-P | Nov 01 10:22 |
| Mc | (the new building is ~functional since last week and the room booking system should work soon) | Nov 01 10:22 |
| bryce | doctormo alas, but I may attempt to set aside some time to participate remotely. When is it? | Nov 01 10:25 |
| doctormo | We penciled in first week in december, so after thanks giving in the usa | Nov 01 10:25 |
| bryce | ok, stuck it in my calendar | Nov 01 10:26 |
| Tav | We should confirm that Mc can get us a room and send out invites asap. | Nov 01 10:27 |
| Mc | I can confirm that monday | Nov 01 10:27 |
| doctormo | @ Tim / @ ryangorley Do you think it would be good to advertise for this bug squashing week/end? | Nov 01 10:27 |
| bryce | my wife was considering doing a vacation trip some weekend coming up but don't think it is going to be that one | Nov 01 10:27 |
| bryce | ah yeah that's earlier in november | Nov 01 10:28 |
| bryce | ok anything else on release planning? | Nov 01 10:28 |
| bryce | Nov 01 10:29 | |
| bryce | == GSoC == | Nov 01 10:29 |
| Tav | Nothing to discuss, I think concerning GSoC. | Nov 01 10:30 |
| Moini | If anyone still wants to make some publicity for the contest, that would be nice. | Nov 01 10:30 |
| bryce | ok thanks | Nov 01 10:30 |
| bryce | Nov 01 10:30 | |
| bryce | == Hackfest planning == | Nov 01 10:30 |
| bryce | Tav, want to lead this discussion? | Nov 01 10:30 |
| Moini | I.e. anyone attending could use their social media accounts with a link to https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/ | Nov 01 10:30 |
| Tav | At this point I think we have the mini-bugfest in December and then a hackfest before LGM in Renne. | Nov 01 10:31 |
| Tav | (could be after LGM but I wouldn't be able to attend). | Nov 01 10:31 |
| bryce | ok, looks like that's tentatively 27th to 31st of May | Nov 01 10:32 |
| Tav | Dates were just finalized... let me check. | Nov 01 10:32 |
| Tav | May 26th to 29th | Nov 01 10:34 |
| Mc | that's in a too long time for me to plan ^^ | Nov 01 10:34 |
| Tav | That's Tuesday-Friday. | Nov 01 10:34 |
| Tav | I think the idea would be to have the hackfest in Rennes. | Nov 01 10:35 |
| Tav | Kdenlive team is thinking about a hackfest before/after LGM. | Nov 01 10:36 |
| ScislaC | When are we going to get video editing in Inkscape? JK | Nov 01 10:36 |
| Mc | ^^ | Nov 01 10:36 |
| Tav | SVG did have a <video> tag... | Nov 01 10:37 |
| bryce | is anyone opposed to having a hackfest with LGM this year? | Nov 01 10:39 |
| Mc | on the contrary :) | Nov 01 10:40 |
| bryce | if not, Tav would you mind drafting a proposal in wiki for it? I agree it's still quite early, but at least we can get the vote squared away. | Nov 01 10:40 |
| Tav | Sure, I can do that. | Nov 01 10:40 |
| bryce | we'll revisit next month and can do a vote around then | Nov 01 10:40 |
| bryce | ok, moving on | Nov 01 10:41 |
| bryce | Nov 01 10:41 | |
| bryce | == Infrastructure == | Nov 01 10:41 |
| bryce | Mc thanks again for helping with the mailing lists. | Nov 01 10:41 |
| bryce | main next items are migrating our mediawiki to new hosting, and establishing backup services | Nov 01 10:41 |
| Mc | I didnt do much ^^ | Nov 01 10:42 |
| bryce | help with the former would be much appreciated, the latter I want to tackle myself | Nov 01 10:42 |
| bryce | Mc, out of curiosity what was the issue? | Nov 01 10:42 |
| Mc | mmh, let me find that | Nov 01 10:43 |
| Mc | 18:57 < Mc> bryce: I could identify at least 2 problems: 1/ the run-every-minute cronjob sometimes get stuck. I don't know why (I think it tries to index the messages for a search feature on the web ui ?), but then it accumulates stuck jobs, uses a lot of cpu and eventually all ram, then fails and sends a cronjob failure email to root. 2/ opensmtpd does not appear to handle local emails (in | Nov 01 10:44 |
| Mc | particular, | Nov 01 10:44 |
| Mc | 18:57 < Mc> emails to root (in particular, the emails from the first problem)) which makes the smtp queue huge and the logs for both opensmtpd and mailman bigger, since there is a big feed of mailing-problem-to-root stuff. /var/lib/mailman/var/logs is 17G, which is a lot for a text file :D (also port 53 is open which is weird ?) | Nov 01 10:44 |
| bryce | we had to open a port internally but 53 doesn't sound familiar. Worth looking at. | Nov 01 10:46 |
| Mc | The other problem was that the mail software used and configured was, interestingly, one for which no documentation on how to setup mailman with it exists, which made tweaking it extremely painful and I ditched it for one described in the mailman3 documentation, which means I basically reinstalled half the thing and the config went smoothly and quickly | Nov 01 10:47 |
| bryce | what was the fix for the local email issue? | Nov 01 10:47 |
| Mc | that ^ | Nov 01 10:47 |
| houz | 53 is dns | Nov 01 10:47 |
| Mc | (I'm not 100% sure of the names but I think I replaced opensmtpd with postfix) | Nov 01 10:48 |
| Moini | Mc, does this mean that the ansible playbook needs to be rewritten? Or is that done already with the changes you made? | Nov 01 10:49 |
| Moini | (or isn't there one?) | Nov 01 10:49 |
| Mc | I haven't touched anything related to ansible | Nov 01 10:49 |
| Moini | So when it's being restored, it's going to break again? | Nov 01 10:49 |
| Moini | Or does it not use ansible at all?... Bryce? | Nov 01 10:49 |
| bryce | Moini, it means we can't restore from ansible | Nov 01 10:49 |
| Mc | I dunno why we need ansible ? as it works on one machine | Nov 01 10:50 |
| bryce | Moini, it did use ansible for the installation | Nov 01 10:50 |
| Moini | @ recena and Mc - can you coordinate to get that update? | Nov 01 10:50 |
| Moini | updated? | Nov 01 10:50 |
| bryce | Moini recena was not involved in that playbook creation | Nov 01 10:50 |
| Moini | Or drop it, if you want to. | Nov 01 10:50 |
| Moini | but keep a copy of the config, maybe? | Nov 01 10:51 |
| bryce | yeah, maybe dropping it at least for now, is the easiest course | Nov 01 10:51 |
| Mc | we could store the config on git | Nov 01 10:51 |
| Moini | Ah, sorry, I thought he was.... | Nov 01 10:51 |
| Mc | (or use etckeeper) | Nov 01 10:52 |
| Moini | Whatever makes sense and saves someone work when they need to restore it... | Nov 01 10:52 |
| doctormo | so long as the ansible playbook is made uninstallable so it can over-write what we have now. | Nov 01 10:53 |
| Moini | And as long as someone deletes it and updates the docs. | Nov 01 10:54 |
| bryce | in hindsight, there's actually a fair bit of setup work needing done post-installation, that isn't practical to keep in git since it's db stuff not filesystem edits. | Nov 01 10:54 |
| bryce | so I think in terms of restoring, it's the backup service we need to put attention into, moreso than ansible | Nov 01 10:55 |
| doctormo | If the db stuff i on the django side, it can be datadumped for posterity. (with caution for user accounts) | Nov 01 10:55 |
| bryce | doctormo, yep | Nov 01 10:55 |
| bryce | the other related question is upgrading mailman3 to a newer version (at least to get some bug fixes) and, eventually, the machine too (it's currently on 16.04). No urgency on those but we'll need to do them at some point. | Nov 01 10:56 |
| Mc | bryce: +1 | Nov 01 10:57 |
| Mc | I can reinstall mailman very easily, but I can't reinvent the db contents | Nov 01 10:57 |
| bryce | ditto for rocketchat too btw, I suspect we're missing some bugfixes in the sw | Nov 01 10:57 |
| bryce | ok, enough on infra, moving on | Nov 01 10:57 |
| bryce | Nov 01 10:57 | |
| bryce | == Bug migration off Launchpad == | Nov 01 10:57 |
| Lazur | kind of related: what about openclipart | Nov 01 10:58 |
| bryce | sorry, I've completely lost track of where we are with this. | Nov 01 10:58 |
| Moini | http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/ | Nov 01 10:58 |
| Moini | Nothing happening anymore, I think. | Nov 01 10:59 |
| Lazur | will it be a goal to keep an svg database integrated with inkscape on the long run? | Nov 01 10:59 |
| Moini | http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/leaderboard.html for the statistics. | Nov 01 11:00 |
| ryangorley | 432/4558 Bugs migrated. | Nov 01 11:00 |
| Moini | At 10 %, constantly for a couple months now. | Nov 01 11:00 |
| bryce | hrm that does sound stalled | Nov 01 11:01 |
| doctormo | The game needs adjusting | Nov 01 11:01 |
| ryangorley | Yeah, I don't have data to back it up, but it my perception is that it slowed down a lot after the first month. | Nov 01 11:01 |
| ryangorley | Even with a lot of social media nudging | Nov 01 11:01 |
| Moini | No new bugs, no social media stuff anymore. | Nov 01 11:01 |
| c.rogers | board meeting? | Nov 01 11:01 |
| doctormo | Yep | Nov 01 11:01 |
| c.rogers | Cool. | Nov 01 11:02 |
| bryce | c.rogers great timing :-) | Nov 01 11:02 |
| Moini | Already an hour in. | Nov 01 11:02 |
| c.rogers | Really? | Nov 01 11:02 |
| Moini | Clocks moved in Europe, but not in Oregon. | Nov 01 11:02 |
| c.rogers | Ah, heh. | Nov 01 11:02 |
| bryce | I think the time change is this weekend, sorry. I am looking forward to it though! | Nov 01 11:03 |
| RdH | No, that was last weekend | Nov 01 11:03 |
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| Mc | the topic also gives the right time :D | Nov 01 11:03 |
| RdH | (time change) | Nov 01 11:03 |
| c.rogers | Okay, did we decide whether or not we wanted to get a bum-load of stickers yet? | Nov 01 11:03 |
| ryangorley | I'll coordinate with @Tim and see if we can push out a few more announcements about the bug hunt. | Nov 01 11:04 |
| bryce | ryangorley, thanks | Nov 01 11:04 |
| Moini | Great, thanks, Ryan! | Nov 01 11:04 |
| ryangorley | Could we invite a couple folks to the Hackfest *just* to work on that? | Nov 01 11:04 |
| doctormo | We should have organised it like a pyramid scheme. | Nov 01 11:04 |
| ryangorley | Haha | Nov 01 11:05 |
| bryce | heh | Nov 01 11:05 |
| doctormo | Early stickers for bug migrating, later stickers for recruiting people. | Nov 01 11:05 |
| Moini | Ah, snowball system in German. | Nov 01 11:05 |
| Mc | Yeah we spoke about the printing of 10k stickers last month | Nov 01 11:05 |
| bryce | it would be nice to have more people listed on the leaderboard, 14 isn't that many, we have over 180 listed in AUTHORS | Nov 01 11:06 |
| c.rogers | Yea, I didn't see a vote for that. | Nov 01 11:06 |
| c.rogers | (the 10k stickers) | Nov 01 11:06 |
| Mc | bryce: the leaderboard is just for bug migraters | Nov 01 11:06 |
| bryce | maybe some internally directed "in-reach" to get existing Inkscapers to help might pay off? | Nov 01 11:06 |
| ryangorley | I'm a hypocrite for not having migrated any myself. It's that first bug that is the most intimidating to me. I wonder if we can reward people for doing just one bug somehow, and break the ice? | Nov 01 11:09 |
| bryce | anyway, it'd be nice to identify an action to take for stimulating the bug migration. Suggestions? | Nov 01 11:09 |
| ScislaC | When my RL stuff dials back a bit in a couple weeks I'll have some time to help with the migration. | Nov 01 11:09 |
| doctormo | Ice Breaker Bug, Pirimid Bug, Man I wish we could generate new rewards :-D | Nov 01 11:12 |
| bryce | ok, well let's move on. Ryan I'd be happy to co-pilot with you through that first bug. | Nov 01 11:12 |
| doctormo | Guide Bug (helping someone else submit their first bug) | Nov 01 11:12 |
| ryangorley | @bryce I'll make an effort right now using the guide. Make sure it makes sense. | Nov 01 11:12 |
| ryangorley | Thanks though :) | Nov 01 11:12 |
| bryce | doctormo yeah, although at some point for some people the rewards are going to be less of a motivation, and other more intrinsic rewards are going to play a bigger role anyway. | Nov 01 11:13 |
| doctormo | True | Nov 01 11:14 |
| bryce | and sometimes best way to motivate people is to start doing it yourself, ala lead from the trenches | Nov 01 11:14 |
| bryce | ok, enough on that topic, let's do one more before closing | Nov 01 11:14 |
| bryce | Nov 01 11:14 | |
| bryce | == OCAL == | Nov 01 11:14 |
| Lazur | +1 | Nov 01 11:14 |
| bryce | Lazur, you mentioned Openclipart above, mind giving a quick summary of where things are? | Nov 01 11:14 |
| Lazur | seems Rejon pulled the site's from public viewing | Nov 01 11:15 |
| Lazur | the svg database was downloaded at least two times in one package | Nov 01 11:15 |
| Lazur | we can't connect the site's developer and have no idwas about their plans | Nov 01 11:16 |
| Lazur | they seem to be gone from August | Nov 01 11:16 |
| RdH | also no relevant status update on Twitter since 18th July | Nov 01 11:16 |
| Lazur | there are about 50-150000 svg-s afaik | Nov 01 11:16 |
| Lazur | freesvg was willing to invest in time to be another home for storing the svg | Nov 01 11:17 |
| bryce | I chatted with rejon some months back, maybe that was July | Nov 01 11:17 |
| c.rogers | [ ](https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel?msg=2iY9KGSGPSfDQb38v) @ inkchatbot Nope. That's why we made the game, to get other people to do it. ;) | Nov 01 11:17 |
| Lazur | they have some api (?) that could be integrated with inkscape | Nov 01 11:18 |
| bryce | at that time he seemed intent on getting the site back online, but sounded like he was having troubles with DOS'ers | Nov 01 11:18 |
| Lazur | but apparently all of opencliparts tags, descriptions, collection data is offline and cannot be migrated | Nov 01 11:18 |
| c.rogers | [ ](https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel?msg=GL9qxT3e9XBznPxyq) @ doctormo We can. lol | Nov 01 11:18 |
| bryce | I can ask him directly for a copy of the database | Nov 01 11:19 |
| Mc | that would be nice | Nov 01 11:19 |
| bryce | should I do that? | Nov 01 11:19 |
| Lazur | guessing he got carried away with the current actions in Hong Kong | Nov 01 11:19 |
| bryce | Lazur, yeah sounds like he's ... involved ... in a lot of stuff | Nov 01 11:19 |
| Lazur | yes, I think that'd be the most efficient | Nov 01 11:19 |
| doctormo | We could host the content ourselves, we just need to be affirmative and plan with osuosl for more space. | Nov 01 11:19 |
| Moini | Bryce, if you can? | Nov 01 11:19 |
| bryce | ok will do | Nov 01 11:19 |
| Lazur | huge thank you | Nov 01 11:20 |
| RdH | We've had a couple of users reporting that the clipart functionality is no longer working in Inkscape - can we disable that menu item for the time being? | Nov 01 11:20 |
| c.rogers | What about hosting it on Gitlab? | Nov 01 11:20 |
| Lazur | couldn't get a reply from him for weeks | Nov 01 11:20 |
| Mc | @c.rogers too big | Nov 01 11:20 |
| Moini | @ doctormo We can't even manage our own servers in a timely manner... I doubt we could manage OCAL on top. | Nov 01 11:20 |
| bryce | for now I'm going to ask just for "backup" purposes, but will re-enquire about his plans for bringing the site back, and if he's not sure will make the offer for us to host | Nov 01 11:20 |
| Lazur | what about connecting with freesvg? | Nov 01 11:20 |
| Mc | (and not really optimized for that) | Nov 01 11:21 |
| Lazur | does it worth investigating? | Nov 01 11:21 |
| c.rogers | True. | Nov 01 11:21 |
| Lazur | they started a public forum recently | Nov 01 11:21 |
| bryce | but if we do that we'll need someone to take the infra actions, I doubt I'll have time to setup/maintain it | Nov 01 11:21 |
| Lazur | https://freesvg.org/ | Nov 01 11:21 |
| Moini | Isn't that a magnitude too large for us to host ourselves? With the DDOSing and all... | Nov 01 11:22 |
| Moini | It's better if a lively community can be created around it. | Nov 01 11:22 |
| Lazur | https://forum.freesvg.org/viewtopic.php?id=4 | Nov 01 11:22 |
| bryce | hosting is also doable via cloudscale.ch (and actually is a lot easier at least for me), and space is not a concern there | Nov 01 11:22 |
| c.rogers | Gitlab would make it easy to download sub-categories of svgs though. | Nov 01 11:23 |
| ScislaC | Wait, what DDOSing? | Nov 01 11:23 |
| Moini | That's the reason why they claim it was taken down. | Nov 01 11:23 |
| ScislaC | Ahhhhh | Nov 01 11:23 |
| Moini | And traffic is huge. | Nov 01 11:23 |
| bryce | well, let's not get ahead of ourselves with planning. Let me touch base with rejon | Nov 01 11:23 |
| Mc | fastly ? ^^ | Nov 01 11:23 |
| Lazur | openclipart provided ways to autotrace images and generate raster copies of svg-s at a given resolution, plus they didn't mind hotlinking their content elsewhere | Nov 01 11:24 |
| doctormo | ^^ | Nov 01 11:24 |
| Moini | Could we rather update rocketchat and the Wiki? | Nov 01 11:24 |
| bryce | on freesvg, I'm not familiar with them myself | Nov 01 11:24 |
| Lazur | I'm not familiar either but they seemed to have a willing developer | Nov 01 11:24 |
| Moini | And get https for alpha? | Nov 01 11:24 |
| Lazur | open for new ideas | Nov 01 11:25 |
| Mc | ah yeah, who has sudo access to alpha ? | Nov 01 11:25 |
| bryce | I'm still unclear that https is actually needed for alpha | Nov 01 11:25 |
| bryce | Mc, I do | Nov 01 11:25 |
| Moini | (and remove the link to OCAL from the program for the release) | Nov 01 11:25 |
| Mc | https is needed for the whole web | Nov 01 11:25 |
| Moini | +1 | Nov 01 11:26 |
| doctormo | +1 | Nov 01 11:26 |
| bryce | Mc, I can give you access if you would like to set that up? | Nov 01 11:26 |
| Mc | sure | Nov 01 11:26 |
| Lazur | Moini +1 | Nov 01 11:26 |
| doctormo | :-/ | Nov 01 11:26 |
| Moini | (and also the preferences settings for user name / password - they weren't useful before, even, AFAIK) | Nov 01 11:27 |
| Moini | Mc: Thank you!!!! | Nov 01 11:27 |
| doctormo | I'd like to get to our discussion about leadership at the end bryce. | Nov 01 11:28 |
| bryce | Mc, ok you have sudo access. Please coordinate with me on any other changes to the machine so I can keep track of what's done on it. It has no configuration control so we're just winging admin there... | Nov 01 11:28 |
| Mc | thx | Nov 01 11:30 |
| doctormo | Thanks Mc | Nov 01 11:30 |
| bryce | Lazur, on freesvg I think one issue is that it'll probably take some development work to add their APIs, so that'd need to be post-1.0. But feel free to investigate more if you'd like, probably worth more research & discussion before any decisions are made there. | Nov 01 11:31 |
| bryce | Nov 01 11:31 | |
| bryce | == Other Business == | Nov 01 11:31 |
| bryce | doctormo, go ahead. | Nov 01 11:31 |
| doctormo | Bringing up the business from last meeting about leadership in Inkscape since bryce has moved on from being a prospective Inkscape employee to not being available for that plus whatever time constraints now apply to all the roles that bryce has carved out and how we can improve the bus factor one some of these elements. | Nov 01 11:33 |
| doctormo | Specfifically I'm looking to the permissions; nominally we're good at giving each other permissions for things, but there are some things to do with conflict resolution, money, talkign with SFC etc where we look to bryce to brudge the gap as our figure head if nothing else. | Nov 01 11:34 |
| doctormo | I want to ask bryce about his time, plans etc and also the project as a whole on where we should be. | Nov 01 11:34 |
| doctormo | For example should we still be pushing towards our first employee? | Nov 01 11:34 |
| Mc | bryce: I don't have a password on that machine, I can't sudo :D | Nov 01 11:36 |
| bryce | Mc, ah whoops one sec | Nov 01 11:37 |
| c.rogers | did they give us a copy of all those svgs? | Nov 01 11:37 |
| Mc | @c.rogers I have that | Nov 01 11:38 |
| Mc | (They did not give it) | Nov 01 11:38 |
| c.rogers | how large? in gb? | Nov 01 11:38 |
| doctormo | 35 | Nov 01 11:38 |
| bryce | Mc, try now, I enabled passwordless sudo on the machine | Nov 01 11:38 |
| c.rogers | part of me wants to take a crack at revising it. | Nov 01 11:39 |
| Mc | bryce: works :) | Nov 01 11:39 |
| Moini | (that's about the amount of it when zipped, Chris) | Nov 01 11:40 |
| Mc | https works on alpha | Nov 01 11:42 |
| doctormo | It looks like the topic I'm trying to talk about is profoundly uninteresting. | Nov 01 11:42 |
| ScislaC | TIL passwordless sudo is a thing. | Nov 01 11:42 |
| Moini | It's not, but I feel it's not my business. | Nov 01 11:43 |
| bryce | doctormo, I'd prefer to just play it by ear. I can't predict how my plans/time will evolve next year. My intent is to watch for pain points and delegate responsibilities+permissions more intently | Nov 01 11:43 |
| Mc | @doctormo it's interesting, i just don't really know what to say | Nov 01 11:43 |
| Mc | I'm currently basically part-time on Inkscape | Nov 01 11:43 |
| bryce | ScislaC, yeah relying on ssh keys for access control >> passwords | Nov 01 11:43 |
| doctormo | I fear that's the way. Bryce who is your go to number two? Mc? | Nov 01 11:43 |
| Moini | (I didn't know about the employee thing, tbh.) | Nov 01 11:43 |
| c.rogers | Surely there's a tone of svgs in there that are low quality or redundant. | Nov 01 11:44 |
| c.rogers | someone want to give me a zip file link? | Nov 01 11:44 |
| doctormo | @ Moini Getting it to be more people's business is the issue at stake tbh. | Nov 01 11:44 |
| c.rogers | If the size is bothering us, that's probably fixable. | Nov 01 11:45 |
| bryce | doctormo I consider Mc having taken over all release management, and for infra matters am relying on him more | Nov 01 11:45 |
| doctormo | Do you have a number two for the SFC? | Nov 01 11:45 |
| doctormo | I think that would cover most ground | Nov 01 11:45 |
| bryce | for board matters, one thing I would suggest (and actually inquired about it before) is for us to adopt actual official board positions. I.e. secretary, treasurer, vp | Nov 01 11:45 |
| Mc | , p | Nov 01 11:46 |
| bryce | last time I think people weren't keen on taking on additional duties, but that'd spread the load there. | Nov 01 11:46 |
| bryce | in terms of my own inkscape duties right now, the biggest item on my plate I'm worried about and could use someone to take is the mediawiki work, that I mentioned earlier. | Nov 01 11:47 |
| doctormo | I think we need some structure there, some tasks look like staring into the endless void of one's own soul instead of talking to a point person. | Nov 01 11:47 |
| bryce | everything else is small potatoes IMHO | Nov 01 11:47 |
| doctormo | I'll take the mediawiki, are we keeping it on osuosl? | Nov 01 11:47 |
| Moini | (what about our finances, did we ever get that report?) | Nov 01 11:48 |
| Moini | (I honestly don't remember, sorry) | Nov 01 11:48 |
| bryce | I'd also be open to expanding the board 1-2 more people if the workload of the roles is too hard to staff | Nov 01 11:48 |
| doctormo | Honestly don't see much actual work, I think it's more of filling in the role descriptions. | Nov 01 11:48 |
| bryce | doctormo my plan was to move it over to cloudscale.ch. | Nov 01 11:48 |
| doctormo | Am I your number three on cloudscale? I forget actually, I remember some permission sharing a while back. | Nov 01 11:49 |
| bryce | I think that'd give us more flexibility and less coordination | Nov 01 11:49 |
| bryce | doctormo it's a machine-by-machine basis there | Nov 01 11:50 |
| bryce | doctormo main question is do you have access to the current mediawiki machine? | Nov 01 11:50 |
| bryce | i.e. the gentoo server. I think you did have at one point | Nov 01 11:50 |
| doctormo | Yes, but not sudo, so readonly | Nov 01 11:50 |
| doctormo | And db access | Nov 01 11:51 |
| bryce | ok db access is the main need | Nov 01 11:51 |
| bryce | I don't know if I have sudo access either, I think OSUOSL took it from us at one point | Nov 01 11:51 |
| Mc | yeah you basically want to install mediawiki and import the db | Nov 01 11:51 |
| bryce | doctormo I'll spin up a new host for you, I've already got your keys, and give you sudo on it | Nov 01 11:52 |
| bryce | thanks for the help, appreciated | Nov 01 11:52 |
| doctormo | I'll get the database dump ready then. | Nov 01 11:52 |
| bryce | Nov 01 11:52 | |
| bryce | ok any other business? we're approaching the 2h mark | Nov 01 11:52 |
| Mc | I was thinking about GCI lately, so I might bring it back next year | Nov 01 11:53 |
| bryce | GCI? is that a graphics conference? | Nov 01 11:53 |
| ryangorley | I'm not on the board, but I think the project could benefit from at least a part-time paid "Administrator". A lot of city governments operate on that basis with elected volunteers and a paid administrator accountable to them. Seems like we could probably afford it if we found the right person. I'll leave it at that... :) | Nov 01 11:53 |
| Mc | google code-in | Nov 01 11:53 |
| bryce | ah | Nov 01 11:53 |
| Mc | I asked Martin and Maren about it with this message : https://paste.fulltxt.net/74wfw-S9wad | Nov 01 11:54 |
| Mc | (it's a long message) | Nov 01 11:55 |
| Mc | (Finally thought I would not have enough time or mental sanity this year) | Nov 01 11:55 |
| bryce | yeah with the release might be tight to commit to that for Dec+Jan | Nov 01 11:56 |
| jabiertxof | Hi all! | Nov 01 11:57 |
| bryce | hi jabier | Nov 01 11:57 |
| Mc | what do you think for next year ? | Nov 01 11:57 |
| jabiertxof | a bit late sleeped! | Nov 01 11:57 |
| Moini | That was 200 person hours a week, if I remember correctly? | Nov 01 11:57 |
| bryce | Mc, yeah worth looking at. You're right to identify the issue may be with man/womanpower for mentoring | Nov 01 11:57 |
| Mc | yes, something like that even if it tends to decrease with time | Nov 01 11:58 |
| Mc | (also with years, as more projects are in it and that dilutes students raw numbers ^^) | Nov 01 11:58 |
| doctormo | `wiki_2019-11-01.sql.gz` acquired, 95MB, let me know when it's needed where. | Nov 01 11:58 |
| bryce | ok, I actually need to get back to work, but will set up the node tonight and send you an email. | Nov 01 12:00 |
| bryce | Nov 01 12:01 | |
| bryce | ok, thanks all! | Nov 01 12:01 |
| bryce | = End of Meeting = | Nov 01 12:01 |
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