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| Tav | ************** Board Meeting in 10 Minutes *************** | Feb 07 09:50 |
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| Tav | https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings | Feb 07 09:50 |
| *bryce waves | Feb 07 10:00 | |
| bryce | == Inkscape Board Meeting == | Feb 07 10:00 |
| *tedg waves too | Feb 07 10:01 | |
| doctormo | Morning | Feb 07 10:01 |
| tinystoat | Just lurking. :) | Feb 07 10:02 |
| bryce | === Software Release Status === | Feb 07 10:02 |
| bryce | how's 1.0 coming along? | Feb 07 10:03 |
| doctormo | Ace, we've been busy getting critical bugs from the Vector's team. And fixing those. | Feb 07 10:03 |
| para-MarkT | MarkT lurking in Continuum! | Feb 07 10:04 |
| doctormo | This is to improve the confidence we have in the 1.0 release. | Feb 07 10:04 |
| para-MarkT | ...Londonium | Feb 07 10:04 |
| doctormo | Second bug list is here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/136 (first one is linked from there) | Feb 07 10:04 |
| doctormo | Marc said he'd be late | Feb 07 10:05 |
| doctormo | So we may want to re-ask this when he gets here. | Feb 07 10:05 |
| bryce | alright | Feb 07 10:05 |
| bryce | === Hackfest Planning === | Feb 07 10:05 |
| bryce | anything to report on Renne plans/preparations? | Feb 07 10:06 |
| Mc | hi | Feb 07 10:08 |
| bryce | maybe that's something to get back to later as well | Feb 07 10:08 |
| bryce | hi Mc | Feb 07 10:08 |
| bryce | Mc, want to update us on 1.0? | Feb 07 10:08 |
| Mc | I think we got most "blockers" | Feb 07 10:08 |
| Mc | most of the remaining work is, unfortunately, packaging | Feb 07 10:09 |
| Mc | (for rc) | Feb 07 10:09 |
| Mc | there are a few mac-specific blockers | Feb 07 10:09 |
| Mc | for windows, we want to improve the installer generation | Feb 07 10:09 |
| Mc | and for linux we have this problem with program name and icon | Feb 07 10:10 |
| Tav | Hi | Feb 07 10:10 |
| Mc | once these are tackled, I'm quite confident we can call stuff "release candidate" | Feb 07 10:10 |
| bryce | ok sounds good, glad to see it progressing | Feb 07 10:11 |
| bryce | === Infrastructure === | Feb 07 10:11 |
| doctormo | Mc: Do we have those issues on the canban? I'm finding it hard to track these packaging issues. | Feb 07 10:11 |
| Mc | there are a few people to thank for recent fixes and also doctormo to help push people on it :) | Feb 07 10:12 |
| Mc | @doctormo not sure | Feb 07 10:13 |
| bryce | I've got OSUOSL registration for backup.inkscape.org (there's no separate web page for it, just backend service). main remaining task is dumping of service databases, may be more a task for people who set up those services though. | Feb 07 10:14 |
| bryce | I'm also probably going to shut down the sourceforge mailing lists soonish. mainly just need to announce it's happening, then switch them off. | Feb 07 10:14 |
| tedg | I accidentally sent the announcement to one of them :-) | Feb 07 10:15 |
| bryce | yeah mainly at this point they're just spam accumulators, I don't think any are in actual use any more | Feb 07 10:15 |
| bryce | anyone have other infrastructure updates? | Feb 07 10:16 |
| doctormo | Forum: new spam system (word blocking) has driven moderator actions down by 96%, there a new developer who has been working on website issues that I'm excited about. | Feb 07 10:16 |
| Mc | Someone subscribed "requests" emails of the new system to spam ml | Feb 07 10:17 |
| Mc | but I don't think there is much we can do about it | Feb 07 10:17 |
| Mc | apart from that, I think we got rid of spam completely for now, they used the web interface afaik | Feb 07 10:18 |
| bryce | Mc, thanks yes the mail server seems stable. | Feb 07 10:18 |
| Mc | @doctormo ah btw I was contemplating installing an instance of kiwiTCMS or of systemtestportal | Feb 07 10:19 |
| bryce | anything else on infrastructure? | Feb 07 10:19 |
| Mc | (on alpha to start with, then maybe in a name like "test.inkscape.org") | Feb 07 10:19 |
| doctormo | Looks very useful. | Feb 07 10:20 |
| Mc | Krita will try KiwiTCMS at some point (kde infra people seem very busy) | Feb 07 10:20 |
| Mc | If we can do it right, it will be ideal to test regressions and scenarios | Feb 07 10:21 |
| bryce | Mc, let's keep web services off alpha -- I can spin up a devel node for you when you're ready | Feb 07 10:21 |
| Mc | sounds good, you can start it and I'll try the install next week | Feb 07 10:21 |
| bryce | ok | Feb 07 10:22 |
| bryce | === Board Roles === | Feb 07 10:23 |
| bryce | I'm going to be out of town for next month's meeting -- tedg do you mind running the show for March? | Feb 07 10:23 |
| *tedg checks his calendar | Feb 07 10:23 | |
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| tedg | I'll be at SCALE, so I'm not sure of my schedule. | Feb 07 10:24 |
| tedg | I'm probably not a good leader for that meeting. | Feb 07 10:24 |
| bryce | ok | Feb 07 10:24 |
| doctormo | @c.rogers ping | Feb 07 10:25 |
| bryce | would someone else like to lead it, or should we reschedule or cancel? | Feb 07 10:25 |
| doctormo | I could lead it, keep the agenda smaller since key people will be MIA | Feb 07 10:25 |
| bryce | ok, thanks doctormo. | Feb 07 10:27 |
| Tav | We should get a vote on the Rennes hackfest. | Feb 07 10:27 |
| Tav | https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hackfest2020_Rennes | Feb 07 10:27 |
| Tav | Elisa updated the page awhile back. | Feb 07 10:28 |
| Mc | I can try to, but if 2 people can't attend we might reschedule it | Feb 07 10:28 |
| Mc | (@ next month meeting) | Feb 07 10:29 |
| doctormo | If it's between me and you Mc, we could just keep it to specific topics. I think it's good to still host it since it gives non-board people the chance to talk about board issues. | Feb 07 10:30 |
| doctormo | (especially when we ask them to come to the meetings and raise specific issues) | Feb 07 10:30 |
| bryce | Tav agreed re: vote, although looks like dates are still tbd? is there a feel for how many people will be there? | Feb 07 10:30 |
| Tav | Probably the same number as in the past. We do need to nail down the dates. The earlier we can get the dates and funding nailed, the better chance we have of getting people there. | Feb 07 10:31 |
| bryce | Tav, ok well draft up a prelim text for the vote and email it to me, and I'll review and send out for voting. | Feb 07 10:32 |
| bryce | Tav, you can probably reuse last year's lgm event vote, and just put in the new details | Feb 07 10:32 |
| Tav | Will do... | Feb 07 10:33 |
| bryce | thanks | Feb 07 10:33 |
| Mc | I think krita plans to have a hackfest around lgm too | Feb 07 10:33 |
| Mc | we might want to either colocate or avoid, depending on the space ^^ | Feb 07 10:34 |
| doctormo | Good idea. Having cross hacking can be useful, depends on the topics. | Feb 07 10:35 |
| bryce | ok, since next month's meeting is tentative, let's postpone discussion on board role changes until after that. I think the role definitions need nailed down, then next action after that would be call for nominations and so on. | Feb 07 10:35 |
| bryce | === Other Business === | Feb 07 10:35 |
| bryce | any other items we need to discuss? Or more on any of the above? | Feb 07 10:35 |
| Mc | GPLv3 | Feb 07 10:35 |
| Mc | (GPLv3+) | Feb 07 10:35 |
| bryce | tedg, thanks for acting secretary, plz keep up with that, it's nice not having that task :-) | Feb 07 10:36 |
| tedg | K, will do! | Feb 07 10:36 |
| bryce | Mc, go ahead | Feb 07 10:36 |
| Mc | Does anyone has any problems with distributing Inkscape formally under GPLv3+ ? Do we licence new *code* in GPLv3+ or continue GPLv2+ ? | Feb 07 10:36 |
| doctormo | No problems here. | Feb 07 10:37 |
| bryce | Mc, what is prompting this? | Feb 07 10:37 |
| Mc | we may need to do it for dependency reasons | Feb 07 10:37 |
| Tav | I would like to integrate gnu readline which is GPL3. | Feb 07 10:37 |
| Mc | I think one of our existing deps are GPL3 + Tav wants to use a new one | Feb 07 10:37 |
| Mc | FSF recommends it, SFC recommends it | Feb 07 10:38 |
| Tav | It makes using the shell interactively much nicer. | Feb 07 10:38 |
| Mc | so I tend to think more in terms of "why wouldnt we ?" than "Why do it" | Feb 07 10:38 |
| Tav | Can anybody remember why we decided on staying GPL2+? | Feb 07 10:38 |
| bryce | I suppose it's probably in one of the earlier board transcripts | Feb 07 10:39 |
| Mc | I found the board emails about it and the decision was not a "decision to stay" but an evolution of gplv2->gplv2+ | Feb 07 10:39 |
| tedg | We had a couple of includes that were GPLv2 only. | Feb 07 10:39 |
| bryce | I recall we voted on it a couple times | Feb 07 10:39 |
| tedg | Like things we copied from GIMP | Feb 07 10:39 |
| Tav | Gimp dependency is gone... | Feb 07 10:39 |
| tedg | So by making everything else GPLv2+ meant that we were safe in including those. | Feb 07 10:39 |
| Mc | and gplv2+ was chosen because no dep was using gplv3+ yet and most project seemed to stick with v2+ | Feb 07 10:40 |
| tedg | If we're good with all the files, I think that v3+ is better. | Feb 07 10:40 |
| Mc | We're now all good in v2+ in our own code | Feb 07 10:40 |
| doctormo | next item (when finished with gpl); I'd like us to hire a project manager. With mostly the same roles and responsibilities as discussed previously. The process with the SFC is that we create a job requirements and then open it up for people to apply to the job. | Feb 07 10:41 |
| Tav | doctormo, can you draft the job requirements? | Feb 07 10:42 |
| doctormo | Sure. I'll mostly be copying from ted. | Feb 07 10:43 |
| bryce | Mc, sounds like distributing Inkscape as GPLv3+ would be feasible, in fact we had struggled a bit to keep on 2+. I don't think we even need to vote on this as a board. It could be nice to keep new code to GPLv2+ at least for a while (maybe a year?), in case something unexpected crops up requiring us to still stay on 2+. | Feb 07 10:43 |
| Mc | is the job of "project manager" the one most needed ? (vs "developer" for instance); would it necessarily need to be fulltime ? | Feb 07 10:44 |
| tedg | I think that we need someone to build up the fund raising and making that more efficient. | Feb 07 10:44 |
| bryce | I agree with tedg tbh | Feb 07 10:44 |
| tedg | Basically professionalize our outreach to companies. | Feb 07 10:44 |
| doctormo | Yes, so the project manager is a role that is mostly about bringing in money, and then from there doing organisational tasks and structural tasks. | Feb 07 10:45 |
| Mc | bryce: we can license our code on gpl2+ (so that people can take it in their 2+ projects) and distribute inkscape linked-withgpl3 program under gpl3+ ? | Feb 07 10:45 |
| tedg | Until we have stablized funding there we can't start talking about second or third roles. | Feb 07 10:45 |
| bryce | and yeah from what I was looking at, fundraising is easily a full time role | Feb 07 10:46 |
| doctormo | Do people want the draft to be kept private or in public (mailing list/gitlab)? | Feb 07 10:46 |
| tedg | So I think that the first role we need to focus on is that, then we can (hopefully) talk about what's next. But if we don't get that together, we'll never get to the next steps. | Feb 07 10:46 |
| Mc | gitlab sounds fine | Feb 07 10:46 |
| ede123 | note that libreadline seems to be GPL version 3 (and not later), so we could not include it even if aiming for GPL3+ | Feb 07 10:46 |
| doctormo | ede123: is that by omission or do they say "(only)" | Feb 07 10:47 |
| bryce | although, to be honest, part of the problem with fundraising is it needs to be something the whole project takes seriously, it's not really something one person can handle alone. But even just the coordination is a big job. | Feb 07 10:47 |
| ede123 | (some source files state "and later", but the readme says GPL3 only) | Feb 07 10:47 |
| ede123 | http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/README?h=devel | Feb 07 10:47 |
| tedg | Yes, at some level it is "community management" in that we need to coordinate, it can't exist in a vacuum. | Feb 07 10:47 |
| doctormo | I'll ask my friends at the FSF, I know they much prefer GPLv3+ so I don't know how it ended up as only. | Feb 07 10:48 |
| tedg | But, I think at least when we discussed it in Pasadena folks are interested in that growing, and willing to help. | Feb 07 10:48 |
| bryce | Mc, re: gpl2+ yes we can license as that and distribute inkscape as 3+. In fact we effectively had to do that (legally at least) due to the gimp 3+ bits. | Feb 07 10:48 |
| doctormo | I figure that the onboarding process is going to require just as much work. But this is bootstrapping. | Feb 07 10:48 |
| tedg | Heh, of course FSF prefers 3+, it effectively gives them control 😉 | Feb 07 10:49 |
| doctormo | Such conspiratorial thinking! | Feb 07 10:49 |
| doctormo | tedg: Is it ok if I include you in the drafting process? | Feb 07 10:50 |
| tedg | Sure | Feb 07 10:50 |
| doctormo | Thanks. | Feb 07 10:51 |
| Mc | on another topic, we've applied to gsoc | Feb 07 10:51 |
| bryce | Mc, I noticed the call for registration, glad to hear that's been done. | Feb 07 10:54 |
| ryangorley | Sorry to interrupt, but regarding the fundraising, I have a couple quick suggestions/thoughts: 1) I don't think what makes a good Project Manager will also make a good fundraiser so those may need to be two roles; 2) I wonder if it could be a role split between another SFC project to help cover the costs. | Feb 07 10:54 |
| Mc | I think we've seen two interested people here | Feb 07 10:54 |
| tedg | I think we have a problem with the terminology as well. We're using "project manager" as the title, but perhaps not in the traditional sense. | Feb 07 10:55 |
| doctormo | @ ryangorley In the ideal, I agree. But we're going to need someone to pull multiple roles. This is why fund raising is going to have to be first and the structural stuff has to be part of bootstrapping (and finding out) | Feb 07 10:56 |
| tedg | I don't think we want someone certified in SCRUM. | Feb 07 10:56 |
| tedg | (as an example) | Feb 07 10:56 |
| doctormo | :-D | Feb 07 10:56 |
| tedg | So that's why the drafting is critical in making sure we define a role and try to give it a title that works, but knowing that it won't be perfect. | Feb 07 10:56 |
| bryce | ryangorley, agreed on #1, #2 unsure about, might be good but might be more complicated | Feb 07 10:56 |
| ryangorley | I think having new "hires" as a goal we're fundraising for, would be more effective than vaguely asking for money. Maybe that first role would be a "project manager" with the pitch being that it will help expedite the development of the application to meet business needs. Dunno. Don't mean to get to much into the weeds. Just wanted to chime in. | Feb 07 10:58 |
| doctormo | I'll bring you into the drafting process ryan :-D | Feb 07 10:59 |
| ryangorley | Sounds good. :) | Feb 07 10:59 |
| tedg | Yeah, we'd talked about things like pitching the idea that we could do better release management on stable releases with full time help. Where that would be something people making a living using Inkscape would be interested in. Hobbists aren't as concerned about that. | Feb 07 11:00 |
| ryangorley | Totally | Feb 07 11:01 |
| bryce | ok, we're at the hour, thanks all! | Feb 07 11:01 |
| c.rogers | Just in time. :P | Feb 07 11:01 |
| Mc | and @c.rogers nope, too late :) | Feb 07 11:01 |
| bryce | Feel free to keep going post-meeting, but I gotta run | Feb 07 11:01 |
| bryce | == End of Meeting == | Feb 07 11:01 |
| *tedg waves | Feb 07 11:01 | |
| Mc | good night all ! | Feb 07 11:01 |
| c.rogers | Yea, that's what I mean. Augh. :P | Feb 07 11:02 |
| ryangorley | Thanks board peeps :) | Feb 07 11:03 |
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| *Topic for #inkscape-devel set by Mc (Fri Feb 7 10:24:20 2020) | Feb 07 11:05 | |
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| doctormo | Thanks everyone! | Feb 07 11:06 |
| hellozee | btw, https://community.kde.org/Krita/Sprint2020 | Feb 07 11:19 |
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