2019-07-03 Meeting notes

Date

Jul 3, 2019

Attendees

• LF Staff:@Casey Cain @Andrew Grimberg @Trishan de Lanerolle@Kenny Paul @Jim Baker@Trevor Bramwell

• TAC Members; @Davide Cherubini @djhunt @thomas nadeau @Ranny Haiby@Tim Verrall @Frank Brockners @FREEMAN, BRIAN D @Bin Hu @Marc Fiedler @Magnus Buhrgard @Rossella Sblendido @cl664y@att.com@Abhijit K @Olaf Renner@Tina Tsou (Deactivated)

• Guests: @Amy Zwarico  @jim.st.leger (Deactivated)@VM (Vicky) Brasseur

Agenda

• Start the Recording

• Antitrust Policy

• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)

• General Topics

  • OPX Induction

  • Code of Conduct Review

  • LFN Staff support for Infra Recommendation (15 minutes)

    • How will LFN Staff help in infrastructure evolution based on recommendation from TAC Infra WG and TAC discussion on May 22^nd? 

      • Who is the point of contact to help in technical matters?

      • Who is the point of contact to help negotiate rate?

      • What is the protocol or procedure to work with LFN staff to move forward?

  • TAC Objectives Planning (as time permits)

  • Next TAC Meeting (Conflict with the Board)

Minutes

• OPX Induction

  • DCO checks failing for Lifecycle submission as well as OPX Induction documentation

  • A motion was made to induct OPX into the LFN.

    • Shall the TAC recommend to the Governing Board that the OPX Project be inducted into the Linux Foundation Networking Umbrella as a Sandbox Project?

    • The vote passed 12 +1, 2 Abstain. 

    • The TAC Agrees to recommend the OPX Product for Induction as a Sandbox Project.

    • Link to Vote Details

• Code of Conduct

  • @Amy Zwarico shared and edited the document

  • Code Of Conduct

  • Looking for someone with HR experience - recommend HR from the LF, or someone with HR experience

  • @thomas nadeau has been involved with similar issues with Apache - basically goes to the TSC 

  • @VM (Vicky) Brasseur believes that it is better to have a dedicated person rather than a group like the TAC

  • @Abhijit K need to make sure that someone in a position of leadership isn't in the chain

  • TAC feels that this should be a core service provided as a benefit of LF membership - @Casey Cain has the action item to pursue

  • Discussion on the ability of PTLs ability to remove a comment or banning someone.

  • Conversation will continue via email

• Staff Support Questions

  • questions regarding input @Casey Cain @Jim Baker

  • infrastructure - who will assist
    
    

    • Once a TSC has decided to make a change in their Infra, they will need to submit a ticket to https://support.linuxfoundation.org

    • This will be supported by the Project Director and Project Release Engineering Team

    • Program Directors and Release teams can provide quotes to TSC for rates.

    • Two step process - fact finding to make a decision and then implementation and migration following the decision

    • Expectation from the TAC is that the LF will assist looking at areas where to recommend consolidation

    • @FREEMAN, BRIAN D recommendation that an informal working group be assembled for tracking progression and best practices on migrations

    • requests in either step should start with a support desk ticket to engage IT to either generate the quotes or do the implementation

• Plan for next meeting due to GB meeting conduct

  • #Agreed- TAC will meet next week to discuss the CoC, with the goal being to present to the GB at the July 17 meeting for ratification.

Action items