2025-04 CentOS board meeting

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2025-04 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

Attendees

Board members

• Amy
• Davide
• Jack
• Jefro
• Mike
• Pat
• Steve
• Thomas
• Troy

Directors Absent

• Jonny

Guests

• Michel
• Neal

Agenda

• Previous minutes

  • https://hackmd.io/zxUK5fYPTdicSUrOS12G9Q

• FRCL (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Leadership) check in?

  • Matrix room created and people invited to join.
  • Jack: In person meeting ? Targeting Thursday Afternoon Summit Week.

• GitLab update

  • Shaun and Davide met with Gitlab. No issue on gitlab.com in term of licenses.
  • Hyperscale use it extensively
  • Datacentre move plan deciding what to do with git.centos.org
  • Figure out where we want to move old archives but profit from the datacenter move to do it.
    • no clear list of things on pagure.io that are CentOS specific
  • Davide: moving everything to one place creates unification
  • Neal: the lookaside is also important and suggests not git-lfs
  • Shaun: also the board repo and public website is on git.centos.org
  • Thomas: Make an inventory of things outside of rpms/ - add a comment fo the mailing list thread to see if there are some concerns.
  • Davide: Talk about Github also, if we want to unify those repos too.

• Proposed Updates SiG

  • Pat: Is there pending issues ?
  • Michel: Released RPMs for CS9 / CS10. It's going well. Working on the website.
  • Shaun: short lifecycle of packages / worth doing a Monthly recap ? Consume the list in the newsletter.
  • Pat: maybe pick a summary of interesting packages ?
  • Jack/Amy: maybe a link to the website ?
  • Thanks for all the work !

On going discussion

Issues

https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues

Issues to be closed (ACTION close all of them if no objection)

• None

New issues

• #156 Permission to publish official CS WSL images in Microsofts distribution manifest

  • Troy: Alternate images SIG, let's do official WSL images
  • Vote on the idea ? and feedback from Steve on Red Hat position.
  • Shaun: There were some blocker on Microsoft/Red Hat legal
  • Jack: Effort from Microsoft to unblock the situation
  • Troy: Microsoft changed their model few months ago. A better model is now available, image pushed every 3 to 6 months.
  • Q: Is somebody against the idea until we confirm Red Hat approval with Steve ? Voting async on the ticket.

• See below

Issues on hold

• [#67 Trusting the SIGs by default, from a CentOS Project perspective (Secureboot)(https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/67)
  • Secure boot update ?
  • Shaun: Bootloader team on top of it
  • Davide: movement in the SHIM ticket - work still pending for SIGs

Community Architect updates

• Showcase had a good turnout. Videos later this week.
• Met with GitLab. Discussed in GitLab update above.
• I filed reviews for all SIGs. Please have a look at them.

SIG Reports

• None

AOB

• Next meeting : date -d "2025-05-14 20:00 UTC"