2008 04 21 OGB Agenda

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OpenSolaris Governing Board Agenda for Mon, April 21 2008, 2pm - 3pm PDT (Previous Meeting)

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Contents

Procedural (5 minutes or less)

  1. Record this call!
  2. Confirm and record any e-mail resolutions which require it and note those which don't.

AIs:

  • Plocher to put issue for community status reporting template into bugzilla.
  • Glynn and Plocher to drive OGB in-person planning committee with Jesse to determine the details around social activity, OGB meeting, and town hall.
  • Glynn will draft a resolution for 'advocacy:press contact' role.
  • Jim will take infrastructure role.
  • stevel to auto-post complete list of OGB issues from bugzilla to wiki page with a yahoo pipe this weekend.
  • Michelle to add to bugzilla a set of overall mailing list issues for opensolaris.org
  • Michelle to add to bugzilla RFE to auto-subscribe new members to osol-announce list
  • Michelle to add new contributor grants to poll.opensolaris.org
  • Michelle to get on IRC


  1. Note actions that need webapp/database followup by the OGB Secretary:

Business (55 minutes)

  1. Hopefully:
Time and Place of "first May" meeting Motion by Plocher to move the Monday, 5-May-2008/2pm OGB meeting to Saturday, 3-May-2008/3:45, and hold it in person at the OpenSolaris Summit in Santa Cruz.
OGB_2008/004 Regular meetings of the OGB

final draft

Policy on the creation, announcement and archiving of OGB agendas, meeting materials and minutes

  • Advance notice of future OGB meetings shall be given to community members and observers
  • Agendas shall be created with community input and distributed in advance of all OGB meetings.
  • Minutes shall be taken by the OGB secretary.
  • Meeting materials shall be organized and preserved by the OGB secretary.
  • Agendas, Meeting materials and Minutes shall be accessible (linked) from the OGB website.

Procedures that implement the above policy for the 2008-2009 board follow:

Overview
Agendas, recordings, minutes and related meeting artifacts will be archived and a summary page with links to all will be maintained at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/meeting_minutes/ (the OGB Meetings page)

Meetings Agendas
  • Agendas will be created on the Genunix wiki using a page name format of YYYY_MM_DD_OGB_Agenda and a tagged with Category:OGB_Agenda. (If, for any reason it is a private meeting (as outlined in OGB_2008/007), the agenda should instead be posted to ogb-private@opensolaris.org.)
  • The OGB Secretary will ensure that an agenda template is in place at least a week in advance and that a link to it is in place on the OGB website.
  • An agenda created on the genunix.org wiki (or sent to ogb-private@opensolaris.org for private meetings) shall be considered the de-facto archived source.
  • Any OpenSolaris Member may submit items for the agenda. See OGB_2008/005 for details.
Minutes
  • Minutes shall be taken by the OGB secretary.
  • The OGB secretary shall decide, as appropriate, whether to allow an optional review period to solely the OGB members prior to publishing them.
  • Where possible, the meeting shall be recorded and a digital recording shall be produced, uploaded to http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ and linked from the OGB meetings page
  • Meeting minutes shall be considered published and archived when sent to ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org and linked from the OGB meetings page (or simply sent to ogb-private@opensolaris.org for private meetings).


OGB_2008/005 OGB activity and Issue management

Final draft

Policy on OGB activity/issue naming, tracking and archival

Issues that come before the OGB for discussion and resolution should be tracked and archived in a consistent manner.

Procedures that implement the above policy for the 2008-2009 board follow:

  • Potential items for the agenda should be submitted to http://defect.opensolaris.org using the Community > OGB > Business category
  • Any discussion of that issue should be attached to the bugzilla entry, along with all supplementary material.
  • Any OGB member, or OGB secretary, can mark an issue as ACCEPTED, should they feel that the item is ready for inclusion on an OGB agenda.
  • Proposals for the OGB will be given names of the form OGB YYYY/ccc. The format is the name of the body (OGB), space, the current year (2008), a slash and a sequential issue number (starting with 001 for the first issue raised that year.
  • The person ACCEPTing the bugzilla item shall also:
    • Prepend the above proposal name to the DESCRIPTION field in bugzilla
      • Example: OGB 2008/005 - Policy on OGB activity/issue naming, tracking and archival
    • Create a page on the genunix wiki with a page name of the form OGB YYYY/ccc
    • Use the template Template:OGB_ISSUE to populate the wiki page, including annotation about its current status. The Category:OGB_ISSUE page contains a list of all OGB issues.
    • Add the item to the current (or desired) agenda's "Business" section.
  • The OGB secretary, having sent out the formal agenda, should mark that issue as FIXINPROGRESS.
  • Once the issue has reached a conclusion, the OGB Secretary should
    • Mark the bugzilla issue as either CLOSED FIXED (if approved) or CLOSED WONTFIX (if denied)
    • Tag the wiki page with either Category:OGB_APPROVED or Category:OGB_DENIED so that the corresponding Category:OGB_APPROVED or Category:OGB_DENIED page can be used to list them all.



If we have time

Continue discussion of unique roles for board members and OGB committees
OGB annual report and brainstorming summary discussion
CG facilitator roundup
Project status reporting schedule?

Adjourn