Xen Maintainer, Committer and Developer Meeting/November 2012 Minutes

Attendees

• Ian Campbell
• George Coker
• Daniel De Graaf
• Boris Ostrovsky
• Olaf Hering
• Sherry Hurwitz
• Lars Kurth
• James Bulpin
• Jan Beulich
• Jason Douglas
• Donald Dugger
• Jun Nakajima
• Daniel Kiper

Review ACTION items

• Lars to write up purpose/mechanics of monthly call (done, see discussion below)
• Konrad to summarize PV ops discussion from KS on xen-devel:
  • DanielK: Konrad promised this, will do ASAP. He's very busy right now (Carry over)
• George to blog about uservoice.com (DONE, [ http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/10/15/xen-org-on-uservoice-com/ here] )
• Andres to follow up re: wait queues on xen-devel (DONE)

Call mechanics

• Organisations contributing a certain amount are given two seats after majority vote
  • Should extend to individuals if they contribute that amount?
• If an organisation doesn't show up 6 times in a row without reason, remove them
  • No objections on the call
  • Suggestions from Don and James for less than 6 months
  • No objections to 3 months
  • ACTION Ian will drop organisations from the invite/agenda etc as appropriate

Transition to git

• still intended
• waiting for someone to have some free time to make switch
• request to have git clone over http as well as git (will do)
• planning to retain hg mirror until next stable branch created

Community update

• archived XCI
• Lars approached by Anil Madhavapeddy about incubating Mirage
• At UDS, Linaro Connect, LinuxCon
  • reception of Xen talks/booths picking up, seeing an effect
• Would like to do XenSummit in spring (April/May) in US/Asia, looking for a sponsor
• Have XenSummit in Europe with collocated LinuxCon in fall