[csw-maintainers] Summary of IRL Meeting

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Fellow maintainers,

the meeting in Zurich is over and the results will hopefully
bring the OpenCSW project for the good of the packaging
community ahead. Sorry for this summary to be a bit late
but I felt the time was best used for talking while the other
maintainers were present and write the summary afterwards.


Participants
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The following persons participated (in alphabetical order):

- William Bonnet
- Philip Brown
- Ihsan Dogan
- Sebastian Kayser
- Dominique Laigle
- Trygve Laugstøl
- Alexander Maier
- Dagobert Michelsen
- Othmar Wigger

After lots of discussions on Saturday on what the new incorporated
society should be based on the bylaws where defined.
The official name now is "Open Community Software Project (OpenCSW)".


The Board
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The elected board now contitutes of Philip Brown (President),
Ihsan Dogan (Cashier) and me (Dagobert Michelsen) as Actuar. Feel
free to contact the board about any issues at
   board at opencsw.org   (Ihsan will set this up ASAP)
Basically the board can then open a discussion on the maintainers
list and make a decision based on the results of the discussion.
The decision will be posted and a rationale explaining the decision
will be given.


Membership
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The participants of the meeting are the founding members. It is
legally not possible to just grab people and make them members if
they have not applied for membership. So every maintainer will
get an email within the next few days asking if they want to
apply for membership. A simple reply with "I want to apply for
membership" is enough. The board will usually accept membership
and will post about all membership applications.
As is stated in the bylaws there is no membership fee.

There will be a publicly readble mailing list where all members
can post on at members@
Accepted members will be automatically added to that list.


Sidenotes
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There have been lots of discussions during the whole time about
technical issues and the community in a non-formal way. The
results from these discussions will trigger some more discussions
on the mailing list in the next time. The following topics
have not been finalized and are subject to more discussion:

- One technical summercamp per year. Trygve offered to organize
   the first one in Oslo in summer 2009. There may be "bug
   squashing day", technical discussions among other fun things.
- Design of a central directory server for easier setup of more
   build farms
- Optimized GCC builds with GCC for sparc systems (GCCfss)
- A next generation packaging tool from Trygve and William
- Redesign of www.opencsw.org by William
- A new catalog ("unstrict/") which allows packages for only
   one architecture or onle one Solaris version. This will be
   a superset of current/
- Peters' list (<>) is generally considered a Good Thing and
   the issues will be worked on
- A GAR package for easier package building
- There have been some pictures taken. A group pictures is at
     <http://picasaweb.google.de/Othmar.Wigger/OpenCSW#>


Best regards

-- Dago