[Infrastructure] Draft Minutes - 2019-12-18 Meeting

[Jos Purvis (jopurvis)]

Present: Jos, Ryan, Wayne


  1.  Anti-trust statement
  2.  Pandoc Updates
     *   Pending approval of PRs for 23,24
     *   Should discuss this on the next Forum call: Having PRs wait on the 30-day IPR period means everything slows down.
Problem summary: If I want to create a new ballot PR, how do I know all the things I need to account for when generating my changes?
We can solve this with technical solutions:

  *   Create a dev branch that reflects all pending-but-not-IPR-approved changes; base any new ballots on that
  *   Use git tags to indicate branches or pulls that incorporate other things (e.g. “ballot-XX-if-YY-passes”)
Need to make sure that we keep the process as beginner-friendly as possible, however, to avoid gatekeeping ballot production. On the other hand, we do have the option of saying, “Here’s the process, if you need help with it because you’re doing something odd, here are the ninjas to contact for help.”
Remember that these problems really only occur when two ballots are touching the same part of the same document (so the routine cleanup ballots run afoul of this, but most other ballots don’t). Also remember: These are problems endemic to the process, not the tools. (That is, git ain't the problem here.)

  1.  Membership Tools:
     *   Need at least a tentative proposal for the next F2F?
     *   Need mapping of people to member-companies to membership and participation approvals (ideally, self-manageable by members)


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