2023-04-12 TAC Minutes

Attendees & Representation (default sort: member first name)

TAC Members and Project representatives should mark their attendance below 
Non-TAC project reps do not count towards meeting quorum

X = Present | P = Proxy  (Indicate in the table with @name for @name

LF Staff: Casey Cain  Kenny Paul Ranny Haiby Sandra Jackson Andrew Grimberg 

Community: @Girish Kumar

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• We will start by mentioning the project's Antitrust Policy, which you can find linked from the LF and project websites. The policy is important where multiple companies, including potential industry competitors, are participating in meetings. Please review and if you have any questions, please contact your company legal counsel. Members of the LF may contact Andrew Updegrove at the firm Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the LF.
  • Antitrust Policy
• Roll Call
• Action Items Review
• Agenda Bashing
• General Topics
  • TAC Chair Election
  • New Project Induction 
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

LFN TAC Chair Election

• The TAC Chair Election has been extended to the next TAC Meeting due to the Easter holiday.

New Project Induction

• Current Sandbox Services
  • Marketing 
    • Listing on LFN Website
    • Domain support for Project Maintained Website (Hugo, GitHub, Netlify)
    • Event showcase (Booth / Demos)
  • IT
    • RMSS (Release Management Support Service)
    • LFX Tooling
      • Email Forwarding
      • Domain Management
    • ReadTheDocs
    • Defect Tracking (Github Issues or component of jira.lfnetworking.org)
    • Wiki
    • support.linuxfoundation.org (Project, Community, and Member support)
  • Communications 
    • Blogs
    • Quarterly LFN Newsletter
  • Program Management
    • PM assistance with onboarding the Project
    • Quarterly Health Review
  • Legal
    • Project Formation documentation
    • DCO and CLA System w/ integration into GitHub and LFX
    • Trademark Hosting
    • License Scanning 
    • Ad Hoc legal support 
  • Training
    • Mentorships
• Induction pipeline 
  • Community Promotions 

• Casey Cain asked what would prevent us from bringing in a project at a higher tier?
  • Frank Brockners The budget question needs to be decoupled from the technical.  However, from a technical perspective, if they meet the requirements then there should be no restriction 
  • Is there a cost for sandbox projects: The cost is minimal about $50/month, includes domain name and email forwarding.
  • LFX tooling is included in the cost.
  • Frank Brockners asked if there anything else that we could provide at $0 for sandbox projects? 
    
    • Ranny Haiby suggested soft services e.g. coaching, mentoring and other soft services to assist.
    • Kenny Paul The larger cost is the staffing resources to onboard. 
    • LFX tooling needs to be added to the documentation as a benefit
  • 2024 we will migrate away from Atlassian services, we need to consider what we'll use in its place.
  • Casey Cain suggested promoting new projects to come to the TAC to receive guidance.
    • Find better ways to communicate the knowledge base as resource to new projects
    • Dave Wallace Suggested more mature projects should be able to come in at different level (not sandbox)
    • Communicate that there isn't any gate keeping to reduce or eliminate overlap.
  • Catherine Lefevre  asked how do we manage projects that are resolving the same issues and how do we support?
    • Catherine Lefevre we need clarity on which position we're taking, e.g. are we managing competing projects or are all welcome.
    • Robert Varga suggested we should have open door policy but also provide a mechanism to foster consolidation.
    • Robert Varga suggested not necessarily consolidating projects but sharing bits and pieces of projects (knowledge library). e.g. ONAP using parts of ODL.
• Casey Cain talked about refreshing the doucmentation
  • Frank Brockners noted that we should explicitly note that we welcome overlaping projects
• Girish Kumar of Infosys introduced himself.
• Catherine Lefevre suggested we set time for the next meeting for Mr. Kumar to share why Infosys joined LFN
• June D&TF is the second week of June 6th -9th
• To be a project committee representative reach out to Casey Cain 

Action items