X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2021-03-25

[Lyude Paul]

One kinda big correction down below:

On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 16:12 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> These are the meeting minutes the X.Org Board of Directors [1] meeting.
> Minutes and IRC logs are published on the wiki [2, 3].
> 
> The X.Org board meets every two weeks on Thu/Fri (depending on your
> timezone) in the #xf-bod IRC channel on irc.oftc.net. Please refer to the
> X.Org Google calendar [4] for time and date of the next meeting.
> 
> For any issues that need to come to the attention of the board please email
> me or board at foundation.x.org and we will add it to the agenda for the next
> meeting.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors
> [2] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries
> [3] http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/IrcLogs
> [4]
> https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nl1n1fmvu091eqh35ldqspar80@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=US/Pacific
> 
> == Disclaimer ==
> Best efforts are made to ensure the below is accurate and valid. However,
> errors sometimes happen. If any errors or omissions are found, please bring
> them to my or the board's attention.
> 
> 
> ## Attendees
> 
> Present:
> Daniel Vetter,
> Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez,
> Lyude Paul,
> Manasi Navare,
> Mark Filion,
> Keith Packard,
> Eric Anholt,
> Harry Wentland,
> 
> Guests:
> 
> Absent:
> 
> 
> ## Summary
> 
> Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2020
> invoices status, Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2021, XDC2021 sponsors,
> XDC2022, HDMI 2.1, elections, mailing list DKIM compliance, changing default
> branch name on Gitlab
> 
> ## Items discussed
> 
> [[!format txt """
> ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
> Keith hasn't had the time to send any emails to poke SPI about this
> ACTIONS: Lyude will try getting in contact with SPI next week
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Requesting ledger data
> Things have gone cold again, no updates yet.
> ACTIONS: Lyude will poke SPI about this again today
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2020 invoices status
> Intel still pending, Manasi was able to get some info on why though - it turns
> out the expense hadn't been labeled internally by Intel as being for XDC
> sponsorship correctly. Manasi was able to get PO approval from their direct
> manager so the invoice payment should be finished up shortly
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org
> GSE -> Packet migration completed successfully, which should save us around
> $30/month. Thanks FDO admins!

This is actually supposed to be $30/day, not $30/month - which is a dramatically
larger amount of money to have saved :)

> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021
> mupuf together with freedesktop.org sysadmins have been working on details of
> the website. In his words, they are pretty close to putting it online. Once we
> have it, we will contact organizers to start filling it, write the CFP
> announcement draft and start the thing for real.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2022
> No new updates
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021 sponsors
> Daniel hasn't had the time to poke around more, but is hoping to be able to
> get
> to it the week after next.
> ACTIONS: Daniel to poke potential sponsors
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: HDMI 2.1
> Harry sent out a v2 of the HDMI 2.1 letter to the board emailing list
> ACTIONS: Board to review new draft
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Elections
> Elections are now under way, we have around a 52% turnout so far.
> ACTIONS: Harry to send out a reminder on monday to get the stragglers
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Mailing list footer changes
> As of late, we've been having recurring issues with gmail filtering out emails
> we're sending to the mailing list as spam. It turns out that this is because
> our
> mailing lists add on their own footer to emails being sent out, which results
> in
> us breaking DKIM which triggers gmail's spam filters. Board voted to change
> our
> mailing list setups to stop inserting footers into emails, which should
> hopefully fix this issue.
> ACTIONS: FDO admins to move list footer changes forward
> STATUS: Done
> 
> ITEM: Changing default branch name on Gitlab
> The freedesktop.org domain admins asked us if the board would be interested in
> changing the defaults of the freedesktop.org gitlab setup in order to change
> the
> default branch name to "main" from "master". The board voted to approve this
> change. Note that this won't affect currently existing repos, only the
> defaults
> for new repos. For anyone interested in applying these changes to their repos,
> you can find a script for doing so here:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/jljusten/src-fdo/-/blob/master/gitlab-retarget-mr.py
> 
> ACTIONS: FDO admins to move default branch name changes forward
> STATUS: Done
> """]]
> 

-- 
Sincerely,
   Lyude Paul (she/her)
   Software Engineer at Red Hat
   
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