[News]

Technical Board meeting, 2009-12-01

= Attendees =
* Matt Zimmerman (chair)
* Colin Watson
* Mark Shuttleworth
* Martin Pitt

= Notes =
* Prior action review, leaves the follow still to do:
* [ACTION] cjwatson checking on IS RT #36139 to add devel-permissions
* [ACTION] Scott to redraft Units policy to address Scott's and Matt's concerns and clean up language
* [ACTION] Colin to clarify trademark/license distinction on licensing policy

* Archive reorganisation (ColinWatson)
* [ACTION] cjwatson to create a wiki reference for development teams to participate in the reorg

* https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy
* Would be good to outline a regression handling policy as well.
* Default to assuming users want stability.
* [ACTION] ScottK to revise proposal based on TB meeting discussion

* When is it a good idea to fail out of a maintainer script? (mdz)
* Generally, failing preinst is preferred to failing postinst.
* Generally, daemon start-up failure should not fail postinst.
* May help to make a distinction between devel and release upgrades.
* No clear "philosophical" state of being configured, so it's non-obvious how to decide what should be considered a failure.
* Would be beneficial to present a straw-man proposal to the Debian TC to coordinate this.
* Will continue at the next meeting.

* Community Bugs
* https://launchpad.net/bugs/485569 "TB term length is unclear"
* elections single-year staggered with resulting positions having a two-year term.
* [ACTION] sabdfl to update LP/wiki/www to reflect the actual term length for TB