Gang,
Following is a draft agenda for our conference call. I put it together in a
plain text editor in the hopes that it wouldn't get too mangled by mail
clients. Prior to the meeting I'll pretty it up and post a PDF for all to
download and print.
Could everyone please get me their comments by 5:00 EST on Monday? I'll
finalize and post by Tuesday AM.
Thank you.
Regards,
Greg Zartman
GPL SME LINUX SERVER DISTRIBUTION
TELECONFERENCE MEETING AGENDA
(DRAFT)
PURPOSE
In recent days, Mitel Networks announced that it would discontinue further
development of the Mitel SME Server Linux Distribution. The purpose of
this meeting is four-fold: 1) To determine if the SME user community is
willing to take over development and support of the SME Server Linux
Distribution; 2) Discuss what�s next for the project, or what path do we
anticipate taking; 3) Determine Mitel Networks� role in the project;
4) Discuss logistical issues associated with transference of the SME
project to the GPL community.
PARTICIPANTS
(who should moderate???)
Jeff Coleman
Abe Loveless (???)
Darrell May
Stephan Noble
Mitel SME Development Team Representative(s)
Hsing-Foo Wang
Greg Zartman
MEETING MINUTES
---Need a volunteer to do this and then publish on Dev-Info, preferably
someone who can write/type fast. :o)---
TOPICS
1. Background: What happened last week?
2. Does the SME user community want to take over development and
support of the SME Linux Distribution? Do we have the resources
to take over this project (i.e. both hardware and people)?
3. What�s next? Where do we want this project to go both in the
short term and in the long term?
4. Project leadership.
5. What role will Mitel play in this project?
6. Transference of the project:
a. What do we want to call the project and where will it live?
b. Website: Is contribs.org OK or do should we create something
more like what Fedora did (i.e., something with more "what
are we doing" and "what's going on" content)?
c. Mission statement: This may seem a bit vain at this early
stage, but is something that could be of real value to the
developers and community as a whole.
b. User forums.
c. Developers mailing list:
- Where will it live?
- Will this list serve as the primary venue for
distribution development discussion, or the more
reserved roll that it is now playing?
- Is there a need for more than one list? Say one
list to discuss development of the distribution
itself and another to discuss the types of topics
currently being discussed on dev-info.
d. Where will we put the ISO(s) and associated SRPMs? Do we
have any mirrors?
e. Bug reporting:
- Where will they be reported?
- How will they be tracked?
- How will they be addressed?
f. Continued development:
- At some point, someone (group) will need to document,
or catalog, the entire distribution so that others
can determine what makes up the various "parts" of
the OS. For example, IMAP includes rpms x, y, and
z; or Samba includes rpms a, b, and c.
- We will need to establish a mechanism, or venue, for
further development. This mechanism should store all
current RPMs and SRPMs and include a means for
tracking changes and what not. CVS is an option,
but maybe not the best as it is meant more for
tracking document level changes and not file level
changes. Ideas anyone??
- Road map: This may be a bit premature at this point,
but is something that needs to be done so that
everyone knows where we are headed.
7. Closing comments/discussion.
--
Greg Zartman
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