Re: EPEL meeting minutes

17:00:57 <smooge> #startmeeting EPEL 17:00:57 <zodbot> Meeting started Fri Apr 24 17:00:57 2015 UTC. The chair is smooge. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:00:57 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:01:02 <smooge> #meetingname epel 17:01:02 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel' 17:01:14 <smooge> #chairs avij nirik bstinson dgilmore Evolution 17:01:22 <smooge> #chair avij nirik bstinson dgilmore Evolution 17:01:22 <zodbot> Current chairs: Evolution avij bstinson dgilmore nirik smooge 17:01:40 <smooge> #topic Robot Roll Call 17:01:49 <smooge> Tom Servo here as your majordomo 17:01:57 <nirik> hey all 17:02:13 <bstinson> yay epel meeting! 17:03:13 <Evolution> here. 17:03:31 <smooge> #topic New Meeting Time 17:04:00 <smooge> So one of the issues with EPEL meetings is trying to find a time where they can occur when people are able to focus on them versus other scheduled tasks 17:04:26 <nirik> always a struggle with all meetings. 17:04:55 <smooge> lesson 1. whenisgood.com is not the place for me to set this up. whenisgood.net is the correct place 17:05:14 <smooge> does anyone currently have a whenisgood account? 17:05:38 <nirik> nope. There was also some more open source one someone mentioned a while back, but I can't recall the name now 17:08:48 <nirik> http://doodle.com/ 17:08:51 <nirik> I think that was it 17:11:07 <smooge> lesson 2. these things are pain in the ass 17:11:32 <nirik> yeah 17:12:04 <bstinson> ^^this, /me is digging to see if i have an old doodle account 17:12:25 <smooge> bstinson, you ok setting up the invitations? Or do you want me to? 17:13:06 <bstinson> if you're already in go ahead, i'm waiting on a password reset email from doodle 17:15:50 <smooge> I am not setting up an account but was doing the complete free thing 17:18:00 <smooge> could someone pm me avij's email 17:19:34 <smooge> .fasinfo avij 17:19:35 <zodbot> smooge: User: avij, Name: Anssi Johansson, email: rhbugs(a)miuku.net, Creation: 2012-06-16, IRC Nick: avij, Timezone: Europe/Helsinki, Locale: en, GPG key ID: , Status: active 17:19:38 <zodbot> smooge: Approved Groups: cla_fpca cla_done 17:20:39 <smooge> ok so the poll in doodle is absolutely useless from the free account settings 17:20:46 <smooge> I can only ask you what day to use 17:20:56 <nirik> ah, bah 17:20:58 <Evolution> that's... suboptimal 17:21:18 <smooge> bstinson, might have more options when his account gets reopened 17:21:36 <smooge> ok I will work on something but let us move to the next time 17:21:41 <smooge> s/time/item/ 17:21:46 <bstinson> you can action that to me 17:21:51 <bstinson> still waiting on the reset email 17:22:13 <smooge> #action bstinson will create meeting invite for upcoming meetings in doodle or whenisgood depending on what is possible 17:22:54 <smooge> bstinson, please use UTC so people don't have to deal with "did this send in my time zone or bstinson's timezone" type worries 17:23:12 <smooge> #topic New Chair System 17:23:36 * nirik proposed rotating chair on the list. 17:23:41 <nirik> what do folks think? 17:23:58 <smooge> I personally think that this is a good idea 17:24:14 <bstinson> i think that would spread out the load a little bit 17:24:16 <Evolution> worksforme 17:24:16 <bstinson> +1 from me 17:25:01 <smooge> 3 votes for rotating chair, 2 abstains 17:25:29 <smooge> #agreed EPSCO will use rotating chair system to host future meetings. 3 +1 votes 2 abstains 17:25:48 <smooge> #topic Status of python3 17:26:03 <smooge> nirik, I think you had some status on this 17:26:05 <nirik> I need to work on epel-rpm-macros. 17:26:08 <nirik> it's still on my list. 17:26:15 <nirik> just havent had time 17:26:36 <smooge> okie dokie 17:26:47 <nirik> so, thats all really... will try and get er done 17:26:52 <smooge> #topic Open Floor 17:26:59 <smooge> Any other issues? 17:27:27 <Evolution> are there anough packages to warrant another killing spree 17:27:32 <Evolution> *orphaned* 17:28:30 <Evolution> also, is there any reason for epel-specific involvement in the upcoming FAD? 17:28:45 <Evolution> </end random thought from my side> 17:29:00 <nirik> I think tyll_ has been culling orphans with the >6weeks orphaned thing still. 17:29:07 <nirik> and we are getting down to a small list. 17:29:35 <Evolution> oh, I didn't realize he was actively dealing with it. that's good news. -- Stephen J Smoogen.