# 2024-10-30 - coreboot Leadership Meeting
## Attendees Felix Held, Felix Singer, Marshall Dawson, Matt DeVillier, Jeremy Compostella, Alicja Michalska, Maximilian Brune, Pono, Mina Asante, David Hendricks, Jay Talbott, Julius Werner, Ron Minnich.
## Open Action Items * 2024-10-30 * Add clarification to docs, “do not use gerrit change-id or CB: format in reference to already-merged patches”. * 2024-10-16 * Matt: Set up a meeting to discuss board status alternatives and send out invites. * 2024-09-18 * Jon: Schedule a dedicated meeting to discuss the Coverity defects and action plan. * Werner: Send out an invite for the meeting. Sent out a poll to find a time slot:https://rallly.co/invite/1c8J3azXAcje * 2024-05-01 * Nick Van Der Harst volunteered for Dutch. "gogo gogo" would like to translate to Russian (?) * 2024-01-10 * Nico: (https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:enforce_region_api) * Daniel: Look at how we want to localize (non console) strings for coreboot. Long term project.
## Minutes
### [Elyes] How to know when we should follow Linux rules and when those of coreboot ? Please make it clear. * I’m asking because of Felix’s comment here : https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/84074 about “`Commit <first 12 chars of commit> ("<commit title>")"` * [Matt] coreboot’s checkpatch should detect and enforce this:  * [Matt] looks like we don’t explicitly state this in the coding style or documentation, and probably should just for clarity * AI: add clarification to docs, do not use gerrit change-id or CB: format in reference to already-merged patches.
### [David] Follow-up on discussion with SFC regarding use of LLM-generated code * It's a new thing that doesn't have a good policy yet. SFC is getting a lot of questions regarding this, and there seems to be widespread adoption in various companies but with various restrictions surrounding how they are used. It's unclear how this applies to the world of free software. * We need to gather data at this time to figure out how many people are using LLMs and how. This will help SFC craft appropriate policy. * How do we do this? Ask people to annotate commit messages if they used an LLM? This would be voluntary (we have no good way to enforce it). * We don't necessarily know who is using it now, and we don't have a good way of tracking it. So we treat patches the way we currently do, regardless of whether an LLM was involved in their creation or not.
### [David] Is anything needed with regard to Russian maintainers/contributors? * We asked the SFC back in April '23, but did not get a response. Given the recent drama in Linux it seems we need to revisit this topic and avoid running amok of sanctions. * [Pono] This is a confusing issue.Continuing as normal for now is OK, but SFC will let us know if this changes. * How could this be enforced? IP address scanning? Is there some retention period for logs? * Pono will follow-up with Karen about this. * Does this only apply to people working at sanctioned companies, or everyone living in the country? * [Alicja & others] - It may only apply to sanctioned companies. * How does this apply to certain community members? We believe there is at least one who may be impacted.
# Next Leadership Meeting * November 13, 2024. [coreboot Calendar](https://coreboot.org/calendar.html).
# Notice Decisions shown here are not necessarily final, and are based on the current information available. If there are questions or comments about decisions made, or additional information to present, please put it on the leadership meeting agenda and show up if possible to discuss it.
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# coreboot leadership meeting minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRXqXcLBp5pFkHiJbrLdv3Spqh1Hu086HYkKrgKj...
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