[coreboot] coreboot community meeting minutes for February 16, 2017

[Taiidan at gmx.com]

I am dumb so I wasn't aware that there was a community meeting.

The mailinglist should stay, it is the most convenient and supported in 
a variety of viewing methods.
Google groups and reddit both require javascript and they don't support 
easy text mode viewing - both should also not be used for philosophical 
reasons

Reddit admins censor and stealth-edit user posts for kicks and political 
reasons and google loves to harvest peoples information - which is 
entirely their right to do (hardware/bandwidth isn't free - that's how 
they make money) but I don't like being shoehorned in to a service like 
that.
I believe it is only a matter of time before google insist on something 
silly like requiring you to register an account with a phone number for 
using google groups, or demand that you do one of those browser 
fingerprinting mechanical turk captchas.

I do not like freenode IRC as they discriminate against VPN users, even 
as they advertise VPN service on their home page.
I can't understand why, considering you pretty much need a VPN with IRC 
unless you want someone to be able to easily escalate a petty 
disagreement in to being swatted and shot in the head.

On 02/16/2017 06:41 PM, Martin Roth wrote:
> Here are the meeting minutes of today's coreboot community meeting.
> Info about the next meeting (March 2) is at the bottom.
>
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> General coreboot news
> * coreboot is working on joining the Software Freedom Conservancy in a
> fiscal sponsorship agreement.  Work on this is moving forward, and is
> speeding up.  Several announcements about this should be posted soon.
>    - Summary by Martin; there will be a blog post
>    - goal is April, or early May at the very latest
>
> Infrastructure Issues & News
> * Updated coverity tools from 8.5.0.5 to 8.7.0
>    - coreboot's coverity testing is run twice a week by Jenkins
>    - Tested projects: flashrom, ChromeEC, vboot, Memtest86+
>    - All other projects are tested daily or when commits happen
> * Having problems with merging users in gerrit - We plan to email people
> with multiple existing accounts and merge them, but due to gerrit upgrades,
> there are currently issues that we need to figure out before we can make
> progress on this.
> * Discussions on the current Mailing list vs switching to a forum
> * coreboot is evaluating the idea switching from the mailing list to a
> forum package.  A poll on this will be posted shortly.
>    - Switch to reddit?
>    - Switch to google groups?
>    - Look for a forum software package that integrates well with the mailing
> list.
>    - Skepticism was expressed about ditching the mailing list.
> * Because jenkins builders build in tmpfs, memory was getting filled, and
> builds were failing.  We've taken steps to mitigate this.
> * IRC/Mattermost
>    - Mattermost was set up to help make it easier for people who aren't
> familiar with irc
>    - To reduce spam on irc, only allow registered nicks to talk?
>    - How big is the spam/abuse problem?
>    - Deprecate IRC channel?
>      - Not being planned right now, but in the future?
>    - Mattermost's default channel doesn't have irc bridged. It sounds like
> the latest version of mattermost can add multiple default channels, so we
> can add the irc channel as a default.
>
> Development
> * Review of commits
>    - Martin has been busy and hasn't been able to review things as much
>    - The best way to get a quick review is to post in chat/irc asking for
> reviews on specific patches.
>    - How do we get more people to review patches?
> * Discussion *Add coreboot storage driver*
> https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/thread.html#83218
>    - How will a decision on this be made?
>      - If we're going to come to any conclusion, the decision will probably
> need to be made by Stefan.
>
> Interesting External news items
> * Raptor engineering looking for support in porting openbmc for the ASUS
> KGPE-D16 board -
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KGPE-D16-OpenBMC-Effort
> and https://firmwaresecurity.com/tag/coreboot/
>
> coreboot community meeting related
> * Attendance has been spotty.  Is this worthwhile?
>    - Yes - The community meeting is useful to people
>    - Ten participants today \o/
> * Very few people actually add agenda items.
> * Is the time the issue?  Should we try switching time again?
> * Announcing it on IRC (about one hour before it begins) helps
> * We should announce it on the mailing list, the day before too
> * Several people weren't aware that we had bi-weekly coreboot conference
> meetings.
>
>
>
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> Next meeting is March 2, 2017
> Check the coreboot calendar for the time in your timezone:
> https://www.coreboot.org/calendar.html
>
> Join using the bluejeans web app or the phone bridge:
>      https://bluejeans.com/616384323
>
> Phone bridge call in numbers:  https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers
>      Meeting ID: 616384323
>
> Current agenda & history:
>      https://coreboot-meeting.pads.ccc.de/CommunityMeetingTopics
>
>
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