Summary of the 25 March 2021 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Daniel Vetter, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez, Lyude Paul, Manasi Navare, Mark Filion, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests:
Absent:
Summary
Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2020 invoices status, Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2021, XDC2021 sponsors, XDC2022, HDMI 2.1, elections, mailing list DKIM compliance, changing default branch name on Gitlab
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Keith hasn't had the time to send any emails to poke SPI about this ACTIONS: Lyude will try getting in contact with SPI next week STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data Things have gone cold again, no updates yet. ACTIONS: Lyude will poke SPI about this again today STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 invoices status Intel still pending, Manasi was able to get some info on why though - it turns out the expense hadn't been labeled internally by Intel as being for XDC sponsorship correctly. Manasi was able to get PO approval from their direct manager so the invoice payment should be finished up shortly ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org GSE -> Packet migration completed successfully, which should save us around $30/day. Thanks FDO admins! ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: XDC2021 mupuf together with freedesktop.org sysadmins have been working on details of the website. In his words, they are pretty close to putting it online. Once we have it, we will contact organizers to start filling it, write the CFP announcement draft and start the thing for real. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2022 No new updates ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 sponsors Daniel hasn't had the time to poke around more, but is hoping to be able to get to it the week after next. ACTIONS: Daniel to poke potential sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: HDMI 2.1 Harry sent out a v2 of the HDMI 2.1 letter to the board emailing list ACTIONS: Board to review new draft STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections Elections are now under way, we have around a 52% turnout so far. ACTIONS: Harry to send out a reminder on monday to get the stragglers STATUS: Pending ITEM: Mailing list footer changes As of late, we've been having recurring issues with gmail filtering out emails we're sending to the mailing list as spam. It turns out that this is because our mailing lists add on their own footer to emails being sent out, which results in us breaking DKIM which triggers gmail's spam filters. Board voted to change our mailing list setups to stop inserting footers into emails, which should hopefully fix this issue. ACTIONS: FDO admins to move list footer changes forward STATUS: Done ITEM: Changing default branch name on Gitlab The freedesktop.org domain admins asked us if the board would be interested in changing the defaults of the freedesktop.org gitlab setup in order to change the default branch name to "main" from "master". The board voted to approve this change. Note that this won't affect currently existing repos, only the defaults for new repos. For anyone interested in applying these changes to their repos, you can find a script for doing so here: https://gitlab.com/jljusten/src-fdo/-/blob/master/gitlab-retarget-mr.py ACTIONS: FDO admins to move default branch name changes forward STATUS: Done