2024.05 VMA
Date: 2024-06-03 10:00 Moderator: Kevin Location: Jitsi Meet Venue: 2024.05 VMA - HackMD Forum entry: https://forum.riot-os.org/t/virtual-maintainers-assembly-vma-2024-05/4164 Previous VMA forum entry: Notes: Virtual Maintainer Assembly (VMA) 2024.02 Minutes: Emmanuel, chrysn, marian
Attendees (TBD)
- Martine
- Karl
- Kevin
- Emmanuel
- benpicco
- Marian
- mikolai
- Koen
- chrysn
- Teufelchen
Agenda
- Agenda Bashing - 1min (Kevin)
- VMA 2024.08 Moderation - 2min (Kevin)
- 2024.04 Release debrief from Release Manager - 5min (Teufelchen)
- Outlook on upcoming 2024.07 Release - 5min (Mikolai)
- 2024.10 Release Manager - 5min (Martine)
- CI maintainership
- Maintainer Ping
- Summit Keynote Speaker?
Agenda Bashing
(no input)
VMA 2024.08 Moderation
Kevin: Volunteers?
Marian was volunteered.
2024.04 Release debrief from Release Manager
Teufelchen: Did release, but a bit late.
Teufelchen: Had 12 security advisories in late stage of release. Got Open PRs down, but not faster than new were opened, so briefly we had <300.
Maribu: We had goals in the content area; Windows setup. Can we find someone who can test Mac onboarding process?
Teufelchen: Linux was on me, but did not get to it. Also have a Mac, could do that too if needed
Marian: Baby steps made; that’s good, but we have more to do. Planned to get more of home automation community onboard, but have not done that yet.
Kevin: (…) Still open PRs in release area, eg. same broken node getting selected over and over again.
Outlook on upcoming 2024.07 Release
Mikolai: Martine already started forwarding release tests to me, getting flashing failures on IoT lab. see release-tests · RIOT-OS/RIOT@886c6a2 · GitHub
Kevin: Can help with that, randomization PR will help. Non-M3 devices can’t indicate that error.
Emmanuel: send issues to iot-lab mailing list? (Which boards are failing mostly? Kevin: apparently Io6-lab-M3 boards, so randomization might not help)
Mikolai: Report to Matrix channel failed … which channel should that be? Martine: Should be maintainer channel, but never really worked outside of testing. Teufelchen: Please just remove it. Martine: Can someone else try to remove this, maybe then someone else gets fail notifications, too. Mikolai: Will do.
Mikolai: Liked what Teufelchen did with the last release in terms of goals, aiming at <300 PR. Reluctant to put onboarding goal there, b/c can’t contribute much realistically.
2024.10 Release Manager
Martine: Script only has Mikolai, Teufelchen (and Ben from next tier) in current eligible set. Dice suggest Ben.
Ben agrees.
Kevin volunteers for the one after that
CI maintainership
Kevin: Kaspar is stepping down. Anybody interested stepping up?
Karl: Part of CI is run on Kaspar’s home computer, right? Kevin: CI is on tattooine; HIL runs at university computers. Who is still in FU? Emmanuel: Kaspar is still there, even if he steps down; as am I.
Teufelchen: I hate doing CI stuff, but if nobody else does it, I can do it. Let’s ask about it at the next VMA again.
Maintainer Ping
Martine: Looking at release script showed old names. Teufelchen will ping old maintaners.
Summit Keynote Speaker
- chrysn: we don’t have anyone yet
- Emmanuel: was mentioning this guy from ST software team https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-finco-b73b86b/ but did not get much resonance
- chrysn: process? Other names were proposed (Nicole, Emmanuel’s ST person…)
- Emmanuel: pretty “flexible”, historically. Anyone can propose (keynote) speakers to summit@ and the proposals are vetted there (summit@ is Matthias, Thomas, Emmanuel, Oleg, IIRC)
- chrysn: That vetting just got stuck. That “IIRC” is a big issue.
- chrysn: proposal: go through the list from first to last, contact people with ~1week deadline`
- chrysn: people nodding, let’s do that
- Teufelchen: who is the ST person?
- Emmanuel: Eric Finco. Part of their software division, talked to him in Milan at their bi-annul technical meeting. Very aware of RIOT, Zephyr and the ecosystem. Lots of background, knows how to speak. Invited us to talk at their summit.
- chrysn: @Emmanuel please contact that person with a deadline (1 week)
- Teufelchen: Proposed Raptor (Marco Ivaldi), security researcher of the January.
- Martine: Good talk, but don’t think it’s good keynote material. chrysn: +1
- Teufelchen: So I’ll ping him for CfP.
AOB
- Nope