Board Public IRC meeting, 2009-05-05

[Paul W. Frields]

I apologize for this being late, a casualty of my travel schedule the
last few days.

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Summary from IRC meeting:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-05-05

* Export restrictions and [[FreeMedia]] project
** Board members explained that Fedora cannot violate US export restrictions
** No wiggle room but the Board is not happy with the state of export regulations as they pertain to FLOSS
** Board may investigate options for pursuing reform

* PPC as a primary or secondary architecture
** PPC has heretofore remained primary because the Board made a decree
that it would stay that way until there was some other successful,
actively maintained secondary architecture
*** That has not happened and PPC continues to have significant
problems on a recurring basis
*** Some Board members feel that Red Hat might devote additional
release engineering resources if PPC became a secondary architecture
*** Others feel that because there was no deadline set, moving PPC to
a secondary architecture is somewhat bait and switch
** Board voted on mdomsch's motion to remove its block on PPC
remaining a primary architecture -- not making it a secondary
architecture, a decision that is under FESCo's purview
*** Eight +1, one -1 (spot)
** Board voted against spot's motion creating a new block requiring
PPC to remain a primary architecture for six months
*** Six -1, three +1 (spot, notting, glezos)

* No questions were left in the queue for the Board
** Board encourages people to direct follow-up to the open
fedora-advisory-board list at
*https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board

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