2017 07 06 TSC Meeting

Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

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July 6, 2017 (7:00am - 8:00am PT) via GoToMeeting

TSC Members

Arnaud Le Hors


Binh Nguyen


Christopher Ferris


Dan Middleton

Yes

Greg Haskins


Hart Montgomery

Yes

Mic Bowman

Yes

Murali Krishna Katipalli


Richard Brown

Yes

Sheehan Anderson


Tamas Blummer



*quorum not reached*

Resources:


[reminder] TSC annual elections will begin in early August (more details to come)

Hackfest Planning (Brian Behlendorf & Todd Benzies)

  • Quick discussion on overall Hackfest strategy and value
    • Cadence may be better at quarterly vs. every two months (easier on travel budgets)
    • Consider scheduling talks all morning, and then leave afternoons open for hacking.  Recently Hackfest have been more conference-like, as opposed to hacking.
    • Get folks from different projects to talk with each other more.
    • Consider having time for prepared presentations, time for ramping new participants, and time for experienced hacking.
  • US:  9/14 & 9/15 _or_ 9/21 & 9/22 -- looking at Chicago (unless any East Coast venue space arises)
  • Europe:  http://doodle.com/poll/39za7hz3i98k8esb


Security Code Reviews and Bug Bounties (Brian Behlendorf & Dave Huseby)


Third party dependency licenses (Brian Behlendorf & Tracy Kuhrt)

  • https://lists.hyperledger.org/pipermail/hyperledger-tsc/2017-July/000953.html
  • Tracy:  The scans that have been conducted have been done against the source code that has been checked in to either Gerrit or Github. The scans do not include any third-party dependencies that are not included in the source repositories. The project developers will be responsible for making sure that any third-party dependencies that are linked into the code base are also compliant with the IP policy defined in the Hyperledger Charter.
  • Please continue discussion on the mailing list (per thread above)


Project reporting (Tracy Kuhrt)

  • https://lists.hyperledger.org/pipermail/hyperledger-tsc/2017-July/000951.html
  • Brian:  There is a mandatory technical governance and oversight role that has to happen somewhere in Hyperledger -- this sense of ownership is critical.
  • Concern around status report for sake of status report vs. status report for evaluating health of project.  
  • Understand not wanting to create extra work for nothing -- but, the template that gets created should allow an active maintainer to be able to respond in 30 minutes or less.  This ambient awareness is critical for others.
  • ACTION:  Tracy/Brian to bring a proposal back to TSC to review, discuss, and vote on.