May 13th PEAR Group Meeting Minutes

These are the minutes from the May 13th PEAR Group meeting, if you have any questions feel free to send us an email (pear-group at php.net). These minutes will be posted on the pear website at a latter date. -josh -------- May 13th PEAR Group Meeting Attending Arnaud Limbourg (arnaud) Christian Weiske (cweiske) Helgi Pormar (helgi) Joshua Eichorn (jeichorn) Lukas Smith (lsmith) Pear President Greg Beaver (cellog) Not Attending David Coallier (davidc) Martin Jansen (mj) arnaud and lsmith left the meeting after the first hour cellog arrived 2 hours into the meeting Agenda for meeting is at: http://wiki.bluga.net/index.php?area=pear&page=agenda-may-07 Making decisions (non-policy): Decisions are made by consensus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus), any member can call for a vote if they disagree, voting has to be seconded If the entire pear group is available in a meeting voting can be done during the meeting otherwise an email vote is done Email votes should be a minmum of 7 days (or until all votes are cast) with sponsor of vote having the ability to set a longer time Email votes should be managed by any PEAR Group momber other then the membe rhwo called for the vote All Votes are final Community notification will be on a case by case basis depending on the importance of the decision, with a minimum of an email to pear-dev A pear group member can call for a pear group vote to decide an issue by full pear election action items: jeichorn - post this wording to the group for review helgi - find a place on the website for items like this Community Notification, increasing transparency: Minutes will be posted from each meeting to a new section of the website with notifications to pear-dev and website front page action items: arnaud - sending current thoughts to the rest of the pear group and making sure everyone else is fine with our solution helgi - creating a new section on the website to post minutes too jeichorn - post minutes from this meeting Vice President: candidates - jeichorn action - postponing until after the runoff election to give winner a chance to be a candidate if they want Meeting Schedule: Meet every 2 weeks, need at least 3 members present to have a meeting helgi - schedule another meeting next week Constitution updates: Cover pear group tie for last position runoff Cover winning president less then 50% of votes Schedule election on new wording within a month action - cweiske will work on the language of the amendment Defining Collectives: Goal is for each collective to have at least 5 packages Review with pear group, and then entire community http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/collectives We will need to create a guide to help collectives get started action items: jeichorn- send out url and ask for feedback jeichorn- put back on agenda for next meeting Managing ongoing tasks: Were just going to leave this to whoever has time, we seem to be covering things well right now action items: helgi - add a feature request for a cron check on limbo account approvals http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=11026 RFC Process: http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/rfc Working off current proposal Need to look at when to do a full pear vote action items: jeichorn - get review from rest of the pear group cweiske - create RFC section of the manual Skip Items #9 to #11 on agenda Licensing in general: were not going to push any license on the approved list, but we will discourage the php license on none extension code recommendations about handling multiple copyright owners on code, and license compatibility would be good recommend GFDL for the manual action items: cellog - search for legal advice to help review current licenses Mozilla Code and the MPL: We don't want another license in PEAR it's hard enough as it stands action items: cellog - contact and mozilla and work out their concerns jeichorn - find original pear-dev email Review Suggestions: Need to cover more, with the rest of the group spent some time covering a new include proposal from cellog for pear2 that would solve include_path concerns Prop Summary: 1 file per package that includes all its code Support autoload for people who want that PEAR2 provides an autoload class action items: jeichorn - make sure all of pear group has read the comments All other items on the Agenda were moved to the next meeting General Action Items: jeichorn - start agenda for the next meeting jeichorn - get minutes approved and published on pear-dev