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Project Committee Meeting - August 13, 2020, 12:00 PM ET
ATTENDEES: Eriawan Kusumawardhono (@eriawan), Jeremy Sinclair (@snickler), Tanner Gooding (@tannergooding), Chris Sfanos (@ChrisSfanos), Claire Novotny (@clairernovotny), Chris Hammond (@ChrisHammond)
ABSENT: Scott Willhite (@mrswoop), Juan Elosegui (@jmelosegui)
STAFF OBSERVERS: Terracia King (@terraciaking)
AGENDA
- MONTHLY PROGRESS UPDATE
- Verify - Board of Directors agreed to accept the Projects Committee’s recommendation and approve Verify application
- Polyjuice & SecureDNS - feedback sent to project maintainers regarding license and health metric maturity. Both projects were promoted to the Seed Level.
- ImageSharp - @sbwalker created a draft for the ImageSharp collaboration blog.
- ImageSharp’s owner decided not to move forward with the blog post at this time.
- @sbwalker will follow up.
- Board Elections - updated Project Committee members on .NET Foundation election results.
- New Board members announced.
- Six new Board members and one returning Board member.
- @sbwalker action item to present a Projects Committee overview at the next Board meeting.
- REVIEW NEW PROJECT APPLICATIONS
- Nanoframework - reviewed health metrics and eligibility criteria.
- Health metrics indicate this project is mature.
- Further research indicated this project includes a very expansive set of subprojects.
- License check indicated that they use different permissive licenses across their projects.
- Project Committee agreed to recommend Nanoframework to the Board for membership.
- nopCommerce - reviewed health metrics and eligibility criteria.
- Health metrics indicate this project is very mature.
- Licensing check indicated that they are licensed under a custom copyleft license that does not fit the criteria.
- Project Committee will present the project to the Board but will not recommend the project for membership.
- PROJECT
- Project/Seed Benefits Proposal Discussion
- Claire mentioned .NET Foundation now has GitHub Enterprise subscription that projects owners will be asked to join as a benefit.
- @tannergooding provided an update on the list of project benefits started in GitHub.
- suggested that the Foundation could provide "best practices" documentation for early stage projects on how to create a new project.
- The documentation could be a GitHub template that project owners can refer too.
- @tannergooding action item to upload the project benefits to the PR discussion board to allow members to review and add suggestions.
- @tannergooding action item to partner with @clairenovotny to crosslink the discussion post to the Announcement repository.
- DNF Projects Site
- @sbwalker provided an update on the application for daily tracking of health metrics
- https://dnfprojects.azurewebsites.net/net-foundation-projects
- The application can provide metrics such as the compare the projects with the highest growth, monitor a project’s activity, and which projects have the most pull request.
- @sbwalker action item to sync with @clairenovotny to review the Azure credits available for hosting the application within the Foundation.
- Project Reconciliation
- @snickler action item to send any old projects or unusual instances to @clairenovotny and @ChrisSfanos to clean up.
- @clairenovotny is currently working with a lawyer to formally define what it means to be a .NET Foundation project from a legal perspective.
- Open Source Licensing Discussion Continuation
- @eriawan led the open source project licensing discussion.
- @eriawan posted a write up on licenses that should be accepted by the Foundation.
- @eriawan action item will upload the licensing write up as a PR on the Projects’ site to solicit feedback.
- Discussion held about the current licensing criteria and whether there is value in accepting projects outside of that criteria.
- Q&A
The meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm ET