On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:08:14AM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
Greetings!
At the hackathon we did recently, we talked about the need for one of us
to attend the Modularity WG meetings so we could be more aware of what
work is coming our way before it's a surprise, and I volunteered to be
that person.
For $reasons, today was the first of the WG meetings I was able to
attend. There were two items of interest:
New service
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I learned that Factory 2 is developing a new service called Ursa Major.
I gathered that its mission is to make it so that RPMs that depend on
modules can get those modules pulled into their buildroot.
Ralph, is the above correct? If so, what time frame do you anticipate us
needing to get this service deployed to infrastructure?
Meetings
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The modularity WG suggested that it was probably not that beneficial for
me to attend their meetings as an infra liason, as they are not actually
particularly familiar with the infrastructure side of things. They
The fact that they are not familiar with Infra seems to me like a very good
reason to be "involved" in their discussions to ensure new things aren't
going
to unforeseeably impact us (double negative are hard).
suggested instead that we interface with Factory 2.
I know that at least Patrick and I have regular meetings with Ralph to discuss
the Factory 2/Infra interactions.
I remember sending a report about such meeting once, I didn't do it much since,
maybe I should start this again and stick with it (we had our latest meeting
just the past Monday so I should just go ahead and send a report for this
discussion).
Overall I am not against this, I just don't want to add more meetings to Ralph's
agenda. So if we change format, then maybe Patrick and I's meetings should be
reconsidered.
A suggestion was made that perhaps we could have an agenda item on
*our*
meeting, perhaps once a month, where we invite modularity WG and factory
2 to talk with us about what is coming our way, or about issues that
need dealing with. I thought this was a fine suggestion, so I wanted to
This is a good idea with the caveat that Kevin pointed out :)
Pierre