MacPorts PortMgr

(Ryan joined via video call)

There's a talk from 2016, see Meetings/MacPortsMeeting2016/Programme. Compared to two years ago, portmgr@ no longer deals with managing the infrastructure, since we now have the infrastructure team to do that and rely on GitHub.

Should there be a voting process to confirm portmgr@ and/or get new members elected?

• Is this really necessary? Since there is very little conflict within MacPorts anyway, elections might be more trouble then it's worth.
• Getting voting right is complicated.
• Should it be merged with the infrastructure team? No, administrative tasks on the systems should be kept separate from portmgr.
• A process to get new people onto portmgr is needed

portmgr@ response times

• portmgr@ is sometimes slow to respond to inquiries
• Should there be a "portmgr@ timeout" (one or two weeks) for somebody to object and a default to accept a proposal if the timeout occurs?
  • This was a problem when discussing funding requests for travel to the meeting.

Legal organizations & fund handling

• Handling money is an issue for us, since we cannot easily accept donations
• There are options, such as founding an association (which may require a certain number of people in a certain jurisdiction) or joining an existing organization such as Software Freedom Conservancy

sfconservancy

• TODO: Find out the terms of joining ​sfconservancy

To clarify:

• Can we leave the organization again?
• Would they own any trademarks?
• Would they own domain names?

Documentation for infrastructure

• Should have some internal documentation on buildbot and braeburn
• Maybe a private GitHub repository (usually have to pay for that)
  • TODO: Ask GitHub support

Deploying updates to buildbot

• www/guide/portindex/man
  • TODO: Let's deploy it during this meeting

• Move mprsyncup on buildbot
  • TODO: Add this as a job to buildbot

• Updating to buildbot 1.0
  • New waterfall does not fit our use case
  • Would allow us to use GitHub authentication

Website

• Move as much as possible to GitHub pages
  • Statically hosted pages
• Move guide to GitHub pages, get rid of DocBook XML syntax
• Create a web page for each port
  • Serve JSON from braeburn and render it with JavaScript?

Base releases

• Release more often
• Define a roadmap for a new release
• TODO: Go through list of open base issues and assign them to Trac tickets
• Do not use MacPorts port to produce pkg/dmg, use a make pkg target in the build system instead
  • TODO: Create a ticket for this
  • Use this to create releases on buildbot ##51996
• selfupdate should use HTTPS