[tsf-dev] Trustable Software Framework meeting 251201 - Summary notes

[Paul Waters <paul.waters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

A summary of today's meeting is below.

Thanks everyone who came along.

The next meeting will be at the same time in two weeks (Monday 15th Dec)

Thanks

Paul Waters

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# Trustable Software Framework meeting 251201

- Realtime chat at #trustable on Libera IRC - Please join

Question: TA-ITERATIONS states that all constructed iterations contain a 
number if things. Commit sign off comments is one example of an 
attestation. Q: How do we score something like that?

- There are several strategies that could be used, looking at the last 
commit, or looking at a rolling window of 30 days. We recognise that 
early releases may not have all this information, and therefore this is 
about demonstrating improving confidence that things are moving in the 
right direction and we are consistently doing the right things
- There is a need to define for a specific project, what we mean by 
ITERATION
- Good to express what we would consider perfect to be, and be honest 
about how far/close we are from this.

Question: Use this meeting as part of our planning around Trustable?

- All the work is captured in issues in the CodethinkLabs gitlab project
- The "Architecture Open Questions" issue is a good start for anyone 
wanting to get a view of possible areas of work in 
https://gitlab.com/CodethinkLabs/trustable/trustable/-/issues/384
- An issue we are aware of when scaling TSF is merge conflicts, this 
issue is a hot topic at the moment
- A third set of issues of interest would be ones around documentation 
(e.g., 
https://gitlab.com/CodethinkLabs/trustable/trustable/-/merge_requests/402)

Question: Are there monthly releases?

- Yes, we aim for montlhy releases
- Aiming for next releases
    - polish of remote graph
    - roadmap documented, particularly with reference to the

Question: Can we encourage more discussion on the public IRC?

- yes, there are some discussions for example on trustable scoring, 
which would be good move to the public channel.