TSC Meeting Notes 2020-01-16

Owned by Cary Phillips
Nov 04, 2022

Attending:

  • Cary Phillips
  • Christina Tempelaar-Lietz
  • Peter Hillman
  • Larry Gritz
  • Rod Bogart
  • Nick Porcino
  • Joseph Goldstone

Discussion:

  • The time is now 1:30pm PST.

  • Everyone's been unusually busy with other work, with limited bandwidth.

  • Christina will follow up on the Azure build failures.

  • Peter will investigate the Weta CLA.

  • Regarding Cmake expertise, Joseph expects to learn more in the coming months, and Larry has a general understanding. Nick has a simplified IlmBase CMake setup, 100 lines total. The complication comes from two sources: the sub-projects, and shared settings with the Automake config files. When Imath/Ilmbase moves to another repo/project, this will simplify. But we should also eliminate the sharing of settings with the am files. Parallel settings will be less of a headache.

  • We need a list of projects to propose for the Google Summer of Code. Larry suggested simple stuff like modernizing the C++ code.

  • Larry also suggeste a project wiki page for "ideas", a place to maintain a "roadmap" of sorts.

  • Regarding the goal of developer engagement, we discussed how to recruit new people. It's not especially appealing for projects that require mostly maintenance. Possibly the ASWF Board can encourage Premier member companies to identify available people.