X.org Board of Directors Meeting summary of Wednesday 2009-06-09.
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Official log: https://members.x.org/minutes/xorg-board-2009-06-09.txt

Location is #xf-bod@irc.oftc.net, timeframe of meeting unknown.

Attending board members: Adam Jackson, Alan Coopersmith, Eric Anholt,
Bart Massey, Donnie Berkholz.

Absent board members: Daniel Stone, Carl Worth, Matthieu Herrb.

Attending non-board members: Keith Packard.

Bart opens the meeting with a discussion about infrastructure, and most 
people immediately start talking about wiki spamming that is currently
happening.

Bart then steers towards having Joe Rayhawk join the sysadmin team: "Keithp
wasn't so enthusiastic about this a while back, but I've had a year or two of
experience with Rayhawk now and he's quite good." "Joe is a former PSU student
who is close friends with one of my best students and who has been working for
me for about 1.5 years as an hourly sys/netadmin for some of my boxes."

Alan asks whether these aren't all freedesktop.org machines, as opposed to
X.org machines. Keith answers that they are all freedesktop machines, and that
"X.org should just 'help out'".

Donnie states that he'd prefer that "the existing admins decide on who to
add", to which Adam contributes "keith, anholt, cworth, and myself all have
root on fd.o as it is" "that's pretty close to a majority vote of the existing
site admins". Bart replies "Obviously the existing admins should have a big
say in what we do", but "I'm a little concerned about things like lagtime for
creating accounts and assigning commit access as well, since it can affect
who is willing to help with X".

The topic mostly shifts towards preventing wiki spam again, to which Bart adds
"We also have ongoing issues with the PSU security monitor going off". Adam
then asks "do those alerts get sent to any of the existing admins?", as they
are not sent to him at all, to which Bart answers "They are getting sent to me,
and thence to sitewranglers@fd.o", and Adam volunteers to have them sent to
him.

Bart mentions that "the biggest problems are with the smaller projects
affiliated with fd.o / X.Org.  Those folks sometimes don't mind their store,
and we don't mind it for them." Keith proposes "to require new projects to
have a dedicated wiki maintainer to de-spam stuff", as "Foisting the
per-project issues onto each project would reduce global sysadmin load".

Alan brings up Bart his earlier topic again: "will enough trusted people 
volunteer to cover the needed admin work or should we be thinking about 
spending X.Org funds to pay for some?", to which Bart replies "Excellent 
question.  I think we could find enough trusted volunteers, but if not I'd be 
willing to have us pay."

Keith would like "to see some kind of mechanism that would let each project
add users to the system without requiring global permissions", X.org "could
fund a student or other SoC-like project for" that. Bart adds "Yes, we can
fund it if we need to.  I think I can get you competent help for free if we
want to go there."

Donnie wonders "whether it's generally even known that there is a need for
help". Keith answers with "it's not something you want to go advertising
for -- you'll get lots of well-intentioned, but clueless volunteers offering
to help out", to which Donnie replies "gentoo's infra team does pretty well"

Keith tells Bart that "technical solutions may be able to help out here; I'm
in favor of at least trying that approach", to which Bart replies "we need
resources to do even that...", "Unless you're volunteering? :-)"

Bart concludes this discussion with "Can I get a yes or no from each of you to
the question "the Board should try to help beef up our admin infrastructure?"
and later adds "(This isn't a binding motion, just a poll.)", but the only
reply comes from Donnie, who states "not sure about paid admins".

Bart then moves to Endless Vacation of Code, and an application sent in by
Kristof Ralovich. <At this point the log was edited, and the whole discussion
was removed>. Bart concludes with "OK, the motion is carried.  I'm going to
suggest that unlike GSoC we actually pay each half in advance; we had some bad
experience last time with students who worked all Summer and had trouble
getting their checks. :-)". What is decided seems positive for Kristof his
application, but details are unknown.

Bart brings up the elections; "we still don't have an Elections Committee
chair?  Anyone volunteer?". Donnie wonders whether it will clash with his PhD
work, but nobody else speaks up and Bart concludes the meeting.

One motion was passed, but the contents of this motion is not known.