PMC Minutes for 2009-06-10

Attendees

John O'Hara - JPMorgan
Rafi Schloming - RedHat
Carl Trieloff - RedHat
Pranta Das - Cisco
Hiram Chirino - Progress
Colin MacNaughton - Progress
Dave Ingham - Microsoft
Rainey Fellows - iMatix
Andreas Moravec - DBS
Hanno Klien - DBS
Matthew Arrot - TWIST
Shawn McAllister - Solace
Alexis Richardson - RabbitMQ
Robert Greig - Barclays
Chuck Linton - Tervella
Greg Lorence - 29West
Mark Blair - Credit Suisse

Apologies

Rob Godfrey - JPMorgan

Agenda

• Participation Update (not minuted by convention; though there is activity)
• Status Update
• Vote on: PMC03 Creation of BSD Licensed Code Generation Support Files
• AOB

Status Update

JOH: Due to illness we have not made much forward progress on refining the AMQP1.0 message property format. Hopefully Rob will feel better soon and we wish him well.

DI: Can we get more visibility into the process; thoughts / discussions on a mail list?
JOH: Work has been mostly on the phone since there are 2 people committed to the effort at the moment and the phone is more productive.

SMcA: Can others be involved in the process?

JOH: I would be delighted to have more people contribute to the message format discussion – after all, you will end up having to use this one day! Best be involved if you can commit the resource.

CT it is important to be able to have a sustained level of commitment; we have found that participants dipping in and out is disruptive to the process and creates inefficiency.

MA and SMcA both expressed interest in participation.

A: JOH: Send out an call for participation on a "Message Content SIG". Aim to have a level-setting call for interested parties next week.

Vote

PMC03 Creation of BSD Licensed Code Generation Support Files

The resolution was passed 8 of 9 in favour.

CT enquired as to why iMatix voted No to the resolution.

RF provided a comprehensive explanation; centered around having one artifact to maintain under a more liberal license and using trademarking to protect the protocol.

AR expressed that he was delighted with the outcome of the vote; felt that we had achieved something very good and progressive here, and that our approach was in line with IETF treatment of similar issues (which he believed is a good thing).

AOB

None.

Meeting ended 35 mins.