These meetings were initiated in response to ongoing discussions in the TSC and PTL meetings about dealing with dependencies on unmaintained projects, as well as documentation.

Meeting Minutes

Dec 13, 2021

Attendees:  David, Pawel, Tony, Chaker, Thomas, Kenny

• David McBride asks Chaker Al-Hakim to describe how the Arch Subcommittee works with project dependencies
• Chaker says that dependencies are tracked at the project level, not the repo level.
• Need to map dependencies to the repo level
  • Example:  DMAAP archived a repo, but the project is still active.  What if active projects have a dependency on the repo that was archived?
• Chaker shares the review template with a new section that asks about dependencies.
  • Thomas Kulik suggests that "critical dependencies" should be replaced by "dependencies".
• Chaker believes that mapping dependencies between projects at the repo level is outside of the scope of the architectural review.
• Need to understand both build dependencies and functional dependencies.
• Kenny:  Force updates by removing unmaintained projects from OOM.  
  • Build failures and test failures will highlight dependencies.

Dec 6, 2021

Attendees:  David, Kenny, Amy, Andreas, Muddasar, Pawel, Tony, Cedric

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