2025-02-06 TSC Minutes

DRAFT AGENDA

Attendees & Representation

LF Staff:

Community:

Agenda

• Review and approval of previous meeting minutes

• Action Items Review

• General Topics

  • Governance & project management issues

  • API Backlog

  • Commonalities

  • Identity & Consent Management

  • Release Management

• Specific Topics

  • Evaluation of “Incubation Candidates” & way forward

  • Proposal for update of CAMARA wiki structure

  • Optional, if time: Linting with reusable workflows across the API repositories

• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Review and approval of previous meeting minutes

• Minutes of previous TSC meeting: 2025-01-16 TSC Minutes

  • One addition from to the draft minutes done since by Mark Cornall : “Mark Cornall expressed concern on decisions that may lead to interworking issues. We should be mindful that we are working on an interoperable solution.” on the DPoP topic, which he raised indeed during the meeting.

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Action Item Review

• See home page Technical Steering Committee for current list of open action items

  • Open action item “Review open issues within Governance and propose way forward for them Herbert Damker” will be addressed in next agenda topic.

Governance & Project Management issues

• Sandbox / Incubated Approach

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/173

    • in work with https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/pull/171 - comments welcomed, see also API Backlog below

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/179

    • See topic later on the agenda, initial evaluation available on Incubation Candidates Fall24

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/174

    • Sandbox repositories as agreed in December already label with GitHub “topic” “sandbox-api-repository” (allows filtering)

    • Template Repository updated for the different kind of (API) repositories

    • Further actions waiting on decision of first round of Incubation

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/178

    • See topic later on the agenda, proposed structure is on https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/kQBMB

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/170

    • Parent issue to track the tasks above

• Further issues in Governance (https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues)

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/164

    • Kept open as a reminder for all communities within CAMARA

    • Please be aware that meetings will move to another hour when you enter your daylight savings time!

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/163

    • Opened by Markus Kümmerle on last October, not yet addressed

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/180

    • New parent issue for three issues which require updates of CONTRIBUTING.md:

      • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/176

      • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/172

      • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/136

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/177

    • follow-up action from introduction of EasyCLA, open

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/139

    • Stale issue and related draft PR … proposal to close

• Recently closed issues (for transparency)

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/159

    • Done with update of project governance, next steps are tracked with #170 above

    • Predecessor #129 as well closed

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/122

    • Outdated, last activity in April 2024, replaced by #173 (update of Onboarding document)

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/124

    • Done in most repositories, new changes from Sandbox approach see #174

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/158

    • Remaining tasks created as new issues #176 and #177 above

API Backlog (Jorge Garcia Hospital )

• No new APIs proposed by backlog in this session.

• Ongoing actions (news to come!):

  • Closing WoW for API onboarding and tracking process:

    • Draft content, comments welcomed

    • Document structure to be reformatted

  • Including templates for participants in each wiki-page for APIs

    • Draft to be shared in next backlog meeting.

    • Template to be included in each current API (and new)

  • Proposing a re-shaping of current API backlog list

    • Maintain current API backlog tracker for under-discussion APIs

    • Create a new dynamic table (confluence can be the host) for live APIs under specification, avoiding duplicities with release management information

  • Including marketing material for APIs

    • requested by Markus Kümmerle to each API owner, ETA 14th February EoB

    • to be included in meta-release requirements for API readiness checklist

Commonalities (Rafal Artych )

• Release Candidate.1 in r2.2

  • Release Notes +https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYC3Aw

• Commonalities 0.5. 0 public release preparation:

  • changes in documentation and artifacts indicated in Release Candidate.1 review and feedback from subprojects - PRs are coming

  • deviations from https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/273

    • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/302 - no conclusion

    • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/306 - short time for review - possibly shift to March 2025 (to be ready for alpha release for Fall2025)?

      • references in artifacts (like in #290) and other documents

    • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/297 - no feedback

    • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/204 - no consensus

    • partly resolved:

      • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/295

      • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/299

  • Target release date (M2 date):

    • Commonalites meeting on 17 Feb 2025 to review release PR + time for approvals

Identity & Consent Management (Axel Nennker )

• No important ICM topics relevant for TSC

• ICM 0.3.0 - preparing the scope for meta-release Spring25 #193 is on track

• Consent URL API vs OIDC consent collection

  • Discussions ongoing in ICM evaluating and challenging both options. https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement/issues/224

  • OIDC based solution - drafted

  • Consent URL API based solution API - draft to be proposed

Release Management (Tanja de Groot )

• Spring25 meta-release status overview

M2

• Commonalities 0.5.0-rc.1 & ICM 0.3.0-rc.1 both released as r2.2. Some documentation updates planned for the public release.

• Public releases: latest 2 weeks before M4 (target: Feb 14)

M3

• Proposed: 37 APIs within 20 repositories: 13 new APIs and 24 updates from Fall24

  • Fall24 APIs not updated for Spring25: 1 (HomeDeviceQoD)

• No M3 review request, so will skip Spring 25:

  • 1 (DedicatedNetworks)

• M3 review status: 31 APIs (in 19 repos) done; 6 APIs (in 1 repo) ongoing

• Issues

  • Several APIs are missing the required test files

  • several APIs are not aligned with Commonalities & ICM 2.2

M4

• No change: Feb 28th

M5:

• No change: March 15th

Evaluation of “Incubation Candidates” & way forward (Herbert Damker)

• Initial evaluation available on Incubation Candidates Fall24

• Next steps?

Proposal for update of CAMARA wiki structure (Herbert Damker , Casey Cain )

• Proposed structure is on https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/kQBMB

• Will allow filtered views as needed, e.g. all Incubated API Repositories on one page

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Optional: Linting with reusable workflows across the API repositories (Rafal Artych )

• https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/263

  • Repository for hosting reusable workflows with linters configuration and documentation: xCAMARA-tooling?

  • Flexibility to use rulesets for Guidelines version and customization for specific API requirements

• demo

Any Other Business

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Next Meeting

• Next TSC Meeting will be on February, 20th, 15:00 UTC (16:00 CET)

• Specific agenda topics backlog:

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Action items