2024 Dec 3 - Technical Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes

[psmulovics]

Zoom Info

• Time: 11.30am EST
• Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92917330824
• Meeting id: 929 1733 0824
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Agenda

• Convene & roll call (5mins)
• Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• Approve past meeting minutes
• @eddie-knight - Introduce @mcderk to share about the LFX tooling
• @eminty69 - Discuss Liaison Kickoff strategy
• @chris-twiner - Discuss project lifecycle goals
• @jgavronsky - FINOS Strategic Initiatives walkthrough
• Backlog review - https://github.com/orgs/finos/projects/39
• AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)

Minutes

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Action Items

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[psmulovics]

Peter Smulovics / Morgan Stanley

[eddie-knight]

👋 Eddie Knight / Sonatype

[eminty69]

Elspeth Minty / RBC

[awaiken]

ola

[chris-twiner]

Chris

[opoupeney]

Olivier / Finos

[rocketstack-matt]

Matthew Bain / Morgan Stanley

[psmulovics]

@mcderk presentation on LFX tooling

• information about events, meetings, etc
• Insights is the analytics tool
  • contributors, commits, issues, PRs, forks, stars, etc over time
  • Each information has a definition
  • Next to this there is a list of computed information, like contributor dependency (eg bus factors); organization dependency, active days, contribution outside working hours, etc, along with leaderboards per each metric, geographic distribution, etc.
  • Definitions are well rounded - eg working with issues are considered contribution as well; so it will be a superset of the information you can get natively from GitHub
  • It has the option to include the mailgroups as well showing relevant data based on individual, organization, etc. ; this is something for the TOC to decide whether there is value to ask Kieran to add the groups
  • Multiple ways to see project velocity
  • @eminty69 sees this as a possible tool to replace l.finos.org or the popup details of the landscape
  • Separate information about project health (openSSF), and contributor diversification over time
  • Some open questions like "how affiliation is tracked?", Kieran should get back to us sometime in Q1 with the new UX to continue the discussions
  • Companies can use it for their own purposes; self hosted version might be available later
  • Action item: Get @mcderk back in Feb/March to talk about progress

@eminty96 talking about Liaison Strategy

• Many of Kieran's tooling is useful for the Liaison Strategy; on the other hand, we want to avoid the projects feeling Big Brother is watching over
• We should be better in area definitions, eg it is not Morphir and/or Legend, it should be generally about 'reg tech' as an area, figure out how project gravitate to each other
• Two different representations of projects (by Colin and Rob) existed before
• Action item: divide projects, talk to maintainers
• Action item: set up project matrix to see collaboration opportunities; set up a dedicated session for this with Juan's help

@chris-twiner talking about project lifecycle

• Reasonable metrics - eg an active project but one maintainer might be an issue
• Publishing results should be after the Liaison is already in affect
• Action item: should we have more elaborate design for project lifecycle
• Action item: Juan to set up mtg on this

@jgavronsky sharing preview on the strategic project selection for 2025

• TOC OKR overview and short discussion about 2025

@psmulovics

• Action item: Asking everyone to check out *PROPOSAL* New meeting structure for the FINOS TOC #166 for next year's proposed schedule

[eddie-knight]

Created #167 and #168 to collect next steps and any ongoing discussion about the Project Lifecycle and Liaison topics