Archive:Board meeting 2025-10-27

Board Meeting Monday 2025-10-27 14:30 CET

• Present: Gerald, Jeff, Rachel, Shawn, Simon
• Missed: Ish
• Guests: Doug, Lubos
• Minutes: Gerald

openSUSE AI Code Assist Policy

• At a previous board meeting we discussed the use of AI tools to develop openSUSE. To avoid conflicts we decided to wait on SUSE to publish its corporate policy. That policy has now been updated.
• Fair warning (Jeff): Internal discussions are ongoing to open up more tools for use, but the policy now allows Gemini, Qwen 2.5 (3.0 coming), and GitHub Copilot. MCP is allowed for development, but not for use in production deployments without prior approval.
• For reference, Fedora's recently approved AI Policy:
  • https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/165092
• Ongoing discussion. The Fedora proposal is a solid baseline but we'll need to align it with our own project goals.
• No policy change for maintainers: Maintainers still own decisions around submission (and can still reject).
• Thinking about some high level principles:
  • "You push it, you are responsible (not some tool, AI or otherwise)."
  • "Avoid what might impact the exchange between openSUSE and SUSE offerings."
  • "Everyone, SUSE employees and others, has an even playing field."
• Input welcome!

Conference Planning

• openSUSE conference: no decision yet, but trying to align with SUSE Labs Conference.
• Should have a decision by January.
• openSUSE Americas Summit in Latin America (Barranquilla as host city).
  • Will likely take place end of April.
  • CfP should come out soon.

Domain Transfer open.qa

• Delayed with SUSE IT using a new registrar.

Discord/Telegram EULA/TOS/GDPR and bridges to openSUSE (Shawn)

• Continuing Discussion about "Official" Platforms
  • https://code.opensuse.org/project/mod-team/issue/85
• Discussion amongst the moderators team about the bridges:
  • https://code.opensuse.org/project/mod-team/issue/87
• Ongoing discussions and evaluations.

Personal Donation Requests on the openSUSE Wiki

• Private board ticket was sent, asking for guidance on posting of personal donation links (patreon, buymeacoffee, gofundme, etc) on the openSUSE Wiki .
• Based on discussion, this is acceptable on personal user pages of an openSUSE member, not acceptable on project pages and anything that looks like an official resource. (Voted 5:0)
• AI Shawn: Specific communication to follow on the project@ list.