Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - May 14, 2020

Date/Time

Meeting held monthly on the second Thursday of the month unless otherwise stated. Agenda to be posted at https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22meeting%22

Timezone	Date/Time
America/Los_Angeles	Thu 14-May-2020 10:00 (10:00 AM)
America/Denver	Thu 14-May-2020 11:00 (11:00 AM)
America/Chicago	Thu 14-May-2020 12:00 (12:00 PM)
America/New_York	Thu 14-May-2020 13:00 (01:00 PM)
Europe/London	Thu 14-May-2020 18:00 (06:00 PM)
Europe/Amsterdam	Thu 14-May-2020 19:00 (07:00 PM)
Asia/Shanghai	Fri 15-May-2020 01:00 (01:00 AM)
Asia/Tokyo	Fri 15-May-2020 02:00 (02:00 AM)

Or in your local time:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/?iso=2020-05-14T17:00:00

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Meeting recordings

Attendance

Voting member rollcall:

Quorum Achieved.

Other Attendees

John Mertic
Guilherme Cartier
Yvette LaMar
Deborah Carbo
Dan Horak
Mike Friesenegger
Joe Bostian
Cliff Sokol
Vincent Terrone
Joe Devlin
Len Santalucia
Sean Grady
Sujay Solomon
Hiren Shah
Viviane Sanches
Matt Hogstrom
Rick Troth
Elizabeth Joseph
Ingo Adlung
Meredith Stowell

Agenda

Extracted from meeting-agenda labelled issues and pull requests from openmainframeproject/tac prior to the meeting.

Project updates ( list at https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac#tac-projects )
New Project Proposal - Open Mainframe Education (name TBD) #109
Discuss concept of establishing SIG/Working Group programs #107
Atom plugins is up for graduation #104
TerseDecompress incubation renewal #103
Zorow incubation renewal #102
Enabling GitHub Actions for OMP Hosted projects #99

Action Items

Interested parties engage in next Zorow TSC meeting 5/21 at 2pm ET
John Arwe to seek new maintainer for Atom plugins project

Notes

Project updates:

Ambitus - TSC has been meeting, and are looking at adding some additional code samples, looking at new projects in include going forward.

Atom - have maintainer ask the omp-techincal list to see if someone is interested in taking over, otherwise have him recommend for Emeritus.

Feilong - CI/CD Infrastructure in progress working with LF RE team and Vicom Infinity, next steps is to get the connections to GitHub Actions. Also 2nd level VMs are being provisioned for community development ( using Zowe )

Zorow - Working to establish more participation, getting traction has been a challenge. Sean G asked if there was any plans to make the workflows more indexable. Lots of discussion on possible adding new code and depth to the project, discussion moving to next Zorow TSC meeting.

Zowe - PI planning concept moving forward, continued work on alignment on the techincal front. New squad added ‘Zowe Explorer’ to focus on IDE integrations ( starting with VS Code )

Mentorship - 11 projects, 1 submitted project plan. Putting together operational pieces in GitHub and Community Bridge.

Discussion on possible COBOL working group; proposal being prepared by Cameron Seay that could bring together some of the efforts in the space.

Yvette M and Deborah G presented on the Open Mainframe Education proposal. Motion to include from Bob D, second from Enyu W, approved unanimously.