Homebrew Annual General Meeting 2024
Opening
- 09:00 Taking seats
- 09:10 Call to order
Attendance:
- Issy Long
- Mike McQuaid
- Sean Molenaar
- Colin Dean
- Rui Chen
- Bevan Kay
- George Adams
- Rylan Polster
- Doug Eichelberger
- Michael Cho
- Eric Knibbe
- Markus Reiter
- Vanessa Gennarelli
- John Britton
- Carlo Cabrera
- William Woodruff
- Patrick Linnane
- Justin Krehel
- Ruoyu Zhong
- Michka Popoff
- Bo Anderson
- Miccal Matthews
- Caleb Xu
Reports
- 09:15 “State of the Brewnion” Project Leader Report (15 min, Mike McQuaid)
- 09:40 Project Leadership Committee Report (15 min, Colin and Sean for the PLC)
- 10:00 Technical Steering Committee Report (15 min, Michka for the TSC)
Election Results
- 10:00 PL Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
- Mike McQuaid reelected with 48 votes
- 10:05 PLC Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
- Patrick and Vanessa candidates, 2 seats, 46 voters
- Both elected.
- 10:10 Governance Changes Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
- Approved, merged #16494
Presentations and discussions (11:00-12:00 and 13:30-15:00)
- Review of last year’s topics (Sean Molenaar)
- Workbrew and Homebrew (Mike McQuaid)
- Rename master branches to main (Mike McQuaid)
- Faster brew (Mike McQuaid)
- Killing non-homebrew-cask cask taps (Mike McQuaid)
- Maintainers using forks (e.g. packaging CI job doesn’t run with them) (Mike McQuaid)
- Long-term solutions for formulas with lots of dependents testing: parallelisation, etc. (FX Coudert)
- Removing six (Python 2/3): communication with the Python community (Michka)
- Revising the formula deprecation policy (Bo Anderson)
- Introducing the cask deprecation policy (Bo Anderson)
- Criteria of suitability for Python formulae (FX Coudert)
- Revisiting dependency grants (Colin Dean)
- Grant seeking (Colin Dean)
- Commission redesign of formula & cask page layouts (Eric Knibbe)
- Formal security governance (Patrick Linnane)
- Security initiatives (Patrick Linnane)
- Build provenance on homebrew-core (William Woodruff)
- Publicly discouraging duplicating testbot bumps (Sean Molenaar)
- Long running run switching (Sean Molenaar)
- brew fund (Colin Dean)
- Formalize when to allow switching a formula/cask’s upstream to a fork (Eric Knibbe)
- Revamping
conflicts_withfor formulae and casks (Rylan Polster) - Maintainers using forks (e.g. packaging CI job doesn’t run with them) (Mike McQuaid)
