TSC Meeting (05 Oct 2021): v3.6.0 Release Prep, Maintenance & Expenses

[arm4b]

October 2021 @StackStorm/tsc 1 hour planned meeting: Tuesday, 05 Oct 2021, 09:30 AM US Pacific.
See #33 for more info about how to join.

TSC Meeting Host: @armab

Meeting Agenda

• StackStorm v3.6.0 Preparation
  • Release Manager: @winem, Release Assistant: @guzzijones (per release rotation).
  • Roadmap - what do we keep for v3.6.0, what's moved to v3.7.0
  • TSC to process the PR backlog: https://github.com/StackStorm/st2/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A3.6.0 - need at least 3-5 reviews from every @StackStorm/tsc member
  • Security updates
  • RabbitMQ repo update:
    • st2docs
    • bash installer
    • ansible
    • puppet
  • Define the approximate release start date & st2 master freeze
• StackStorm Infra & Expenses
  • PackageCloud
    • PackageCloud partnership progress (-$100/mo) (TSC Subcommittee Meeting (20 Apr 2021): Package hosting solutions #74). Packagecloud blog post - draft done, waiting for PackageCloud.
    • PackageCloud deb/rpm cleanup strategy
  • CloudSmith partnership
    • RabbitMQ uses both PackageCloud & CloudSmith. We can start our research too. Anyone from @StackStorm/tsc to start the research?
  • Remove the @stackstorm.com G Suite personal email accounts in favor of a single shared email for all st2 operations (-$50/mo) - @armab
  • stackstorm.com website migration to static pages (-$35/mo) Migrate StackStorm blog and CMS to GH Static Pages #76 - @nzlosh
  • Forum -> Github Discussions migration (-$50/mo) Migrate forum.stackstorm.com to GitHub Discussions #89 - @cognifloyd @winem
    • make forum read-only - done
    • create GH Discussions - done
    • convert forum to GH static pages to avoid losing SEO/traffic
    • migrate Slack integrations
    • announce the migration/new platform: a blog post
• Multi-lingual communities (example: #community-japan)
• Any other random Questions and Discussions

[cognifloyd]

I would also like to discuss action output_schema because I think we need some breaking changes to clean up the feature.