Open Hour Agendas and Notes: 2020 09

Open Hour meeting videos are available on YouTube. Starting with the August 20, 2020 video, there are timestamps to mark where each topic begins.

2020-09-03

Agenda and Video Link

• Salt news, updates, and SaltConf 20 Virtual
• SEP 33: Add runtime registers to Salt
• New contributor greeting & experience
• Community Advisory Board planning
• Open community discussion & questions
• Meeting video: Salt Community Open Hour 2020-09-03

Salt News and Updates

Community Manager Cassandra Faris

• Triage added to Twitch streams.
• Releases, SEPs, and Updates.
  • Core Team Focus
    • Development: Continued work on tech debt, ZeroMQ work, label and potential SEP discussions.
    • Community: Continued work on the new contributor greeting and orientation tools, Docs Jam planning.
  • A new Salt-Enhancement Proposal (SEP) on packaging Salt with Tiamat is available for discussion and review.
• In the coming weeks, Salt will switch to PyTest as the only test runner because runtests.py is reaching its end of life. A blog post is live on the community site: https://community.saltstack.com/blog/pytest-a-journey-of-three-years/
• Events
  • Docs Jam setup clinic Sep. 30
  • Docs Jam Oct. 7
• SaltConf Virtual: Oct. 29
  • The Call for Proposals (CFP) is open to anyone who would like to give a talk. Tell us the cool stuff you're doing with Salt.
  • Proposal submission form https://forms.gle/V5pMDiWnV9YRFtNJ6
  • If you need ideas for talks or help writing your proposal, reach out to Cassandra.

SEP 33: Add runtime registers to Salt

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• The SEP is available here.

New contributor greeting & experience

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Discussion begins at ____ on the video

Community Advisory Board planning

SaltStack _____
Discussion begins at ____ on the video

Open community discussion & questions

SaltStack _____
Discussion begins at ____ on the video