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Community Office Hour 2025-04-25

Phil Schneider
Software Architect, Eclipse Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • All products included in the release should create their release check issue.

Release Management

  • A reminder was sent out regarding the alignment meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 7th.
  • A briefing on the testing phase will take place on Monday, April 28th.

FOSS

  • The Docusaurus migration to version 3.7, including necessary library updates, has been completed. This upgrade included significant cleanup. A detailed description of what changed can be found here.

Community/Open Planning

  • Everyone is encouraged to participate in the Community Days in May 2025.
  • Once the Docusaurus migration is merged, a pull request will be submitted to add a calendar view to the Eclipse Tractus-X website.

Feedback/Questions/Requests

  • No specific topics to discuss
  • The release timelines for TX, CX, and the broader ecosystem are now aligned and available here.

Community Office Hour 2025-04-11

Harald Zimmer
Test Management on behalf of Catena-X e.V.

Community Office Hour Meeting Minutes

Infrastructure and Test Management

  • Friendly reminder to please create the release check issue for the upcoming test phase of release 25.06. for your product. Link: Create a new issue of type "Product Release Checks" and start filling out the information.

Release Management

  • Release Planning Timeline:
    • 25.06: E2E test phase coming up next month. Briefing meeting on April 28th, please get in touch if you still need an invitation (contact Monika Jacobsen, Harald Zimmer)
    • 25.09: Draft feature freeze coming up Thursday April 17th next week. Refinement day Wednesday April 30th.

Security

  • Check regularly if there are findings for vulnerabilities or dependency updates in the security tab of your project repository. Friendly reminder from Mathias Moser that this is a high priority for the community and the leads, and if repositories are not maintained they unfortunately would have to be deprecated.

FOSS Governance

  • Security check scans in GitHub are disabled by default after 60 days of no changes in repository. TRG update to inform about this has been suggested, issue will be kept on board until it can be merged.
  • Issue regarding cleaning of archived repositories: No update, issue will be kept on board.
  • Status of Docusaurus update to version 3.x:
    • Update from Stephan Bauer that already a lot of KITs have been migrated. Thanks to Philipp, Arno, Manojava who provided much of the work there.
    • Review and IP clearance is pending
    • Plan is to finalize the upgrade with the remaining KITS hopefully in the next week. KITs listed in the ticket linked above can still be tackled if someone has the time
  • A Project Lead Workshop was held yesterday (10.04.2025). Stephan Bauer shared the agenda in the ticket
    • It was a good session, for example discussing the roles of Tractus-X vs. Catena-X in the ecosystem. Information about the workshop results will be shared in an upcoming Office Hour.

Community/Open Planning

  • Everyone is invited to join the Fourth Eclipse Tractus-X Community Days on May 22nd and 23rd 2025 in Stuttgart. See this link for registration

Feedback / Questions / Requests

  • No specific topics to discuss
  • Please note that next Friday 18.04.2025 there will be no Office Hour due to a public holiday in Germany

Community Office Hour 2025-03-21

Tractus-X Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

Release Management

  • The first activities for the next release are coming up as per the timeline.
  • docusaurus of the website will finally be updated to 3.x 😍 Everyone who is responsible for a kit should join the kick-off as announced per the open meetings page.

FOSS

Community/Open Planning

  • Everyone is invited to join the community days in May 2025.

Feedback/Questions/Requests

  • There's a new architecture whitepaper on integrating the identity hub with other TX components in the concept of a BYO-wallet concept.
  • The release timeline of TX, CX and the ecosystem are aligned here.

Community Office Hour 2024-11-08

Tom Meyer
PURIS Architect, Eclipse Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • Test Environments:
    • STABLE environment24.12 installations in early december
    • Test Management: Reference Quality Gate Checks and walkthrough them in "Test Management"
    • Resolved Issue with SAP DIV -> Onboarding should work now

Release Management

  • Reminders
    • use TX EDC 0.8.0 RC5 -> RC6 is on its way -> Rediscuss in testmanagement daily during next week
      • we should improve test automation -> the umbrella helm chart targets to support that
    • reminder for open planning

Security

  • GitGuardian will be removed soon.

FOSS

  • TRG 7.09
  • discuss how to document releases between ecosystem releases and deployment experiences -> ongoing / announcement
  • TRG about testing will come up
  • Mano's election ended. Reminders
    • small amount of participations
    • points that would have been great: participation in community & handling of TRGs etc.
  • ClearlyDefined is down: revisit on next week and then ask via IP matrix check
  • MDX files in KITs: only if needed, is CC-BY-4.0

Community/Open Planning

  • remove the .cal file and just state the time (in an international time format)

Community Office Hour 2024-10-18

Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser
EDC responsible

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • Test Environments:
    • Currently a blocking issue is with SAP. They want to do a change in the DIF deployment and we are blocked by that. Target for the change is early next week. This involves both STABLE and INT environment.
    • It is important that we can start with the deployment for the e2e test of 24/12 on INT, there are school holidays in southern Germany between Oct., 28th and Nov., 1st, so deployment is constrained in time.
    • The INT environment has to be wiped to start from scratch with the deployment for 24/12.
    • Doubleslash will provide information on how to proceed next week.

Release Management

  • EDC 0.8.0 to be used during e2e testing. There will be a RC5 early next week, that should be used as a start for e2e testing
  • Release check issues are due on Oct. 18th for release 24/12

FOSS

  • Sources of pictures: Do we need to regulate the availability of sources for binary pictures, as there are pictures in the website repo without editable sources.
    • There is already a TRG that specifies the handling of pictures. It should be controlled better by committers.
  • Concerning intermediate releases, especially bugfix releases that need to be done in Tractus-X during a operating cycle. There is a task to make a proposal on how to handle the situation from Eclipse Tractus-X perspective.
  • Deprecation of Repos. The regulation in TRG 7.09 is currently reworked to be more precise.
  • Discussion on a TRG about testing.
    • Doubleslash prepares a TRG concerning automated testing
    • Some repositories use SonarCloud and code coverage measurements there
    • General openness towards a new trial on some specs concering testing

Community/Open Planning

  • Files like presentations done during Open Planning are currently not provided in Open Source. The proposal is to store such files in the already existing large files repository attached to the webpage repo.
  • Open Meetings page has been enhanced, there are now relevant links like to the task board that is relevant and related release timelines
  • Regular New Joiner meeting was canceled. If a session is needed, it needs to be requested

Community Office Hour 2024-10-11

Theresa Hilger
Data Space Operations Manager

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io requires just One Committer Review now
    • Committers that approve: Please double-check the content, remember you have also responsibility when approving non TRG compliant content
    • Expectation for KITs: It should be less stressful to find a committer
  • Setup Catena-X STABLE Environment
    • Organizational issue that’s why the stable is not there right now but they are working on it
    • Questions: Will the STABLE environment stick to the released version or will it evolve with the development of the components?
  • Planned general infrastructure maintenance INT environment 2024-09-29
    • 24.12 e2e test phase on INT environment still planned to start 25.10. as communicated in adapted timeline

Release Management

  • EDC 0.8.0 to be used during e2e testing.
    • The upcoming Eclipse Tractus-X 24.12 release will include EDC version 0.8.0.
    • If your component relies on the Eclipse DataspaceConnector (EDC), we highly encourage you to align your development and testing efforts with this version to ensure compatibility.
  • Reminder for Refinement Day 1: 16.10
    • Each group will focus on the first steps of skeleton-building for their features, based on the feature template, mapping them to the related roadmap items
      • For more information please read the news blog
  • Reminder for Refinement Day 2: 06.11
    • Build on the work from Refinement Day 1 and focus primarily on the identified dependencies
      • For more information, please read the news blog

Security

  • [Trufflehog Update] Deprecation of GitGuardian and mandatory update to Trufflehog
    • Please update your repositories
    • There are still many issues opened and waiting to be resolved by their responsible committer
    • The Trufflehog Workflow is a active TRG since March 26,2024

FOSS

  • TRG proposal for product deprecation including a process and criteria to close Issue #1037
  • Please review and provide some input

Feedback / Question / Request

  • Add Testmanagement timeline into timeline of the overall release

Community Office Hour 2024-08-30

Tractus-X Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • @ds-hzimmer will continue to report from the monthly infrastructure updates that are to happen every month's last sunday.
    • product teams will have to check their deployments after that

Security team

  • Trufflehog has now officially replaced GitGuardian as secret-scanning tool for Eclipse Tractus-X. This is encoded by TRG8.03
  • @ds-hzimmer reports about the sporadic use of the current sonarcloud instance for Eclipse Tractus-X. There's no TRG for it. It's unclear what additional benefit it will bring to those tools that are backed up with TRGs (Trufflehog, trivy, codeql).

Q&A

  • @tom-rm-meyer-ISST reports issues with the tls provider which will be checked with the infrastructure team.

Community Office Hour 2024-08-02

Tom Meyer
PURIS Architect, Eclipse Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • Discussion on catenax-ng
    • @matbmoser: please cross-check your own repository, if you reference it!
    • @lgblaumeiser: we noticed that the R24.03 MIW needs catenax-ng resources. It temporarily stays up. (see issue)
  • Consortia teams are gone. Thanks, it was a pleasure!

Security team

  • @matbmoser: Please do check for your security issues on the tab. High and critical issues need to be fixed. We should check this on high level / project level regularly in this meeting
  • @tom-rm-meyer-ISST: For Truffle Hog, make sure that the workflow runs before merging. (see e.g.)

FOSS

  • @AngelikaWittek is gone. Thanks for your work!

Open planning / community

  • @stephanbcbauer:
    • Refinement Phase went well overall. Committers please join the planning meetings.
    • Some QGates are still open, please check.
    • Review together the release preparation

Community Office Hour 2024-07-26

Mathias Brunkow Moser
DPP Architect, Eclipse Committer

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • @SebastianBezold -> Wednesday (31.07.2024) the Catena-NG will be deleted! No more access to the consortia environment will be allowed!
    • Friendly reminder from @matbmoser: copy the configuration from the consortia environment argo, so you dont loose it, for the association env;)
  • @hzierer -> Most of E2E Tests are already passed! Great job everyone!
  • @matbmoser -> Don't forget to document the Quality Gate tickets!
  • System team is leaving in wednesday! The participants that will not act as committers please or remove yourself from the list, or contact a project lead. Thank you for you wonderful hard work!

Security team

FOSS

Open planning / community

  • Quality Gates and E2E phase is finishing today (26.07.2024). Make sure to keep your QG tickets updated and
  • @agg3fe -> The TRG checklist is outdated

Community Office Hour 2024-07-05

Consortia Security Team Member

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure

  • Info from Test / Infrastructure Management CX Association by Harald:
    • SAP DIM follow up meeting with on 8.7.2024 together with Christian Lahmer (SAP) and Evelyn Gurschler and DoubleSlash Net-Business GmbH
    • Work-in-progress with SDE team and importing of test cases
    • Access is currently limited –> would be great to make it accessible and available within Tractus-X
  • Tomasz - Presented about how do you need to publish your API using .tractusx metafile and publish via GitHub pages - API Hub.

Security team

  • Info from security team by Rohan:
    • Reminder about replacement of GitGuardian with TruffleHog, see according pull request to update TX release guideline: #950
    • Reminder about updates to Trivy workflow , see according pull request to update TX release guideline: #949
    • Reminder about about absence of security team members from August 2024
    • Security tools walkthrough in the Committers Meeting of July 5, 2024 (about 20 minutes) - Rohan will announce the walkthrough next week on the TX mailing list while sending out a reminder for the meeting

FOSS

Open planning / community

  • Info by community manager Stephan about the Tractus-X/Catena-X working model and the refinement phase for the 24.12 release
  • Registration is open for the Third Eclipse Tractus-X Community Days on December 05 and 06, 2024, ARENA2036 in Stuttgart!