Office Hour meeting minutes​

Infrastructure & Test Management​

Management & Progress Updates​

• Recent development tasks were completed, including resolving rate limit issues.
• Teams are reminded to create release check issues for the upcoming major release, including mapping features to test cases and noting responsible committers.

Environment Reset for Testing​

• Discussion on whether a reset of the test environment (25.09) is needed for a clean slate.
• No strong need identified; decision deferred to the next portal meeting for further input.

Release Management​

Timeline Review​

• Timeline for upcoming releases (25.12 and beyond) was reviewed.
• Alignment and open planning days are scheduled; some concerns about holiday overlaps, but dates are fixed due to release dependencies.

Security & Governance​

Security​

• Reminder to update the security tab and deprecate outdated repositories post-release for security reasons.
• Ongoing process to review and close out old (not maintained) repositories.

FOSS Governance​

• Ongoing review of the "one license file per folder" policy; to be discussed in the next committee meeting.
• Decision: No notice section required for blogs, news, or meeting minutes; required for other documents.
• Discussion on maintaining and updating changelogs for TRGs (Technical Reference Guides).
• Reminder to update API versions in the API hub and ensure .tractusX files are properly tagged.
• Emphasis on maintaining quality and consistency across KITs and APIs.

Community & Events​

• Recap of successful French Catena-X Days in Paris, including workshops and presentations.
• Ongoing search for contributors with wallet/identity hub experience; open meetings scheduled weekly.
• Presentation of Tractus-X to the Eclipse Data Space Working Group (EDWG) and discussion about associating the project with ADBG for increased visibility and marketing.
• Farewell to Evelyn, with best wishes from the team.

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Infrastructure & Test Management​

Release Roadmap​

• 25.09 release is in testing; 25.12 is upcoming.
• Teams must create and fill out release check issues, including responsible contacts, app versions, and feature lists. This must be done for both, KITs and FOSS Products.
• Quality gate checks should be created and linked early.
• Products not part of the release should be communicated.

Kubernetes Update​

• Core cluster update started; end environment update scheduled (1–5 PM).
• Upgrading to version 1.33.0 (from 1.28/1.29).
• Teams should consider the new version in their release checks.

Release Management​

Timeline Review​

• R25.09: Currently in development and test case creation phase. Deadline for KIT readiness: August 18.
• R25.12: Briefing meeting for testing in July; each team should send at least one representative.
• Open source community encouraged to contribute to "KITs" (documentation/tooling packages).
• Discussion on deadlines for KIT PRs—suggestion to focus on merge deadlines rather than initial PRs.

KIT Management​

Versioning & Changelog​

• Maintain changelogs in every request.
• Avoid last-minute KIT changes; contribute early to prevent release delays.
• Release check issues for KITs are still required and tracked on the release management board.

Refinement Phase for 25.12​

• Teams can already create features for the next release.
• Upcoming "Alignment Day" for cross-team coordination.

Security & Governance​

Security​

• Reminder to use the security tab and available tools (e.g., Snyk) to address critical/high findings.
• Contributors should consult committers for access.

FOSS Governance​

• TRGs (Technical Reference Guidelines) 7.XX, 7.XX, 7.XX updated; 7.XX to be deprecated. Improved handling of license/copyright information, especially for images and non-code artifacts. Find details in the PR.
• Reminders
  • Markdown files must include a notice section; code files require license headers.
  • Reviewers should enforce these requirements.
  • Discussion on imported notice sections and license mismatches. Not recommended

Community & Events​

Tractus-X Promotion at Catena-X Tech Days (France)​

• Event on July 9; open invitation to join and help build the French community.
• Announcement posted to the mailing list. Link to event.

Mailing List Etiquette​

• Replies and reactions to mailing list messages notify all members; use with consideration.

Open Discussion & Q&A​

• Issuer service deprecated; functionality moved to Identity Hub.
• Call for developers with Identity Hub experience.

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Infrastructure​

• no topics

Release Management​

Topics discussed:

• Release Timelines
• Recap Open Planning Day

Security​

Topics discussed:

• Regular Reminder Committers: Please check the security tab!

FOSS​

Topics discussed:

• automate dash + review
• github.io 3rd party check only on chnage "package.json"
• api-hub "needs an update"
• One license file per folder

Community/Open Planning​

Topics discussed:

• NEXT COMM DAYS IN MAY!!!! 22.05-23.05!!!
• New Committer Gonçalo
• Committer Election Borja
• EDC is not the connector, is Eclipse Dataspace Components

Feedback/Questions/Requests​

• No specific topics to discuss, except moderation round robin and hint on how to state questions

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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 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

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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​

• There's a couple of PRs open and especially the suggestion to add a new TRG should be reviewed thoroughly https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io/pull/1187

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.

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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)

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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

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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
    • Parent Issue
  • 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

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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.