Community Office Hour 2025-07-11

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• Reminder to update the security tab and deprecate outdated repositories post-release for security reasons.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.