Community Office Hour 2025-09-26

Office Hour meeting minutes

Infrastructure Test Management

• GNI X-Ray Test Sessions:
  2 sessions held; no active registrations.
  Keep status in progress for potential October session.
• External Product Test Phase:
  Release Candidate 3 published by Lars & team; some issues remain.
  Next evaluation meeting on Tuesday.
  Confirmed: Catena-X does not provide dedicated dev environments — teams are responsible for their own.

Release Management

• Release postponed; target Tuesday/Wednesday.
• Preparation:
  • Change logs ready for review (Teresa prepared initial version).
  • Need contributions for Known Issues and product-specific notes (e.g. BPDM, Connector).
• Screenshots in Release Notes: Discuss post-release.
• Changelog Improvement Idea: Block-format inspired by Docusaurus for better presentation.

Security

• Reminder: Check the security tab regularly.
• Deprecation of "Digital Product as Repository of Surveillance" planned next week.
• Plan to migrate VP visualization to Industry Core.

Community & Events

• Catena-X Community Days (End of December): Registration open.
  • New field to list products you contributed to.
  • Multiple select option fixed.
  • Booking changes may require cancel/re-register.
• Call for workshop leaders/presenters.
• New “Community Events” room created for event promotion and discussions.

Committer Election

• Andrii proposed as new committer — key contributions on EDC component, DSP/DCP TCK, release process improvements.

General Reminders

• Moderation list update needed (René added).
• No office hour next week due to public holiday in Germany.

GitHub Fork Access Clarification

• Forks in private accounts do not inherit original repo’s write access.
  Owner must explicitly grant rights.
  Public forks: read-only access by default.