draft of the meeting minutes (#35)

Author: ChristianKuehnel

meeting_minutes/2021-04-27.md

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+# working group meeting on 2021-04-27
+
+## Participants
+
+* Zhiqian Xia
+* Tom Stellard
+* Wei Wu - PLCT Lab
+* Anton Korobeynikov
+* Mike Edwards
+* Azhar
+* Zhiqian Xia
+
+## Agenda
+
+Agenda items taken from the [backlog](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-iwg/projects/1)
+
+### Epic: improve infrastructure documentation [#14](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-iwg/issues/14)
+
+* 2 issues resolved
+* a few more in progress
+
+### Hiring for infrastructure role #27
+
+see comment on issue #27
+
+### Formalize the working group #22
+
+* see comment on issue #22
+* created new issue #34 to document our current learnings
+
+### Decide on incoming requests
+
+There were some requests for our involvement recently. We should decide which of
+these we want to work on:
+
+* how do we decide on requests?
+  * If we can't handle it right away and if a meaningful request: try to find a
+    vendor with the right expertise to do it.
+  * Major question: Can we find enough volunteers to take on the topic?
+  * Until we have a better solution: discuss on a case by case basis.
+* Mac-Hardware for pre-merge testing #32
+  * details are on the mailing list
+  * Christian and Mike are requesting quotes for the hardware
+  * Mike will then propose this to the foundation
+* Mailman - investigate long term solutions #6
+  * volunteers so far: Christian Kühnel, Mike Edwards, Chris Lattner, Kit Barton
+  * [initial
+    research](https://github.com/ChristianKuehnel/llvm-iwg/blob/Discourse/Discourse_research.md)
+    on the migration
+  * proposal: have this sub-group of 4 work on the issue
+  * ask for objections on mailing list
+
+* Discontinue code reviews on the mailing list #31
+  * out of time, postponed to next meeting
+
+### other topics
+
+* Screen sharing is not working in the Zoom meeting. Christian to talk to Tanya.
+* #32 sparked a longer discussion around our build systems
+  * We all agree that we should be working to reducing the number of different
+    CI systems in place. Users and maintainers should only have to deal with
+    one platform.
+  * This would be a major migration project, it's unclear today how we can
+    gather a large enough group to work on this.
+  * We should decide on where we want to proceed with pre-merge testing. Today
+    we do not really have an agreed roadmap for it.
+  * Maybe: Create a dashboard to show contributors how their commit progresses
+    through the different CI pipelines.
+  * Maybe change the way Buildbot is set up today to speed up config changes:
+    Only configure some parts on the server, take the rest of the configuration
+    from the repo.
+* For prototyping new features: We should help the community members pick the
+  right technology stack to implement/demonstrate new ideas to reduce the amount
+  of different solutions in place.