Homebrew Annual General Meeting 2023

Minutes

• 09:10 Call to order

Reports

• 09:15 Project Leader Report (15 min, Mike McQuaid)
• 09:40 Project Leadership Committee Report (15 min, Sean Molenaar)
• 10:00 Technical Steering Committee Report (15 min, Michka Popoff)

Election Results

• 10:00 PL Voting Results (5 min, Issy Long)

  • Mike McQuaid was re-elected.

• 10:05 PLC Voting Results (5 min, Sean Molenaar because Issy felt weird announcing their own election)

  • Issy Long and Jon Chang were re-elected and Colin Dean was newly elected.
  • Commiserations to George Adams who was not elected.

• 10:10 Governance Changes Voting Results (5 min, Issy Long)

  • The governance changes (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/14482) passed.

Member presentations and discussions (11:00-12:00 and 13:30-15:00)

• ARM on Linux (Michka Popoff)
• Install from API (Rylan Polster)
• Homebrew on Linux (Patrick Linanne and Bo Anderson)
• CI infrastructure (Rui Chen)
• Security initiatives (Patrick Linanne)
• Formula licenses (Rui Chen)
• GitHub authentication security improvements (Colin Dean)
• Improvements to autobumping formulae and casks (Rui Chen)
• Formalizing the reimbursement process (Colin Dean)
• Homebrew Mastodon account (Mike McQuaid)
• InfluxDB analytics (Mike McQuaid)
• Security posture improvements, potentially making a security-focused volunteer group (Mike McQuaid)

Hackathon (undocumented, 15:00-17:00)

Adjournment

• Final remarks, thanks for coming (Issy Long)
• 17:00 Meeting finished.