Homebrew Annual General Meeting 2024

Opening

• 09:00 Taking seats
• 09:10 Call to order

Attendance:

• Issy Long
• Mike McQuaid
• Sean Molenaar
• Colin Dean
• Rui Chen
• Bevan Kay
• George Adams
• Rylan Polster
• Doug Eichelberger
• Michael Cho
• Eric Knibbe
• Markus Reiter
• Vanessa Gennarelli
• John Britton
• Carlo Cabrera
• William Woodruff
• Patrick Linnane
• Justin Krehel
• Ruoyu Zhong
• Michka Popoff
• Bo Anderson
• Miccal Matthews
• Caleb Xu

Reports

• 09:15 “State of the Brewnion” Project Leader Report (15 min, Mike McQuaid)
• 09:40 Project Leadership Committee Report (15 min, Colin and Sean for the PLC)
• 10:00 Technical Steering Committee Report (15 min, Michka for the TSC)

Election Results

• 10:00 PL Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
  • Mike McQuaid reelected with 48 votes
• 10:05 PLC Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
  • Patrick and Vanessa candidates, 2 seats, 46 voters
  • Both elected.
• 10:10 Governance Changes Voting Results (5 min, Issy for the PLC)
  • Approved, merged #16494

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

• Review of last year’s topics (Sean Molenaar)
• Workbrew and Homebrew (Mike McQuaid)
• Rename master branches to main (Mike McQuaid)
• Faster brew (Mike McQuaid)
• Killing non-homebrew-cask cask taps (Mike McQuaid)
• Maintainers using forks (e.g. packaging CI job doesn’t run with them) (Mike McQuaid)
• Long-term solutions for formulas with lots of dependents testing: parallelisation, etc. (FX Coudert)
• Removing six (Python 2/3): communication with the Python community (Michka)
• Revising the formula deprecation policy (Bo Anderson)
• Introducing the cask deprecation policy (Bo Anderson)
• Criteria of suitability for Python formulae (FX Coudert)
• Revisiting dependency grants (Colin Dean)
• Grant seeking (Colin Dean)
• Commission redesign of formula & cask page layouts (Eric Knibbe)
• Formal security governance (Patrick Linnane)
• Security initiatives (Patrick Linnane)
• Build provenance on homebrew-core (William Woodruff)
• Publicly discouraging duplicating testbot bumps (Sean Molenaar)
• Long running run switching (Sean Molenaar)
• brew fund (Colin Dean)
• Formalize when to allow switching a formula/cask’s upstream to a fork (Eric Knibbe)
• Revamping conflicts_with for formulae and casks (Rylan Polster)
• Maintainers using forks (e.g. packaging CI job doesn’t run with them) (Mike McQuaid)