26th January 2026 - GitProxy Meeting Minutes #1364
Description
Date
20260126 - 4pm GMT / 11am EST
Meeting info
Meeting notices
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Agenda
- Convene & roll call (5mins)
- Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide and review Meeting Notices (see above)
- Approve past meeting minutes
- Issues and PR list bloating
- Governance and Codeowners
- v2 PRs and work remaining
- AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)
Minutes
- New participant: Andrii Kotliar introduced himself as a new contributor, working with @grovesy.
- Previous Action Items Review:
- Significant action items from the previous meeting were reviewed, with progress on most items. Several are ongoing or rolling over (see action items below).
- @tabathad confirmed homepage quick fixes are nearly complete—waiting on a title for Jamie; suggestion to proceed with "Emeritus maintainer."
- Ongoing work on failing proxy tests, Windows test support, and test coverage improvements led by @fabiovincenzi and @jescalada.
- Notification system design discussion: @grovesy volunteered to write up a proposal for a hooks-based notification architecture.
- Docs reorganisation and user/developer/admin split to be advanced by @andypols.
- V2 upgrade doc and architecture guide need more feedback from the broader team.
- Open PRs for licence headers (Apache-2.0) to be split into config and mass-update steps; @06kellyjac to take over from @sam-holmes2.
- UI improvements (error message/reject reason) being split into smaller PRs by @andypols.
- DocuSaurus versioning and snapshotting by @kriswest pending completion of pending doc PRs.
- Docker image publication pattern and container registry queries ongoing with FINOS by @jescalada.
- Issues and PR List Bloating:
- Noted large and growing backlog of issues and PRs, including legacy Citi Hackathon PRs and old Renovate bot PRs.
- Maintainers encouraged to triage, label, and close stale issues/PRs where appropriate.
- @RichardUri agreed to review Citi Hackathon PRs for possible revival or closure.
- Discussion of labelling, "good first issue", "help wanted", "wontfix", and collaborative hygiene.
- Governance and Codeowners:
- Discussion on main repository review/merge rights after a PR was merged without review, which broke the build.
- Proposal to set up CODEOWNERS to assign specific maintainers to paths and require reviews, adjusting rights where justified (e.g., for CI-related scripts).
- @kriswest to contact [email protected] and @coopernetes about reviewing and tightening repo settings, and to explore implementing CODEOWNERS.
- Consensus that PRs should always have a second pair of eyes unless CODEOWNERS allows otherwise.
- V2 PRs and Work Remaining:
- V2 punch list requested for outstanding PRs/issues required for the release; maintainers to prioritise.
- SSH support PR deferred to 2.1 due to setup complexity and required review.
- Test coverage improvements are ongoing (@fabiovincenzi, @jescalada, @dcoric).
- Invalid regex validation PR is ready for review and inclusion.
- Annotated tag push improvements requested by G-Research; targeted for 2.1.
- Ongoing work on dynamic frontend base URL in Docker Compose—likely resolved but to revisit if issues arise.
- Hybrid cache PR is out of scope for V2 but important for post-V2 performance.
- End-to-end Mongo testing on CI is work-in-progress (@dcoric).
- Renovate PRs and large dependency updates to be triaged around or after V2.
- Accessibility review for UI to be conducted as a training task for a new joiner on @kriswest’s team.
- Material UI (MUI) upgrade and/or transition to Tailwind under consideration by @andypols’s team; not planned for V2.
- AOB, Q&A & Adjourn:
- Discussed meeting running length—agreed to update meeting calendar to a full hour (@kriswest).
- @andypols proposed as a maintainer; @kriswest to raise the nomination issue.
- Reminded new contributors (e.g., Andrii) to raise issues and PRs for installation/packaging bugs.
- General encouragement to continue reviewing, closing, and prioritising open issues and PRs.
- Security and governance processes around repo access and internal org policy were discussed.
Action Items
- All: Continue reviewing PR docs: add v2 upgrade doc #1333 (v2 upgrade doc) and PR docs: architecture guide #1335 (architecture guide); more feedback needed before sign-off.
- All: Continue to triage and review old/stale PRs and issues (especially legacy hackathon and Renovate PRs); apply appropriate labels.
- @kriswest: Raise PR to remove jsdelivr.net dependence and unused chartist.js, ensuring all dependencies are local (Remove dependence on jsdelivr.net and possible unneeded dependency on chartist.js #1344).
- @kriswest / @jescalada: Review and update the V2 milestone/issues list; create a prioritised "V2 punch list" issue for the team to review/merge.
- @kriswest: Contact [email protected] and @coopernetes re: repository settings, CODEOWNERS, and review rights.
- @kriswest: Update meeting calendar to 60 minutes and raise issue to appoint @andypols as a maintainer (Proposal to Appoint Andy Pols as a Git Proxy maintainer #1366) .
- @jescalada: Follow up with FINOS for guidance on container registry and Docker image publication best practice.
- @coopernetes: Backport critical fixes to 1.x as needed and raise PRs.
- @sam-holmes2 / @06kellyjac: Resolve conflicts and finalise Apache-2.0 licence headers PR (fix: Add Apache-2.0 license headers to source files (2) #1253); @06kellyjac to take over if @sam-holmes2 is unavailable.
- @andypols: Investigate/refactor UI JS/TS code (MUI upgrade/Tailwind transition); not required for V2 but keep team informed.
- @grovesy: Draft and share a proposal for notification system design using hooks, for community feedback.
- @fabiovincenzi / @jescalada / @dcoric: Continue improving test coverage, particularly around proxy, Windows, and Mongo.
- @tabathad: Finalise homepage quick fixes PR Update website homepage content #1277 (use "Emeritus maintainer" for Jamie) and close LinkedIn testimonials action as completed/ongoing.
- @kriswest: Oversee accessibility review (in early March) of UI as a new joiner task; repeat review post-UI redesign if/when it happens.