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Meeting notes 10th Sept

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+Minutes from OpenVDB TSC meeting, September 10th, 2024
+
+Attendees: *Jeff* L., *Rich* J, *Ken* M., *Andre* P., *Dan* B.
+
+Regrets: *Nick* A., *Greg* H.
+
+Additional Attendees:
+Dhruv Govil (Apple), Jonathan Swartz (NVIDIA), Francis Williams (NVIDIA), Barry Dempsey
+
+Agenda:
+
+1) Confirm quorum
+2) Secretary
+3) CCLA
+4) Maintainer Change PR (#1883)
+5) Approvals for all 5 PRs discussed last meeting
+6) fVDB + NanoVDB
+7) fVDB Test Files
+8) CI Fixes Needed
+9) Next Meeting
+
+------------
+
+1) Confirm quorum
+
+Quorum is present.
+
+2) Secretary
+
+Secretary is Dan Bailey.
+
+3) CCLA
+
+See John Mertic email about pre-signing the CCLA. Jeff has done this for SideFX already, everyone
+else needs to do this so we can switch to the new CCLA.
+
+4) Maintainer Change PR (#1883)
+
+Live review and approval of #1883 to rename "committer" to "maintainer". New TSC members require TSC
+votes, all other responsibilities and permissions move to maintainer. Jonathan Swartz added to list
+of maintainers and is now a member of ASWF organization. Dan to enable additional permissions for
+Jonathan, Francis to go over process with Jonathan to also be made a maintainer.
+
+5) Approvals for all 5 PRs discussed last meeting
+
+a) 744 - remove boost any
+b) 1893 - std::is_arithmetic for half
+c) 1723 - boost conversion traits (1893 to be merged first)
+d) 1789 - move value accessor methods to tree
+e) 1775 - update tree adaptor to work with const inputs
+
+With all of these changes merged, boost can officially become an optional dependency of VDB.
+Currently, it is a mandatory header-only dependency and requires boost libraries when
+delayed-loading is enabled.
+
+6) fVDB + NanoVDB
+
+Currently fVDB is on a feature/fvdb branch. Requires significant improvements to NanoVDB to enable
+mutable grids. After discussion, agreed that there should also be a feature/nanovdb branch which is
+sporadically merged into feature/fvdb. Expectation that both branches are temporary and when new
+functionality considered ready and stable, merged to master, nanovdb first, fvdb second.
+
+7) fVDB Test Files
+
+fVDB test files are currently living in a separate repo. fVDB is built and tested separately, for
+improved security, test files are not accessed when built for distribution.
+
+8) CI Fixes Needed
+
+Lots of CI build fixes are needed before VDB12 release. Windows static library build still an
+issue.
+
+9) Next Meeting
+
+Next meeting is on September 24th, 2024. 2pm-3pm EDT (GMT-4).