>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #3350896. --> Reported by: [hestenet](https://www.drupal.org/user/54034) >>> <h2>Transcript</h2> <h2>0&#65039;&#8419; Who is here today? Comment in the thread below to introduce yourself and tell us why you are joining us.</h2> <table> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>It's me, Jim! :wave:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>Bob here from St Charles IL, FWIW</td> </tr> <tr> <td>UjjwalAhluwalia</td> <td>:wave: ujjwalahluwalia from Houston TX, Adcetera</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>I&rsquo;m here</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hestenet (he/him)</td> <td>Tim from the DA - will be asynchronous today</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bircher</td> <td>Hi, Fabian here too</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ronaldtebrake</td> <td>Hi! Ronald from Open Social just catching up</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dww</td> <td>:wave: Derek</td> </tr> <tr> <td>briangilbert (realityloop) (he/him)</td> <td>Brian :wave:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>Hi Everyone!&nbsp; Welcome to the Distribution Modernization Initiative meeting on Mar 28, 2023</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1&#65039;&#8419; Do you have any topics to propose for the meeting today? Feel free to propose them in this thread, and then I will give them their own unique threads for discussion. Conversation moving slow? Go ahead and open your own thread in the next numeric order.</h2> <table> <tr> <td>bircher</td> <td>I am not sure it needs to be a topic, but I think it would be good to have some issue on drupal.org where pain points with distribution maintenance are curated. I feel like a lot of discussion still revolves around complaining and it would be great if we could then "measure" how certain solutions address some of the problems</td> </tr> </table> <h2>2&#65039;&#8419;&nbsp; Does the recipes initiative have DrupalCon plans? Specific goals for contribution day?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>I plan on being there and contributing as I can. We had a short conversation about it and have a copy of the slide deck from the last Con, however no plan for any update/presentation has been formalized as yet.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>I still have it on my things to do to meet with Alex Pott and Tim Lehnen to get notes to work on the presentation.&nbsp;(edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>I am ready and willing to help&hellip; if you do meet with them I can try to join in</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>I did have one of my guys start to look at doing some hands on&hellip; but he did not get far. I haven&rsquo;t been able to pick it up again. I&rsquo;ve contacted a couple distribution maintainers so get their perspective. It would be great to get someone to elaborate on how they approached using the work that has been done so far.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>3&#65039;&#8419;&nbsp; What are the pain points of maintaining distributions, installation profiles, or other site starters?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>Please comment on <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/distributions_recipes/issues/3350918" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3350918: [META] What are the pain points of maintaining distributions, installation profiles, or other site starters?</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>If you cannot comment publicly on Drupal.org, and would like to contribute, please post here using the :stop: emoji and we will post your comments anonymously.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bircher</td> <td>thank you @thejimbirch</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dww</td> <td>@eclipsegc Here you go -- another option.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>Oh ok</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>I&rsquo;ll see what I can do.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>Thx</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dww</td> <td>I'm still in favor of you writing all your thoughts into a gdoc, then having someone copy them into that meta, or whatever you prefer).&nbsp; Would rather not have to sort through another monster Slack thread about it :joy:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>Agreed. That&rsquo;s the better solution imo too.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bircher</td> <td>Yes I think that meta needs to be curated every once in a while to keep the issue summary up to date. I remember another issue at the start of CMI2 that had many people weighing in on things and I had the impression that some of the comments were more support questions and others were just "fix it" or "it doesn't work" but not actionable items.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>bircher</td> <td>But I don't have "modern" experience with maintaining a distribution so it is difficult for me to know what exactly makes maintaining one difficult, and what one would want to be able to do in order to make it a breeze. I have some ideas for solutions and i can help implement them or better ideas.. but ultimately I don't know if they deliver on the promise to make things better.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dustinleblanc</td> <td><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/distributions_recipes/issues/3350918" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3350918: [META] What are the pain points of maintaining distributions, installation profiles, or other site starters?</a></span>#comment-15004161 posted my thoughts as a fairly new distro maintainer</td> </tr> <tr> <td>thejimbirch</td> <td>THANK YOU!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>ok, took me a bit, but here&rsquo;s a basic write up of my concerns/position on what we should be doing for distributions in D11: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EwdEowlBnNuKZAo9jbBh0FYwxvAn2hoMRB34sD-cQus/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EwdEowlBnNuKZAo9jbBh0FYwxvAn2hoMRB34sD-cQus/edit?usp=sharing</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>eclipsegc</td> <td>if any individual would like comment rights, DM me your gmail address to add as commenter</td> </tr> </table>