Ceph Steering Committee Meeting Notes 22 June 2026 * Dan van der Ster: Voting rules discussion/reminder* ** Patrick had kicked off doing Robert's rules of order/Helios ** Last week two motions didn't pass because we didn't have enough votes *** We need to be a bit more tactical. *** We have 34 voting members *** We adopted the technical charter with the voting rules ** There's two thresholds *** We need to have a quorum (50%) we just need a majority to pass a motion (we could have nine people in favor) *** We currently have a quorum, and we're mostly voting members. *** For electronic votes we always need at least 50% of voting members. ** Regarding adding and removing members *** There was no text about that in the new technical charter *** In our governance charter we require a supermajority rule *** The project can come up with its own rule/process for adding/removing members. ** The intuitive/obvious thing is we grandfather in the supermajority rule for adding members *** Last week we had two motions on the floor, one to add Sage McTaggart *** One is to require the security working group, and that should require a majority ** The Helios vote should be out right now *** It should be open now, and should have opened just at the start of this meeting. ** Joseph M: Do we need a vote to create working groups? *** We didn't need a vote to make the Cephalocon working groups, but we decided to have one for the security working group. *** Maybe it's case by case and depends on the function. * Dan van der Ster: Do we want to encourage people to come to this meeting so we get quorum? ** Adam E: Yes. * Neha: Ceph day London update ** IBM and Canonical were the sponsors ** Lots of poeple using Ceph showed up, interesting talks ** New presentations of things landing soon and projects people are building with Ceph. ** It was very successful and this is one geographic area where community events are clearly shining. ** Photos will be uploaded soon. * Cephalocon working group kickoff ** https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/77296 ** Coordinating over Slack * There is a Foundation board meeting tomorrow ** Neha will present feedback from us to the Foundation * The meeting was posed for everyone to vote in Helios so we can get it done * Neja: Anthony Middleton brought it to our notice that we don't have a component lead for NVMEof ** Earlier we had the concept of a component lead being a member of the CSC by default ** Motion that we add Aviv made by Neha and seconded by Yehuda *** Added to a Helios vote