Howdy all,

We had a meeting of the Buildpacks PMC today, which was only lightly
attended and we adjourned quickly.

Permanent notes are at:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/pmc-notes/blob/master/Buildpacks/2015-05-20-buildpacks.md

but I've helpfully also included a snapshot of those notes below.

Happy Wednesday!
-mike

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*# Buildpacks PMC Meeting 2015-05-20*

*## Agenda*

1. Update on Java Buildpack (Ryan Morgan)
2. Update on core Buildpacks (Mike Dalessio)
3. Open Discussion


*## Attendees*

* Chip Childers, Cloud Foundry Foundation
* Mike Dalessio, Pivotal (PMC lead)
* Matthew Sykes, IBM


*## Update on Java Buildpack (Ryan Morgan)*

* Added support for Wily Introscope.
* Memory calculator re-written in Go and supports java memory
configuration at startup time rather than staging time. Some details
on this feature were posted to cf-dev by Chris Frost last week.
* Team currently discussing how to 'pin' buildpack dependency versions
to allow for repeatable offline buildpack creation.
* Team also discussing moving from Jenkins to Concourse for CI.

Mike will follow up with the team to discuss how `buildpack-packager`
might be used to pin cached dependencies.


*## Update on core Buildpacks (Mike Dalessio)*

The [binary buildpack][binary] was added into `cf-release` last week
([PR here][binary-pr]), and moved into the `cloudfoundry` github
org. This is the same idea as what's commonly called a "null"
buildpack, where developers can simply execute a binary at runtime.

The [staticfile buildpack][static] was added into `cf-release` last
week ([PR here][static-pr]), and moved into the `cloudfoundry` github
org. Originally created by Dr. Nic, this buildpacks allows a static
website to be published behind nginx, and for nginx to be configured
in a few interesting ways.

At long last, [skinny buildpacks][skinny] made it into `cf-release`
([PRs here][skinny-pr]). There was also some interesting discussion on
the mailing lists, both [old][skinny-thread1] and
[new][skinny-thread2].

Notable near-term goals:

* ability to generate and test CF rootfs-specific binaries; and tooling for
CF operators to do the same
* work more closely with the java-buildpacks team


*## Open Discussion*

Mike: Just want to note that IBM open-sourced their linux-based ASP.NET/Mono
buildpack this week. Looks awesome!

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/asp.net5-buildpack

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[binary]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/binary-buildpack
[binary-pr]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/pull/677
[static]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack
[static-pr]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/pull/668
[skinny]:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/buildpack-packager/issues/4
[skinny-pr]:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+buildpack+skinny+
[skinny-thread1]:
https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/forum/#!searchin/vcap-dev/addressing$20buildpack/vcap-dev/1HmGK4wU3Rc/lk186OOtdbMJ
[skinny-thread2]:
http://lists.cloudfoundry.org/pipermail/cf-dev/2015-May/000005.html