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   Meeting Minutes

   Summary
   The Patterns project team met to discuss the governance home for the GSF green coding skill and to review draft pattern-quality criteria developed in response to prior discussion about the catalogue's "service mesh" pattern. The team agreed the green coding skill will be governed within the Patterns project, and approved a draft set of pattern-quality criteria with two additions. Next steps involve codifying these criteria into the Patterns skill and using it to reassess the existing catalogue.

   Key Discussions

   • Green coding skill governance: The team discussed where experimental GSF Labs projects (including the green coding skill and an in-progress calculator) should sit within GSF's governance structure. Since the coding skill is built on the Patterns catalogue, the group agreed it belongs under the Patterns project.
   • Pattern quality criteria: Following an inconclusive prior discussion about whether the "service mesh" pattern should remain in the catalogue, the team reviewed a draft set of objective quality criteria intended to give practitioners clear, actionable guidance from every pattern. The review covered decision confidence, cost/SCI impact reporting, and pattern scope.
   • Catalogue contribution and recognition: The team discussed mechanisms to encourage broader community contribution to the Patterns catalogue, including contributor recognition (e.g. digital credentials or badges) and a possible "champions" outreach programme.
   • Open catalogue proposals: The team reviewed a backlog of proposed pattern additions across security, architecture, and green operations, noting that some older proposals may be closed if there's no continued interest.

   Key Decisions

   • The green coding skill will be governed under the Patterns project going forward.
   • Draft pattern-quality criteria were approved as the working framework, with two additions: an explicit duplication/coverage check, and expectation of quantified cost/carbon impact where supporting evidence exists.

   Next Meeting

   • Review of the updated pattern-quality criteria as codified into the skill
   • Reassessment of the service mesh pattern using the revised skill
   • Catalogue-wide action plan for refinement, consolidation, and deletion
   • Contributor recognition mechanism
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