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The November council meeting will be held on #gentoo-council |
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at 2009-11-09, 19:00 UTC (note change of time!). |
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Agenda is included below. |
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Ulrich |
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1. Intro (10 minutes, including late arrivals) |
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1.1. Make sure that at least a couple people are logging the meeting. |
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1.2. Roll call. |
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1.3. Does everyone agree to extend today's meeting to 90 minutes? |
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2. Approve summary of October meeting (5 minutes) |
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(in case it will be ready then) |
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3. Follow-ups from previous meeting (15 minutes) |
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3.1. EAPI 3 status (zmedico, ulm) |
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3.2. Upgrade path for old systems (leio, solar) |
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Should important system packages (e.g. Python) be reverted to |
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EAPI 0, in order to provide a defined upgrade path? |
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4. Prefix support in main Portage tree (grobian) (20 minutes) |
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Fabian Groffen proposes that package managers should define the |
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EPREFIX, EROOT, and ED variables (see [1] and replies). |
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4.1. Does the council generally support this idea? |
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4.2. Can it still be included in EAPI 3, or even in a fast EAPI 2.1? |
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5. Usage of bash 3.2 features in Portage tree (patrick) (15 minutes) |
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Should usage of bash 3.2 features in the Portage tree be forbidden, |
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allowed, or should the issue be ignored? See [2] for details. |
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6. Preservation of file modification times in EAPI 3 (ciaranm) (15 minutes) |
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Agree upon a wording for PMS for the mtime modification change |
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introduced to EAPI 3 last time. |
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7. AOB / open floor (10 minutes) |
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[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2a62689c71f95e4de5699a330b8b5524.xml |
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[2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-council/msg_ed3cba3e0ded55c4e497451af46ea55b.xml |
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