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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o, gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:02:51
Message-Id: 20353.41193.129711.306663@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 Hi all,
2
3 Here is the summary of the last council meeting. The complete IRC log
4 is available at <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/>.
5
6 Ulrich
7
8
9 Summary of Gentoo council meeting 3 April 2012
10
11 Roll call
12 =========
13 Present: betelgeuse, chainsaw, dberkholz, grobian, hwoarang, ulm.
14 Missing: jmbsvicetto.
15
16 EAPI specification in ebuilds
17 =============================
18 Discuss/vote which of the proposals should be further pursued and
19 worked out in detail:
20 A: Parse bash assignment statement
21 B: Comment in first line of header
22 C: Bash function
23 D: Filename extension (GLEP 55)
24 E: External metadata file
25 F: None, keep status quo
26
27 The council members expressed their preference for option A.
28 Subsequently, a vote on option A was taken, which has been accepted
29 with 5 yes votes and 1 abstention.
30
31 Action: Work out exact specification until next meeting (ulm).
32
33 New udev and separate /usr partition
34 ====================================
35 Decide on whether a separate /usr is still a supported configuration.
36 If it is, newer udev can not be stabled and alternatives should be
37 investigated. If it isn't, a lot of documentation will have to be
38 updated. (And an alternative should likely still be provided.)
39
40 The council has voted in favour of a separate /usr being supported
41 (5 yes, 1 no vote).
42
43 During the discussion, some concerns were raised that we might not be
44 able to provide a modified or forked udev version. Chainsaw assured
45 that if necessary, he will maintain a udev version that supports said
46 configuration.
47
48 It was remarked that a solution that comprises both the forked udev
49 version (separate /usr) and the latest versions is possible and
50 therefore should not block either way preferred by users.
51
52 herds.xml and mail aliases
53 ==========================
54 Should devs be required to add themselves to herds.xml when adding to
55 mail alias?
56
57 This was rejected by the council (5 no votes).
58
59 Open bugs with council involvement
60 ==================================
61 Bug 383467 "Council webpage lacks results for 2010 and 2011 elections":
62 Postponed, because jmbsvicetto isn't present.
63
64 Bug 408073: "Make the user choose a locale"
65 Action: ulm will ping the docs team.
66
67 Open floor
68 ==========
69 No issues were brought up to the council by the community.
70
71 Next meeting date
72 =================
73 8 May 2012, 19:00 UTC.