From: | Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> |
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To: | gentoo-project@l.g.o, gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o |
Subject: | [gentoo-dev-announce] Meeting agenda - Council meeting 2018-04-08 |
Date: | Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:32:22 |
Message-Id: | 871sfxkqo1.fsf@gentoo.org |
1 | The next Council meeting will beo on Sunday 2018-04-08, 18:00 UTC in the |
2 | #gentoo-council channel on Freenode. |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | Agenda: |
6 | |
7 | 0. Use the 5 minutes before the Council meeting (i.e. 17:55 - 18:00 UTC) to |
8 | express the Council's admiration for cats. |
9 | |
10 | 1. Role call |
11 | |
12 | |
13 | --- Technical agenda items --- |
14 | |
15 | 2. Vote on the final EAPI 7 draft [1]; references [2] |
16 | |
17 | 3. Banning EAPI 4 for new ebuilds (and EAPI bumps of existing ebuilds) [3] |
18 | |
19 | 4. Deprecating EAPI 5 [3] |
20 | |
21 | 5. Establish a timeline for the switch to the 17.1 profiles (aka |
22 | SYMLINK_LIB=no). [4] |
23 | |
24 | |
25 | --- Non-technical agenda items --- |
26 | |
27 | 6. The council was requested to provide their input on updating the "Gentoo |
28 | Social Contract" [5]. Specifically, it was suggested to update the |
29 | preamble to: |
30 | |
31 | "This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall |
32 | development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development |
33 | team. Potential improvements to the social contract should be submitted |
34 | to the Gentoo Linux bug tracker at https://bugs.gentoo.org, and assigned |
35 | to gentoo-trustees. Specific questions about social contract, and |
36 | discussion about potential future improvements can be posted to the |
37 | gentoo-project mailing list." |
38 | |
39 | 7. The council was requested to discuss the introduction of a voting mechanism |
40 | similar to the "general resolution" [6] as known to the Debian project [7] |
41 | |
42 | |
43 | 8. The council was requested to discuss and vote on the following motion [8] |
44 | |
45 | "The Gentoo council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest |
46 | Inc." (SPI), with the intention of Gentoo becoming a SPI Associated Project, |
47 | independent of the Gentoo Foundation." |
48 | |
49 | |
50 | 9. Open floor |
51 | |
52 | |
53 | References: |
54 | |
55 | [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/7-draft/ in the version of 2018-04-02 |
56 | [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/91df2e7bf8485c2c5abba33ea3063809 |
57 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/630422 |
58 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/424283 |
59 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/489458 |
60 | |
61 | [3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/e453732a4613485ea26bf754c40df087 |
62 | |
63 | [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/ecd981409a1fad7911a3547e9b0a315f |
64 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/506276 |
65 | |
66 | [5] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/7dc299781f08ccc6f7b5dca08b4acb06 |
67 | https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/8c8534195597ca34ebb3e3bb0a042b3e |
68 | |
69 | [6] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4 |
70 | [7] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/973be0a662b3cc74aa118a1128dcac9e |
71 | |
72 | [8] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/de1d47212a9c71a40fc1717ea460cad4 |