Re: [gentoo-dev] Council Council: call for agenda items for June 12 meeting

[Michał Górny]

Hello,

Considering the strength of response from a Council member, I would
like to officially apologize for providing the agenda items and I would
like to withdraw them all appropriately. Thank you for your time, and I
wish you re-election.


On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 16:06:25 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:01:03 -0400
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The Council will be meeting on Sunday June 12.  This is a call for any
> > agenda items.
>
> In preferred order of discussion (i.e. shortest topics first):
>
> 1. the 'file installation masks' GLEP [spec:1, RFC:2, bug:3]. It still
> hasn't been merged by the GLEP editors but it's otherwise ready with
> reference implementation for Portage. Preferably please discuss this
> separately/before LINGUAS as it is quite generic and I think having it
> approved would benefit us. The part specifically needing Council
> approval is the extra configuration file in metadata/ dir of the
> repository.
>
> 2. The patch fixing USE_EXPAND handling in Portage to adhere to
> the rules enforced by the PMS for EAPI 5 and newer [patch:4,
> patch v1:5, bug:6]. The patch comes in two variants. The former
> (preferred by me) applies the change to all EAPIs since this way we can
> kill the ugly logic for earlier EAPIs and PMS leaves the behavior
> undefined for them. The latter applies it only to EAPI 5 and newer,
> leaving current behavior for older EAPIs. I don't think it really makes
> sense to have different logic as EAPI 5 is quite common already, and
> different behavior will only increase confusion.
>
> 3. New sys-devel/gcc USE=multislot [QA bug:7]. I originally wanted to
> do this via QA but considering the replies to bugs opened so far, I
> think Council approval would be additionally helpful. The key point of
> my request would be to kill the flag, and stop force-removing old
> versions implicitly.
>
> 4. LINGUAS [8,9]. Long story short, PMS considered, we implicitly strip
> localizations from most of the packages out there. I think the first
> step towards fixing it that the most people can approve is renaming
> the USE_EXPAND from LINGUAS to I18N or L10N, or generally something
> else, plus a news item.
>
> 5. USE=gui [10]. It seems to get some appreciation but I suspect it's
> going to end up going to the Council anyway.
>
> I think that's all for now. If I recall something else, I'll let you
> know.
>
>
> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:INSTALL_MASK
> [2]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/af5de8be051fdf60d4d4aef97df6e683
> [3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584452
> [4]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/42e3a134d14e33e037e35e6c5df9d05d
> [5]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/b79fc6bd174a356c62bda59d0b0e9e8e
> [6]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583750
> [7]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584610
> [8]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a08ea09c2c8e534fd9bc1146703c66ff
> [9]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/41e09d1ddc8b30abb9f9d21d205b7b82
> [10]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/eecad370248118c474a0d819fa7f3576
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>