Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council Agenda 20100809 rev 01

[William Hubbs]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:16:30AM -0700, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:26:46PM +0200, Tommmmm Chvvvtal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > since I am this meetings girl for everything here is first pass on our
> > agenda.
> >
> > I am adding this mail only to g-dev and g-dev-announce to see if
> > everyone notice, sorry if it slip your radar. Also if you have something
> > to say on this mail please reply to gentoo-dev, or you will render me
> > quite sad about thread breaking.
> >
> > Without much ado here goes THE PLAN:
> >
> > 1) allow all members to show up (5 min)
> > 2) voting
> > 2a) we have nothing to vote this time, nobody wanted anything YAY :)
> > 3) discussion
> > 3a) from last council meeting: the mailing list situation
> > 3b) from last council meeting: eclass API changes
> > 3c) EAPI 4 status (jmbsvicetto nominate this so we actualy do something new)
> > 4) Bugs assigned to council@ in bugzilla and their progress
> > 5) select the chair for following meeting
> > 6) open floor: community/developers can smash us here :)
> > Z) buy some cookies (30 min)
>
> I suspect we may not wind up being able to get to it in the coming
> meeting, but I'd like g55 sorted.
>
> Specifically, if the authors of it (cc'd) want it to move forward,
> request the council vote on it.  If you don't want it voted on, mark
> it moribund.
>
> The purpose behind this is to put to end this discussion rather than
> having it flare up and make a mess every few months.
>
> Simply put, it's nothing but divisive noise at this point with no real
> new technical discourse occuring- meaning it's realistically time for
> a decision (either push it to a vote or put it to bed).

Regardless of my personal opinions about the technical issues on this
glep, I agree with the above statement.  I am personally tired of seeing
the discussion flare up every few months and go nowhere.

William