[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summaries for August & September

[Donnie Berkholz]

Hi all,                                                                         

I just posted the summaries from August & September meetings. The 
complete summaries & logs are at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/. 
Here's the most important bits:

- EAPI=2 is approved for use in the tree. Portage 2.2_rc10 supports it. 
  The features are documented in multiple places, including:
  - http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi-2-draft
  - A list in a PMS appendix that refers to the relevant
    sections. `emerge app-doc/pms` to get it.

- PROPERTIES="interactive" is approved for use in the tree. It indicates 
  that user interaction is required during pkg_setup() or src_unpack(). 
  See http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_e145fc04e907de72e30d88285afb134c.xml 
  for details. This is outside of any individual EAPI because it is an 
  optionally handled value. It is a backwards-compatible EAPI change so 
  had to be approved by the council.

- The PROPERTIES variable will be added to the metadata cache. It will 
  be used to inform package managers of various properties of a package. 
  This is related to EAPI so it's an issue determined by package-manager 
  developers, not by the council.

- PMS is now a draft standard for EAPI=0. This means that conflicts 
  between portage behavior and the PMS are bugs to be resolved by 
  changing one of the two. Unresolvable conflicts will be escalated to 
  the council.

- Devrel sets policy on whether fired developers should be banned from 
  the places where they did the things that got them fired.

- Cardoe filled the slot left empty by flameeyes's departure for health 
  reasons.

- All our docs should be updated to refer to irc.gentoo.org instead of 
  irc.freenode.net.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com