Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-05-12

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 01:21:37PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 00:42 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> > > In two weeks from now, the council will meet again. This is the time
> > > to raise and prepare items that the council should put on the agenda
> > > to discuss or vote on.
> > >
> > > Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to
> > > repeat your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously
> > > suggested one (since the last meeting).
> > >
> >
> > I would like to request the Council to vote on making 17.1 profiles
> > stable.  The profiles were present for a 1.5 yr now, and are in dev for
> > half a year.  The most important obstacles on the course to migration
> > have been removed, the remaining bugs being either 'cleanup to be done
> > once we switch' or dead packages.
> >
> > If large number of stable profiles is the problem, I'd suggest marking
> > 17.0 dev simultaneously.  This shouldn't cause any major problems since
> > breakage relating to one category of profiles and not the other is
> > rather unlikely, and responsible devs use 'repoman full -d' anyway.
>
> I don't know what happened on the ppc* side, it looks like they do not
> have 17.1 profiles any more. The only arch this will affect is amd64.
>
> I would suggest starting work on deprecating the older profiles instead
> of marking them dev.
>
> I think it should be time for the 13.0 profiles to go, and maybe the
> 17.0 profiles for amd64 once the 17.1 profiles are stable.

After looking at this a bit further, the 13.0 profiles should definitely
be going away [1].

And I still think we should deprecate the 17.0 profiles for amd64.

Thanks,

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/672960