Re: [gentoo-project] Meeting agenda - Council meeting 2018-04-08

[Matthias Maier]

The meeting agenda has been slightly ammended:


The next Council meeting will be on Sunday 2018-04-08, 18:00 UTC in the
#gentoo-council channel on Freenode.


Agenda:

0. Use the 5 minutes before the Council meeting (i.e. 17:55 - 18:00 UTC) to
   express the Council's admiration for cats.

1. Roll call


--- Technical agenda items ---

2. Vote on the final EAPI 7 draft [1]; references [2]

3. Banning EAPI 4 for new ebuilds (and EAPI bumps of existing ebuilds) [3]

4. Deprecating EAPI 5 [3]

5. Establish a timeline for the switch to the 17.1 profiles (aka
   SYMLINK_LIB=no). [4]


--- Non-technical agenda items ---

6. The council was requested to provide their input on updating the "Gentoo
   Social Contract" [5]. Specifically, it was suggested to update the
   preamble to:

      "This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall
      development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development
      team. Potential improvements to the social contract should be submitted
      to the Gentoo Linux bug tracker at https://bugs.gentoo.org, and assigned
      to gentoo-trustees. Specific questions about social contract, and
      discussion about potential future improvements can be posted to the
      gentoo-project mailing list."

   ulm suggested an alternative wording (with minimal changes to the
   original) [5a]:

      "This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall
      development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development
      team. Parts of this document have been derived from the Debian Social
      Contract. Comments are welcome. Please send them to our
      gentoo-project@l.g.o mailing list."

7. The council was requested to discuss the introduction of a voting mechanism
   similar to the "general resolution" [6] as known to the Debian project [7]


8. The council was requested to discuss and vote on the following motion [8]

      "The Gentoo council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest
      Inc." (SPI), with the intention of Gentoo becoming a SPI Associated Project,
      independent of the Gentoo Foundation."


9. Open floor


References:

[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/7-draft/ in the version of 2018-04-02
[2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/91df2e7bf8485c2c5abba33ea3063809
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/630422
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/424283
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/489458

[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/e453732a4613485ea26bf754c40df087

[4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/ecd981409a1fad7911a3547e9b0a315f
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/506276

[5] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/7dc299781f08ccc6f7b5dca08b4acb06
    https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/8c8534195597ca34ebb3e3bb0a042b3e

[5a] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/2a250ad39db7b400072603f4705e8f57

[6] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4
[7] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/973be0a662b3cc74aa118a1128dcac9e

[8] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/de1d47212a9c71a40fc1717ea460cad4