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author | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2014-09-06 12:17:39 +0000 |
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committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2014-09-06 12:17:39 +0000 |
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diff --git a/meeting-logs/20140826-summary.txt b/meeting-logs/20140826-summary.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..148f98f --- /dev/null +++ b/meeting-logs/20140826-summary.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Summary of Gentoo council meeting 26 August 2014 + +Agenda +====== +1. Roll call (5 minutes) +2. Dynamic dependencies in Portage [1] (15 minutes) +3. Additional features for EAPI 6 [2] (15 minutes) +4. Open bugs with council involvement (10 minutes) +5. Open floor (10 minutes) + + +Roll call +========= +Present: blueness, dilfridge, radhermit, rich0, ulm, williamh +Absent: dberkholz + +Dynamic dependencies in Portage +=============================== +During discussion, is was remarked that some changes, e.g. to +dependencies in eclasses, could require mass rebuilds of packages. + +Vote: +- "The council asks the Portage team to first outline their long-term + plan regarding removal or replacement of dynamic dependencies, + before they remove this feature. In particular, tree policies and + the handling of eclasses and virtuals need to be clarified." + Accepted unanimously. + +Note added in proof: The Portage team does not intend to remove +dynamic dependencies, but only change their default to "off". + +Additional features for EAPI 6 +============================== +The three proposed features were discussed and voted on separately. + +- Pass additional --docdir and --htmldir options to configure: + Accepted with 5 yes votes and 1 abstention. + +- Additional default suffixes for dohtml: + Rejected with 5 no votes and 1 abstention. + +- Variant of || () that is not runtime-switchable + (provisional approval, under the condition that the feature will + only be included if an implementation is ready): + Accepted unanimously. + +Open bugs with council involvement +================================== +- Bug 424647 "archives.gentoo.org: Broken URLs for e.g. + gentoo-dev-announce and others" [3] + No progress. + Action: Remove council from CC. + +- Bug 477030 "Missing summary for 20130611 council meeting" [4] + ulm has written a summary, which is approved. + Action: Commit the summary, close bug. + +- Bug 503382 "Missing summaries for 20131210, 20140114, and 20140225 + council meetings" [5] + No progress since last meeting. + +- Bug 520074 "GLEP 39 rump council privilege escalation in secret + meeting" [6] + Most council members are of the opinion that this is of little + practical relevance. + Action: Remove council from CC. + +Open floor +========== +dilfridge remarks that axs has revbumped all ebuilds in dev-perl to +EAPI 5. Some more complex ebuilds installing perl modules remain, so +perl-cleaner is still needed. + +Next meeting date +================= +Tuesday, 9 Sep 2014, 19:00 UTC + + +[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3943 +[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/4002 +[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/424647 +[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/477030 +[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/503382 +[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/520074 |