Roll Call: =========== Betelgeuse: here Cardoe: here dberkholz: here dertobi123: here dev-zero: here Halcy0n: absent lu_zero: here tanderson(secretary): here Topics: =========== Secretary: - Should the council have a dedicated secretary? Previously dberkholz fulfilled this roll, but he became busy. Because fulfilling the secretary duties can distract from the meeting, a dedicated, non-council member secretary is ideal. Conclusion: tanderson is the new secretary. Logs and summary are to be posted on the -council mailing list. If no objections to it are raised in 1 day, it is posted to the council page and lists. Elections: - Staggered elections Should there be staggered elections every 6 months where half the council members stand for reelection? Conclusion: Leave as-is, elections every 6 months is too cumbersome. Full elections will be held once a year. - Lack of nominated candidates What happens if there aren't enough candidates nominated to fill all the council seats? Conclusion: If the pseudo-candidate '_reopen_nominations' appears in 7th place or higher those candidates that rank above '_reopen_nominations' will be the current council. A second period of nominations will be opened for the remaining council seats. No third period of nominations will be opened in the event '_repoen_nominations' ranks higher than the candidates necessary to fill the council. Technical Issues: - Prepalldocs Should the 'prepalldocs' be allowed in current EAPIs? Conclusion: Prepalldocs is banned in current EAPIs(0,1,2). It should be removed from ebuilds. Petteri Räty(Betelgeuse) will make QA checks for repoman. - BASH version allowed in the tree. PMS states that ebuilds can only rely on BASH 3.0 features. However, some code in gentoo-x86 uses BASH 3.1 features('+=' being the most notable) and so is not in conformance with PMS. It was suggested that BASH versions newer than 3.0 be allowed in a future EAPI. Ciaran Mccreesh, however, commented that this would require GLEP 55 being accepted so that a package manager would not have to source the ebuild before knowing what BASH version it requires. Conclusion: No decision. Doug(Cardoe) will follow this up with Tiziano(dev-zero) as a backup. Open Bugs ========= Technical: - GLEP 54(-scm package version suffix, bug 234711[1]) GLEP 54 solves two problems, version ordering and periodic reinstall of live packages. The Live Template proposal[2] overlaps in that it also allows for periodic reinstall of live packages. Luca(lu_zero) maintains that Live Template provides proper version ordering, while Ciaran(ciaranm) maintains that it does not. Conclusion: No decision. The council cracked the whip on Luca(lu_zero) and he's going to handle the issue. - GLEP 55(.ebuild-$eapi ebuild suffix) Should .ebuild-$eapi be approved? This ties in with "BASH version allowed in the tree" issue mentioned above. Conclusion: No decision. Tiziano(dev-zero) will be handling this bug. Non-Technical: - Code of Conduct No discussion. Conclusion: No decision. Donnie(dberkholz) will be handling this bug. References: [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234711 [2]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/glep/liveebuild.rst