Summary of Gentoo council meeting 11 September 2012 Roll call ========= betelgeuse chainsaw dberkholz blueness (proxy for grobian) scarabeus ulm williamh (40 minutes late) EAPI 5 features =============== The council voted on the list of EAPI 5 features. A detailed list was sent to the gentoo-project mailing list before the meeting: Chainsaw remarked that in future a short plain text summary for each item should be provided. * Slot operator dependencies (bug 229521) * Sub-slots (bug 424429) * Profile IUSE injection (bug 176467) * At-most-one-of operator for REQUIRED_USE (bug 354219) * EBUILD_PHASE_FUNC variable (bug 390765) * Mandate GNU find (bug 384157) * new* commands can read from standard input (bug 263565) * Parsing of the EAPI assignment is mandatory (bug 402167) * src_test support for parallel tests (bug 363005) * Stable use forcing and masking (bug 431078) * Option --host-root for {has,best}_version (bug 401239) * usex helper function (bug 382963) - These have been accepted unanimously. * doheader helper function (bug 21310) - Accepted unanimously. * econf --disable-silent-rules (bug 379497) - Accepted unanimously for EAPI 5. - Rejected applying it retroactively to EAPI 4 (0 yes, 4 no, 1 abstain). Therefore, no vote necessary for EAPIs 0 to 3. * User patches - Rejected unanimously for EAPI 5. - Several council members remarked that this is a controversial feature and that it should at least be postponed to a later EAPI. * License groups in ebuilds (bug 287192) * EJOBS variable (bug 273101) * Source eclasses only once (bug 422533) * Extended default list of extensions in dohtml (bug 423245) * REPOSITORY variable (bug 414813) * Repository dependencies (bug 414815) * Cross-compile support (bug 145737) * Directories for use.* and package.* in profiles (bug 282296) * make.defaults etc. in ${repository_path}/profiles (bug 414817) * HDEPEND: host dependencies for cross-compilation (bug 317337) - No support from any council member for any of these in EAPI 5. Open bugs with council involvement ================================== Bug 383467 "Council webpage lacks results for 2010 and 2011 elections" Action: scarabeus will try to make jmbsvicetto do it after next meeting. Open floor ========== Arfrever suggested weekly meetings of the council. This was met with scepticism by council members. Next meeting date ================= 9 October 2012, 19:00 UTC