Summary of Gentoo council meeting 17 September 2013 Agenda ====== 1. Introduction and roll call 2. Minor architectures stabilisation policy [1,2] continued from 2013-09-10 meeting 3. GLEP draft "Prefix with libc" [3,4,5] - heroxbd 4. Drop support for separate /usr partition [6] - williamh 5. Open bugs with council involvement Roll call ========= Present: blueness, dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm, williamh Absent: dberkholz Minor architectures stabilisation policy ======================================== Discussion from last week's meeting was continued. Options considered were a) to drop all ebuilds to an unstable keyword and b) the following proposal of rich0, hereinafter called "package-by-package": "If a maintainer has an open STABLEREQ, or a KEYWORDREQ blocking a pending STABLEREQ, for 90 days with archs CCed and otherwise ready to be stabilized, the maintainer can remove older stable versions of the package at their discretion. A package is considered ready to be stabilized if it has been in the tree for 30 days, and has no known major flaws on arches that upstream considers supported." It was agreed that there should be a separate vote for each architecture in question. * m68k Vote: Drop all ebuilds to unstable keyword. - Accepted unanimously. * s390 Vote: Drop all ebuilds to unstable keyword. - Accepted unanimously. * sh Vote: Drop all ebuilds to unstable keyword. - Accepted with 5 yes votes and 1 no vote. * ia64 Vote: Action is required for this architecture. - Accepted with 3 yes votes, 2 no votes, and 1 abstention. Vote: Drop to unstable globally, or package-by-package. - Package-by-package proposal accepted unanimously. * sparc Vote: Action is required for this architecture. - Rejected, tie vote (3 yes votes, 3 no votes). * alpha Vote: Action is required for this architecture. - Accepted with 4 yes votes, 1 no vote, and 1 abstention. Vote: Drop to unstable globally, or package-by-package. - Package-by-package proposal accepted unanimously. In summary: - m68k, s390, sh: will be dropped to unstable keywords globally. - alpha, ia64: Maintainers can remove older stable versions according to the "package-by-package" proposal. - sparc: No action. GLEP draft "Prefix with libc" ============================= * GLEP draft After a short discussion, the following vote was taken: "The council endorses the GLEP draft for RAP and encourages its further refinement (including inside the portage tree if helpful). The council looks forward to the final draft for eventual approval." - Accepted unanimously. * Reinitiation of a GLEP team and recovery of the GLEP process. - Action: rich0 will put out a call for volunteers. [At this point, time had passed the one hour that was allocated for the meeting, and some council members had to leave. Therefore, agenda topics 4 and 5 were skipped and another meeting was scheduled for the following week.] Next meeting date ================= 24 September 2013, 19:00 UTC [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2984 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/87741 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3022 [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/87466 [5] http://git.heroxbd.z.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/?p=doc.git;a=blob;f=glep-gap.rst;hb=HEAD [6] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2946