Summary of Gentoo council meeting 17 Jun 2014 Roll call ============ Present: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Approve Preliminary EAPI 6 Features =================================== The rest of the EAPI6 were discussed and voted on. Vote results listed here: User patches The council endorses an eapply_user function in the PM to apply user patches in EAPI6. This will be called by the default src_prepare, and must be called once if src_prepare is overrided by either a non-virtual ebuild or eclass. Aye: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Nay: dberkholz Passed PATCHES support in default src_prepare bug #463692 (This item was re-visted in light of user patches being approved) Aye: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Nay: dberkholz Passed Patch applying function in package manager bug #463768 Needed for PATCHES support and user patches This would duplicate epatch() from eutils, in simplified form. Name "eapply" has been suggested. (This item was not voted upon, as it was considered implied by the acceptance of the other two patch features.) EJOBS variable bug #273101 Nay: blueness, dberkholz, rich0, ulm Abstain: creffett (proxy for williamh), dilfridge, scarabeus Defeated Source eclasses only once bug #422533 Nay: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm Abstain: scarabeus Defeated HDEPEND: host dependencies for cross-compilation bug #317337 Nay: blueness, dilfridge, scarabeus Abstain: creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, rich0, ulm Directory support for package* and use* bug #282296 Not intended for gentoo-x86 tree (at this time), only to be used in overlays Aye: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Max EAPI Count in Tree / Min Time Between EAPI ============================================== See the log for full discussion, but the Council felt that since future Councils already need to approve new EAPIs, they can decide at that time whether doing so is appropriate. Should the council set a limit on # of EAPIs? Nay: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Should the council set a minimum time between EAPIs? Nay: blueness, creffett (proxy for williamh), dberkholz, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Abstain: dilfridge Semi-official Dev-hosted Services ================================= The Council accepted this provided that the name assignments make it clear what is and isn't official. *.dev.gentoo.org and *.labs.gentoo.org were given as possible suggestions. Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, scarabeus, ulm Abstain: creffett (proxy for williamh) Meeting called and will be continued on 24 Jun 2014 at 19:00 UTC. Summary submitted by Richard Freeman