Summary of the Gentoo Council meeting 13 March 2016


1. Roll call
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Present: blueness, dilfridge, floppym(proxy for ulm), jlec, K_F, WilliamH
Absent: rich0


2. GLEP 42 update 
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The Council considered ulm’s proposed extension of the News Item Format as
specified in GLEP 42 to allow EAPI=5 style package dependency specifications.
[1] 

The Council unanimously approved the changes.  This introduces “News item format
2.0”.

[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/b9460b9c8d578c3498c217c17b75afd4


3. Historical behaviour vs PMS
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The Council considered the question of how to deal with historical behavior of
packages/eclasses and package managers that are not in compliance with PMS and
adopted the following policy by vote of 5 yes votes and 1 abstention.

"All non-PMS-conformant behaviour should be considered a bug, and package /
eclass / package manager / PMS maintainers should work together and strive to
achieve consistent behaviour.  We encourage the creation of trackers to identify
and collect non-PMS-conformant behaviour and to propose fixes.  The council
recognizes that historically there has been a lack of cooperation; there is
however no current reason why that should continue.  If in any specific issue no
progress at all is reached within 6 months, proposing the best technical
solution is delegated to QA."


4. Open bugs with council involvement
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The Council considered bug #575534, “Editing on XS screens”.  It was not clear
why the council was cc-ed and no action was taken.

The Council also considered bugs #574952, “Games team intentionally ignoring
messages and bugs in order to stall QA and Council” and #574080, “games.eclass:
Path customization needs to be removed wrt 20151213 Council meeting”.  The
Council reiterated its position but did not see how we can force the Games Team
to take action.  It was suggested that QA act to correct the paths in the
games.eclass.


5. Open floor
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As a follow up on the discussion of the previous meeting about hasufell, blueness
announced a new project, the LibreSSL project with members blueness, dilfridge,
soap and zx2c4.