Summary of Gentoo council meeting 13 January 2019

Agenda
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1. Roll call

2. Appeals of Moderation Decisions
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/77eb7e1bd0caf46f48e4281ea0fe3307

3. Forums (specifically OTW)
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/c033187cbbfe8677a5177a0af51af170

4. Default ACCEPT_LICENSE
https://bugs.gentoo.org/676248

5. Open bugs with council involvement
   - bug #637328: "GLEP 14 needs to be updated"

4. Open floor

Roll call
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7 attendees: dilfridge, K_F, leio, slyfox, ulm, Whissi, WilliamH

Appeals of Moderation Decisions
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The council decided unanimously that:
"Longer term bans (>1w) and similarly impactful sanctions by moderation teams
can be appealed to comrel. If the moderation team in question has a formal
appeal procedure, that path has to be used before an appeal to comrel."

A second vote was called as an addemdum to vote 2.1, with a motion that
"For an appeal to be made it is the responsibility of the one appealing to
provide evidence that the sanction was unjustified". This motion did not carry
with 2 yes, 4 no and 1 abstaining vote.

Forums (specifically OTW)
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No decisions were made during this item, but discussion was deferred to
mailing lists for further discussions and re-opening at next meeting.

A tracking bug is opened at https://bugs.gentoo.org/677824 to ensure this is
followed up later.

Default ACCEPT_LICENSE
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The default ACCEPT_LICENSE was discussed and the following two motions were
adopted:

"the default ACCEPT_LICENSE should be ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" (subject to
implementation details in further vote)" with 6 yes and 1 no vote, and;

"The council affirms that the precise settings for the installation media are
at the discretion of releng." with 4 yes votes, 2 no votes and 1 abstain.

The latter motion carried after the motion "Installation medium is permitted
to accept additional licenses necessary for binary blobs as long as these are
binary redistributable" did not carry with 3 yes and 4 no votes.

It was highligted that the implementation for the change needs to be done in a
way that is not rushed in order to minimize negative user impact.

Open bugs with council involvement
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- bug #637328: GLEP 14 needs to be updated

  Nothing new for council at this point.

References:
    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council#Open_bugs_with_Council_participation

Open floor
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No new items were raised during the open floor