Summary of Gentoo council meeting 2022-08-14

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Change the status of GLEP 13 to moribund (ulm) [1]
3. Approval of GLEP 83 (ulm) [2]
4. Multilib implementation finalization (soap) [3]
5. Approve draft of GLEP 78 (Sheng Yu, mgorny) [4][5]
6. Request a status update along with complete information about the
current options from the Foundation regarding umbrella options.
Make a decision on which of these options to follow. (mgorny) [6]
7. Open bugs with council involvement [7]
8. Open floor


1. Roll call
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Present:
 ajak, gyakovlev, jsmolic (proxy for dilfridge), mattst88, mgorny, sam, ulm


2. Change the status of GLEP 13 to moribund (ulm) [1]
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That's GuideXML glep, long obsolete, long gone.
Motion passed with 7 yes votes.


3. Approval of GLEP 83 (ulm) (EAPI deprecation timeline glep) [2]
=================================================================
Voting assumes we mark it active immediately, as there's no implementation to
wait for.

Motion passed with 7 yes votes.
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mattst88 asked a question about how developers will be notified about
 deprecation dates, ulm to come up with some tooling that will remind us.


4. Multilib implementation finalization (soap) [3]

Motion: Declare current multilib solution (multilib-minimal.eclass) final,
maintainers are free to close  alternative implementation bugs as
INVALID, WONTFIX etc.

Motion passed with 7 yes votes.
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portage team to handle multilib branch removal from portage.git
no votes required, notification received by portage team members (sam).


5. Approve draft of GLEP 78 (Sheng Yu, mgorny) [4][5]

Motion: Approve draft of GLEP 78 (binpkg format glep)
 
Motion passed with 7 yes votes.
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NOTE: portage-3.0.31+ implements this


6. Request a status update along with complete information about the
current options from the Foundation regarding umbrella options.
Make a decision on which of these options to follow. (mgorny) [6]
====================================================================

Members agreed to re-word motion for clarity.

Motion:  Council to  request a status update from the Foundation
 regarding umbrella organizations

Motion passed with 7 yes votes.
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NOTE: antarus is aware of the inquiry.

7. Open bugs with council involvement [7]
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7.1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/835152 "Mirror pkgcore/* repos from github"

Done on gitlab.g.o
progress evident, un-cc council

7.1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/176186 "Gentoo projects file hosting"
waiting on infra, continue monitoring.


8. Open floor
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nothing was brought up.

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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/5fd95ae0ca6f403c8bb56d7cd9ece1b0
[2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/f7d00cf127ff8ca96aeaaf2ee209010c
[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/f49bee8e7ff58f8d28cba5d659b55b88
[4] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/tree/glep-0078.rst
[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/672672
[6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/9f58ac48fd69f693c8ca0804067a3a14
[7] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council#Open_bugs_with_Council_participation