Summary of Gentoo council meeting 10 December 2023

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Foundation dissolution status update
3. Clarification of allarches stabilization policy
4. GLEP84 acceptance
5. Open bugs with council participation
6. Arch status review
7. Open floor

Roll Call
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Present: ajak, dilfridge, mattst88, mgorny (late), sam, soap, ulm

Foundation dissolution status update
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mattst88 emailed the X.Org Board of Directors to ask for their experience with
SPI in November and pinged them again on December 5. He asked in their IRC
channel (#xf-bod on OFTC) as well on Dec 9. No response at the time of the
Council meeting [*]

[*] We received a reply via email on Dec 12 from X.Org Board Member Ricardo
Garcia:

> Regarding your questions, it's my understanding SPI are sometimes slow to
> reply to some questions and required actions, and the X.Org Foundation is
> now in the process of moving to SFC hoping that some of those problems are
> solved.
>
> The experience of joining an umbrella organization is generally good (but
> other board members with more experience should chime in on this), in the
> sense that it removes a fair amount of work from the treasurer and other
> board members.

Clarification of allarches stabilization policy
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ulm asks for a clarification of the allarches stabilization policy:

> I'd like the council to clarify the allarches stabilisation policy.
> In particular, can we allow self-stabilisation by maintainers for
> allarches packages, if the requirements for testing the package are
> fulfilled on at least one arch (e.g. stable system or stable chroot).

Council agrees.

GLEP84 approval
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Motion: Accept GLEP 84 (https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0084.html)
Accepted 6-0

Open bugs with council involvement
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None.

Arch status review
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No changes required at this time.

Some discussion of ia64 support being dropped from core upstream projects.
Likely means the end of the ia64 Gentoo port in the near future.

Open floor
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Gentoo was not granted a booth for FOSDEM 2024. dilfridge has emailed the
organizers in the hopes of changing this.

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