Summary of Gentoo Council meeting 2024-09-08

Agenda [1]
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1. Roll call
2. Foundation dissolution status update
3. Updated GLEP 83 "EAPI deprecation" [2]
4. Open bugs with Council participation
5. Open floor


Roll call
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Present: AndrewAmmerlaan (proxy for robbat2), arthurzam, dilfridge, mgorny, sam, soap, ulm
Absent: -


Foundation dissolution status update
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No major updates. AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held on 31 August, and
discussions about dissolving bank accounts continue.


Updated GLEP 83 "EAPI deprecation"
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ulm presented his GLEP 83 "EAPI deprecation" update, which allows for
deprecating an EAPI n-1 where EAPI n is the most recent. The motion for the
updated GLEP was approved unanimously.


Open bugs with council involvement
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Bug 938922 - GLEP 76 fix
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Marked as resolved, since noone objected.


Bug 938755 - GLEP 83 "EAPI deprecation"
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Motion discussed and passed earlier.


Bug 925014 - PR services redundancy
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Credentials have been shared with multiple other people.


Bug 801499 - Nitrokey 3 upgrade
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Soap will approach Yubico soon.


Bug 936914 - ARM64 server replacement
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We will be getting a donated Ampere Altra server, expected some time in September.


Open floor
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arthurzam updated the council on a number of arches:

- mips deptree nearly clean and will be made a stable profile asap.
- dilfridge started a cross-distro effort on the time64-on-32bit arches. Many
  different opinions between distros on how to handle this.


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[1] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-project&m=172581201404108&w=2
[2] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=172519822825572