Summary of Gentoo council meeting 2025-07-13

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Constitute the new council
   - Decide on time of meetings. The previous council had its meetings
     on the 2nd Sunday of every month at 19:00 UTC
   - Vote for continuing last council's workflow considering sending
     a call for agenda items (two weeks in advance), sending the
     agenda (one week in advance) and have the meeting focussed, i.e. 
     have major discussions on the gentoo-project mailing list prior
     to the meeting
   - Appoint chairmen for this term's meetings
   - Exchange contact information after the meeting
3. GLEP 83 update [1]
4. EAPI 7 deprecation [2]
5. Discussion on leaving GitHub [3]
6. Foundation dissolution status
7. Open bugs with council participation [4]
8. Open floor

Roll call
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Present: arthurzam, dilfridge, mgorny, robbat2, sam, soap, ulm

Constitute the new council
==========================
- The council will hold its meetings on the 2nd Sunday of every month
  at 19:00 UTC.
- Continue the last council's workflow considering sending a call for
  agenda items (two weeks in advance), sending the agenda (one week in
  advance) and have the meeting focussed, i.e. have major discussions
  on the gentoo-project mailing list prior to the meeting.
- Meeting chairs:
  Jul/Aug   Sep/Oct     Nov/Dec   Jan       Feb    Mar/Apr   May/Jun
  ulm       arthurzam   mgorny    robbat2   soap   sam       dilfridge
- Contact information will be exchanged after the meeting

GLEP 83 update
==============
Some open questions about the envisaged timeline remain, so the
discussion is being moved back to the mailing list.

EAPI 7 deprecation
==================
Motion: Deprecate EAPI 7.
- Accepted unanimously.

Discussion on leaving GitHub
============================
mgorny summarises the history: Gentoo originally went to GitHub because
it was popular with contributors, but the overall impression is that the
site has deteriorated since then. For example, the user interface is
heavy on the browser, reviews via the UI are cumbersome, and AI (a.k.a.
Copilot) is being pushed everywhere. Moreover, an increasing number of
developers and contributors refuse to interact via GitHub.

Therefore we consider moving our contribution mirrors to Codeberg, which
is closer to free software principles, and its UI is similar to GitHub's
old one.

In the subsequent discussion, the following points were raised:
- We should contact Codeberg first to confirm that they are comfortable
  with the extra load, as our repository is demanding on hosting.
- Should a read-only copy of the Gentoo repository be kept on GitHub
  (and would it be possible to disable pull requests for it)?
- Should contributions be accepted via both Codeberg and GitHub?
  There were concerns that we would have too many contribution channels,
  e.g. Bugzilla, mailing list, private mail, in addition to the above.
- At this time, adding additional services to our own infrastructure is
  not considered a viable alternative.

Motion: Officially contact Codeberg about the possibility of hosting
the repo/gentoo mirror for the purpose of accepting contributions.
- Accepted unanimously

Foundation dissolution status
=============================
- Trademark renewals have been filed; waiting for response from USPTO.
- Awaiting SPI financial statements for April to June 2025.
- Few recurring donors at SPI yet, but significant one-time donations.
  Remaining donors to the Foundation have been contacted by e-mail.
- Next steps: Switch over all expenses to SPI; transfer balances and
  close accounts.

Open bugs with Council participation
====================================
* Bug 936211 "[Tracker] Gentoo Foundation dissolution":
  - See previous item.

* Bug 948684 "Missing summary for 20240609 council meeting",
* Bug 948686 "Missing summary for 20241110 council meeting":
  - dilfridge has sent both summaries for review.

* Bug 959226 "Vote: Change authority for metadata/AUTHORS from Trustees
  to Council":
  - Approved unanimously (in the bug report) by council and trustees.

* Bug 730200 "metadata/AUTHORS: inclusion of myself and prior employers
  that may own copyright" (robbat2),
* Bug 959157 "Request for listing "Eli Schwartz" in metadata/AUTHORS":
  - Asked for pointers to copyrightable commits (for paper trail),
    waiting for replies.

Open floor
==========
- time64: dilfridge reports that stage3 images for x86 are available.
  Stages for arm are under preparation, other 32-bit arches will follow.

[1] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/20250619173354.22787-1-ulm@gentoo.org/
[2] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/uikkcvzsz@gentoo.org/
[3] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/eb13f46cf4aac83365dff0add53f49cb7c86d05c.camel@gentoo.org/
[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council#Open_bugs_with_Council_participation