Summary of Gentoo council meeting 2025-08-10

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Status of SPARC (32 bit) and HP/PA [1]
3. Open bugs with Council participation [2]
4. Open floor

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

Status of SPARC (32 bit) and HP/PA
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Hardware for HP/PA is very old; SPARC is newer but very power-hungry.
Consensus is to destable both architectures.

Action item: Investigate whether stage3 could be built either in QEMU
or as cross-build in catalyst.

Motion: Demote hppa and sparc from stable to testing.
- Accepted unanimously

Open bugs with Council participation
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* 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":
  - No progress.

* Bug 936211 "[Tracker] Gentoo Foundation dissolution":
  - robbat2 reports on requirements for closing the two Capital One
    accounts: Closing must be done by signatories in person at full
    branches, which exist only in few U.S. states. Some planning will
    be required to get signatories to a branch location. Bank account
    closure must occur before filing dissolution with New Mexico.
  - Action item: robbat2 will ask prometheanfire to phone Capital One
    for clarification.

Open floor
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mgorny raises concerns about the state of 32-bit arches in general,
especially test regressions in Python packages. Transition to time64
(also fixing LFS) may help, but floating-point issues will remain.

[1] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/26437636.EfDdHjke4D@pinacolada/
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council#Open_bugs_with_Council_participation