Summary of Gentoo council meeting 2025-12-14

Agenda [0]
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1. Roll call
2. Final approval of EAPI 9 [1]
3. Arch-status review
4. Open bugs with Council participation [2]
5. Open floor

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


Final approval of EAPI 9 [1]
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Rendered version:
- https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/9/pms.html
- https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/9/pms.pdf
Commits: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/log/?h=eapi-9

ulm indicated that Portage implementation is ready, although not yet
in a release.  arthurzam indicated that pkgcheck and pkgcore are almost
ready as well, modulo CI issues.

Motion: Approve EAPI 9.
Votes: 6 yes, 0 no, 0 abstained, 1 missing; motion approved


Arch-status review
==================
alpha: new upstream kernel maintainer who is also helping with Gentoo
hppa: only hppa2.0 stages build via qemu
m68k: "aligned" stage3 builds fine, oldstyle and musl are very flaky
s390: both s390 and s390x stage builds hang for reasons unknown
sparc: we're getting some help too, sparc64 builds, sparc32 is broken
       on qemu

dilfridge indicated that s390 (31-bit) support will be deprecated
in glibc in February 2026, and dropped in August.

dilfridge also noted that all stages (modulo s390 and sparc32) for
time64 are ready, and the next step is to perform the migration.
arthurzam indicated that the arch testing containers can be recreated to
use time64 on request.  sam pointed out that he is seeing a growing
number of time64 x86 users.

dilfridge noted that the new releng builder, tintin, is installed and
running.

arthurzam asked whether loong and riscv are alive for AT work.  sam
pointed out that we had an offer for a loong machine, but we need to
figure out whether to host it (provided the offer still stands).


Open bugs with Council participation
====================================
Bug 936211 "[Tracker] Gentoo Foundation dissolution" [2]
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robbat2 indicated that the taxes were submitted.  dilfridge said he did
not write the letter to the donors yet, but he did prepare logo branding
for GRUB.

Bug 946193 "[Future EAPI] Update Bash version to 5.3" [3]
---------------------------------------------------------
The bug was marked RESOLVED/FIXED per being included in EAPI 9.

Bug 961301 "[Tracker] Requests for metadata/AUTHORS" [4]
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There were no pending requests on the tracker.

Bug 961811 "Consider procuring Token2 PIN+ security keys for developers" [5]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
All testers confirmed received their keys.  ulm indicated that we need
some test schema.  mgorny pointed out that his key is working great,
and is a major improvement from Nitrokey.

Bug 965878 "[TRACKER] Codeberg migration" [6]
---------------------------------------------
mgorny pointed out most of the work is being done by laumann (big
thanks!).  sam pointed out that we need to start merging support.

[Post-meeting update: git hooks for merging PRs are working now,
and pram support has been released. -- mgorny]

Bug 965900 "GLEP 63: update key recommendations" [7]
----------------------------------------------------
mgorny pointed out that the bug is waiting for Token2 testing results.

Bug 965884 "Vote: Request for funding approval" [8]
---------------------------------------------------
The vote has been carried out in the bug.  The funding request was for:

* Hetzner AX102
* https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/
* Rescue system delivery, no further config options
* price per month € 104 (FI) or € 109 (DE)
* setup € 39

Council: 7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain
Trustees: 5 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

The funding request has been approved unanimously.


Open floor
==========
dilfridge has asked everyone to collect stuff for the year review.
He also indicated that the talk for the FOSDEM distros devroom got
accepted [9].


[0] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/94166b0f659bea5af2486516e8bd27fd4df0a767.camel@gentoo.org/
[1] https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/u1plenm6v@gentoo.org/
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/936211
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/946193
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/961301
[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/961811
[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/965878
[7] https://bugs.gentoo.org/965900
[8] https://bugs.gentoo.org/965884
[9] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/talk/review/YTSU9UMETYW98VZQAAS7GVHQHQVXDZNC