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authorAndreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>2017-05-13 18:45:31 +0200
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\summary{2009}{5}{28}
+Agenda call and announcement:
+\agoref{gentoo-dev}{9543319301d55b1e3f362d72ef1b92c1}
+
\agendaitem{Filling the empty council seat}
\index{council!members}
- Donnie Berkholz resigned from the council so there is an empty spot
- that needs to be filled. ssuominen and ulm were tied for the next
- spot, but ssuominen relinquished his seat to ulm. To fill the spot,
- ulm needed to be unanimusly voted in by the current members.
+\dev{dberkholz} resigned from the council so there is an empty spot that needs
+to be filled. \dev{ssuominen} and \dev{ulm} were tied for the next spot, but
+\dev{ssuominen} relinquished his seat to \dev{ulm}. To fill the spot, \dev{ulm}
+needed to be unanimusly voted in by the current members.
- Conclusion:
- Unanimously voted to fill the seat. Ulrich Müller will fill Donnie
- Berkholz's seat for the rest of the current term.
+Conclusion: Unanimously voted to fill the seat. \dev{ulm} will fill
+\dev{dberkholz}'s seat for the rest of the current term.
\agendaitem{EAPI 3 status report from Zac Medico}
\index{EAPI!3}
- No progress yet. Zac said he'd have a recent recruit of his work with
- him on it.
+No progress yet. \dev{zmedico} said he'd have a recent recruit of his work with
+him on it.
- Conclusion:
- Zac will work on EAPI 3 features with the help of his recruit. He
- will also blog about what features need to be done so the general
- community can pitch in.
+Conclusion: Zac will work on EAPI 3 features with the help of his recruit. He
+will also blog about what features need to be done so the general community can
+pitch in.
\agendaitem{Removal of Old Eclasses}
\index{eclasses!removal}
- Jorge(jmbsvicetto) requested that the council discuss removing
- eclasses from the tree that are no longer needed. The problem with
- this is that old(<2.1.4) portage versions used the eclasses from the
- tree to run uninstall phases. Thus, the removal of eclasses would
- break users who have a portage older than 2.1.4.
+\dev{jmbsvicetto} requested that the council discuss removing eclasses from the
+tree that are no longer needed. The problem with this is that old ($<2.1.4$)
+portage versions used the eclasses from the tree to run uninstall phases. Thus,
+the removal of eclasses would break users who have a portage older than
+2.1.4.\footnote{Portage 2.1.4 was stabilized in March 2008, see \bug{210031}.}
- Conclusion:
- The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the
- following steps:
+Conclusion: The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the
+following steps:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
Deprecate eclasses.
@@ -47,37 +47,34 @@
\item
After two years the eclass may be removed.
\end{enumerate}
- Thomas Anderson(tanderson) will write up patches for devmanual so
- that this policy is documented.
+\dev{tanderson} will write up patches for the devmanual so that this policy is
+documented.
\agendaitem{Handling EAPI Versioning in a forwards-compatible way}
-Various developers have raised concerns that \glep{55} only describes a
- solution and doesn't clearly show the problems being solved (if any).
- Luca (lu_zero) mentioned a few things in the "Problem" section that he
- thought could be clarified, listed below:
+Various developers have raised concerns that \glep{55} only describes a solution
+and doesn't clearly show the problems being solved (if any). \dev{lu_zero}
+mentioned a few things in the "Problem" section that he thought could be
+clarified, listed below:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
- For "Change the behaviour of inherit in any way", it would be
- useful to include references to bugs where requested inherit
- changes would require \glep{55}.
+ For "Change the behaviour of inherit in any way", it would be useful to
+ include references to bugs where requested inherit changes would require
+ \glep{55}.
\item
- For "Add new global scope functions in any way", defining
- 'Sane'.
+ For "Add new global scope functions in any way", defining 'Sane'.
\item
- For "Extend versioning rules in an EAPI", removal of all
- mentions of \glep{54} would remove circularity. In addition,
- mentioning other version format changes would be useful.
+ For "Extend versioning rules in an EAPI", removal of all mentions of \glep{54}
+ would remove circularity. In addition, mentioning other version format changes
+ would be useful.
\item
- For "Use newer bash features", listing useful (including
- in-tree) bash features not available in the bash version mandated
- by PMS would be useful.\index{bash!features in ebuilds}
+ For "Use newer bash features", listing useful (including in-tree) bash
+ features not available in the bash version mandated by PMS would be
+ useful.\index{bash!features in ebuilds}
\end{enumerate}
- Conclusion:
- The council voted on whether they recognized the problem that
-\glep{55} is attempting to solve is real. The vote was affirmative in
- recognition of the problem with two abstentions(leio and ulm). '
- Cardoe was no longer at the meeting for this vote and will post
- his voteon-list.
+Conclusion: The council voted on whether they recognized the problem that
+\glep{55} is attempting to solve is real. The vote was affirmative in
+recognition of the problem with two abstentions. \dev{cardoe} was no longer at
+the meeting for this vote and will post his vote on-list.