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+Summary of Gentoo council meeting 11 March 2014
+
+
+Agenda
+======
+1. Roll call
+2. Open issues - vote on GLEP 63
+3. Ban on EAPI 1 and 2 should extend to updating EAPI in existing ebuilds
+4. Make all cosmetic repoman warnings fatal
+5. Adherence to FHS standards in Gentoo: putting config files int /etc
+6. Bugs assigned to Council
+7. Open floor
+
+
+1. Roll call
+=========
+
+Present: blueness dberkholz dilfridge rich0 ulm williamh
+Absent: scarabeus
+
+
+2. Open issues - vote on GLEP 63
+================================
+
+Previous council action approved in principle the policies outlined in
+"GLEP 63: Gentoo GPG key policies" [1], but delayed the vote for approval
+until the final language was put in place.  dilfridge presented a shorter
+version of the GLEP which removed the "howto" language and reduced it to
+just policy [2].  Discussion progressed to a consensus that we should have
+only policy in the GLEP and a practical guide should be a separate document
+which can be changed without council vote.
+
+We tabled the vote until either an email vote (initiated by dilfridge) or
+the next meeting.
+
+Ref:
+[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:63
+[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge/GLEP:1001a
+
+
+3. Ban on EAPI 1 and 2 should extend to updating EAPI in existing ebuilds
+=========================================================================
+
+The concil considered the question of whether the ban on EAPIs 1 and 2 should
+extended to updating EAPIs in *existing* ebuilds, and not just new ebuilds added
+to the tree [3]. mgorny noted that we need bumps from EAPI 0 to 1 because we need
+an easy way to introduce slotting without the major rewrining of ebuild phases
+than an EAPI 0 to 3 bump would require.  After discussion, the council voted on
+the following motion:
+
+"EAPI 1 and 2 are now banned.  This ban should not only be limited to new ebuilds,
+but should be extended to include updating EAPIs in *existing* ebuilds.  In case
+of non-maintainer commits to fix dependencies, EAPI=0 ebuilds may be updated to
+EAPI=1 to keep the changes at a non-intrusive level, as a temporary workaround."
+
+The motion carried with 4 yes, 1 no and 1 abstention.
+
+Ref:
+[3] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3382
+
+
+4. Make all cosmetic repoman warnings fatal
+===========================================
+
+The council considered the question of whether all repoman warnings should be
+made fatal [4].  Concensus was reached that this would lead to too many false
+positives.
+
+The motion failed with 4 no and 1 abstention.
+
+Ref:
+[4] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3358
+
+
+5. Adherence to FHS standards in Gentoo: putting config files int /etc
+======================================================================
+
+The question of where config files should go was raised by patrick [5,6,7].  The
+council discussed whether it should be policy to put all config files in /etc.
+However, what defines a config file is unclear because some packages, like udev or
+eudev, put their *default* config files in /lib/udev/rules.d which are overridden
+by the files in /etc/udev/rules.d.  The former are not meant to be user-edited while
+the later are.  The council is okay with static config files living outside of /etc
+while user-editable config files should be in /etc.
+
+rich0 introduced the following motion:
+
+"Council does not feel additional policy required regarding config files in /etc.
+In particular packages that place config templates in /usr or /lib* and allow overriding
+in /etc are fine. Specific issues not already discussed can be raised in future meetings."
+
+The motion passed with 4 yes and 1 abstention.
+
+Ref:
+[5] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3357
+[6] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3367
+[7] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html
+
+
+6. Bugs assigned to Council
+===========================
+
+The council looked at two open bugs:
+
+a) Bug #503382 - Missing summaries for 20131210, 20140114, and 20140225 council meetings
+
+dberkholtz said he would upload those summaries soon.
+
+b) Bug #477030 - Missing summary for 20130611 council meeting
+
+There has been no progress.  scarabeus was to nudge betelgeuse for that summry.
+
+
+7. Open floor
+=============
+
+No issues were brought forward.
+
+
+Summary submitted by Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>