Summary of Gentoo council meeting 11 March 2018 Agenda ====== 1. Roll call 2. Bugs with council involvement 3. Open floor Roll call ========= 7 attendees: K_F, WilliamH, Amynka (proxies ulm), mgorny, Whissi (proxying tamiko), slyfox, asturm (proxies dilfridge) Bugs with council involvement ============================= Approve GLEP 68 change: add to metadata.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------ Allow marking ebuilds as arch-independent for stabilization purposes. Trivial portable scripts is the main intended use case. - Vote: 7 yes, unanimous Approve GLEP 74 change: removing one filesystem restriction ----------------------------------------------------------- Overlayfs use multiple filesystems to construct ebuild tree. The proposal is to allow such use case. - Vote: 7 yes, unanimous Joint venture to deal with copyright issues ------------------------------------------- Dropped. Left for trustee/council joint meeting. GLEP 14 needs to be updated by security@ ---------------------------------------- K_F reported it's being worked on. Open floor ========== Update on EAPI=7 from mgorny: - Planned/abandoned features: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_7_tentative_features - EAPI 7 support is progressing nicely (woohoo!) - ulm has noted he'd like to withdraw 'sandbox path removal functions' probably in favour of single 'esandbox' command in EAPI 8 instead of separate functions - IUSE_RUNTIME and ||= will probably not be implemented - and i'd really appreciate if someone took a look at dostrip [editor's note: implementation is done by mgorny] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_7_tentative_features