The Gentoo Council Meeting was held on Sunday 2019-05-12 at 21:00 UTC
in the #gentoo-council channel on Freenode.


1. Roll call
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Present: dilfridge, k_f, leio, slyfox, ulm, Whissi, williamh
Absent:  (none)


2. GLEP 63 change request
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Motion: Accept GLEP 63 change request like shown in [Link 1]? Yes/No.

1 yes, 4 no, 2 abstained -- motion did not pass


3. GLEP 48 approval requested
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Motion:

  a. Accept GLEP 48 change request like shown in [Link 2]? Yes/No.

3 yes, 3 no, 1 abstained -- motion did not pass

  b. Accept GLEP 48 change request like shown in [Link 2] but with 15d
     instead of 30d max ban time? Yes/No.

2 yes, 3 no, 2 abstained -- motion did not pass

  c. Accept GLEP 48 change request like shown in [Link 2] but with 14d
     instead of 30d max ban time? Yes/No.

3 yes, 2 no, 2 abstained -- motion passed


4. Registration request for EFI system partition subdirectory namespace
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Informal topic only:

  antarus already reached out to EFI system partition subdirectory
  namespace registry; Registration is currently pending.


5. 17.1 profile stabilization
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Motion: Mark 17.1 profiles stable like requested in [Link 3] but with
        additional (or old, updated) news item? Yes/No.

7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstained -- motion passed unanimously


6. Open bugs with council involvement
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The bugs covered by other agenda items were omitted from this point.

a. #542498 "Retire: NP Hardass (np-hardass)"

   Gentoo developer "NP-Hardass" appealed to council to stop the retirement
   process initiated by undertaker project against him.

   Motion: Undertaker should stop retirement of NP-Hardass [Bug 542498] as
           long as NP-Hardass shows *any* activity like former staffer or
           dev in Gentoo. Yes/No

   7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstained -- motion passed unanimously

   Notes:

   During discussion it became clear that Gentoo project doesn't have any
   official policy how to deal with inactive developers which forces
   projects like recruiters and undertaker to find their own workflow which
   isn't legitimated by the community and can lead to problems like shown
   in NP-Hardass' case.

   The council will ask projects and community to come up with proposals
   to fix this.

   Closing statement: All council members agree that we don't want to blame
   projects like undertaker for the lack of any official, by community
   legitimated policy on this sensitive topic, but we still want to express
   our concerns that it was even necessary for NP-Hardass to reach out to
   council. We really hope that the community will close that gap.

b. #684170 "Copyright policy: should we require working (delivering)
   e-mail addresses?"

   All council members agreed that it is common sense that GLEP 76 will
   require a valid email address. However, we are not going to implement
   or require verification.

c. #676248 "non-free licenses are accepted without user prompt"

   During the meeting council agreed to flip ACCEPT_LICENSE in
   week 20/2019.

d. #679250 "GLEP 79: Gentoo OpenPGP Authority Keys"

   Motion: Mark GLEP 79 final. Yes/No

   7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstained -- motion passed unanimously

7. Open floor
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a. During meeting, dilfridge banned veremitz from #gentoo-council channel.
   Right after the ban (21:39), ulm already noticed that dilfridge violated
   a council agreement from a previous meeting [Link 4] that only the chair
   should ban.
   WilliamH expressed concern about the violation but accepted
   dilfridge's honest apology.

b. gokturk expressed concern about undertaker project's policy change he
   mentioned during discussion of 6a.


References
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Bug 542498: https://bugs.gentoo.org/542498
Link 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/d05070a200e4f5858642d308d9b3e39f
Link 2: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/a9d6dc3cf28345a2e96c2cfd164226f2
Link 3: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/d0358901301850b6e41f0ae9d26cef36
Link 4: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20171210-summary.txt