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+Summary of Gentoo council meeting 12 August 2014
+
+Agenda
+======
+1. Roll call (5 minutes)
+2. Handling of bash-completion [1] (10 minutes)
+3. Phase functions in eclasses [2] (5 minutes)
+4. Games team policies [3] (15 minutes)
+5. Dynamic dependencies in Portage [4] (10 minutes)
+6. Additional features for EAPI 6 [5] (10 minutes)
+7. Open bugs with council involvement (5 minutes)
+   - Bug 424647 - archives.gentoo.org: Broken URLs for e.g.
+     gentoo-dev-announce and others [6]
+   - Bug 477030 - Missing summary for 20130611 council meeting [7]
+   - Bug 503382 - Missing summaries for 20131210, 20140114, and
+     20140225 council meetings [8]
+8. Open floor (10 minutes)
+
+
+Roll call
+=========
+Present:
+blueness, dberkholz, scarabeus (proxy for dilfridge), radhermit,
+rich0, ulm, williamh
+
+Handling of bash-completion
+===========================
+After a short discussion of the topic, a majority of council members
+agreed that it is up to the shell-tools team to resolve the issue.
+dberkholz recommends that the eselect module should be kept, with
+all completions enabled by default but allowing opt-out by users.
+
+Phase functions in eclasses
+===========================
+The council voted unanimously that more discussion of this topic in
+the gentoo-dev mailing list will be needed.
+
+The question was then raised if we should move away from phase
+functions in eclasses altogether. Council members expressed different
+opinions on this. No vote was taken.
+
+Games team policies
+===================
+The discussion focussed upon two issues, namely that the games team
+allegedly tries to enforce policies on packages that they are not
+maintaining, and that they have not responded to some requests for
+joining their team.
+
+The following decisions were taken:
+
+- Motion: "Every developer is allowed to commit and maintain games
+  ebuilds, without the need to ask for permission or review from the
+  games team. The games team does not have authority to override
+  maintainer decisions on packages they don't maintain."
+  Accepted unanimously.
+  Note: This should be understood as clarification of existing policy.
+
+- There is consensus amongst council members that specific policies
+  (e.g., games group, /usr/games hierarchy, and games.eclass) should
+  be settled by the QA team.
+
+- Motion: "The council encourages the games team to accept join
+  requests and elect a lead. In the event they don't elect a lead
+  within 6 weeks, we will consider the team as dysfunctional and thus
+  disband it."
+  Accepted with 6 yes votes and 1 abstention.
+
+- Motion: "The council appoints radhermit as the interim lead of games
+  until the elections are held."
+  Accepted with 4 yes votes and 3 abstentions.
+
+At this point the meeting was adjourned. The council will continue
+with the remaining topics in two weeks.
+
+Next meeting date
+=================
+Tuesday, 26 Aug 2014, 19:00 UTC
+
+
+[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3916
+[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3918
+[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3919
+[4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3943
+[5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/4002
+[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/424647
+[7] https://bugs.gentoo.org/477030
+[8] https://bugs.gentoo.org/503382