Summary of Gentoo council meeting 14 January 2018

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Architectures without teams [1]
3. Improving support for minor arches [2]
4. Profile changes [3]
5. Open bugs with council involvement
6. Open floor


Roll call
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Present: dilfridge, k_f, mgorny, slyfox, tamiko, ulm, williamh

Architectures without teams
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After a short discussion of the status of architectures without teams,
the council accepted the following two motions:

- Vote: Introduction of a new architecture keyword requires an RFC in
  the gentoo-dev mailing list and creation of a project for the
  architecture team.
  Accepted unanimously.

- Vote: Arches that currently don't have a project page are required
  to create one within one month from now.
  Accepted unanimously.

Improving support for minor arches
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The established order of profiles, namely "stable" > "dev" > "exp", is
acknowledged by council members. It is suggested to document this,
e.g., in the devmanual. 

Profile changes
===============
The recent introduction of new profiles is discussed. There is
consensus that profile changes should be well documented and announced
to users. It is also noted that >=eselect-1.4.11 displays profiles'
status and prevents accidental selection of an "exp" profile.
No motion is brought forward; further discussion can take place on
mailing lists.

Open bugs with council involvement
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- Bug 635344 "[TRACKER] manifest-hashes replacement":
  Work in progress.

- Bug 637328 "GLEP 14 needs to be updated":
  The security team is working on an update.

- Bug 642072 "Joint venture to deal with copyright issues":
  This is mostly a foundation matter, and will be discussed in the
  upcoming joint meeting of council and foundation.

Open floor
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Further discussion of the status of minor architectures takes place.
In particular, arm64, mips, m68k, and sh are mentioned.


[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/f0c2d04a35252cc6d5a6e26b7745ce3b
[2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/ccae9ae9b59dd5481822fbe5a87aab14
[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/c9fe58b905fa0b7722a99c6de0e59dbc