Summary of Gentoo council meeting 2024-03-10


Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Foundation dissolution status update (following vote [1])
3. Policy on AI contributions and tooling [2]
4. Open bugs with Council participation [3]
5. Open floor


Roll call
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Present: arthurzam (proxy for soap), ajak, dilfridge (late), mattst88, mgorny, sam, ulm


Foundation dissolution status update (following vote in bug 925736)
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ulm updated Council: a letter was sent to SPI and they would be discussing
our application at their March meeting.

mattst88 noted that the Gentoo Council had voted 7-0 in favor and the
Gentoo Foundation's Trustees had voted in favor by 5-0.


Policy on AI contributions and tooling
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mgorny led this item which was first brought up on the gentoo-dev ML
at https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=170904501611467&w=2
(https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/a2b8c68b1649213cf237f40e41f9a460a5667c34.camel@gentoo.org/)

Reservations were raised because a specific motion or proposal wasn't given
on the ML and there wasn't sufficient consensus amongst Council to vote
on a specific measure.

It was agreed that the topic should be brought back up on the ML and then
revisited in the next meeting depending on how the ML discussion went.


Open bugs with Council participation
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The only bug to be discussed was https://bugs.gentoo.org/925736
("Vote: Gentoo Linux applies to become an SPI associated project") already
discussed as agenda item 2.


Open floor
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* robbat2 submitted an emergency item [4] to the agenda for (reapproval of)
infra hardware purchases because of changing prices and stock availability.

Motion: approve new expenditure, replacing previous motion from bug 834712,
for the historical distfile archive (30TB usable via 15TB RAID5 drives would be 6x$1800=$10800 (for 2 servers).

Vote results: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absent - motion passes

* It was noted that SPI's meeting where they would be discussing our application
was the next day, and Council members agreed to try attend.

References
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/925736
[2] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=170904501611467&w=2
[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council#Open_bugs_with_Council_participation
[4] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-project&m=171005060402007&w=2