Summary of the council meeting 8/Oct/2017

Agenda announcement: [1]


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


Revisiting the status of HPPA [2]
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Consensus was that while still a lot of work needs to be done, hppa is 
clearly improving. The topic will be revisited at the next meeting.


The big GLEP reform - Importing GLEPs in RST [3], GLEP 1/2 updates [4]
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The council voted on the following two things together:
a) to confirm the conversion of all GLEPs from Mediawiki to RST as
   prepared by mgorny and ulm, see 
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630882#c3
b) and to confirm the required changes to GLEP 1/2, see 
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631338

The changes were approved unanimously (6 yes).

The future authoritative location of the raw GLEP data will be
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/


The Git pre-GLEP [5]
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After short discussion, the draft GLEP at [5] was approved (pending 
editorial changes and conversion to RST) by unanimous vote (6 yes).


Banning empty dependency groups like "|| ( )" or "foo? ( )" in PMS [6]
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With 5 yes votes, 1 abstention, 1 absent, the council
a) approves the PMS changes as detailed in [7] and
b) note that the PMS team shall come up with a proposal for the next 
   EAPI to define a behavior that seems correct in terms of the 
   dependency resolver and our uses


Open Floor
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* A brief discussion on proposed features of EAPI 7 and the status of
  HPPA took place.
* mgorny and ulm volunteered to join the GLEP editors to help with the
  new workflow.
* Stable portage is ready for the transition to new Manifest hashes, 
* A stand for FOSDEM 2018 has been requested.


References
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/9e0202b2929921b62fa0bddcd4ca20dd
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/629554
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/630882
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/631338
[5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=User:MGorny/GLEP:Git&oldid=685820
[6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/9b76a175e12ef89dab2489a941d7af20
[7] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-pms/message/a612bdc64f7aa3e556b129a67493da1b