
\summary{2006}{10}{19}

Agenda call: \agoref{gentoo-dev}{cf6b02db6aa6c28021511fbf28f3aba3}

\agendaitem{Current involvement of council members with Gentoo projects}
\index{project!games}\index{project!gwn}\index{project!genkernel}
\index{project!catalyst}\index{project!infra}\index{project!releng}
\index{project!toolchain}\index{project!base-system}\index{project!freebsd}
\index{project!devrel}

As requested by \dev{robbat2}, the Council discussed the members' current 
involvement with Gentoo projects:

\begin{itemize}
 \item
 \dev{wolf31o2}: games, gwn, genkernel, catalyst, new profile structure, 
  planning for 2007.0
 \item
 \dev{robbat2}: tree-signing, infra (Bugzilla, anon(cvs$\vert$svn))
 \item
 \dev{kugelfang}: AMD64 releng (testing, soon new profiles)
 \item
 \dev{kingtaco}: infra(Bugzilla, anon(cvs$\vert$svn), utf8 on pecker)
 \item
 \dev{vapier}: toolchain, base-system
 \item
 \dev{flameeyes}: Gentoo/FreeBSD
 \item
 \dev{kloeri}: devrel (Developer stats, fact-finding)
\end{itemize}
   

   
   
\agendaitem{Bug 150851 ``kloeri randomly retires people''}
\index{developer!patrick}\index{developer!kloeri}\index{project!devrel}

(not in the official summary)\footnote{
\bug{150851} was discussed. Consensus was to back \dev{kloeri}'s decision to 
retire \dev{patrick} due to inactivity.
}
   
   
\agendaitem{Inter-project communication}
\index{project!portage}\index{project!devrel}\index{project!infra}
\index{Planet Gentoo}\index{Forums}\index{council!meeting!summaries}

Consensus is that communication has improved as of late. This covers especially 
spread information about project work from Portage / Devrel / Infra to the 
developers.

Additionally, the council wants to put meeting summaries on Planet Gentoo and 
the Gentoo Forums starting with this summary.


\agendaitem{Design phase for new projects}
\index{projects!creation}\index{mailing list!gentoo-dev}

\vote{New projects need to post an RFC containing information about their 
goals, the plan on how to implement their goals and the necessary resources to 
-dev prior to creating the project.}{6 yes, 1 abstention}


\agendaitem{Devrel etiquette guide}
\index{project!devrel}\index{etiquette}

Needs still work before Council can discuss and has therefore been rescheduled 
for the next meeting. \dev{kloeri} will be working on it.


\agendaitem{QA Policies}
\index{project!qa}

Nothing new and QA lead was not available during the meeting. Discussion has 
been rescheduled for the next meeting.
