Summary of Gentoo council meeting 11 December 2016 Agenda ====== 1) Roll call 2) Dropping of IA-64/SPARC Stable support 3) Gentoo-council mailing list, -project list moderation (also, purpose of -project) 4) Open floor Roll call ========= Present: blueness, dilfridge, jlec, k_f, rich0, ulm, williamh Dropping of IA-64/SPARC Stable support ====================================== The general discussion was around the distinction between security support and stable support, and the general sense was that stable support should probably be tabled and addressed by the stable working group. It was believed that addressing security support for these archs would address the original concern. "The council defers to the security team, but is supportive of dropping security support for sparc if it is unable to generally meet the security team timelines." yes: blueness, dilfridge, jlec, k_f, rich0, ulm, williamh Gentoo-council mailing list, -project list moderation (also, purpose of -project) ================================================================================= "The council would like the community to consider mailing list discipline when posting to the various MLs of the Gentoo community. This includes, but is not limited to, thread discipline and a consideration of whether a new post adds value to the discussion at hand when posting in order to ensure a good signal to noise ratio." "Messages should be inline quotation and cropped to the relevant quotation needed for context in order to improve readability" yes: blueness, dilfridge, jlec, k_f, rich0, ulm abstain: williamh It was noted that sometimes top-posting can be appropriate, and these aren't completely hard rules. Open floor ========== prometheanfire brought up whether it would be beneficial to have Council/Trustee members attend each other's meetings to provide more immediate feedback on questions. The sense was that this could be useful, but probably should be based on specific agenda topics/etc and requested in advance vs being a general practice. prometheanfire brought up his proposal for having a single governing board at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xzPUREMzZllT7dLs85JjMvlymEY9wWzYPRCnTZIsfI/edit?usp=sharing He is looking for comments from both Council and Trustees. It was suggested that this be taken to the lists, but there was general interest in participation. rich0 mentioned that he would be working on a comrel glep, but he'll take the details to the lists/etc as time was running long. Anybody who is interested can participate, and prometheanfire and neddyseagoon both registered interest. dilgridge brought up Software in the Public Interest and asked the Trustees to take another look at them. It was suggested that this might be worked into the single board proposal in some way since it is a metastructure change.