Summary of Gentoo council meeting 13 March 2022

Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Server purchases [1]
3. Deprecating repoman [2]
4. Open bugs with council involvement
5. Open floor

Roll Call
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Present: dilfridge, gyakovlev, mattst88, arthurzam (proxy for marecki), mgorny, sam, ulm 

Server Purchases
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robbat2 proposed purchasing two servers for Gentoo's infrastructure to replace
some aging systems.

Motion: Approve purchase of servers outlined in [1]
Accepted 6-0

Deprecating Repoman
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mattst88 proposed deprecating repoman [2] and provided a suggested plan for
doing so. Specifics of the plan discussed and some feedback incorporated.

Motion: pkgcheck is now considered the primary Gentoo tool for ebuild QA.
        repoman is no longer considered sufficient. Council condones the
        deprecation and removal of repoman by the portage team.
Accepted 6-0

Open bugs with council involvement
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- Bug 834997 "Missing summaries for 20211114 and 20211212 council meetings"
  12:38 <@dilfridge> my fault
  12:38 <@dilfridge> soon

Open floor
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dilfridge mentions that he mailed "council@ pr@ releng@ artwork@, about the
livegui".

[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/35a3bd66aa5a6684fb481de468a4623c
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/835013

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