Mailing List Archive: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

Aug 1, 2009, 4:20 AM

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This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically
the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel
(#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) !

If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even
vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole
Gentoo dev list to see.

Keep in mind that every GLEP *re*submission to the council for review
must first be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list 7 days (minimum)
before being submitted as an agenda item which itself occurs 7 days
before the meeting. Simply put, the gentoo-dev mailing list must be
notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself.

For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/

Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August [ In reply to ]

webmaster at hartwork

Aug 1, 2009, 6:10 AM

Post #2 of 3 (258 views)

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even
> vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole
> Gentoo dev list to see.

I would love to see the GLEP on CPE names in metadata.xml discussed,
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg35155.html

Any guidance on what I need to do to make it happen is very welcome.

Thanks,

Sebastian

Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August [ In reply to ]

calchan at gentoo

Aug 2, 2009, 8:58 AM

Post #3 of 3 (248 views)

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On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Sebastian Pipping<webmaster@hartwork.org> wrote:
> I would love to see the GLEP on CPE names in metadata.xml discussed,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg35155.html
>
> Any guidance on what I need to do to make it happen is very welcome.

Please read GLEP 1 [1], and more specifically the GLEP work flow. Your
GLEP needs to be submitted to and then accepted by the GLEP editors.
Once it is accepted it will be assigned a number and you can discuss
it on gento-dev@gentoo.org (announce it on
gentoo-dev-announce@gentoo.org with reply-to set to
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org). Once that is done and a consensus has been
reached you can submit your GLEP to the council for vote.

In your particular case I'd like to know what are the plans of the
other distributions. I would even think that they should be involved
in the discussion process. And what happens when packages don't
exactly overlap? Binary distros often use many sub-packages to work
around their lack of something like our USE flags, and also to avoid
forcing users to download a whole bunch of non-executable stuff when
the binaries were patched. This thing isn't as easy as your (short)
GLEP draft makes it look like.

Denis.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0001.html