Gentoo News

The Gentoo Council held a meeting on February 26, 2009. The items discussed were:

Nontechnical issues:

• Open council spot: Should Mart Raudsepp fill the empty council spot? Since Mark Loeser resigned from the council there is an empty spot. Since Mart Raudsepp is ranked next from the last election, he is eligible to fill the spot.
  Conclusion: Mart Raudsepp is unanimously approved for the council.

Technical issues:

• GLEP 55: There had been quite a bit of discussion on this topic recently. Within hours of the council meeting new proposals were being proposed and discussion was ongoing.
  Conclusion: No decision as of yet. Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm) and Zac Medico volunteered to benchmark the various proposals on the package managers they maintain (paludis and portage respectively). Petteri Räty will assist with the portage benchmarks. Tiziano Müller and Alec Warner will write up a comparison of the various proposals and their various advantages and disadvantages within a week.
• GLEP 54: There had been some discussion on gentoo-dev since last meeting, though no consensus or agreement had been reached.
  Conclusion: Thomas Anderson and Luca Barbato will write up a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the two proposals (-scm and _live). This will be completed within a week.
• Overlay Masking in Repositories: Brian Harring (ferringb) asked for discussion for when overlays attempted to unmask packages provided by the master repository (gentoo-x86). Because this is only available in portage (it is contrary to PMS), Brian thought it should not be allowed. Numerous suggestions were made to the effect that if a standardized set format was agreed upon for repositories and package.unmask was allowed to contain sets, then this problem would be fixed.
  Conclusion: No decision, as only discussion was requested. Mart Raudsepp will follow up on this with discussion on gentoo-dev.