Hi Danny,

> Look at it from my POV. I only knew about the alsa version at first.
> I knew it was removed already. Then i learned about mplayer. Ok... i can 
> live with that as long as nothing else in there. Then I learned about 
> transcode and I asked my fellow Council members to cut it.

I'm not sure I see that as a council issue, to be honest, but that's ok.

> Besides, the affected maintainers have since then silently and gladly 
> agreed to remove said versions and agree that we should stick to known 
> methods until proper combinations of version suffixes have been agreed 
> on.

You see, that would have been my first approach, instead of a rushed
council weighing in.


> Seemant: I'd like to continue to discuss the ways of council decission 
> on gentoo-council rather than on gentoo-dev ML. :-)

Happy to do that, in the general case.  In this specific case, however,
it's valid here, because the entire thread revolves around a rather rash
council decision (who knew such a thing was even possible?) that affects
pretty much all Gentoo developers (and prospective developers).

Thanks,

Seemant