Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-02-11

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu nie, 28.01.2018 o godzinie 14∶05 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
napisał:
> In two weeks from now, the council will meet again. This is the time
> to raise and prepare items that the council should put on the agenda
> to discuss or vote on.
> 
> Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to
> repeat your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously
> suggested one (since the last meeting).
> 

I can think of two past items that need our attention:


1. Continuation on status of nios2/riscv.
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The bug has gotten no attention so far from the person adding those
keywords. If he doesn't show any sign of good faith in the next two
weeks, I think we should vote for removing the arch along with
the relevant profiles.

For the record: nios2 was added in Apr 2015, riscv in Aug 2015. Neither
has a backing arch team, mail alias, or a single package with keywords.
Furthermore, the original committer didn't make a single commit
to the relevant profiles since the inception (which looks like copy-
paste of some other profile) and the only commits were parts of mass
cleanups done by other developers (stale packages, USE flags, etc.) 

All that considered, I seriously doubt the work done so far has any
value for a future support of those arches.


2. Continuation on mailing list posting restrictions
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We haven't enforced the gentoo-dev posting restrictions so far. I have
been approached by a user yesterday who wrongly thought he couldn't post
to the list. I think this situation is at least confusing.

I believe we should either withdraw the earlier decision and explicitly
announce that posting to gentoo-dev will not be restricted to avoid
further confusion, or enforce it (how?).

That said, I think the list has improved for now, so maybe we don't need
to do that after all. Especially given the upcoming possibility of
Proctors revival and/or moderation via mailman.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny