Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-12-09

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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> On 25.11.2018 15:31, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > In two weeks from now, there will be a council meeting again. Now is
> > the time to raise and prepare agenda items that you want us to discuss
> > and/or vote upon.
> >
> > Please respond to this message on the gentoo-project mailing list with
> > agenda items.
> > The final agenda will be sent out on 2018-12-02, so please make sure
> > you post any agenda items before that, or we may not be able to
> > accommodate it into the next meeting.
> >
> > The meeting itself will happen on 2018-12-09 19:00 UTC [1] in the
> > #gentoo-council FreeNode IRC channel.
> >
> >
> > 1. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181209T19
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mart Raudsepp

I would like to propose, once again, that the council vote on the
following items:

1. The council approves all architectures that are maintained as stable
architectures.
 - e.g. alpha, amd64, arm, arm64, ia64, ppc, ppc64, and x86.

Conversely, the council also may remove/drop such architectures as
needed (c.f. item 2).

2. The council approves that all stable architectures are subsequently
determined to be security supported. Thus, an architecture may not be
stable and *not* security supported.  This disparity has implications in
processes and timeliness of actions taken to mitigate vulnerabilities
reported.
 - e.g. amd64 is approved as stable arch and thus is security supported.
 - e.g. arm is dropped as a stable arch thus is no longer security supported.

Overall, both of these items will provide a much clearer understanding
of how security is able to proceed with mitigating vulnerabilities in
the tree, how users view and understand what architectures are stable
and security supported, and allow the security team and maintainers a
clearer/cleaner process to follow.

Standing by to answer RFI's.

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Cheers,
Aaron

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