[gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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Hi all, and (almost) happy new year!

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 2019-01-06, 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 2019-01-13 19:00 UTC [1] in the
#gentoo-council FreeNode IRC channel.


1. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190113T19

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Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Kristian Fiskerstrand 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.

Since we now have an AUTHORS file in the Gentoo repository, I would
like to resubmit my original proposal from October 2018 about copyright
attribution [1]. That is, update the tree policy as follows:

   The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to
   GLEP 76 [2], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", SHALL [3]
   be used for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository.

The only change is that "SHALL" will be present instead of past tense.

Ulrich

[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/70c47e0bf98f485316e3e744614bef68
[2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#simplified-attribution
[3] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

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Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:34:38PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Since we now have an AUTHORS file in the Gentoo repository, I would
> like to resubmit my original proposal from October 2018 about copyright
> attribution [1]. That is, update the tree policy as follows:
> 
>    The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to
>    GLEP 76 [2], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", SHALL [3]
>    be used for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository.
> 
> The only change is that "SHALL" will be present instead of past tense.
For the record, can you clarify what attribution should be used for the
following files in the Gentoo repository?
- eclasses
- init files & other scripts
- patches (written by a Gentoo developer vs external contributor)

As a specific case, if a new package is submitted with an openrc init
script written by the contributor, and they have their name in it;
should that remain intact (and what should be done later when modifying
that file).

This would hopefully be the start of a attribution example guide that
could provide clear examples (which don't belong in the GLEP itself).

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Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Wed, 02 Jan 2019, Robin H Johnson wrote:

>> The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to
>> GLEP 76 [2], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", SHALL [3]
>> be used for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository.

> For the record, can you clarify what attribution should be used for
> the following files in the Gentoo repository?
> - eclasses
> - init files & other scripts

The rationale for omitting them from the policy was already discussed
in the 20181014 council meeting [1]. In a nutshell, many eclasses have
explicit author lists even now, and there is less copying of code
between eclasses (or between scripts). So tracking of the main
contributor isn't as problematic as it is for ebuilds.

Still, using "Gentoo Authors" for these files as well is perfectly fine
and should be the default.

> - patches (written by a Gentoo developer vs external contributor)

Any attribution mentioned in GLEP 76 is fine, i.e., no special policy
for patches.

> As a specific case, if a new package is submitted with an openrc init
> script written by the contributor, and they have their name in it;
> should that remain intact (and what should be done later when modifying
> that file).

Keep the copyright line intact, and add "and others" when the file is
significantly modified.

(Still I think that the simplified attribution should be preferred,
especially for small files like init scripts which are barely
copyrightable.)

Ulrich

[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20181014.txt (at 20:14)

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