\summary{2010}{7}{14}

Agenda call: ---

Agenda announcement: \agoref{gentoo-dev}{f691d019baa3e4dd48c75f8c867ae55d}


\agendaitem{Date and time for the monthly meetings}

The council agreed to meet 19:00 UTC, 2nd Monday of each month.


\agendaitem{Model of operation}

\begin{itemize}
\item 
Using bugs to track issues: \index{council!web app}
Bugzilla will be used to track issues for now (without any restrictions, fully visible and editable by any registered user); a Rails project for council 
management is under development, and will be checked out when finished
\item
Having an agenda item in all meetings to check the bugs status: 
\index{council!bugzilla usage}
Discussion about bug progress should happen on each meeting. Each bug will have an assigned named council member that should be responsible for its tracking. We may use bugzilla voting capabilities if it is deemed useful.
 \item
Ability to have a 2nd monthly and/or impromptu meetings when required:
There can be any number of meetings during the month, with the requirement of a minimal 1 week advance notice
\item 
Secretary / meeting chair:\index{council!secretary}
The council members will use Google Wave\footnote{See 
\url{https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave} for some historical information on this abandoned project.} to create meeting summaries on the fly,
thus not needing a secretary. The chair of a meeting is going to be decided at 
the end of the previous meeting. \dev{scarabeus} volunteers to be default fallback.
The selected chair is responsible for the initial email and the upcoming meeting agenda, as well as for committing the summary of the meeting he chairs.
\end{itemize}


\agendaitem{Issues to be addressed in this term}

The council members plan to address the following topics:
\begin{itemize}
\item 
\dev{chainsaw}: to kill (the official status of) overlays, moving development to the main tree; to review package maintenance policy especially with respect to unresponsive maintainers \index{overlays}
\item 
\dev{jmbsvicetto}: to continue the work to review \glep{39} and Gentoo's 
metastructure; to study and promote ways to allow more involvement from the
community
\item 
\dev{scarabeus}: to improve QA of the tree (be more strict with developers)\footnote{Log quote: ``I want to bash people more for commiting crap simply put.''};
to revive the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter (GWN) \index{project!qa}\index{GWN}
\item 
\dev{ferringb}: to make the council less involved in day-to-day matters and more 
focused on the bigger picture; also to focus on PMS\index{PMS}
\item 
\dev{wired}: to make sure we are a decisive and effective council
\item 
\dev{halcy0n}: to have a bigger QA hammer, and to provide easier and more straight rules for joining or helping out in our community\index{project!qa}
\item 
\dev{betelgeuse}: to put GSoC results to some good use; then, mostly PM stuff\footnote{And, according to the log, also to stop global warming.}\index{GSoc}
\index{global warming}
\end{itemize}


\agendaitem{Open floor}

\dev{tanderson} requests that the council decides on proposals based solely on their merit and not on the person who submits them.