Project:Science/Meetings 2014 01

= Science Team Meeting (January 30. 2014) =
 * Date: January 30. 2014
 * Time: 21.00 UTC
 * Place: #gentoo-meetings @ Freenode

Agenda

 * 1) Alternatives Framework
 * 2) Documentation updates and actions
 * 3) Election of a new leader
 * 4) Open floor

Roll call

 * Present: bicatali, tomka, jlec, heroxbd, fbissey, rafaelmartins
 * Absent: most developers

Alternatives Framework

 * Implementation in eselect
 * eselect forked to https://github.com/gentoo-science/eselect ✅
 * finish implementation of alternative framework (bicatali will work that)
 * test live eselect from overlay (heroxbd & jlec will test)
 * TODO send for review and inclusion


 * alternatives-2.eclass
 * TODO find a better name
 * TODO rewrite the eclass once the eselect implementation is finished (bicatali?)

Ideas were floating but nothing precise
 * Splitting blas' eselect modules for serial, threads, int64
 * TODO Write draft (bicatali will summarize the ideas)
 * TODO Test multibiuld.eclass (jlec will test together with bicatali)

Postponed until eselect and eclass are ready.
 * ldscript/soname

Documentation updates and actions

 * Clean/Update sub-project pages
 * Merge sub-projects into parent, while retaining sub-herds (jlec will take care in accordance with the sub-projects)
 * Create topic specific sub-projects e.g. "alternative framework" when needed (when required)


 * Review wiki pages (jlec, heroxbd, tomka will work on that)


 * Recruitment


 * Announce more open jobs (will be done during wiki review)
 * Get something into the next GMN

Election of a new leader
bicatali is stepping down from the team lead and nominates jlec for his successor. Voting summary: 5 of 6 voices for jlec, 1 abstained

Open floor

 * roverlay
 * heroxbd and calchan are working on better support of R packages

Full log

 * Full irc log