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

Summary

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 Done
  • 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?)

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

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

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

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