Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/24/2009 03:39 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: The netinst.iso would involve less downloaded content than the 700M live image. How would it not fit their needs? Perhaps net installation can be promoted as a spin and given appropriate amount of attention in http://spins.fedoraproject.org

Re: Kernel-2.6.31.6-134 seems to have a bug on R600 DRM

2009-11-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/24/2009 09:54 AM, Otto Haliburton wrote: from the descriptions I have seen on this thread there is a possibility that it was, although remote. Maybe it is the tone of what you are saying. Tone it down and be more tolerant is by far a more rational approach. People won't report their

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/24/2009 08:35 PM, Simon Andrews wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/24/2009 02:21 AM, Ben Williams wrote: If release engineering would like to release liveusb.iso for people to use to install or just to look at the new features, that is fine But from the #fedora channel the # of people

Re: Bug triage: further change upcoming

2009-11-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/24/2009 10:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi, guys. Just a quick note - Matej Cepl pointed out that the already-agreed BugZappers plan to switch to using the Triaged keyword only for Fedora 13 and later presents problems. Most significantly, it's impossible to reliably construct a

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/24/2009 11:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 20:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: We are not discarding CD images all together. If you feel there is a compelling reason to continue with a Live CD, I am afraid you will have to step up and do it. The tools are easy

Re: Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

2009-11-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/25/2009 12:24 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:24 -0600, Sir Gallantmon wrote: Why not label it x86_32 instead of i386? That is far less confusing and illustrates that it is 32-bit on the x86 architecture, since x86_64 says it is 64-bit on x86 architecture. Because

Re: Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

2009-11-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/25/2009 12:56 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Should there be a RFE bug or rel-eng ticket created so this e-mail thread is not for nothing? It's been discussed since the beginning of time AFAIK. Tickets have been filed and closed before, IIRC. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 07:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: That is true, but a major amount of work in getting a release out must be testing it. Those Fedora people involved in the testing, which are also user-testers, have their own systems with there own hardware and are fully conversant with delving

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:09 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have not entered any bugzilla numbers as yet. I spent days with F11 and previous releases diagnosing reporting and attempting to fix bugs. No graphics updates were ever made available for F11 and still Fedora cannot run even Blender on most of

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:34 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Yes, clear bug reports are needed but they also need the follow through to a fix and updated packages. Agreed. File specific bug reports and post the links here. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:38 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Specific bug reports are definitely going to help. Here are 4 to start with: 1) Cronometer crashes KDE session. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504173 Filed against wrong

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2009 11:38 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point That makes sense. Why don't we drop this from Rawhide? Shipping unsupported drivers like this is

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended up with a huge

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:13 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: We (Red Hat or Fedora) currently don't have access to any sort of conformance suite for our GL though Intel and VMware have started at least doing more and more regression test work lately so less and less crap is making it way into the mainline and

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:21 AM, Felix Miata wrote: What makes your statement invalid is your use of the word essential. Bling and essential are mutually exclusive characteristics WRT to normal desktop users. I didn't use the word useless. And yes, 3D is way more - way more overhead, way more

Re: GrNotify is dead

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2009 10:29 PM, Guillaume Kulakowski wrote: Hi, I package GrNotify but the project is dead. I have reported some bug to upstream and I have proposed some patch but no new release since 9 months. I think remove it from Fedora but I don't know any replacement solution. That do you

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:32 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:49 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/11/28 02:53 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: On 11/28/2009 02:21 AM, Felix Miata wrote: What makes your statement invalid is your use of the word essential. Bling and essential are mutually exclusive characteristics WRT to normal desktop

Re: Looking for testers: RPM 4.8 pre-release snapshots available

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 03:14 AM, John Poelstra wrote: Bruno Wolff III said the following on 11/27/2009 11:59 AM Pacific Time: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:41:17 -0800, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule Is there a calendar page for that that

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/11/28 03:37 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Compositing is sooner or later going to be enabled by default everywhere. Somehow those niche users managed 10-20 years ago before there was such a thing as 3D support in XFree86/Xorg

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/30/2009 01:33 AM, Ikem Krueger wrote: The Bugzappers also always happy to have more people volunteer to help with X.org bug triage; it's a lot of work to keep on top of. I'd like to help. But the wikipage for testing Xorg issues* is a way to much to read, given the case you follow all

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2009 02:59 AM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: I consider real men to be a gender-neutral complement. I know women who gladly receive it and exchange it amongst themselves. Since we're offering Casey money to do thingsĀ¹ today: I will send you a check for $5 if you admit that real men is _in

Re: Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

2009-12-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/08/2009 03:59 AM, Mat Booth wrote: 2009/12/7 Panu Matilainen Now that FESCo has approved new major RPM version for F-13 and the public beta is officially out... it's going to hit rawhide in a few hours. I remember hearing a rumour about automagic OSGi dependency resolution... Is

Re: Parallel XZ - request for testing

2009-12-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/02/2009 07:09 PM, Jindrich Novy wrote: Hi all, the Parallel XZ just reached usable state so if you want to take advantage of parallel LZMA compression, please give it a try before its inclusion into Fedora. PXZ homepage is: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/ Are you moving this to

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/09/2009 10:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2009 04:14 PM, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines Well, I do not want to, I can't avoid to ... ... _you_ will have to do the work, you

Non responsive maintainer: Karol Trzcionka

2009-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, As per policy at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers, I have filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546072 Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Non responsive maintainer: Karol Trzcionka

2009-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/10/2009 04:02 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/12/10 Debayan Banerjee 2009/12/10 Rahul Sundaram Hi, As per policy at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers, I have filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546072 This person used

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/11/2009 02:07 PM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have forked libtar as libtar-ng, because the upstream does not have time to maintain it anymore. Here is the bz: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546169 Now the

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: Without knowing the history: Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue the project under its original name That was already denied https://lists.feep.net:8080/pipermail/libtar/2009-May/000259.html Rahul --

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/11/2009 04:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: Without knowing the history: Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue the project under its original name That

Anyone else want to maintain alltray?

2009-12-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi It is a application that lets you minimize any app to the system tray and is compatible with GNOME, Xfce, KDE etc. It has a dormant upstream and I haven't had time to look into all the crash reports from Abrt. If noone picks it up, I will orphan it in a week. $ yum info alltray Loaded

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/17/2009 12:46 PM, Christof Damian wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 19:58, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: pavucontrol currently crashes (and pulseaudio) for me on one machine and I need this functionality. File a bug. Could everyone on this list please assume that I

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/17/2009 03:20 PM, Christof Damian wrote: I just find it annoying that some people seem to have File a bug. in their signature, when one should assume that on fedora-devel everyone would file a bug for valid problems. It might and should be different on fedora or the forums. They do

Vala programs and compiling from source

2009-12-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I recently submitting Deja-dup, a backup program written in Vala for review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761 Vala is described in more detail at http://live.gnome.org/Vala. Deja-dup like many Vala programs include both the Vala source code and the C source code to avoid

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/22/2009 09:07 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: FWIW - I agree with both jesse and jarod. Official builds are from main branch. Anything built anywhere else will never be official. How about scratch builds? Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/23/2009 09:04 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:50:11PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/22/2009 09:07 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: FWIW - I agree with both jesse and jarod. Official builds are from main branch. Anything built anywhere else will never be official. How about

Re: New covenant published

2009-12-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/24/2009 12:52 AM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: It grants no patent rights to Distributors, aside from those already granted to Novell in the previous covenant. What it practically means is that once you distribute, you stop being considered an End User by Microsoft, and are no longer

Re: (huge) Ruby packaging changes

2009-12-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/24/2009 05:49 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Care to explain the term environment-modules for me please? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EnvironmentModules Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

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