So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the flames burn
bright enough to have earned a star designation from the IAU. Given what's been
going on lately, and with calls from myself and others (i.e., mcummings) to get
back on track and actually like, you know, develop
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Kumba wrote:
So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the
flames burn bright enough to have earned a star designation from the
IAU. Given what's been going on lately, and with calls from myself and
others (i.e.,
On 6/7/07, Kumba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyways, thoughts?
--Kumba
+1
possible alternative names: gentoo-soap, gentoo-gossip ( not to be
confused with net-im/gossip )
And just for fits and giggles, the occasional person can start a fake
flame war just to keep us on our toes as to whats
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And maybe a dev who
secretly dabbles in another OSlike Wind...err, Ubuntu!
I thought this position has been already filled :)
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Kumba wrote:
So anyways, I'm all for this list, humour aside. It's blatantly obvious
people need a place to vent at times, and I think that by separating the
politics from the technical discussion, it might help in some way. Yes,
it'll also be the source of many problems too. I can't
On Thursday 07 June 2007 09:10:41 Kent Fredric wrote:
On 6/7/07, Kumba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyways, thoughts?
--Kumba
+1
+1 here too
possible alternative names: gentoo-soap, gentoo-gossip ( not to be
confused with net-im/gossip )
gentoo-soap, lol!
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possible alternative names: gentoo-soap, gentoo-gossip ( not to be
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Please, please, make it gentoo-circuits [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Circuits
Yours faithfully,
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I propose to create a new global USE flag:
As there was no objections (mcummings does not count), I did so.
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 01:08 +0100, George Prowse wrote:
from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/coc.xml
Look at the Council logs from the CoC being approved and the ones since.
We asked for real guidelines so we could specifically avoid this sort of
problem from
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:15:58 +0100
George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All this is immaterial anyway because even if it had been extensively
discussed at length then the proctors would still have acted the
same
If that really were the case, it would just be an even stronger
argument for
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Perhaps if the proctors had discussed things first, they wouldn't have
made two major screwups that resulted in Gentoo losing yet another
developer.
Might I suggest that anybody who is waiting for one last straw go
ahead and take a month or two off right now and save
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:08:48PM +0200, Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's my pleasure to welcome back Deedra Waters (also known as dmwaters on
IRC).
Welcome back Deedra :)
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:19:55 -0400
Kumba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the flames
burn
bright enough to have earned a star designation from the IAU. Given what's
been
going on lately, and with calls from myself and others
On Thu, Jun 7, 2007 at 12:20:07 +0200, George Prowse wrote:
[...] before trying to stop a thread
descending into anarchy?
I wish it was descending into anarchy. Which is a highly organized
social system, and doesn't have anything to do with chaos. Anarchy is
just a system where there is no
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...or, Trees and Tree Climbers: Shaking up the tree
Parts of this argument have been raised before. If this particular angle
has already been addressed, kindly point me to the archive so I can see
whether I have anything new and original to add or
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:15:58 +0100
George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All this is immaterial anyway because even if it had been extensively
discussed at length then the proctors would still have acted the
same
If that really were the case, it would just be an even
Alexandre Buisse wrote:
On Thu, Jun 7, 2007 at 12:20:07 +0200, George Prowse wrote:
[...] before trying to stop a thread
descending into anarchy?
I wish it was descending into anarchy. Which is a highly organized
social system, and doesn't have anything to do with chaos. Anarchy is
just a
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
snip various good infos
The Code of Conduct was written with the hopes that its existence would
help to curb the flamewars and other general nastiness between people
within the community. The proctors were created to
Hello Chris!
I'm shortening your mail greatly and respond to only a few aspects because
the two of us seem to agree on a great deal of those points you made.
On Thursday, June 7, 2007 01:45:43 AM Chris Gianelloni wrote:
[Proctors]
Well, they've been asked to write guidelines for Council
Christian Parpart wrote:
+1 here too
possible alternative names: gentoo-soap, gentoo-gossip ( not to be
confused with net-im/gossip )
gentoo-soap, lol!
And these are the Flames of our Lives...
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William Hubbs wrote:
Hi all,
app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time.
We currently have several bugs against this package, including one
security bug.
Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their
Howdy all,
I just bumped into something I feel is a Portage and PMS bug. Since I
believe in concrete use cases, I'll just go with that.
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper upstream
name and name referenced in every single doc in the world is ntfs-3g.
I tried to rename
Luca Barbato wrote:
I'm ok with it, just I'd like to have it available as gentoo-fortune please.
(btw I'd like to see the quotebot back from the old ages!)
Oh, I could easily see the quote package for gentoo-politics (or whatever its
called) raising much laughter (among other things).
And
Marius Mauch wrote:
Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an honest question,
maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have serious doubts about it. It's
of no use if people have to be told to move threads from -dev to that new list.
Most of what I wrote was
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Howdy all,
I just bumped into something I feel is a Portage and PMS bug. Since I
believe in concrete use cases, I'll just go with that.
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper upstream
name and name referenced in every single doc in the world is
On Thursday, June 7, 2007 01:43:45 PM Michael Cummings wrote:
...or, Trees and Tree Climbers: Shaking up the tree
You forgot about the tree huggers! ;-)
I mostly agree with your arguments but seeing what we have in the Sunrise
overlay I don't think we need another one.
Today, people can get
Marius Mauch wrote:
Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an honest
question, maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have serious doubts
about it. It's of no use if people have to be told to move threads from -dev
to that new list.
We might need some sort of
070607 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
people with ability to say move this to gentoo-politics or else..
for non-technical threads, as well as stop failing to use logic
in your technical discussion or else... with power
to temporarily ban people for non-compliance could be a useful thing.
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Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
Marius Mauch wrote:
Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an honest
question, maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have serious doubts
about it. It's of no use if people have to be
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:02 -0500
Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No can do - temporarily banning is a bad thing, its censorship, and we
can't have that, no sir.
It's censorship when it's being done one-sidedly in order to skew an
argument based upon the prejudices of those doing
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:02 -0500
Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No can do - temporarily banning is a bad thing, its censorship, and we
can't have that, no sir.
It's censorship when it's being done one-sidedly in order to skew an
argument based
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:02 -0500
Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No can do - temporarily banning is a bad thing, its censorship, and we
can't have that, no sir.
It's censorship when it's being done one-sidedly in order to skew an
argument based upon the
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper upstream
name and name referenced in every single doc in the world is ntfs-3g.
I tried to rename the package however, Portage does not let me since it
is invalid naming. marienz and genone informed me it's
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:32:40 -0400
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper
upstream name and name referenced in every single doc in the world
is ntfs-3g. I tried to rename the package however, Portage does
maillog: 07/06/2007-19:42:45(+0200): Marius Mauch types
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:32:40 -0400
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper
upstream name and name referenced in every single doc in the world
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official)
cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new
ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have,
from the gentoo-x86
Marius Mauch wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:32:40 -0400
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper
upstream name and name referenced in every single doc in the world
is ntfs-3g. I tried to rename the
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
don't know unless you actually check the tree.
I thought that was the whole point of =. That identifies CPV instead of
an atom.
If you look the DEPEND/RDEPEND
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 02:57:28 +0900
Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maillog: 07/06/2007-19:42:45(+0200): Marius Mauch types
Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
don't know unless you actually check the tree.
Isn't sys-fs/ntfs-3g the atom and
On Thursday, June 7, 2007 08:34:37 PM Vlastimil Babka wrote:
Well the difference is that AFAIK Sunrise is just for maintainer-wanted
stuff that's not in the tree yet, but Michael talks about (rev)bumps of
stuff that's already in tree.
AFAIK, if the maintainer agrees, it's fine to have other
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
don't know unless you actually check the tree.
I thought that was the whole point of =. That identifies CPV instead of
an
Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
Marius Mauch wrote:
Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an
honest question, maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have
serious doubts about it. It's of no use if people have to be told to
move threads
On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Doug Goldstein wrote:
That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version) requires
=, =, , = to begin it.
So you'd like to change every foo/bar occurrence (and that's the common case)
to =foo/bar-0 !? Completely out of line, imho. I don't understand what
Carsten Lohrke wrote:
On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Doug Goldstein wrote:
That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version) requires
=, =, , = to begin it.
So you'd like to change every foo/bar occurrence (and that's the common case)
to =foo/bar-0 !? Completely out of
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:42:45 +0200
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
don't know unless you actually check the tree.
Is there any place in the tree where a dep atom and a CPV are both
accepted? Should there be?
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Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Doug Goldstein wrote:
That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version) requires
=, =, , = to begin it.
So you'd like to change every foo/bar occurrence (and that's the common case)
to =foo/bar-0 !?
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:04:17 -0400
Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version)
requires =, =, , = to begin it.
Nope. Something that starts with an operator is a versioned atom. A CPV
is used in other places when a specific version is
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:28:26 -0700
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4. If the first character was a !, then remember that, strip the !
from S, and repeat from 2.
5. If you reach this point, you have something that is not valid.
Sorry, but I completely fail to understand what that's
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:31:44PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:42:45 +0200
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
don't know unless you actually check the tree.
Is there any place in the tree where
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
Marius Mauch wrote:
Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an
honest question, maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have
serious doubts about it. It's of no use if people
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:33:21 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An ebuild's PROVIDE list.
Nnnnope. Not legal.
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:33:21 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An ebuild's PROVIDE list.
According to PMS at least, PROVIDE only allows category/package, with
no versioning.
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On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Doug Goldstein wrote:
Carsten, no offense but I think you totally misunderstood the scope of
what I was trying to convey
Yeah, sorry, should have had read your initial email carefully. Taking
anything before the last - as version information is indeed a Portage
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:33:21 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An ebuild's PROVIDE list.
Nnnnope. Not legal.
The question was Is there any place in the tree where a dep atom and a
CPV are both accepted? Look at the
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:52:39 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:33:21 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An ebuild's PROVIDE list.
Nnnnope. Not legal.
The question was Is
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:31:38 +0200
Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the question is whether it's accepted, what matters is whether it's
accepted. If you're interested in legality, ask whether it should be
accepted, not whether it is. spb did that in the same message, and I
responded
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:38:49 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Portage currently happens to, say, disable sandbox if an ebuild
sets GIVE_ME_A_COOKIE=yes globally, it does not mean that ebuilds
may rely upon this behaviour, nor does it mean that Portage cannot
change in such a
Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:37:05 -0500:
Not everyone had your perception either - in fact, it would appear that
a lot of people have the same perception as me, which is that Neddy saw
the potential of this thread to
Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 07 Jun
2007 16:50:54 +0200:
I mostly agree with your arguments but seeing what we have in the
Sunrise overlay I don't think we need another one.
Today, people can get involved by submitting ebuilds to (and
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On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:10 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 05:29:47 PM Grant Goodyear wrote:
I'm sure they have the best intentions but I've never seen any clear
guidelines for them. They use
Duncan wrote:
The difference, as I read the proposal, is that while Sunrise is about
packages that are /not/ in the main tree yet (if it's moved to the tree,
it's out of sunrise, tho it might move to another overlay if
appropriate), this proposal would extend that to packages that are in the
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
Hi William,
Could you point me to a noob's guide to espeak? I cannot seem to get it
to output any speech. voyageur on IRC stated that it worked for him via
'aoss espeak hello
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
We might need some sort of enforcement for that particular purpose.
While I think that behavior proctors are inappropriate, I think that
people with ability to say move this thread to gentoo-politics or else..
for non-technical threads, as well as stop failing to
070607 Kumba wrote:
what should we call it? Vote on this!
If users have votes ...
gentoo-politics
... that gets mine: let's keep it quite clear what it is.
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Doug Goldstein wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
No can do - temporarily banning is a bad thing, its censorship, and we
can't have that, no sir.
It's censorship when it's being done one-sidedly in order to skew an
argument based upon the prejudices of those doing
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