Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 16:29:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:08:05 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | 28.2.2006, 15:39:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >> wrote: | >> | No, that's not a policy document, ebuild p

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 16:31:26, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:17:20 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | >> Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. | >> Getting a complete list is something

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
1.3.2006, 1:40:53, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:13:57 -0600 Lance Albertson >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | I should note that if are a Gentoo Developer and have >> | problems/concerns/issues with Ciaran's attitu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Lance Albertson
Lance Albertson wrote: > I should note that if are a Gentoo Developer and have > problems/concerns/issues with Ciaran's attitude/actions, please comment > on bug #114944. (this bug is only open to Gentoo developers). Its better > if you say it yourself in this bug rather than letting other people

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:13:57 -0600 Lance Albertson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I should note that if are a Gentoo Developer and have > | problems/concerns/issues with Ciaran's attitude/actions, please > | comment on bug #114944. (th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:13:57 -0600 Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I should note that if are a Gentoo Developer and have | problems/concerns/issues with Ciaran's attitude/actions, please | comment on bug #114944. (this bug is only open to Gentoo developers). | Its better if you say it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Lance Albertson
Mark Loeser wrote: > I don't think you will find one person that is going to say they are > capable of changing how Ciaran interacts with people. This is an > entirely different issue though, and I have talked to Ciaran about it. > What I was saying above is that I am not going to go and get invo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So you're saying it's ok to have one team member who steps out of line and > cannot be managed? Are all teams allowed that exception? Did you read what I said? I talked to him and told him what I expect. I'm telling you to not expect him to change, not th

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Lauer skrev: > Hi all, > > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc. > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings / > charset

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:34:32PM -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: > Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Yes. Here's a quote from Halcy0n (with his permission): > > > > Don't mistake me not getting involved for approval. I am just not going > > to > > get involved in every single dev->dev d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:14 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > So, back to the big issue, are there any real complaints about the QA > > team essentially formulating QA policy? Should new QA policies instead > > follow the same rules as new global USE flags

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Yes. Here's a quote from Halcy0n (with his permission): > > Don't mistake me not getting involved for approval. I am just not going to > get involved in every single dev->dev disagreement, and certainly not when I > do not have all of the facts. I w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:50 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:42:34 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | ("We'll file bugs on Saturday if there are no objections to removal > | of mkdir in global scope") > > Eek no. Have you any idea what happens when someone s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:58, Alec Warner wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:02, Jakub Moc wrote: > >>28.2.2006, 21:39:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>>whats your point ? if an ebuild author wants to control the SLOT, then > >>>they should be able to without havin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:42:34 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | ("We'll file bugs on Saturday if there are no objections to removal | of mkdir in global scope") Eek no. Have you any idea what happens when someone shoves an mkdir in global scope? That one is most definitely on the lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:14 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > So, back to the big issue, are there any real complaints about the QA > team essentially formulating QA policy? Should new QA policies instead > follow the same rules as new global USE flags or eclasses--an e-mail to > -dev asking for comm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I think > it's fair to say that these QA checks will find problems ranging from > not-awful-but-annoying to could-break-your-system, but they are all bugs > that ought to be fixed eventually. Now, if you're currently working on > fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Renat Lumpau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when a user >> files a report at bugs.gentoo.org > > I don't think that's the lesson. It oughtta be: we need a way to figure out > which QA issues

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:57:05PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:50:40 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > | > today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when > | > a user fil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:55:52PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > eh, see, from what I can tell you are just deciding to make it complicated. How is having a process for resolving disagreements complicating things? I should be able to escalate a conflict (differing opinions on whether something is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:02, Jakub Moc wrote: > >>28.2.2006, 21:39:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >>>whats your point ? if an ebuild author wants to control the SLOT, then >>>they should be able to without having an invalid warning issued on the >>>subject >>> >>>consi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:50:40 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: | > today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when | > a user files a report at bugs.gentoo.org | | I don't think that's the lesson. It o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 2/28/06, Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when a user > > files a report at bugs.gentoo.org > > I don't think that's the lesson. It oughtta be: we need a way

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when a user > files a report at bugs.gentoo.org I don't think that's the lesson. It oughtta be: we need a way to figure out which QA issues are important and which are l

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:02, Jakub Moc wrote: > 28.2.2006, 21:39:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > whats your point ? if an ebuild author wants to control the SLOT, then > > they should be able to without having an invalid warning issued on the > > subject > > > > considering the nature of the w

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 21:39:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > whats your point ? if an ebuild author wants to control the SLOT, then > they should be able to without having an invalid warning issued on the > subject > considering the nature of the warning, it should be trivial to make it into a > proper QA chec

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:10, Jakub Moc wrote: > 28.2.2006, 20:59:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:51, Renat Lumpau wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:57PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probab

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread solar
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:18 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 > solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows > > and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read > > that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:02 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 28.2.2006, 18:38:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too: | | > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then | > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" | | >

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 20:59:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:51, Renat Lumpau wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:57PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probably >> > broken. >> >> Which it _probably_ is. See, this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:51, Renat Lumpau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:57PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probably > > broken. > > Which it _probably_ is. See, this is a numbers game. In most cases, if you > use the web

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen P. Becker
>> which part dont you understand ? the user sets a variable and then is told >> that the package probably contains a bug ... seems pretty confusing to me >> -mike > > rl03 already replied to that. I don't see any QA issues there, and if > someone from QA team does, then he probably has too much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Danny van Dyk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Moc schrieb: | 28.2.2006, 18:38:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | No, I won't claim that... I'd rather love to know why didn't you point out | to an obvious eclass flaw about 30 emails and many hours ago, saving us from | all the eclass formating, s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:27:01 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, don't invent problems, please. Just because you don't see a problem doesn't mean it's not there. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 19:39:15, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> ewarn "This ebuild overrides the default SLOT behaviour for >> webapps" ewarn "If this package installs files into the htdocs dir, this >> is" ewarn "probably a bug in the ebuild." >> >> Sigh... what kind of QA issue is that? > which part dont you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:02:10 -0500, > Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > >if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > > >einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:02:10 -0500, > Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > >if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > > >einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows > and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read > that but I'm unable to find it. Well, stuff I could find includes: http://www.kde

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:02:10 -0500, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > >if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > >einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > > >emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}" > >fi > > > > > > > Semantics of the logic aside, c

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 18:38:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too: > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}" > fi No, I won't claim that... I'd rather love to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:12:57PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Oh come on. I'm not going to insult the intelligence of people reading > this list by explaining something that frickin' obvious. When it's a > subtle issue I explain why it's wrong. When it isn't, I try to avoid > wasting everyone'

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 18:19 +, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:59:49 +0100 > Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (and this is valid for all emails to technical lists,) > > please save us some time and many emails by stating what is wrong when > > you show a QA violat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:00, Jakub Moc wrote: > 28.2.2006, 18:11:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:02:11 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | >> Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policies (was: [RFC] QA Team's role)

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:39, Jakub Moc wrote: > 28.2.2006, 17:24:21, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > If you don't agree with the contents, why didn't you raise your > > opposition earlier? > > I don't feel any need to raise opposition against some unofficial manual, > what would be the point in that

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0500, solar wrote: > I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows > and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read > that but I'm unable to find it. > > Any list readers know anything relating to that? > It's tru

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:30:24 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | OK, so kernel-2.eclass is abusing the slot as well, go scream on | kernel devs. No. kernel-2 installs sources, not an actual package. | > | Yeah, it checks for that since that's the way the eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:59:49 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | (and this is valid for all emails to technical lists,) | please save us some time and many emails by stating what is wrong when | you show a QA violation. Oh come on. I'm not going to insult the intelligence of people re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:59:49 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (and this is valid for all emails to technical lists,) > please save us some time and many emails by stating what is wrong when > you show a QA violation. This is a technical discussion list, and as such it is fair to a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:59:49PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > If you show a wrong code snippet please explain _why_ it is wrong in the > same email. Ehm you mean it is not obvious that calling emerge inside an eclass is utterly wrong ? -- Fernando J. Pereda GarcimartĂ­n Gentoo Developer (A

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 2/28/06, Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:38 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too: > > > > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:38 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too: > > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}" > fi Ciaran, (and this is valid for

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 18:11:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:02:11 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | >> Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll | >> notice that it checks that S

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:38:10 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}" > fi Uh, what the fuck is that doing in an eclass ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows | and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read | that but I'm unable to find it. | | Any list readers know anything relating to that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:57PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probably > broken. Which it _probably_ is. See, this is a numbers game. In most cases, if you use the webapp eclass, setting SLOT="0" is incorrect. There are some cases in

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread solar
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:58 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc. > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings / > charsets / ... was

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:30:24 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | OK, so kernel-2.eclass is abusing the slot as well, go scream on | kernel devs. No. kernel-2 installs sources, not an actual package. | > | Yeah, it checks for that since that's the way the eclass is | > | designed. You can

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 18:09:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:03 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> PVR includes the revision of an ebuild. This means that if a | >> revbump is made on a webapp package to fix a critical flaw, users | >> will still have the old broken packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:02:11 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll | > notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something | > sane. | |

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:03 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > PVR includes the revision of an ebuild. This means that if a | > revbump is made on a webapp package to fix a critical flaw, users | > will still have the old broken package installed too. This is | > especially relevant fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll > notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something sane. Excepting that you can set WEBAPP_MANUAL_SLOT="yes" and set SLOT to whatever the hell you

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 17:35:32, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:11:58 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Ok, sorry for being dumb :-) > | What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT > | depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical a

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Josh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ooh, I'm very much in favor of unicode being enabled by default. It's not like users would be limited *only* to UTF-8 on their new installs, anyway. I'd love to see this implemented. ++ for the suggestion. :) Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > at FO

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Ok, sorry for being dumb :-) > What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT > depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first > glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes. One iss

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policies (was: [RFC] QA Team's role)

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 17:24:21, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Hi Jakub, > If you don't agree with the contents, why didn't you raise your > opposition earlier? I don't feel any need to raise opposition against some unofficial manual, what would be the point in that? I'm raising my hand against silently incorpora

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:22:57 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Eh? Seen kernel2.eclass? Going to file a bug about that as well? Seen | gst/gstreamer eclasses? Going to file QA bugs about them as well? And | - what's exactly the QA violation there, if you could enlighten us? You're misun

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:11:58 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ok, sorry for being dumb :-) | What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT | depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first | glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it cau

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Lars Weiler wrote: > * Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]: >> Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our >> international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any >> known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that? > > It is

[gentoo-dev] Policies (was: [RFC] QA Team's role)

2006-02-28 Thread Danny van Dyk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jakub, Jakub Moc schrieb: | 28.2.2006, 16:29:07, Stephen Bennett wrote: |>>When and where has been the following change discussed and who |>>approved that? |>> |>>http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guid

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 16:42:46, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:26:37 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If you can't do any better, then please apologize for your conduct > | and false claims and shut up... TIA. > Sure I can do better. But you didn't originally ask for better,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:42 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:26:37 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If you can't do any better, then please apologize for your conduct > | and false claims and shut up... TIA. > > Sure I can do better. But you didn't originally as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:42:30 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Punting every single piece of broken sh*t from the tree requires > notifying everyone on -dev ml and allowing a period of time before > it's actually done, so silently changing/stating policies is a very > broken practice.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:08, Jakub Moc wrote: > 28.2.2006, 15:39:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | No, that's not a policy document, ebuild policy is documented here: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:47, Lance Albertson wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:53:20 -0800 Donnie Berkholz > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages, > > | and only the council should be able to overr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:08:05 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 28.2.2006, 15:39:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | No, that's not a policy document, ebuild policy is documented | > | here: | > | | > http://www

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:26:37 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If you can't do any better, then please apologize for your conduct | and false claims and shut up... TIA. Sure I can do better. But you didn't originally ask for better, you asked for anything. If better's what you're after:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:12:32 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Wow. That is ... impressive. After about two days of asking for any | real bugs you are able to show a trivial syntax issue? | | Please stop yelling "it si teh b0rk!" if you can't even list any | serious issues, and stop

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:17:20 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. | > Getting a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot | > longer, and I have yet

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 16:29:07, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:08:05 +0100 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When and where has been the following change discussed and who >> approved that? >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide

[gentoo-dev] SLOTed MySQL or not?

2006-02-28 Thread Luca Longinotti
As the title says, what would you prefer for the future of MySQL in Gentoo? Please take a moment to read https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-438557.html and vote (and eventually comment on it). Thanks! -- Best regards, Luca Longinotti aka CHTEKK LongiTEKK Networks Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gento

[gentoo-dev] SLOTed MySQL or not?

2006-02-28 Thread Luca Longinotti
As the title says, what would you prefer for the future of MySQL in Gentoo? Please take a moment to read https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-438557.html and vote (and eventually comment on it). Thanks! -- Best regards, Luca Longinotti aka CHTEKK LongiTEKK Networks Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gento

[gentoo-dev] Remove net-im/jive-messenger from the tree

2006-02-28 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
A few days ago I added net-im/wildfire to the tree. This is the sucessor to jive-messenger. The ebuild is diferent and now complays to net-im/jabber-base. In a week or so I'll remove jive-messenger from the tree. -- Gustavo Felisberto (HumpBack) Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback Blog: http://

Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision

2006-02-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:16, Marius Mauch wrote: > Check your mail archives for the old discussions about distfile name > mangling (short version: a lot of stuff relies on distfile-name == > basename(src_uri), also if at all this would only be a long term > solution due to compat issues invol

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 16:12:32, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> This is a whitespace / coding style breakage. The correct format should >> be: >> >> webapp_read_config() { >> >> Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. Getting >> a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot l

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:08:05 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When and where has been the following change discussed and who > approved that? > > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&root=gentoo According to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:34:49 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | Once that is supported, I'm also sure that those people involved will > | be more than happy to fix their ebuilds to use those features. I do > | agree wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:52:46PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. Getting > a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot longer, and I > have yet to be convinced that my time would not be better spent > elsewhere. So let m

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. Getting > a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot longer, and I > have yet to be convinced that my time would not be better spent > elsewhere. Where is a cod

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:52 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:38:17 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | You still haven't posted posted a *single example* of webapp-config > | brokeness. You, I'd say you should either back up claims about "all > | the ways in which w

Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision

2006-02-28 Thread Marius Mauch
Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:29, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:19:40PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree. Actually, there is a so

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.2.2006, 15:39:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | No, that's not a policy document, ebuild policy is documented here: > | > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?style=printable&part=3&chap=1 > No, the w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:00, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Basically, I really don't see why webapp-config can't have some logic > built in which makes it smart enough to figure out which webserver > somebody is using. Please remember that the apache group is just another name for httpd group

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:48, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:21:23 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Huh? It violates the sandbox even if you do 'emerge sync' and never > touch the ebuild. Look at the frickin' mkdir! Hmm. Didn't realise that the sandbox is more res

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 2/28/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still not convinced that it's worth my while *You* chose to mention webapp-config in this thread. Stop making excuses. Make good on your claims. Put up, or shut up. Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:38:17 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You still haven't posted posted a *single example* of webapp-config | brokeness. You, I'd say you should either back up claims about "all | the ways in which webapp-config is broken" or apologize to the | concerned developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:21:23 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-apps/bootstrap | >_cmds/bootstrap_cmds-44.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain | | Probably because although it isn't a good ebuild it still works and | does

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:34:49 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Once that is supported, I'm also sure that those people involved will | be more than happy to fix their ebuilds to use those features. I do | agree with them though that the distribution should not be held back | by miss

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Joseph Jezak
I can't say if there are any problems, as I didn't received a bug for a long time. The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console. I think that's acceptable. The only issue related to that we really have is this bug, which is annoying but not fatal: http://bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:21:14 + "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We've committed a fix for this problem upstream. We'll probably roll | out w-c 1.5.11 at the weekend. That'll give us suitable time to test | this, and to incorporate the QA issues from Ciaran that we're still | wait

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | No, that's not a policy document, ebuild policy is documented here: | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?style=printable&part=3&chap=1 No, the whole thing is policy. | Moreover, the cited howto is w

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