Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 21, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:

 Karanbir Singh wrote:
 On 06/19/2010 08:58 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
 agree. Karanbir, you used to say that community is about those people
 who help the community and not about those who use the community. ihmo
 Dag is one of those the made most for this community.
 
 I don't see how any of that is even remotely relevant here. And of all 
 the people, Dag is one person I know will understand that. Furthermore, 
 I have much regard and respect for all the work that Dag does. But that 
 has no relevance to the issue here.
 
 Not expecting this list to be turned into a mass announcement list isnt 
 a bad target imho. Besides, I would say the same thing irrespective of 
 who it was.
 
 Ummm, shouldn't the fact that this work replaces/supercedes stuff that the 
 centos project started and abandoned have some bearing here?  That is, there 
 are 
 very good reasons for it to be relevant to this audience regardless of the 
 personalities involved.

I think all parties have a valid point.

One, the list can't let every repo out there post an announcement about the 
availability of every package out there as the list will turn into an 
announcements list which is not what it is intended for.

Two, these are valuable announcements that the EL community should be able to 
see as it directly affects their environments.

What I propose is to have repos batch their announcements into a change log of 
packages updated since the last announcement (including pointers to the repo 
where detailed info can be found) and post no more then once a month or so.

Something along those lines would be acceptable and once agreed upon it should 
be added to the list's acceptable use guidelines.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote:
 On 06/19/2010 08:58 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
 agree. Karanbir, you used to say that community is about those people
 who help the community and not about those who use the community. ihmo
 Dag is one of those the made most for this community.
 
 I don't see how any of that is even remotely relevant here. And of all 
 the people, Dag is one person I know will understand that. Furthermore, 
 I have much regard and respect for all the work that Dag does. But that 
 has no relevance to the issue here.
 
 Not expecting this list to be turned into a mass announcement list isnt 
 a bad target imho. Besides, I would say the same thing irrespective of 
 who it was.

Ummm, shouldn't the fact that this work replaces/supercedes stuff that the 
centos project started and abandoned have some bearing here?  That is, there 
are 
very good reasons for it to be relevant to this audience regardless of the 
personalities involved.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-19 Thread Farkas Levente
On 06/19/2010 06:24 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:20:13AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
 But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I
 dont want to see every repo or development unit out there posting emails
 here for feedback about every component they built. 
 
 Please keep things in perspective, Mr. Singh. This was no announcement about
 a single component. It was about a large program for building kernel modules
 - something that can be useful to many here. Might one dare to say that
 Dag's many contributions to the community give him status as high as your
 own? It would be better for all of us if respect were given where it has
 been earned, and if guests of Dag's stature were honored, especially when
 the show up bringing large gifts.

agree. Karanbir, you used to say that community is about those people
who help the community and not about those who use the community. ihmo
Dag is one of those the made most for this community.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-19 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 On 19/06/2010 02:32, Dag Wieers wrote:
 We are not sending every announcement to the CentOS list, that should be
 apparent from looking at the ELRepo lists (where actual announcements
 are being posted in more detail).

 But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I
 dont want to see every repo or development unit out there posting emails
 here for feedback about every component they built. As I said already,
 many projects have made a one time announcement, which is fine as long
 as we don't get too many projects jumping in. If that becomes a proble,
 we would need to reconsider that as well.

 Anyway, keep the elrepo posts away from this list, just as every other
 project is requested to not spam this list with repeated posts.

Hi Karanbir,

Not sure what was not clear from my previous email, but both mails were 
in fact one time emails looking for feedback. I also stressed that we 
don't do this for every package we build, nor are we planning to.

If you want to continue this discussion, I invite you to do this on the 
ELRepo mailinglist. The original email asked for feedback using our own 
support channels to prevent off-topic discussions on this mailinglist.

And this is my last 'spam' in this thread ;-)

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/19/2010 08:58 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
 agree. Karanbir, you used to say that community is about those people
 who help the community and not about those who use the community. ihmo
 Dag is one of those the made most for this community.

I don't see how any of that is even remotely relevant here. And of all 
the people, Dag is one person I know will understand that. Furthermore, 
I have much regard and respect for all the work that Dag does. But that 
has no relevance to the issue here.

Not expecting this list to be turned into a mass announcement list isnt 
a bad target imho. Besides, I would say the same thing irrespective of 
who it was.

- KB
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Dag,

On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote:
 I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module 
 packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels.

Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here
was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ?

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote:
 I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module
 packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels.

 Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here
 was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ?

Well, this is hardly spam. We are actively seeking feedback on both the 
DRBD and OCFS2 packages from users and since it is related to CentOS it 
makes sense to ask the CentOS list too. It is a coincidence that we are 
doing that for 2 packages in 3 days.

We are not sending every announcement to the CentOS list, that should be 
apparent from looking at the ELRepo lists (where actual announcements 
are being posted in more detail).

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Hi Dag,

 On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote:
   
 I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module 
 packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels.
 

 Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here
 was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ?
   

I don't see this as spamming at all.   He's announcing the availability 
of various major packages specific to the EL community,   The 
announcement a few days ago was for DRBD.
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:26:16AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
 Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here
 was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ?

Unless I am missing posts this was a a one-time announcement;
Dag posted a very similar one recently about DRBD.  Personally,
I'd like to continue to see these announcements here.




John

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:37, John R Pierce wrote:

 I don't see this as spamming at all.   He's announcing the availability 
 of various major packages specific to the EL community,   The 
 announcement a few days ago was for DRBD.


Do you really want to see all repos announce every package they build on
the CentOS lists ?

I dont. And thats not what this list is meant for either.

An occasional announcement is fine - many people have done that, but
sending every package announcement down here isnt.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:49, John R. Dennison wrote:
   Unless I am missing posts this was a a one-time announcement;
   Dag posted a very similar one recently about DRBD.  Personally,
   I'd like to continue to see these announcements here.

I am sure elrepo are able to put up an announcement list, and you are
welcome to join that list. This list isnt elrepo-announce.

We don't even announce CentOS packages here.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:32, Dag Wieers wrote:
 We are not sending every announcement to the CentOS list, that should be
 apparent from looking at the ELRepo lists (where actual announcements
 are being posted in more detail).

But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I
dont want to see every repo or development unit out there posting emails
here for feedback about every component they built. As I said already,
many projects have made a one time announcement, which is fine as long
as we don't get too many projects jumping in. If that becomes a proble,
we would need to reconsider that as well.

Anyway, keep the elrepo posts away from this list, just as every other
project is requested to not spam this list with repeated posts.

- KB

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:20:13AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I
 dont want to see every repo or development unit out there posting emails
 here for feedback about every component they built. 

Please keep things in perspective, Mr. Singh. This was no announcement about
a single component. It was about a large program for building kernel modules
- something that can be useful to many here. Might one dare to say that
Dag's many contributions to the community give him status as high as your
own? It would be better for all of us if respect were given where it has
been earned, and if guests of Dag's stature were honored, especially when
the show up bringing large gifts.

Regards,
Whit
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