[gentoo-dev] Resignation
Hi, It is time for me to resign as a Gentoo developer. I no longer contribute enough to the project to warrant developer status, and that is not likely to change anytime soon. With new hobbies and projects in my life, I no longer find the free time and motivation combination that used to make me contribute to Gentoo on a regular basis. I wish to thank everyone I had the pleasure to work with. I learned a lot from you, and being part of the development team was a great experience. I plan to contribute on Bugzilla from time to time, and I might try to come back to devhood in the future... With kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)
On Friday, 2 February 2007 05:49, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to > you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In > his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against > you ;) ) living and working n Portugal. Hi Sébastien, and welcome, Glad to see you are joining the team. I look forward to working with you. Cheers, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgp0KyuIPL7aT.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Removal of sci-biology/cbcanalyzer
Hi everyone, sci-biology/cbcanalyzer no longer compiles on any of my systems (bug #153881). It is unmaintained and I have no interest in fixing it. It has been package.mask'ed for a while and no one noticed. Unless someone is interested in fixing the bug and maintaining the package in the future, I will remove it from Portage in about a month. Regards, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgphw2qABeAOW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)
On Friday, 6 October 2006 14:57, Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Jeffrey "je_fro" Gardner, the > latest addition joining to help out with the scientific packages. Another biochemist joins the team! Welcome, Jeffrey. Cheers, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgpCBW706Qk52.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007
On Saturday, 1 July 2006 02:46, Mike Frysinger wrote: > well it's about that time of the year ... time for nominating > people for the next Gentoo Council Hi all, I would like to nominate: Grant Goodyear (g2boojum) Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2) Mike Frysinger (vapier) Michael Sterrett (mr_bones_) George Shapovalov (george) Xavier Neys (neysx) I would also have proposed Donnie Berkholz (spyderous), but he already declined nomination. Cheers, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgpyyUcDnBYpp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Thomas Cort (tcort)
On Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thomas hails from Quebec, Canada and joins the already busy Canadian > conspiracy. Another dev from Québec city! Welcome to the team, Thomas. -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgpQm3KfwbgJu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Gérald Fenoy
Le Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:00 pm, Mike Doty a écrit : > All, please take a moment to welcome djay. Gérald is already a French > GDP translator, and now will help out the sci herd with ebuild maintenance. Glad to see you onboard. Welcome to the team! Cheers, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgphtDLPFSI2N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning
On Monday, 26 December 2005 11:57 am, Jakub Moc wrote: > emboss - "Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software > Suite." WTF? Why are we abusing make.defaults for such stuff? Quote from bug #82428: The reason why I think "emboss" should be enabled by default is that the vast majority of users of packages such as aaindex, CUTG, PRINTS, Prosite, Rebase and TransFac want/expect EMBOSS support for these packages. (These are the only packages with optional EMBOSS support.) For example, although a minority of users have custom scripts to query the Prosite database, most will use the EMBOSS program "patmatmotifs" to interface with it, so having this program available when Prosite is installed is a sensible default. The issue of Stupid/INSANE/crap/crazy/WTF/abusing default USE flags has been brought to this list (and others) before. If you think enabling a certain USE flag is not a good default, explain why, keeping in mind that we cannot enable or disable default USE flags per ebuild, that the default profiles are targeted at desktop users, and that packages should always work correctly out-of-the-box, even if that means pulling in lots of dependencies. If you would like to have a smaller set of default USE flags for a server or a minimal desktop system, then write the corresponding profile and propose it to the relevant arch teams. Regards, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgpavfqChq1d6.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Masking of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.x and related packages
Hi, It has been a while since the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project has moved to a BOINC-based client. Thanks to Marcus Hanwell (cryos), we have working ebuilds for BOINC and the new [EMAIL PROTECTED] client (4.x) in the tree. The "classic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.x service has now been discontinued (and the software is no longer distributed). This is why I will start masking the relevant packages. These will be removed from the tree in about a month. They are: =sci-astronomy/setiathome-3* sci-astronomy/ksetispy sci-astronomy/ksetiwatch sci-astronomy/lin-seti sci-astronomy/msetimon sci-astronomy/setimgr sci-astronomy/tkseti x11-plugins/gkrellm-seti x11-plugins/wmseti x11-plugins/wmsetimon x11-plugins/wmufo The "seti" local USE flag used in "app-admin/torsmo" and "app-admin/conky" will be masked in the base profile. Tracker bug for the new BOINC-based [EMAIL PROTECTED] is #103250 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103250). Regards, -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgpIyWqlWDfrl.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] use.mask'ing and packages in the testing branch
Hi, I have a question about masked USE flags and packages in the testing branch. I have a problem with "sci-biology/emboss", a sequence analysis package I maintain that was keyworded ~amd64 a few days ago. Six packages (containing various genetic and biological data) in the tree have optional EMBOSS support that may be enabled using the corresponding USE flag. EMBOSS PDEPENDs on these six packages, because they are necessary for a complete EMBOSS installation but cannot be installed before EMBOSS as they have to be indexed using EMBOSS programs. These six packages in turn depend on EMBOSS, but only if optional EMBOSS support is turned on. The reason is these packages may be used without EMBOSS (although that is rarely the case, some users appreciate that and I do not want to force over 200 programs on someone just for installing a small amino acid properties database). The end result is that in order to have EMBOSS work on a given arch, the six depending packages must also be keyworded, *and* the emboss USE flag must be enabled by default. Otherwise, the users would be left with the PDEPENDencies built without EMBOSS support, and many EMBOSS programs (some of which are very important and popular) would be broken. The problem is that on amd64, the "emboss" USE flag is still masked and is not in the default USE flags like it is for other arches that support EMBOSS (see bug #105086 [1]). I was told that demasking USE flags is only done when packages hit the stable branch. (I do not know why and would appreciate an explanation.) It also seems that architecture conditional dependencies are deprecated. I still believe that unmasking the keyword would not break anything since no amd64 stable package has optional EMBOSS support and, of course, no such package should be stabilised until EMBOSS itself is stable. The bottom line is EMBOSS is currently keyworded ~amd64 but broken on amd64. This is a known bug and should be easy to fix, but if we cannot demask the USE flag or use architecture conditional dependencies, I really have no idea how to fix this. Thoughts or suggestions anyone? [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105086 -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications, Developer relations pgplNeXfPbdvP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jean-François Brunette(formula7)
On Saturday, 18 June 2005 08:07 pm, Mike Doty wrote: > Everyone welcome formula7 to the team. He is going to be > helping out the security team with writing GLSAs. > > In his own words: > "I'm from Quebec, Canada. I will study law soon at the > University of Sherbrooke. I like everything that is related to > computers and this is why I want to give some of my time to > the Gentoo Project. I spend part of my time working on new > software projects. I'm actually working on AI, especially > neural networks." Another dev from Québec! Are three enough for an official conspiracy? ;-) Bienvenue à bord, Jean-François. -- Olivier Fisette (ribosome) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp7hlaHHSNah.pgp Description: PGP signature
