Replacement of identity.kde.org

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, 

We are currently preparing the replacement of the current software used for 
identity.kde.org (GOSA). We will replace it with brand new software, developed 
by Ben Cooksley himself, it's called Solena. The idea is still the same: one 
place to create a username/password and use that service on several other sites 
we roll out within KDE. The most important advantage with the new software is 
that we get a sane user experience, identity.kde.org has a bad user interface, 
resulting in several problems.

We will convert all existing accounts automatically. Why this mail? To announce 
the new software and to announce that this weekend we will do the conversion to 
new system and make that active.

That means that identity.kde.org will not be 100% up this weekend, and it might 
be that at some points we are making some minor adjustments to the sites which 
rely on the authentication done by identity.kde.org, resulting that you can not 
login into such a site for short periods of time.

Any questions (or beta-testers!) are still welcome in #kde-sysadmin.

Best,

Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Reactivate your KDE bugs.kde.org account before March 30th 2012

2012-03-05 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

We have recently installed a new update of the bugzilla software and we would 
like to ask you to reactivate your accounts. This can be done in one simple 
step: login on the http://bugs.kde.org site.

If you don't reactivate your account before March 30th we will block your 
account from logging in until the password reset feature is used to set a new 
password.

Sorry for the trouble, but we hope you will enjoy the upgrade.

Best,

Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Bugzilla upgrade.

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, 

Our bugzilla instance is an old version. We are preparing to upgrade it to a 
recent version. 

This will go in two stages. First we will perform a test upgrade. This will 
happen on Saturday Februari 25th. We will start at 8PM CET. We expect little 
inpact, though during the database conversion we expect the current bugzilla to 
be slower as usual. If this will becomes unworkable, we will close bugs.kde.org 
during this conversion. 

If all goes well, we want to do the final conversion on Friday March 2nd. We 
will start at 8PM CET. During the conversion bugs.kde.org will be unavailable. 
We expect a downtime of a few hours. We will know more after the test.

All work will be coordinated via the #kde-sysadmin. If you want to test the new 
bugzilla before it goes live (/me waves at the dr.konqi developers) talk to us. 
Also when you have any other concerns or questions about the upgrade.

Best,

Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin
ps. Any replies which include the word 'Redmine' will be ignored.


Re: Enabling the wiki on projects.kde.org ?

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 
 
 Hi,
 
 
 
 I'm not sure which mailing list is appropriate for this, so I try
 here.
 
 
 
 projects.kde.org is Redmine, and Redmine has a wiki.
 
 AFAIK the wiki is currently disabled on projects.kde.org (or can I
 enable it on a per-project basis and I just didn't find it ?).
 
 
 
 Can we enable the wiki please ?
 
 I created the SuperBuild project there after the Platform sprint,
 and having the wiki right there would IMO be a perfect place to put
 documentation etc.
 
 I wouldn't have to go to yet another wiki, or set up a whole website,
 etc.
 
 
 
 So, what's the state with the wiki on projects.kde.org ?
 
 
 
 Alex

We have 3 wiki's already, techbase, userbase and communitybase. Please use 
those...

Best,

Toma
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Enabling the wiki on projects.kde.org ?

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 communitybase is
 more for temporary stuff, as I understand it.

No. Communitybase is for your project internals, like sprint organisation, 
meeting notes, todo lists, etc.

Userbase is the interface for the users and techbase for developers. The 
information you provide is targeted at developers, so techbase is a perfect fit 
there (imho).

Best,

Toma
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Requested Moratorium on hard to build dependency bumps for KDE 5

2011-06-07 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 IMHO it is out of the question to ask a developer to not implement a
 great new feature just because the dependancies are too young.

I disagree completely. I would very much welcome a policy that states that you 
can only depend on stuff that is available in the newest release of Fedora  
KUbuntu  other KDE friendly distro's.

Toma



Re: Rules to be approved as part of KDE Frameworks

2011-06-07 Thread Tom Albers


- Original Message -
 On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 02:00:20 AM Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
  On Monday, June 6, 2011 19:41:15 Maksim Orlovich wrote:
 * all new features will be developed using the recommended git
 workflow

(pending publication; Cornelius is working on that one);

Those rules might seem like a strong departure from what we're
used to.
On the other hand, if you look at them closely, they are merely
making
explicit changes to our habits which already happened a while
ago
during the Qt 3 to Qt 4 port
   
   These two things don't really go well together now, do they?
  
  a documented git workflow is new, but needed.
 
 Yes, yes, yes. 100 %. We really need that. For git newbies (like me)
 and to
 avoid total chaos.  And so that it stays possible to contribute to
 any KDE
 projects without having to figure out for each single project how
 they prefer
 to use git and branches etc.

That's not what is happening. It's a workflow for the frameworks, the rest of 
KDE is invited to follow. So you still have to find out for each single project 
how they prefer to use git and branches. (afaics)

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Objections to stop creating nightly tarballs from svn?

2011-05-20 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

As known, sysadmin is trying to transfer services away from ktown. One of the 
current tasks of ktown is to provide nightly snapshots of svn to this location:

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots/

We are wondering if it is worth to move this service or to stop it. Arguments 
to stop it are: 1) needs svn checkout on the replacement server and 2) less and 
less usage of it as svn is 'old' technology. 

The only user we know of these snapshots is kdesrc-build, and I'm pretty sure 
that app will cope fine without the tarballs. If there are other users, we 
would like to know. 

Does anyone feel this service should remain? If so, that's fine, but we just 
need some arguments for it.

projects.kde.org does create tarballs for the git repo's and will continue to 
do so. This is only about the svn counterpart.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Upcoming freezes KDE 4.7

2011-05-07 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, 

Just to let you all know that some freezes are coming up next week in 
preparation of the first 4.7 beta release. Some items of importance:

--
Thursday, May 12, 2011: KDE 4.7 Dependency Freeze
From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump 
dependencies versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post the 
patch to reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will check if 
the dependency is needed and is available on all platforms.

In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a 
version of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the build 
system, you need to have committed this change before this date.

Thursday, May 12, 2011: KDE 4.7 Hard Feature Freeze
Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned 
feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed.

Thursday, May 19, 2011: KDE 4.7 Beta 1 Tagging
Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those 
fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as 
soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011: KDE 4.7 Beta 1 Release
The beta becomes available for general consumption.
--

The rest of the schedule is available at:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Release_Schedule

Or add a reference to the always up-to-date ics file to your calendar-app:
http://www.kde.org/releaseschedule.ics

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation May 1st

2011-05-01 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 [Tom Albers - Sonntag, 1. Mai 2011 16:00:57]
  Hi,
  
  New month, new list. If lists are unused, let me know, I will
  delete them. If someone wants to help with moderation for any of
  these list, let me know as well.
 
19 kde-news-de
 
 You can put me in change here. I will look into the moderation list
 ... but the list itself seems pretty dead so, let's see how it turns
 out. I will contact you, if I figured it out.

Great, password sent in a private mail.

Best.
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Empty merges per release

2011-04-27 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 (oh well, who
 cares,
 given all that scripty crap in the history)

I consider our translations very important for KDE. Would be nice if people -in 
general- do not consider translations and the contributors working on that as 
second class community members. Calling the scripty commits 'crap' is weird, 
really.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Replacement for Qt's Undo Framework

2011-04-26 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Monday, April 25, 2011 22:12:55 Alexander Potashev wrote:
  What do you think about inclusion of KUndo*2 into kdelibs?
 
 we really don't want more duplication of code and effort between Qt
 and
 kdelibs, and we certainly don't want forks of Qt code in kdelibs.

Forks? It does sound like to me as we take the base class from Qt and improve 
it for usage within KDE. We've done that for years and years. Does this now 
imply that that's bad practice and kdelibs is closed for such classes?

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Shell access to ktown.kde.org will be shut down.

2011-04-17 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

In the past sysadmin has given personal shell access [1] to ktown.kde.org to 
some people. Currently we are making inventory on ktown and would like to know 
if these shell accounts are still used and for what reason. 

Please reply to sysad...@kde.org if you have access and indicate the reason. 
It's important that you reply if you have access or had access in the past, 
since ktown is end of life and you will lose access / data otherwise.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin
[1] packagers have access on ktown too, you don't have to respond to this email 
in that case.


Thursday, April 28, 2011: KDE 4.7 Soft Feature Freeze

2011-04-16 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

Just a reminder that the soft feature freeze is rapidly approaching:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Release_Schedule#Thursday.2C_April_28.2C_2011:_KDE_4.7_Soft_Feature_Freeze

Add your features to the Feature Plan so you can work on it until the hard 
freeze here:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Feature_Plan

For the complete schedule, now and in the future, add the ics to your favorite 
calendaring app:
http://www.kde.org/releaseschedule.ics

Best,

Toma
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: 4.6 branches created in git again

2011-03-21 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 Come to think of it, perhaps it's the Release Team who should have
 final say
 on the branch naming, they may have requirements that we haven't
 thought of?

I think I can say on behalf of the release-team, that we don't care much as 
long as it is consistent over all git repo's and ideally done before 4.6.2 has 
to be tagged (31st)

iow, don't delay the renaming, just do it IMHO.

Though if it needs a reclone for everyone we need to pick a date and 
*communicate* it. Let's say this weekend?

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: 4.6 branches created in git again

2011-03-21 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 05:57:03PM +, Tom Albers wrote:
  Though if it needs a reclone for everyone we need to pick a date and
  *communicate* it. Let's say this weekend?
 
 reclone? hello?

I think I've stated my question in a way that makes clear that I did not know 
the answer. I did not know if the renaming of branches would make the existing 
shasums invalid. Hence my formulation. 

Git might be known by you inside out, but please note that is not the case for 
everyone. I personally think it's inappropriate to make fun of someone less 
knowledgeable. If you want to be short, just leave out your whole line 
'reclone? hello?' and keep the instructions. It brings the point across too and 
I feel less dumb.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: 4.6 branches created in git again

2011-03-21 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:06:51PM +, Tom Albers wrote:
  Git might be known by you inside out, but please note that is not
  the
  case for everyone.
 
 it's one thing not to know everything inside out and another not to
 understand what a ref actually is ...

I'm a team player, that means I trust on others to educate me, correct me and 
that also means I don't have to learn git.

It seems the 'KDE Community' feeling I once appreciated being part of is 
declining by the day.
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: 4.6 branches created in git again

2011-03-21 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:24:24PM +, Tom Albers wrote:
  I'm a team player, that means I trust on others to educate me,
  correct me
 
 you may have noticed that all the job ads looking for team players
 also
 emphasize independence and self-motivation. i.e., the ability to
 complete day-to-day tasks on your own.

My day-to-day task was to be helpful in this thread. And I could complete that 
just fine without knowing what a ref is. The only part I was not sure of I 
clearly indicated that someone else needs to look at it.


  that also means I don't have to learn git.
 
 hearing that from a sysadmin makes me *really* scared.

The sysadmin team has knowledge enough about git and I'm happy to leave the 
things I don't know to them.

 but then, kde always had the culture of fixing mistakes instead of
 avoiding them (as in, stuff that gets committed).

Yes, this is different than a commercial company indeed.

 we have about 500
 backups (clones) of the repositories and nobody except me seems to
 care
 whether the scm history is useful anyway.

From close by I've seen several git repo's being declined by fellow sysadmins 
and people from kde-git, because the history was incomplete or stuff was 
missing. I've seen several discussions about what would be the 'right' history 
and a lot of people cared. I think you are mistaken here.

 so whatever - let's have
 fun!
 had your daily pull --rebase screwup already? no? way to go ...

Let me be clear: I'm very careful about the stuff I do with git and I 
understood the discussion about the --rebase problem just fine, after this list 
made clear I had to watch out for that. I actually did research and talked to 
people to understand it, because the discussion was a bit confusing to me.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-03-20 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

- Original Message -
 On March 10, 2011 12:49:16 John Layt wrote:
  I've offered previously to mod those lists, I'd be happy to take
  them on
  now. I think I also previously said we can get rid of the kde-print
  list,
  it's had about 5 mails in the 18 months so I don't think it will be
  missed. I'd rather keep the devel list going for bug triage, and I
  will
  have news about possible new development work on printing in the
  near
  future for which the list may be useful.
 
 
 Tom, from my part, I believe it is indeed better to go with John's
 suggestions. While being there, removing my contact from the admins of
 kde-
 print-devel ml would be very much appreciated.
 
 Thanks a lot.
 
 --
 Cristian Tibirna
 KDE developer .. tibi...@kde.org .. http://www.kde.org

I've deleted kde-print mailinglist and made John the admin of kde-print-devel. 
Password sent in private mail. 

Thanks both!

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


FYI: Jamaica down this Saturday

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, 

jamaica (which hosts www.kde.org and a dozen more sites, not dot.kde.org, 
forum.kde.org or planet) will be without power between 10:00 and 17:00 CET this 
Saturday. The sysadmins there say they will be replacing a UPS, another source 
says they will move the datacenter. In any case I guess the server won't be 
reachable.

I will try to move www.kde.org to another box, but it is uncertain we will 
manage to do this in time. This could also cause an occasional longer delay in 
DNS resolving.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-03-01 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 Tom Albers t...@kde.org writes:
 
  34 kfm-devel
 
 I could help with this one.

Awesome, password mailed in separate mail.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Bugzilla and identity.kde.org down this Saturday.

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

We've received a note that immanuel.kde.org will be down this Saturday. From 
7.30h CET up to 16h CET the hosting provider has planned work on the power 
supply to the hosting location.

The services affected are: bugs, identity, docs, promo, events, games, home and 
rsync.kde.org

A nasty side effect is that identity.kde.org is providing authentication 
services to several other sites, like git.reviewboard.kde.org and 
projects.kde.org. This means logged in users are lucky, but you can not log in 
if you are logged out.

Unfortunately we have not had time to setup a replication for identity.kde.org 
and it's not going to happen before this outage.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: A Qt replacement for KGlobal::ref and deref

2011-02-14 Thread Tom Albers
 I agree, as long as the reference count is tied to the window count.
 People
 should understand that a GUI application running with no GUI makes no
 sense
 and should be avoided.

RSIBreak has no GUI, only a stats window and a config window. It only has a 
tray icon. Probably the famous exception to the rule? Do I need to change 
anything in my app for this?

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers


Re: reminder: git workflow irc meeting on Sunday

2011-02-12 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 hi all...
 
 just a quick and friendly reminder that the git workflow irc meeting
 is on for
 Sunday the 13th starting at 20:00 UTC on irc.freenote.net in #kde-git.
 
 see you all there! :)
 
 --
 Aaron J. Seigo
 humru othro a kohnu se
 GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
 
 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks

Hi, 

Is there an agenda for the meeting, or some documentation? If everyone gets a 
chance to explain their preferred git workflow and we are going to be a 
discussion afterwards and pick one, I bet this is a meeting that will take 
forever with loads of frustration and chaos. Any thoughts on that?

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: splitting up kdebase in git

2011-02-12 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 Hi,
 
 Our default wallpapers used to be part of kdebase/workspace, but
 during
 the git migration they've been removed from workspace due the size of
 that directory.
 Wallpapers can't be kept in a git repository because every time a git
 repository is cloned all the history (including old wallpapers) is
 cloned. So actually wallpapers are nowhere, should we move wallpapers
 back to trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace?
 
 Bye,
 Davide Bettio.

Maybe just a tarball somewhere? SVN won't stay around, so we need another 
solution i think.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: splitting up kdebase in git

2011-02-12 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Saturday, February 12, 2011 19:12:41 Tom Albers wrote:
  - Original Message -
 
   Hi,
  
   Our default wallpapers used to be part of kdebase/workspace, but
   during
   the git migration they've been removed from workspace due the size
   of
   that directory.
   Wallpapers can't be kept in a git repository because every time a
   git
   repository is cloned all the history (including old wallpapers) is
   cloned. So actually wallpapers are nowhere, should we move
   wallpapers
   back to trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace?
  
   Bye,
   Davide Bettio.
 
  Maybe just a tarball somewhere? SVN won't stay around, so we need
  another
  solution i think.
 
 I thought we were keeping SVN around for translations? Or will they
 simply
 migrate after the rest of the modules have?

I personally have no intention to maintain two revision control systems.
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Albers
Ok. Thanks for that.

kmobiletools has been removed now.

Best,

Toma

- Original Message -
 Hi,
 
 
 I've talked to current maintainer (Quentin Denis) about this. And this
 is his response:
 anything related to KMT can be removed, the code is now pure
 playground I dont need that mailing list.
 So I guess one can remove it.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Dinesh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:37 AM, John Layt  johnl...@googlemail.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:45:27 George Goldberg wrote:
   41 kdelibs-bugs
 
  This is a very useful list for bug triagers - I can volunteer to
  moderate it if no-one else is currently doing it.
 
 ditto, if more than 1 or 2 mods are needed.
 
 John.

-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:01:32 Tom Albers wrote:
  29 kde-java
 I think we can safely delete that one. We don't have Java bindings
 anymore and
 the main bindings ML is kde-bindings. A quick glance at those mails
 would
 still be cool (can I somehow view them?).

It was only spam, facebook and linkedin friend requests, and up to 80% discount 
on some medicine. 

I've deleted the list.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:45:27 George Goldberg wrote:
   41 kdelibs-bugs
 
  This is a very useful list for bug triagers - I can volunteer to
  moderate it if no-one else is currently doing it.
 
 ditto, if more than 1 or 2 mods are needed.

Added. Thanks!
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 20 kde-embedded

The maintainers email (p...@kde.org) is bouncing. Do we need this list? I see 
almost no activity for the last months..

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Review Request: Workaround for the hang (freeze) when opening VLC's file dialog under KDE...

2011-02-04 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 It
 is when I have to unnecessarily type more than I have to. Seriously
 this is getting to be annoying and I do not mean you personally. These
 rigid and brittle coding styles. One project says no braces for single
 line statements and another says the complete opposite. I have no
 problem with some common sense coding style rules, but please spare me
 from such nonsense micro management of each and every line of code,
 specially since the people working on kdelibs should in the least be
 well versed about the pitfalls of using or not using braces, even for
 single line statements.

For new code, we very much like to follow:
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style

Which can be different in other area's within KDE, which I hope one day will 
not be the case.

And before you ask, yes, I very much would like a 'astyle' run on all the code 
in kdelibs to settle this once and for all.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers


Fwd: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Albers
The monthly overview

- Forwarded Message -
 342 decibel
 80 kmobiletools
 47 kde-contests
 46 kde-i18n-pt
 43 kgraphviewer-devel
 41 kdelibs-bugs
 32 kde-usability
 31 dot-stories
 29 plasma-bugs
 29 kde-java
 20 kde-embedded
 19 kde-openserver
 19 kde-news-de
 19 kde-france-ca
 18 season-of-kde

-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


anongit.kde.org now updating instantly sorry

2011-01-31 Thread Tom Albers
Hi All,

An apology is in place. I blamed all you guys for cloning from the wrong server 
in below mails, but in fact it looks like a problem on our side with the way we 
updated the anongit mirrors. We have changed it now.

Old situation: anongit was pulling the changes every 5 minutes. which actually 
took 6 minutes to complete, hence the increase in load. Especially when people 
were pushing, which made the negative loop accelerate.

New situation: the commits are now instantly pushed to the anongit mirrors. 
This means that whenever you push, the anongit mirrors directly have that 
change. No 5 minutes delay anymore. Unless a connectivity problem arises, but 
that will be corrected after 20 minutes or so. 

Again, sorry for blaming you guys. Instead I can now say: bring it on :)

Best,

Toma
Sysadmin team

- Original Message -
 Hi,
 
 git.kde.org will no longer accept clone requests. It will give you an
 error.
 
 I will leave this in place for the next week or so, until everyone has
 their clones.
 
 Best,
 
 Toma
 
 - Original Message -
  Hi,
 
  Before git.kde.org goes down I like to urge everyone to stop doing
  clones from git.kde.org.
 
  Please use anongit.kde.org for reads and git.kde.org only for writes
  as explained here:
  http://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual#Let_Git_rewrite_URL_prefixes
 
  The system is now on the edge of breaking.
 
  Best,
  --
  Tom Albers
  KDE Sysadmin
 
   Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to
   unsubscribe 
 
 --
 Tom Albers
 KDE Sysadmin

-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: kdelibs, kdebase moving to Git this Saturday

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On 1/30/2011 1:17 PM, Marco Martin wrote:
  in the runtime repository, the pics directory doesn't seem
  available, but
  the main CMakelist.txt still looks for it.
 
 kde-runtime is currently set read-only for that and other
 reasons, the conversion seems to be flawed. Unfortunately
 the guys writing the conversion script are in bed or afk
 right now.

Additionally we've made kde-workspace read-only too, as #kwin found a missing 
file, which means we have a problem there too. 

I'ld like to ask everyone to check the repo's NOW, so the conversion people can 
have a full list of problems and we don't have to repush 3 times this week, but 
only once.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Usefulness of Subject-header of git commit mails

2011-01-23 Thread Tom Albers
- Oorspronkelijk bericht -
 On 1/23/2011 9:30 PM, Milian Wolff wrote:
  What was broken?
 
 Nothing as far as Commitfilter is concerned. Commitfilter actually
 acts on the X-Commit-Directories headers, not the mail subject.
 This header was actually somewhat broken in the old mails, it has
 been fixed now as part of the hooks rewrite that also brought with
 it the mail subject format change.
 
 In total the rewrite fixed numerous bugs, many of which were in the
 emails (the old implementation wasn't written by the sysadmin team):
 There were problems with keyword parsing, CCMAIL recipients were not
 all CC'd to the kde-commits mail but rather individual, new mails
 were sent, headers with non-Unicode characters in them weren't en-
 coded properly, authors didn't get CC'd if the hook found something
 unsafe in the diff, license detection for new files was suboptimal,
 etc.
 
 The rewrite also improved performance by orders of magnitude,
 especially in the auditing steps, and added new features. For
 example the mails now mention who pushed a commit.
 
 Yet all we hear about is rather aggressive whining about the mail
 subjects ... yep, being a sysadmin is tons of fun.

Hey, look at it differently. If everyone is talking about the subject as the 
biggest problem, Ben really, really did a great job. I was expecting a hell of 
a lot more bugs in the brand new code. People complaining about the subject 
made me smile actually. It is like building a gigantic big house and the owners 
are complaing about the color of the doorbell. Ill settle for that.

Best,

toma


kde-qt will move from gitorious and end of life for kde-developers

2011-01-18 Thread Tom Albers
Hi,

As announced last month, kdelibs and kdebase will move real soon now to git 
(this weekend?). At the same time kdelibs moves to git, sysadmin will also move 
kde-qt[1] from gitorious to git.kde.org. You would need to fix your setup 
anyway, so doing that for both at the same time makes sense. This will be the 
only announcement about this.

At the same time we will also remove the kde-developers group from gitorious. 
The remaining KDE projects *have* to migrate to git.kde.org before that. More 
specific, as far as we know this is about: silk, owncloud and direction (that 
one abandoned?). They are free to continue on gitorious of course, but without 
the kde-developers group, which gives most of access to those repo's. We've 
tried to approach all of them without success in the past.

Best.

Toma

[1] http://qt.gitorious.org/+kde-developers/qt/kde-qt
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Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: [Digikam-devel] Suspending mailinglists due to lack of moderators.

2011-01-08 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 On Saturday 01 January 2011 21:25:23 Tom Albers wrote:
  28 dot-stories
 
 What's the differences between that list and kde-promo? Do we really
 need a dot-stories mailing list?
 
 Regards
 
 Damnshock

I think it is an internal list where new dot submissions end up, not sure 
though.
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Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: Suspending mailinglists due to lack of moderators.

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
  Note that if you object, you are volunteering for taking over
  moderation.
 
   42 quanta
   32 quanta-devel
 
 Make me the admin/moderator of these two please.

Done. Thanks.

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Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin


Re: release schedule calendar

2010-12-02 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
  It would be helpful if the dates would include version numbers so
  e.g.
  todays freeze would be Documentation freeze for 4.6.0 or something
  like
  that.

Yes, the schedule generation software does not include the version number yet. 
I will add it, so it will be fixed for the 4.7 schedule.
 
 Also I only see the 4.6 dates in there, the next 4.5 dates seem to be
 missing completely.

Yes, the 4.5 schedule was not generated with the software. 4.6 was the first...

Best,
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Tom Albers
KDE Release Team


Re: wrong diffs for python on the kde-commits list

2010-11-21 Thread Tom Albers
- Original Message -
 but in Python, leading whitespace has a meaning, and
 the diff on kde-commits is just wrong.

We have chosen that the advantages of -b are more than the disadvantages of it. 
For more details browse this lists archive.
 
 So - does anybody actually apply those diffs?

No.

Best,

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Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin