Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em janeiro 5, 2020 21:04 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public escreveu: My apologies. I believed this had been covered on the mailing list and I am told it was only on IRC, and never passed on to the TU channel, which I will accept as an excuse despite everyone(?) involved but the poster being on

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 6/1/20 9:12 am, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em janeiro 5, 2020 19:25 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public escreveu: >> >> Read the original message and not the partial quote that you made.  I >> explicitly said there was an exception for --overwrite type posts. >> >> But any restriction being made

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em janeiro 5, 2020 19:25 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public escreveu: Read the original message and not the partial quote that you made. I explicitly said there was an exception for --overwrite type posts. But any restriction being made on posting due to not posting drafts to the list would be

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Johannes Löthberg via arch-dev-public
Excerpts from Allan McRae via arch-dev-public's message of January 5, 2020 23:27: After the base metapackage pile of crap that was posted, I (and others) reminded everyone of the process that had been held for years. The response was complaints that this process was not followed recently, to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 6/1/20 8:04 am, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > wrote: >> Following the roll out of the base metapackage, and its poorly written >> news post, we agreed that all new posts should have a draft posted to >>

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 6/1/20 8:17 am, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 11:10:17PM +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via > arch-dev-public wrote: >> On 05/01/2020 23.04, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 11:10:17PM +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 05/01/2020 23.04, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > > wrote: > >> Following the roll out of the base

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public
On 05/01/2020 23.04, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > wrote: >> Following the roll out of the base metapackage, and its poorly written >> news post, we agreed that all new posts should have a draft posted to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Robin Broda via arch-dev-public
On 1/5/20 11:04 PM, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > wrote: >> Following the roll out of the base metapackage, and its poorly written >> news post, we agreed that all new posts should have a draft posted to >>

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:53:21AM +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > Following the roll out of the base metapackage, and its poorly written > news post, we agreed that all new posts should have a draft posted to > arch-dev-public. Wait, where was this agreed? I heard something about

[arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
Hi all, Following the roll out of the base metapackage, and its poorly written news post, we agreed that all new posts should have a draft posted to arch-dev-public. There was a potential exclusion for trivial --overwrite posts [1]. This was followed for the Xorg update. It was not followed