Proposing libgdata as a new desktop module

2009-05-06 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi, I would like to propose libgdata as a new desktop module for GNOME 2.28. libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol — most notably, Google's services. It provides APIs to access the common Google services (at this stage, only Google Calendar, Yo

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Elijah Newren wrote: >> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Felipe Contreras >> wrote: >>> On the other hand 'gnome-2-0' is not pointing to any release, there >>> where commits after the last release. So m

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Davyd Madeley
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:00 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >> case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches > >> '1-2' and 'gnome-2-26'. > > Quick note. If we're going to have short branch names (as I'm planning to > use > for pango), it should be "1.2", not "1-2". Why? S

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Davyd Madeley
I have to admit, there is probably some advantage to moving these very old branches into an archive (either refs/archive/foo or a complete archive clone) after some amount of time. Mostly because I thought "new IM? What new IM?". Also permit the deletion of branches that have been merged with mast

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-06 Thread John Stowers
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Christian Persch wrote: > Hi; > > John Stowers wrote: > > Unfortunately, the original TangoGPS author, [...], ignores any > > emails from me, other osm-gps-map developers, or users, that request > > permission to change the license of osm-gps-map to LGPL. > > > >

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-06 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; John Stowers wrote: > Unfortunately, the original TangoGPS author, [...], ignores any > emails from me, other osm-gps-map developers, or users, that request > permission to change the license of osm-gps-map to LGPL. > > I guess the lesson here is to never create a library, derived from a > GP

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Les Harris wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >> Would you fight to keep alive the branch Linus just found too crappy >> and just killed it? If a commit never made it to a release and >> probably never would, is it really that impor

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2009-05-06 Thread Shaun McCance
Hi! Welcome to the end of the thread. It certainly has been fun, but in order to conserve our precious electrons in these hard economic times, we must regretfully now close this thread. As the kids say, you don't have to go home, but you can't post here. Thank you and good night.

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Les Harris wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: > > The consensus so far seems to be that losing commits is a non-starter. >  It's not clear to me what benefit dropping these ossified branches > gives us.  What is the problem you'

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Les Harris
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Would you fight to keep alive the branch Linus just found too crappy > and just killed it? If a commit never made it to a release and > probably never would, is it really that important? It seems to me whatever Linus decided to do for the

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Elijah Newren wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >> On the other hand 'gnome-2-0' is not pointing to any release, there >> where commits after the last release. So my question here is: who >> would care about those commits? T

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:26 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ross Burton wrote: >> > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: >> >> Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:15 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Are you going to argue that this branch is desirable to keep alive for >> all eternity? >> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gedit/log/?h=CORBA_ENABLED > > I think most reasonable people wil

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:15 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Are you going to argue that this branch is desirable to keep alive for > all eternity? > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gedit/log/?h=CORBA_ENABLED I think most reasonable people will say that there is a difference between branches which were

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:26 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > >> Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : > >> > Debian patches are debian patches, they control

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: >> Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : >> > Debian patches are debian patches, they control them, and they make >> > debian releases. If GNOME decides to remov

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : >> Debian patches are debian patches, they control them, and they make >> debian releases. If GNOME decides to remove those commits the >> distributions will not loose their pat

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-06 Thread John Stowers
> > > > * It is good to see you have added support for specifying map uri's. I > > would also like to see you support quadtree encoding, and > > randomization of hosts. See osm-gps-map for what I mean... > > I will have a look, but little code can be shared as osm-gps-map is > GPL :) but if the

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-06 Thread Xan Lopez
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Right now, my answer is "gosh, I sure hope so." :-) Admittedly, not as > good as a "heck yes!", but better than "no." > > Where things stand as of today is that WebKit needs quite a bit of work > to ready as far as a11y is concerned. HOWEVER

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-06 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Will, all. On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 09:58 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Vincent Untz wrote: > > Willie: do you have any idea when the a11y team would be able to give a > > +1 for webkit? Being able to know it's okay as soon as possible would > > definitely help us organize things. > > I'm CC'ing

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-06 Thread Stefan Kost
Behdad Esfahbod schrieb: > On 05/05/2009 05:59 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbod >> wrote: >>> On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can understand that, and

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-06 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:40 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:18 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > I just have these lines in my ~/.emacs: > > > (autoload 'nuke-trailing-whitespace "nuke-trailing-whitespace" nil t) > > > (add-h

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-06 Thread Willie Walker
Vincent Untz wrote: Willie: do you have any idea when the a11y team would be able to give a +1 for webkit? Being able to know it's okay as soon as possible would definitely help us organize things. I'm CC'ing Joanie, who'll be the person doing most of the work on the assistive technology side

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le lundi 04 mai 2009, à 14:50 +0300, Xan Lopez a écrit : > Hello, > > the aim of the Epiphany team is to make 2.28 our first WebKit release. > For this to happen we need to replace our external dependency on Gecko > with WebKitGTK+, so consider this a request to do so. > > In the post 2.26 m

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >> On the other hand 'gnome-2-0' is not pointing to any release, there >> where commits after the last release. So my question here is: who >> would care about those commits?

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : > > Debian patches are debian patches, they control them, and they make > > debian releases. If GNOME decides to remove those commits the > > distributions will not loose thei

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : > Debian patches are debian patches, they control them, and they make > debian releases. If GNOME decides to remove those commits the > distributions will not loose their patches. I think this summarize well the whole thing: we do

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:13:07AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:33:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >> >> >> Imagine someone who has been

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:18 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I just have these lines in my ~/.emacs: > > (autoload 'nuke-trailing-whitespace "nuke-trailing-whitespace" nil t) > > (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'nuke-trailing-whitespace) > > This sounds

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-06 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, May 06, 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I just have these lines in my ~/.emacs: > (autoload 'nuke-trailing-whitespace "nuke-trailing-whitespace" nil t) > (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'nuke-trailing-whitespace) This sounds like it would remove all trailing whitespace in any file you touc