Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
... Along those lines, I would suggest collecting from this group the common workflows (if needed), document them on the wiki and advertise here for review. Then we could use that as a punch list to guide that work at the hackathon. If someone wants to start the list of workflows, you can use this wi

Infrastructure move -- thanks

2017-12-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
. There were some difficulties along the way and the team dealt with them in their usual professional way. Kudos to all, and well done! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Coming soon: Pagure service for dist-git

2017-07-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
er or worse it will be in prod. Although also fair to point out there've been numerous performance improvements thus far, and no reason to think there won't be more. Pagure is eminently hackable so we are still encouraging contribution upstream (of which there has been a lot already). -- Paul W.

Coming soon: Pagure service for dist-git

2017-07-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
ts [3] https://pagure.io/pagure/issues - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues t

Coming soon: Pagure service for dist-git

2017-07-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
ts [3] https://pagure.io/pagure/issues - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues t

Re: The future of the packager group for dist-git

2017-06-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
to use plain git, right? > Anything that requires a non-command-line interface for ordinary > procedures would be a step backwards IMHO. Plain git still usable the same ways, yes. The things Pagure is doing are additive (fork/PR, CI hooks, etc.). -- Paul W. Frields

Re: The future of the packager group for dist-git

2017-06-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
to check and enforce this on new package requests, but I > think it makes sense to stop this requirement to commit on dist-git > repos. > > What do you think? The way I see it, this doesn't make maintaines give up control but avoids over-enforcement of controls that may no longer be us

Re: Beta of new RH Bugzilla coming soon

2017-02-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
> On 02/06/2017 04:32 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Note, I'll likely be cutting a python-bugzilla release this week which fixes > some issues communicating with bugzilla 5. That's great Cole. Thanks for keeping up with this updat

Beta of new RH Bugzilla coming soon

2017-02-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
(subject to extension) so the community can check scripts and other tooling for compatibility and file bugs for any issues discovered. Some work has already gone into python-bugzilla compatibility to make the transition easier. Please stay tuned for more information soon. -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Fedora on Macs, removing the release criterion

2016-11-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
ve hardware. My hope is other Workstation WG members will join me. Else we *do* look at removing criteria, not just throw them over the wall and expect QA to deal with it. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6

Re: Schedule for Friday's FESCo Meeting (2016-08-19)

2016-08-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
on > > irc.freenode.net. > We should handle https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1612 too. Given the timing/schedule issue, would it be improper to ask about https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1615 in this meeting? (I know the meeting's underway already and apologize for not seeing

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
Right now, apparently, their install instructions tell you to disable > SELinux. Permissive mode is what they require: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/zyga/snapcore/ -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5

Re: Fedora 24 background is unsuitable

2016-04-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
e since the designers tend to congregate there. It seems to me it shouldn't be too difficult to find a suitable solution. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - -

Re: Preparing a new release of Fedora Developer Portal - asking for feedback

2016-04-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
l discussions that ought to involve marketing, docs, > design, etc. We definitely need to remove barriers to communications here. There's a lightly used list called logistics@ that was originally intended to allow contributors from multiple teams to have a discussion concerning all involved without

Re: bodhi - new update obsoleted an older update that had been submitted for stable

2016-01-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
lks. Bodhi previously would avoid > > obsoleting updates that had an open request, even if it hasn't gotten > > pulled into a push yet. A recent improvement to this logic allows for > > updates with a testing request to get obsoleted if a newer update gets > > submitted before it gets &qu

Re: Stop please

2016-01-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
s harder? > > FIX THAT HEADERS IN GENERAL - THE "--"-line needs to be "-- " for MUA's > recognize it as signature and don't quote it all the time Did you file this bug upstream? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: Request to co-maintain f22-background

2015-10-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
omatically be foisted on any user, just available for download. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open sou

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

2015-09-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
m or Fedora. > >"Enforcement" implies adding more heavy process, which is part of the > >problem this is trying to avoid. > You don't seem to be aware about the fact FPC already tries to enforce > unbundling. Yes, this is a heavy and time-consuming process, esp. on >

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

2015-09-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
gt; doled out by the FPC, I think package review should be able to handle > it. > > This risks making somewhat harder to police egregious mis-behavior, but > I am sure there are other ways to deal with offenders that willfully > break reasonable rules. Agreed. -- Paul W. Frields

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

2015-09-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
r Fedora goals, maybe that could work? While that doesn't seem hostile, it seems just as unsustainable. Setting a better baseline expectation for bundling makes more sense. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACD

Re: Unable to submit update for F22 (was Re: bodhi 2 now live)

2015-08-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
, in the interim they're still free to fork as would be usual for any repo (including hundreds of projects we carry in Fedora repositories), and send a patch to the list. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11

Re: Unable to submit update for F22 (was Re: bodhi 2 now live)

2015-08-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
, I guess we will agree to disagree then. Agreed with kfenzi. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source

Re: Validity of i686 as a release blocker

2015-08-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
/show_bug.cgi?id=1247382 [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/208368.html [3] https://fedorahosted.org/cloud/ticket/106 -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
to deal constructively with this specific situation, and in learning from it, we can mitigate similar situations in the future. -- Paul W. Frields pfrie...@redhat.com Manager, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform http://redhat.com -- http://opensource.com -- devel mailing list devel

Re: deadline for fedora org to appy in google summer of code 2015

2015-02-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
? Seems OT for this list. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http

Re: [Proposal] Ring-based Packaging Policies

2015-02-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
it how you like but at the end of the day it would mean going back to the state of Fedora Core 6 This isn't correct. The division of Core/Extras was based on who was allowed to touch packages which isn't part of this proposal. That wasn't a sustainable way to build community. -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Deleting f20-gnome-3-12 copr

2015-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
to social media) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

Re: Migration to Zanata

2015-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
release. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

Non-fatal error messages in Koji scratch build

2014-12-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/157737/18064529 I had a bunch of 'sh: git: command not found' messages in a scratch build I did from an SRPM I uploaded, testing an epel7 build before submitting the real thing. It's been a while -- are these messages expected behavior? -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Non-fatal error messages in Koji scratch build

2014-12-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:55:58AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 12/08/2014 11:51 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/157737/18064529 I had a bunch of 'sh: git: command not found' messages in a scratch build I did from an SRPM I uploaded, testing an epel7 build

Re: Engineering Representiatve for the new Fedora Council

2014-10-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
expect to support Matthew and the Council regardless. I'm sure there are other worthy candidates, and I'd work with any of them who fill this role. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http

Re: [RETRACTION] Re: Unofficial Poll: Flock 2015 (North America) Bids

2014-09-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
organizers to allow anyone who thought August was a harder requirement to update their bid? It should only take a few days and it's hard to think that would be make or break for deciding the winner. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC

Re: [RETRACTION] Re: Unofficial Poll: Flock 2015 (North America) Bids

2014-09-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:45:54PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:12:30 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/2014 04:02 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:50:14AM +0200, Ralf

Re: Are we still translating things?

2014-08-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
to for one-off advice and assistance (or to point out broken links on the web page), without wanting to subscribe and take a daily interest in l10n matters. If it doesn't serve that purpose, do we have something that *does*? IRC Freenode at #fedora-l10n perhaps? -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Comps fails to validate (patch inside!)

2014-07-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
that attribute, I added support for it. Yes, that's correct. It seems like there are a couple non-obvious gotchas here (additive nature, kickstart dependency, et al.); would it make sense to put a README in the comps repo pointing some of this out for posterity? -- Paul W. Frields

Re: PkgDB2 is now in production

2014-05-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/packagedb Many thanks to the hard work of the Fedora Infrastructure development team Amazing, thank you guys! +1 -- congratulations on the new deployment and thanks for the superb effort! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
improve as a hospitable platform. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
relevance and value to the FOSS ecosystem. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
against status quo. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:58:51AM -0600, inode0 wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: So let's not start by putting too much sacred value on the term Spin. Rather, let's think about what specific technical and community-building problems

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
possible. It would be a step backward to make it harder for people to readily identify any of the Fedora products with Fedora. This is really a suggestion for all the working groups, so I'm cc'ing server@ and cloud@ lists too. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
prioritize integration of the various developer tools currently available or planned for the Workstation. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Fedora engineering manager

2013-10-31 Thread Paul W. Frields
/User:Pfrields -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

Re: Fedora engineering manager

2013-10-31 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:47:36PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: El Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:42:52 -0400 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com escribió: Hi Fedora folks, Hopefully some of you know me, possibly as a previous Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat. If you don't, then salutations

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
was more than 9 months.[1] Not that we should aim for it either, but it's certainly not a given we'll even get to that point. Thanks for pointing out that everyone is trying their best to avoid taking that prize. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules -- Paul W. Frields

Fwd: Re: Release Notes Update

2012-03-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
From the docs@ list, FYI, in case someone has some time in which they can contribute to release notes for desktop, system daemons, web servers, or for that matter any other existing beats: - Forwarded message from John J. McDonough wb8...@arrl.net - On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:27 -0400,

Re: Need help with GNOME ?

2012-03-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
or waiting in tickets. This is a great one, thanks ajax. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story

Re: why are is subversion 1.7 for F16/F17 removed

2012-03-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
from the package git repository, or (hopefully) some later and presumably improved 1.7.x version. +1 on the guarantee, but that doesn't help the OP if he has converted repos. Caveat emptor. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58

File PatchReader-0.9.6.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by pfrields

2012-03-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-PatchReader: bd8da2388cd5ebc99a860b6d6bfeb8ad PatchReader-0.9.6.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

[perl-PatchReader] Update to upstream 0.9.6 (#797179)

2012-03-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
commit cf6de3ef395d897d8ae69e9e56593c926512f7b0 Author: Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com Date: Sat Mar 10 08:50:32 2012 -0500 Update to upstream 0.9.6 (#797179) .gitignore|1 + perl-PatchReader.spec | 10 +++--- sources |2 +- 3 files changed, 9

[perl-PatchReader/f17] Update to upstream 0.9.6 (#797179)

2012-03-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
Summary of changes: cf6de3e... Update to upstream 0.9.6 (#797179) (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

qrencode in critical path?

2012-01-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/qrencode Is this package supposed to be critical path?[1] It's marked that way for f16 and devel branch, but it was surprising to me. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Taking a two-week holiday

2011-10-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
and other contributors' reference, we have a [[Vacation]] wiki page where this information can be added as well. I took the liberty of inserting Jussi's information on the page. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233

Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 Released

2011-08-31 Thread Paul W. Frields
W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- devel mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 Released

2011-08-31 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:28:20PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2011 19:31, schrieb Paul W. Frields: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: this update should be really fast pushed out the demo-exploit brings down a 4x2.50GHz machine with 8 GB RAM

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Paul W. Frields
...] This thread really is starting to sound like personal vendetta and not worthwhile discussion of technical details. Seriously, cut it out. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http

Re: Please rebuild your package with latest translation

2011-08-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
-guide/ -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- devel

Re: Unable to switch branch

2011-07-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
F-12. Chances are you're not running the latest fedora-packager code, then. You probably want to either move up to something more recent, or install a VM guest you can use for packaging until you're inclined to move to a later release. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
-- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- devel mailing

Re: New feature for Fedora 16: new mkdumprd

2011-07-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
previously gave him some tips on constructing a Fedora feature page. :-) Discuss away! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Re: New feature for Fedora 16: new mkdumprd

2011-07-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:46:30AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:31:39PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote: Hello, Fedora people, Would any of you kindly help to review my proposed feature for Fedora 16? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewMkdumprd

Re: Orphaning istanbul ahead of F-16.

2011-06-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
for his work, though.) :-) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http

Re: Installing bash-completion by default in F-16

2011-06-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
think the trick is mitigating the problems that plague network-connected users. The type of user who opens up a shell to make use of completion functions starts looking a lot more like the type of user who will run into those problems. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: Need a python3 person for docutils

2011-05-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld -- Register now! http://.theredhatsummit.com

Re: shouldn't download directory for install images be called Install instead of Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
produced by Docs team, the wiki, etc. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld -- Register now

fedora-release-notes changing hands

2011-04-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
on the ACL and commits list so I thought it was worth a heads-up. Don't panic when you see the orphan notices; John has agreed to take ownership already. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717

Re: Proposed special F15 schedule meeting

2011-03-24 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:00PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 12:16 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, all. I'd like to propose a special F15 schedule meeting for later today or tomorrow; we'd need representation from QA and releng at a minimum, ideally also devel

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in rawhide

2011-02-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
are tiny, one-off code drops that I worry will go unmaintained upstream in the long run. So in short, I don't think I'll be taking over python-mwlib. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717

Re: Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011

2011-01-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:35:05AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 01/27/2011 01:12 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:30:24AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Disappointingly the slashdot story paraphrased another site that went with a sensationalized headline and was low

Re: Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011

2011-01-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
Hat logo -- would that count as a modest improvement? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source

Re: who broke fedoraproject.org usability?

2010-10-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
what you are talking about, from a F13 system with Firefox 3.6.11, and the page is pretty garbled. And that picture of Paul Frields (I think) is pretty scary too :-) You didn't see the one they didn't use. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:41:45PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think anyone can generalize that the usage of Fedora is declining.  What we can prove

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-24 Thread Paul W. Frields
solid like the acceptance criteria Bill's already writing up. Then FESCo can have more confidence in making a decision about it. I'd rather concentrate on that constructive effort than epidemiologically questionable generalizations. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide upgrades

2010-08-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs Thanks. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

2010-08-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
the HW? 'man pulse-daemon.conf' reports that using 'trivial' is worst quality but easier on slow machines. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
it on their own. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- devel

Re: Partial mass rebuild for Python 2.7 coming soon (I hope)

2010-07-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
to be ready). [snip] Hope this makes sense It does -- in my case (and probably many others) the pygtk2 rebuild and reordering should take care of what went wrong. Thanks for taking this on Dave! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
-mocked things of Windows, where you click Start to shutdown. systemd-install to remove? Shouldn't it be possible to have a similar systemd-remove that resolves to the appropriate option? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
, or motives on either side. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http

Re: concept of package ownership

2010-07-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
] These happened both when I was a volunteer, and when I was a Red Hat employee, FWIW. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Fedora Board and FESCo Election results

2010-05-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
, Kyle McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full two-release term. * * * Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for their assistance. - -- Paul W. Frields

One week slip of Fedora 13 release

2010-05-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
/wiki/Fedora_13_Final_Release_Criteria [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule - -- Paul W. Frields -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL6gZfrNvJN70RNxcRAovhAJ4gCqmdpUPjxqcUeZT/9Rufm2T1gQCgjHKw d3Iuc1YktqutAtkkB/zI3l0= =TpN+ -END PGP

Re: One week slip of Fedora 13 release

2010-05-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:36:31PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 21:37:35 -0400, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: According to the release criteria[1], the decision was made to slip the release of Fedora 13 by one week, to Tuesday 2010-05-25. Even

Marc Wiriadisastra orphaning some packages

2010-05-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
Hi Fedora paackager community, Marc asked me to forward this to the list because of some mail account issues. He's released ownership of the packages listed below. Paul - Forwarded message from Marc Wiriadisastra - Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 23:59:27 +0800 From: Marc Wiriadisastra To:

Elections - nominations open Sat 2010-04-24

2010-04-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With a Fedora release coming soon, it's also time for Fedora Elections. Both the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) will have open seats during this election cycle. Nominations for these seats open tomorrow,

Re: F13 Beta release notes

2010-04-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
units. Should the Playstation line be removed as well? The Playstation is PPC anyway so regardless of what Sony is doing with the firmware update it should be removed. Please visit the wiki and make the change. Thanks! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: F13 Beta release notes

2010-04-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:47:50AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:20 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: The Documentation team has prepared and posted a draft of the Fedora 13 Release Notes for the Beta release: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts.html Thanks

F13 Beta release notes

2010-04-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
a paragraph, as opposed to making minor tweaks inside a paragraph. Sometimes this may not be possible, so just give it your best shot. Documentation folks are almost always available on IRC Freenode #fedora-docs to help if needed. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org

Re: F-13-Beta Go/No-Go Meeting #2 @ 2010-04-08 00:00 UTC Recap

2010-04-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http

Re: non-responsive maintainer: thomasvs

2010-04-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
too? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- devel mailing

Re: Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12

2010-02-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:29:27PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: == Remediation == A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who

Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12

2010-02-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora Project recently issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. However, this update has been found to break some

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-02-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
stop repeating this untrue statement. As I told you already, I have used separate /usr since RHL 3.0.3. I've done this for a long time as well, though only on local disk, no exotic configuration. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6

Re: New merge review tickets being opened

2010-01-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
we get packages in Fedora the upstream that are incrementally improved. So if you see that any of these new tickets *aren't* assigned, please let the list know and either Bill or I will get that taken care of immediately. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org

Re: Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature and Spin Submission Deadlines

2010-01-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
... Yes, you can file a ticket with FESCo requesting an exception. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Exceptions -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com