Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue 2 February 2010 9:10:13 pm Jesse Keating wrote: > What functionality has been lost here? Working KDM, for one... Installing from the live DVD (as Kevin Kofler mentioned earlier) is essentially broken if you want KDE as the primary DE but choose to install any other comps. -- Ryan Rix ==

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages lo oking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/2/3 Christoph Wickert : >      * gtk-recordmydesktop -- GUI Desktop session recorder with audio >        and video >      * qt-recordmydesktop -- KDE Desktop session recorder with audio >        and video >      * recordmydesktop -- Desktop session recorder with audio and >        video I've

Backlog of scm-commits

2010-02-02 Thread Jon Stanley
I recently took over as owner of the scm-commits list. There were a number of CVS commits that got moderated during the mailing list migration due to a misconfiguration of the list. I went ahead and released all of them, so a bunch of commits from Jan 10 will show up on the scm-commits list. Sorry

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages lo oking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
* ike-scan -- IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec VPN servers * nbtscan -- Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks * python-virtkey -- Python extension for emulating keypresses and getting current keyboard layout * tcptraceroute -- A

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:03 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > There was a time where, > when you wanted KDE, you clicked the checkbox next to KDE at install time. > With our default and spin media we've actually _LOST_ functionality that > AFAIK is still not back after years of work. pardon? Our DVD

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > Then no one is actually using our products. People don't use spins after > > they install them. After install they're all pointed at the same thing. > > I'm a KDE user but I'm not using a KDE spin right now. > > Then you're missin

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørd al is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread TK009
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:34:37AM +, Leigh Scott wrote: > I will take avant-window-navigator but I haven't got the time to go > through all the bugs reported against it. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/avant-window-navigator? > > Is there any chance a bug zapper could

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages lo oking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Arnell
I've taken these: * perl-Math-Base85 -- Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924 * perl-Net-IPv4Addr -- Perl extension for manipulating IPv4 addresses * perl-Net-IPv6Addr -- Perl module to check validity of IPv6 addresses * perl-Net-Pca

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packa ges looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > * firewalk -- Active reconnaissance network security tool > * httptunnel -- Tunnels a data stream in HTTP requests > * nikto -- Web server scanner Taken these :) > - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:30:11 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > The 9200 does 3d now, but for a while it didn't. OpenGL stuff just started > > working again shortly before the F12 release. I have one on my primary > > desktop machine. > > For mine, it was perfect in F10

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Leigh Scott
I will take avant-window-navigator but I haven't got the time to go through all the bugs reported against it. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/avant-window-navigator? Is there any chance a bug zapper could help ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://ad

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The 9200 does 3d now, but for a while it didn't. OpenGL stuff just started > working again shortly before the F12 release. I have one on my primary > desktop machine. For mine, it was perfect in F10, quite buggy in F11, mostly working in the F12 release (but Extreme Tux R

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > This may be true on its own but we need to be careful of setting it up as > a dichotomy because it becomes false when put in that context. I want my > computer to stay out of my way and let me do things. Yet I use KDE > because KDE stays out of my way much better than Gno

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:20 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > I'm the one creating the "Fedora" product, the DVD that gets so many > downloads, and the thing that gets network installed. I have no idea > what the vision is for it, because I have no guidance. I'm just making > it up as I go, continui

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 02.02.2010, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Seth Vidal: >> >> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> >>> Huh? the list I posted was from packagedb and both seth and me counted >>> 25 packages: http://fpaste.org/NpTL/ >> >> no, that lis

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:13:40 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > (I probably should have also dropped the 3d games, but by the time I > > figured that out we had working 3d support with free drivers on some > > cards.) > > We do. The ATI Radeon 9200 SE on my desktop and

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > (I probably should have also dropped the 3d games, but by the time I > figured that out we had working 3d support with free drivers on some > cards.) We do. The ATI Radeon 9200 SE on my desktop and the Intel GM965 on my notebook both work just fine for 3D with the Free dr

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: > Then no one is actually using our products. People don't use spins after > they install them. After install they're all pointed at the same thing. > I'm a KDE user but I'm not using a KDE spin right now. Then you're missing out on some of the integration work we do. That sa

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:29:33PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:07 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > An interesting note here is that target audience is of no use in deciding > > this. KDE and GNOME aim for the same target audiences but have different > > ideas of how to

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:16:30PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> > > >> > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a s

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:52:55PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:16:14PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:11:47PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> The way things are now "works" because of status quo. We tell anybody > >> who wants to change statu

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:07 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > An interesting note here is that target audience is of no use in deciding > this. KDE and GNOME aim for the same target audiences but have different > ideas of how to reach them. The details that moving forward or staying back > with the

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 21:07:23 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > OTOH, I wasn't able to find anything written for either the KDE or desktop > SIGs > that can be construed as a statement of target audience so even if they > appear to be aiming at the same targets, we don't know for sure. Thi

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:33 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Let's cut this off right at the top :-) If a vision for what our products > are is a problem why don't we have the people producing the products explain > their vision? I keep saying that vision for products needs to come from the > peop

Re: pkg-config standards for .pc file location?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:16 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:04 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I work on another open-source project that is considering using > > pkg-config, and we are trying to establish standards. I found the > > guidelines for how to package .pc fi

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:33:52PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:28PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > > This is an excellent example. Ford has several audiences and several > > > products. Now, imagine a world whe

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:33 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > The above bullets say to me more then ever the spins are harming Fedora > and not helping it. They're a place for us to focus, spend time, QA, > hosting, etc, and at the end of the day gain absolutely nothing. Let the > KDE sig focus on th

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 02.02.2010, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Seth Vidal: > > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > > Huh? the list I posted was from packagedb and both seth and me counted > > 25 packages: http://fpaste.org/NpTL/ > > no, that list is from the potentially-unmaintained pkg list. Sorr

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:16:30PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> > >> > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a soundbite, but it almost >> > > seems like attempting to decide whether

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:16:14PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:11:47PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> > >> > > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:28PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > This is an excellent example. Ford has several audiences and several > > products. Now, imagine a world where Ford is forced to only produce one > > product. That's the world we're

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:28PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > This is an excellent example. Ford has several audiences and several > products. Now, imagine a world where Ford is forced to only produce one > product. That's the world we're in right now. Lots of different people, > lots of d

Re: pkg-config standards for .pc file location?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:04 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I work on another open-source project that is considering using > pkg-config, and we are trying to establish standards. I found the > guidelines for how to package .pc files in Fedora (and EPEL), but I'm > curious if there are Fedora or

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 00:47 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:15:41 +0100, Christoph wrote: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that we h

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 02.02.2010, 18:59 -0500 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:45:30PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Wickert < > > christoph.wick...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > Sindre Pedersen Bj rdal was declared to be MIA in a

pkg-config standards for .pc file location?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
I work on another open-source project that is considering using pkg-config, and we are trying to establish standards. I found the guidelines for how to package .pc files in Fedora (and EPEL), but I'm curious if there are Fedora or Red Hat standards for the location where the files are placed when

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 00:47 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:15:41 +0100, Christoph wrote: > > > Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track > > nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that we had to > > orphan all his packages, 25 in

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 02.02.2010, 23:45 + schrieb Peter Robinson: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Wickert > > If you are interested in maintaining one of these packages, > please pick > them up in packagedb at > > https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Mumble's package owner is non-responsive, I wish to take over the package

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Freitag, den 22.01.2010, 14:52 +0100 schrieb Andreas Osowski: > Hello, > I do herewith request to take over the package "mumble", currently owned by > igjurisk. > The maintainer seems to be unresponsive and all previous attempts of contact > have failed. > > According to the policy for non-re

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørd al is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:45:30PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Wickert < > christoph.wick...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Sindre Pedersen Bj rdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track > nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:15:41 +0100, Christoph wrote: > Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track > nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that we had to > orphan all his packages, 25 in total: Pkg db says: 50 packages > If you are interested in maintaining one

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages lo oking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Wickert < christoph.wick...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track > nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that we had to > orphan all his packages, 25 in total: > > * DMitry -- Deepmag

Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-02 Thread Christoph Wickert
Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal was declared to be MIA in a fast track nonresponsive maintainer procedure [1, 2]. This means that we had to orphan all his packages, 25 in total: * DMitry -- Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool * arp-scan -- Scanning and fingerprinting tool * avant-wind

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 16:35:42 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > +1 for the last ... 3? .. 4? ... how every many posts from Toshio, > each well stated and I agree on the points stated. I think he is putting up strawmen. Just because there is a target audience doesn't mean that anyone not directl

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:16:30PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > > > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a soundbite, but it almost > > > > seems like attempting to decide whether we want Fedora

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:16:30PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> > >> > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a soundbite, but it almost >> > > seems like attempting to decide whether we want

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:16:30PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a soundbite, but it almost > > > seems like attempting to decide whether we want Fedora to be Debian, > > > or to be something useful for user

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 17:16:14 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Who's been told to fork Fedora because of the status-quo-target-audience? The guy who was complaining about nonfree firmware. He actually made a forked distribution for at least a while. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedor

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > Not to reduce the debate to too much of a soundbite, but it almost > > seems like attempting to decide whether we want Fedora to be Debian, > > or to be something useful for users of it. I'd always pick the latter... > > > The problem with this sound

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:11:47PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many > > > others.) Right now, it only ne

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:43:32AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:15 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > > > Your example doesn't work, Xubuntu is still bound to the package set > > in the Ubuntu repositories in the same sense that the Xfce Spin is > > bound to the package set in

[Test-Announce] 2010-02-04 - Fedora Test Day - NFSv4 by default

2010-02-02 Thread James Laska
Greetings folks, It's been quiet on the test day front for some time now. However, rest assured, we are kicking off the Fedora 13 test day schedule in style. I invite you to join #fedora-test-day this Thursday, February 4, 2010 for the first of many Fedora 13 test days. Qian Cai and Steve Dicks

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:17:30PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: > > My other mail suggests that one way to work with this is to create new > > conflicting packages that are optimized for the different usages. There's > > other ways as well but the gen

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
Tomas Mraz wrote: > The library will work fine and it will not compute the checksum at all > if the FIPS mode is not enabled which is the normal situation. Then perhaps FIPS mode can be left disabled until /usr has been mounted, so that the checksum can be in %{_libdir}/fipscheck? Björn Persson

Minutes/Summary for 2010-02-02 FESCo meeting

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2010-02-02) === Meeting started by nirik at 20:01:34 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-02/fesco.2010-02-02-20.01.log.html Meeting summary -

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:30 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > >Ubuntu is better than Debian > > > > > > If you honestly believe that, I have pitty on you. > > For the m

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:16 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:15 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > >> > >> Your example doesn't work, Xubuntu is still bound to the package set > >> in the Ubuntu repositories in the same sense th

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many > > others.) Right now, it only needs to track a single version of python, > > or a single auth framework,

Re: Reordering in package changelogs (was Re: rawhide report: 20100129 changes)

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > This changelog style conforms to the existing spec, it has been in use in > Fedora for several years, it may surprise you, but changing the spec > retroactively is not the way to prove your point. Uh, the Fedora packaging guidelines DO have the power to change the require

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread chasd
inode0 wrote : > To be clear I wasn't suggesting there actually was a marketing > problem, although there is probably always a marketing problem in the > absence of a monopoly. > > I can imagine other approaches though. What are the characteristics of > good contributors? Market to that segment o

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:30:44PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:13 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:11AM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > > > I am sorry, but I do not see a real need for special guideline for the > > > fipscheck checksums. The policy

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:32:19PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If a spin wants to use a modified kernel package, what's the procedure > > for ensuring that it receives the same level of QA as the normal kernel? > > > That's not something

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Miller (maxamill...@fedoraproject.org) said: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many > > others.) Right now, it only needs to track a single version of python, > > or a single auth framework, eve

Re: KDE-SIG meeting report (05/2010)

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: > On 2 February 2010 15:12, Sebastian Vahl > wrote: >> * setroubleshoot introduced a hard dependency on gnome-packagekit >> (#561001) * The dependency should be made generic or setroubleshoot has >> to be removed from KDE spin. > > Is it just a dep on the PackageKit session

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many > others.) Right now, it only needs to track a single version of python, > or a single auth framework, even if it may be used on any desktop or any > spin. The implica

Re: [SPF:fail] Re: even with gcc -g -O0

2010-02-02 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:18:07PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:18:26 +0100, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > I'm trying to debug an issue for the upstream author of ocp and am > > running into an issue where gdb is showing "" for > > variables even though I've compiled the prog

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > QA is a particular skill set, not every sig has a QA member and requiring > it wouldn't work either.  I feel it's like assuming that just because I've > done turbogears apps that someone would ask me to do CSS as well.  I don't > think it's sa

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:22:37PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > >> I think the responsibility of these things should be placed upon the >> SIG members who perform the functions from within these different >> groups. Why not have a QA person f

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:13 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:11AM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > I am sorry, but I do not see a real need for special guideline for the > > fipscheck checksums. The policy where these checksums should/will be > > placed should be decided by t

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Miller (maxamill...@fedoraproject.org) said: > > Furthermore, you then leave 'downstream' higher-level packages and > > applications having to, for example, code to PolicyKit0, PolicyKit1, or > > consolehelper, depending on what each 'product' use case might use. Or, > > having to build their

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > >Ubuntu is better than Debian > > > If you honestly believe that, I have pitty on you. For the market they're aiming at? I don't think there's any doubt at all. -- Matth

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Would that mean that users who don't start with one of these 'products' > > get to magically try and choose which implementation of which they want? > > Perhaps even mix and match, leaving QA an

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 21:04 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > Tomas Mraz wrote: > > There is still a slight problem with the library checksums especially > > for the libgcrypt library which currently resides in /%{_lib}. This > > means that if it looks for the checksum in %{_libdir}/fipscheck the /usr

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:22:37PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > I think the responsibility of these things should be placed upon the > SIG members who perform the functions from within these different > groups. Why not have a QA person from each SIG work together with the > larger QA efforts instea

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Would that mean that users who don't start with one of these 'products' > get to magically try and choose which implementation of which they want? > Perhaps even mix and match, leaving QA and the developers to sort out > the results. > > Fu

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Ubuntu is better than Debian If you honestly believe that, I have pitty on you. -AdamM -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ w

Re: KDE-SIG meeting report (05/2010)

2010-02-02 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:38PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 2 February 2010 15:44, Till Maas wrote: > > While you are fixing PackageKit dependencies, can you also remove the > > PackageKit-yum-plugin dependency from PackageKit? The plugin seems not > > to be necessary, as it can be disabl

Re: even with gcc -g -O0

2010-02-02 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:18:26 +0100, Chuck Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to debug an issue for the upstream author of ocp and am > running into an issue where gdb is showing "" for > variables even though I've compiled the program with gcc -g -O0. [...] > Compiler excerpts: > > gcc -g -O0 -fPIC -W

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: > My other mail suggests that one way to work with this is to create new > conflicting packages that are optimized for the different usages. There's > other ways as well but the general theme is that we need to be looking at > ways to open up what people

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:15 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: >> >> Your example doesn't work, Xubuntu is still bound to the package set >> in the Ubuntu repositories in the same sense that the Xfce Spin is >> bound to the package set in the Fedora re

Re: Reordering in package changelogs (was Re: rawhide report: 20100129 changes)

2010-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > This changelog style conforms to the existing spec, it has been in use in > Fedora for several years, it may surprise you, but changing the spec > retroactively is not the way to prove your point. There's a spec? Where? I want to read it. Björn Persson signature.asc Des

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
Tomas Mraz wrote: > There is still a slight problem with the library checksums especially > for the libgcrypt library which currently resides in /%{_lib}. This > means that if it looks for the checksum in %{_libdir}/fipscheck the /usr > might not be mounted during the checksum verification. Will a

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:15:29PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > Your example doesn't work, Xubuntu is still bound to the package set > in the Ubuntu repositories in the same sense that the Xfce Spin is > bound to the package set in the Fedora repositories. The difference is > that we understand tha

Re: KDE-SIG meeting report (05/2010)

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 February 2010 15:44, Till Maas wrote: > While you are fixing PackageKit dependencies, can you also remove the > PackageKit-yum-plugin dependency from PackageKit? The plugin seems not > to be necessary, as it can be disabled in > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/refresh-packagekit.conf and still the gnom

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:54:37PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: > > I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who > > want to work on open source operating systems. If you want to market the > > Fedora Project, that's the au

Re: Next privilege escalation policy draft

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:33 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > again, comments are welcome! This is probably going to FESco next week, > > not tomorrow, apparently they have a heavy schedule tomorrow. > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_Fedora_privilege_escalation_policy > > Wha

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:15 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > Your example doesn't work, Xubuntu is still bound to the package set > in the Ubuntu repositories in the same sense that the Xfce Spin is > bound to the package set in the Fedora repositories. The difference is > that we understand that the

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:05:22PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who >> want to work on open source operating systems.  If you want to market the >> Fedora Project, th

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-02-02 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:11AM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > I am sorry, but I do not see a real need for special guideline for the > fipscheck checksums. The policy where these checksums should/will be > placed should be decided by the fipscheck package itself. Of course I As soon as multiple p

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:05:22PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who > want to work on open source operating systems. If you want to market the > Fedora Project, that's the audience that needs to be addressed. I don't think t

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who > want to work on open source operating systems.  If you want to market the > Fedora Project, that's the audience that needs to be addressed. > > If you want to marke

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: > I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who > want to work on open source operating systems. If you want to market the > Fedora Project, that's the audience that needs to be addressed. > > If you want to market a physical

Re: Two FAS accounts for the same person - permitted?

2010-02-02 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:47:13AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:01:25AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > It's not automatically enforcable that's true but we catch you doing it > > > (and we have) and we'll do something abou

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:15:15AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:02 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > I will agree with that, I can see an application space for certain > > decisions when presented with conflict, but how often does this happen > > and how is it currently, as we

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > Unless you were misquoted the question you asked was: > >  "Isn't it amazing how thousands of contributors doing whatever they want >  created such a spectacular OS?" [1] That was a rhetorical answer to the question, "Does letting thousands o

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you look > >> at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statis

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: >>> And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you look >>> at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page.

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> > And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you > >> > look > >> > at our htt

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: >> > And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you look >> > at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page.  We've only

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: >> And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you look >> at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page.  We've only seen >> growth in 2 of our last 6 releases.  Thin

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