Re: Great work on F13

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:03 PM, kernel basher wrote: > Wow, > > Great work on Fedora 13. > > I just installed F13 on my R61 Lenovo. It has the familiar feel that I > expect with fedora and the installer worked flawlessly and quickly, except > it didn't automatically pick up another Linux OS, so I

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:36:25AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:20 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > I resent being called an imaginary user. Being imaginary would seriously > > screw with my weekend plans. > > So tell us whether you take the stance on updates that is imp

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/04/2010 05:09 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > So it its none of these why do you want to fast track it into stable? The fact nobody has reported a bug into Fedora's bugtracking system doesn't mean a package is not bugged or doesn't suffer from defects. The prototypical situations I am facing with

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread John Poelstra
Bernd Stramm said the following on 05/03/2010 07:13 PM Pacific Time: > On Mon, 3 May 2010 22:04:11 -0400 > Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: >>> On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:58:34 +0200 >>> Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> >>> The poll told us an approximate propo

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:20 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > I resent being called an imaginary user. Being imaginary would seriously > screw with my weekend plans. So tell us whether you take the stance on updates that is imputed to the so-called "imaginary users". -- Matt -- devel mailing list

Re: "I have no name", etc. after hibernate

2010-05-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 07:27 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > On F12, as of about 1 month ago, user information started getting lost > sometimes after resuming from hibernate. You can see this as follows: > > - With new terminals, the prompt user name is "I have no name!". > - With new SSH sessions,

"I have no name", etc. after hibernate

2010-05-03 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, On F12, as of about 1 month ago, user information started getting lost sometimes after resuming from hibernate. You can see this as follows: - With new terminals, the prompt user name is "I have no name!". - With new SSH sessions, you get "You don't exist, go away!" - "Su" fails with "su: u

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:16:48PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Jesse Keating wrote: > >> The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from 50-50 > >> (72.13%) that

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Mail Llists wrote: > On 05/03/2010 10:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> >> Of course the sample is biased.  It's a sample of people who frequent >> the forums, that's a self selecting group of people, by no means a >> worthwhile representation of the Fedora user base

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Mail Llists
On 05/03/2010 10:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Of course the sample is biased. It's a sample of people who frequent > the forums, that's a self selecting group of people, by no means a > worthwhile representation of the Fedora user base as a whole. FYI - Not true - I joined the forum for t

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 05:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/03/2010 11:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> > >> Except karma requirements (which were in force due to the critical path > >> process) did NOT prevent this particular regressi

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 05:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > You are presuming a bug > * affects many people > * is reproducable by many people > * has "user visible" impacts > * users are volunteering to provide feedback > > These presumptions are all wrong and do not apply. In many cases thes

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/03/2010 11:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> Except karma requirements (which were in force due to the critical path >> process) did NOT prevent this particular regression, nor would a "1 week >> minimum in testing" requirement have pre

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:37 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> > Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: >> >> The statistic talks. It doesn't only talk. It yells. Ignoring this >> >> test statist

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Dave Airlie
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:37 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: > >> The statistic talks. It doesn't only talk. It yells. Ignoring this > >> test statistic in favor of the large pool of imaginary users, who > >>

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: >> The statistic talks. It doesn't only talk. It yells. Ignoring this >> test statistic in favor of the large pool of imaginary users, who >> supposedly think in the complete other direction, is not only >>

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: > The statistic talks. It doesn't only talk. It yells. Ignoring this > test statistic in favor of the large pool of imaginary users, who > supposedly think in the complete other direction, is not only > non-scientific, stupid., but also self-conflicting. You

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: >> Please stop banding about the forum poll as if it were some sort of >> scientific measure with meaningful results one could use as a basis for >> decision making. > > It's the best data we have. And the statisticians I

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Jesse Keating wrote: >> The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from 50-50 >> (72.13%) that we clearly have a statistically significant majority, also >> considering

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Mon, 3 May 2010 22:04:11 -0400 Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > > On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:58:34 +0200 > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > > > >> The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from > >> 50-50 (72.13%) that we clearly have a stat

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:58:34 +0200 > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > >> The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from >> 50-50 (72.13%) that we clearly have a statistically significant >> majority, also considering the sample size N=1

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > Please stop banding about the forum poll as if it were some sort of > > scientific measure with meaningful results one could use as a basis for > > decision making. > > It's the best data we have. Bad data is worse

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:58:34 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: > The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from > 50-50 (72.13%) that we clearly have a statistically significant > majority, also considering the sample size N=183. I'm not sure what the poll was exactly, but a sample s

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/03/2010 10:30 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > The point here is that Kevin isn't perfect. As such, he can make > mistakes, just like all of us. By asking for a couple karma nods from > different people, we increase the chance of catching some of those > mistakes. Since the delay exists anyway,

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: > Please stop banding about the forum poll as if it were some sort of > scientific measure with meaningful results one could use as a basis for > decision making. It's the best data we have. > It was none of that. All it gave us was info we already had. Some users > would l

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 00:01:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Why are you telling all this stuff to me? I'm ALREADY complaining about our > processes being undemocratic. The points you make are very real. But I don't > agree with you that the solution has to be some formal framework. If our

help needed for diffutils: bz #566482

2010-05-03 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
hi, troubles with the i18n patch. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566482#c9 -thanks- -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Rudolf Kastl
2010/5/4 Stephen John Smoogen : > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> As I have pointed out in both public and private emails to you >> [snip] >> >> Why are you telling all this stuff to me? I'm ALREADY complaining about our >> processes being und

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> As I have pointed out in both public and private emails to you > [snip] > > Why are you telling all this stuff to me? I'm ALREADY complaining about our > processes being undemocratic. The points you make are very

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:01 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > In some cases, the people to represent are even our users, e.g. they asked > for "adventurous" updates, so why does the Board decide on a "vision" for > conservative updates? Are people that set on their personal preference that > they can

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Björn Persson
Thomas Spura wrote: > I don't think it's spyware, if it's enabled by default on the server > side, do you? e.g. sourceforge does the same with their statistics > counter (or any other web counter online). No, extracting download statistics from web server logs isn't spyware. Spyware is software t

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:27 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote: > At the risk of putting words into Kevin's mouth, I think that you just > made his point. I'd be very surprised if Kevin couldn't get x number of > people to say yes to a fix that he considered urgent. This might confirm > that the fix had

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread shmuel siegel
On 5/4/2010 12:57 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > Testing takes time, lets give up? Seriously? Pushes happen about once > every 24 hours, do you really say it'll take longer than 24 hours to get > a couple people to test the issue and confirm that your fix does indeed > fix the issue, and doesn't seem

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:32 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > The popularity application idea would be a compelling user > benefit..but popcon as constructed really doesn't integrate well > enough to give users useful "popular" application suggestions in a way > that makes sense. We'd need something t

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > As I have pointed out in both public and private emails to you [snip] Why are you telling all this stuff to me? I'm ALREADY complaining about our processes being undemocratic. The points you make are very real. But I don't agree with you that the solution has to be

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 23:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > The proposals I've seen include a way to fasttrack. That is you get the > > required karma between the time the update was submitted to bodhi, and > > the time a bodhi admin starts the push. In such cases your updat

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 23:30 +0200 schrieb Björn Persson: > Thomas Janssen wrote: > > Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be > > on by default. > > NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian > boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: > The proposals I've seen include a way to fasttrack. That is you get the > required karma between the time the update was submitted to bodhi, and > the time a bodhi admin starts the push. In such cases your update would > go directly to stable. How is that not a fast track?

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > To make sense it should be on by default. Good luck with that. I strongly suggest that any usage which only makes sense with "on by default" is not a usage you can rely on as a strawman. The popularity application idea would be a compellin

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Björn Persson
Thomas Janssen wrote: > Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be > on by default. NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in. If it were on by default it would be spyware, and I do *not* want an op

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Jakub Jelinek writes: > > gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 has just been tagged temporarily into dist-f13-override > > so that new libtool could be built. Likely you tried to built during > > that short window or NewRepo has been too slow after it has been unt

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Except karma requirements (which were in force due to the critical path > process) did NOT prevent this particular regression, nor would a "1 week > minimum in testing" requirement have prevented it (the update spent 8 days > in testing

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen > wrote: >> - Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not >> the correct value) users use the software i package > > It may or may not be superb information...but you have

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > here will > ALWAYS be a need for a way to fasttrack regression fixes! The proposals I've seen include a way to fasttrack. That is you get the required karma between the time the update was submitted to bodhi, and the time a bodhi admin st

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, yersinia wrote: > Sure, I can try. If one software is used  many time from many user, directly > or indirectly, and it have not such many  problems (e.g bug open on bugzilla > for example ), well this  could guide to the decision of the goodness of the > software a

Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-05-04)

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting tomorrow at 19:00UTC (3pm EDT) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. = Followups = #351 Create a policy for updates - status report on implementation = New Business = #371 Change package owner of ddclient (as "subho

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 05/04/2010 05:31 AM +9:00: > Well, it seems usually koji runs 3 newrepo tasks at the same time, but > two of them were hanging for 9 hours (for dist-rawhide and dist-rawhide) small correction: for dist-rawhide and for dist-f14 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Unable to get wlan0 to fire

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:31 +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure on which package I need to bugzilla this under. I have a > feeling it should be NetworkManager, but I'd like to check as it may be > down to a PolicyKit failure (or even dbus). It could well be NM. Can you grab your /var/log/messa

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Jakub Jelinek wrote, at 05/04/2010 05:17 AM +9:00: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Mamoru Tasaka writes: >>> $ TZ=UTC koji list-tag-history --build=gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 >>> Sat May 1 00:57:24 2010: Tagged gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 with >>> dist-f13-updates-candidate [still acti

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
Jakub Jelinek writes: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> BTW, it's now two hours later and gcc 4.4.4 is still in the buildroot. >> There is no newrepo task running for F-13, and no evidence that one has >> been launched recently. Perhaps an untag event fails to force a

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > - Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not > the correct value) users use the software i package It may or may not be superb information...but you haven't told me how collecting this information is helpful to the u

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread yersinia
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia > wrote: > > Look interesting from a QA point of view. > > How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt > profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some > abi

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Mamoru Tasaka writes: > > $ TZ=UTC koji list-tag-history --build=gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 > > Sat May 1 00:57:24 2010: Tagged gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 with > > dist-f13-updates-candidate [still active] > > Mon May 3 15:58:06 2010: Tagged gcc-4.4.4-1.f

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia wrote: >> Look interesting from a QA point of view. > > How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora?  Smolt > profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some > ability

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
Mamoru Tasaka writes: > $ TZ=UTC koji list-tag-history --build=gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 > Sat May 1 00:57:24 2010: Tagged gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 with > dist-f13-updates-candidate [still active] > Mon May 3 15:58:06 2010: Tagged gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 with dist-f13-override > Mon May 3 17:37:31 2010: Untagged gcc-

Unable to get wlan0 to fire

2010-05-03 Thread Paul
Hi, Not sure on which package I need to bugzilla this under. I have a feeling it should be NetworkManager, but I'd like to check as it may be down to a PolicyKit failure (or even dbus). My laptop is not firing up the wireless network. When I try and bring it up from the command line I'm getting

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2010-05-03 09:25:06 PM, Thomas Spura wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to let MirrorManager do that? > This way each mirror can save a counter per package and publish them > statically on the server side. To get a total amount of the data, all > counter files from all servers needs to be collected

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia wrote: > Look interesting from a QA point of view. How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some ability to look for commonalities when troubleshooting hardware proble

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 11:52 -0600 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: > On Sun, 2 May 2010 17:25:10 +0200 > yersinia wrote: > > > Would be interesting to have in Fedora something like this > > > > http://popcon.debian.org/ > > > > ? > > > > Look interesting from a QA point of view. > > It's been sugges

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:20 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > > > > It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped > > forward to champion it. ;) > > > > There is an rpm version being worked on by an OpenSUSE person: > > > > http://gitorious.org/opensuse/popcorn > > > > Somethi

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: ". >  - The prevailing opinion of the electorate of Fedora contributors keeps >    getting ignored. Feedback on the Fedora devel mailing list is never seen as >    in any way binding, it's often dismissed as noise or "trolling". The >    predomin

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
Jakub Jelinek writes: > gcc-4.4.4-1.fc13 has just been tagged temporarily into dist-f13-override > so that new libtool could be built. Likely you tried to built during > that short window or NewRepo has been too slow after it has been untagged > from dist-f13-override already. I see. It seems l

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> - I read this list every day, and am very mindful of feedback from >>   developers. Any communication media is good, IMHO. My mailbox is also >>   always open. I think many become discouraged with the mailing list >>   the

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Thanks a lot Kevin; you showed a lot of class trying to stir up the same > arguments that you stirred up before.  Maybe the reason you lost votes > is that a lot of people just don't agree with you; pouting about that > won't help anything. Th

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 14:30 -0400 schrieb Tom Lane: > F-13 builds requiring libtool are now failing with > > DEBUG util.py:256: libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x86_64 from build has depsolving > problems > DEBUG util.py:256:--> Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.4.3 is needed by > package libtool-2.2.6

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Tom Lane wrote, at 05/04/2010 03:30 AM +9:00: > F-13 builds requiring libtool are now failing with > > DEBUG util.py:256: libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x86_64 from build has depsolving > problems > DEBUG util.py:256:--> Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.4.3 is needed by > package libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x8

Re: F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:30:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > F-13 builds requiring libtool are now failing with > > DEBUG util.py:256: libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x86_64 from build has depsolving > problems > DEBUG util.py:256:--> Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.4.3 is needed by > package libtool-2.2.

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Alex Hudson wrote: > I think it's a bit disingenuous to talk about prevailing opinion of the > mailing list otherwise; to me a lot of the discussion looks an awful lot > like a vocal minority, Be careful about meeting subjective opinion with differing subjective op

F-13 libtool broken by gcc update

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
F-13 builds requiring libtool are now failing with DEBUG util.py:256: libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x86_64 from build has depsolving problems DEBUG util.py:256:--> Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.4.3 is needed by package libtool-2.2.6-18.fc13.x86_64 (build) DEBUG util.py:256: Error: Missing Dependency

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Why should we not call the GNOME spin, and the GNOME desktop in general, by >> its name? GNOME is just A desktop, it's NOT "the" desktop. > > It's the desktop with the most d

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
> > It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped > forward to champion it. ;) > > There is an rpm version being worked on by an OpenSUSE person: > > http://gitorious.org/opensuse/popcorn > > Something would need to be packaged, tested, etc. > > Then the problem becomes what

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Hudson
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:34 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Alex Hudson wrote: > > I think it's a bit disingenuous to talk about prevailing opinion of the > > mailing list otherwise; to me a lot of the discussion looks an awful lot > > like a vocal minority > > I think it's quite cheap to write off t

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: >> Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Can we PLEASE not rehash all of this again? Generally agreed. > Maybe the reason you lost votes is that a lot of people just don't agree with >you Doesn't automatically m

[389-devel] Please review: Bug 586571 - DS Console shows escaped DNs

2010-05-03 Thread Rich Megginson
There were a few more problems with my previous patches. The console was not able to handle some cases where we using a DN value as the value in an RDN, in both the base console and in the ds-console packages. Also, I moved a lot of DN handling code from the ds-console package DSUtil into the b

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Why should we not call the GNOME spin, and the GNOME desktop in general, by > its name? GNOME is just A desktop, it's NOT "the" desktop. It's the desktop with the most development and integration work performed in the distribution,

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > - I don't distrust our maintainers. I very much value the work they do > and without them we would have no Fedora. However, I also want to > help them do the right thing for our users (who I also would like to > see happy). I'm open to ideas on how to reduce 'red tape' fo

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > Matthew Garrett wrote: Can we PLEASE not rehash all of this again? Thanks a lot Kevin; you showed a lot of class trying to stir up the same arguments that you stirred up before. Maybe the reason you lost votes is that a lot of people just don't agree with

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 2 May 2010 17:25:10 +0200 yersinia wrote: > Would be interesting to have in Fedora something like this > > http://popcon.debian.org/ > > ? > > Look interesting from a QA point of view. It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped forward to champion it. ;) Th

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alex Hudson wrote: > I think it's a bit disingenuous to talk about prevailing opinion of the > mailing list otherwise; to me a lot of the discussion looks an awful lot > like a vocal minority I think it's quite cheap to write off the mailing list consensus as a "vocal minority" with no evidence f

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:20:51AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: [...] Kevin, I was rooting for you, and I particularly agree with you on the issues of trusting maintainers and "devolving" power down to packaging groups and SIGs. It was very disheartening also to see so many votes going N-to-1. Ric

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> [1] And I appreciate that I made a mistake with hal-storage in this >> cycle that caused inconvenience for people maintaining other spins, so >> I'm not going to claim any kind of perfection in this area > > Which

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: > If updates cause regressions in functionality then that indicates that > our update testing process failed. The answer to that is to fix the > update testing process, not bypass it. Your assumption there is that it is possible for a testing process to catch ALL regression

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > [1] And I appreciate that I made a mistake with hal-storage in this > cycle that caused inconvenience for people maintaining other spins, so > I'm not going to claim any kind of perfection in this area Which just adds reason to why we a

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
I'm sorry you are unhappy. I can only speak for myself here, but: - I don't distrust our maintainers. I very much value the work they do and without them we would have no Fedora. However, I also want to help them do the right thing for our users (who I also would like to see happy). I'm o

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Hudson
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 02:20 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > But if you want to see the kind of change to FESCo I'd like to see, > it'll take a faction of at least 5 people to make it happen. Surely this is the point: if there are not sufficient candidates with a particular point of view, that's hardl

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:34:13PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> You make it look as if I was out to break people's systems > > Actually, I didn't intend to say anything about you. My point was that > any increased bureaucracy has not been

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Matthew Garrett wrote: > My point was that > any increased bureaucracy has not been generated with the intention to > reduce the amount of fun that developers have. Let me jump in just to say that I'm not a developer/packager, but it was my intention to become a contributor for Fedora. What scar

rpms/perl-MooseX-Params-Validate/devel perl-MooseX-Params-Validate.spec, 1.14, 1.15

2010-05-03 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
Author: mmaslano Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-MooseX-Params-Validate/devel In directory cvs01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:/tmp/cvs-serv19050 Modified Files: perl-MooseX-Params-Validate.spec Log Message: - Mass rebuild with perl-5.12.0 Index: perl-MooseX-Params-Validate.spec ===

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:34:13PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > You make it look as if I was out to break people's systems Actually, I didn't intend to say anything about you. My point was that any increased bureaucracy has not been generated with the intention to reduce the amount of fun that

Re: Super accurate timing?

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Brown
On 3 May 2010 15:29, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Christopher Brown wrote: >> On 2 May 2010 15:51, mike cloaked wrote: >>> I saw that there is an interesting ultra precise timing code being >>> developed - to possibly supercede NTP: >>> http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/tscclock/ >>> http://queue.

Karma feedback needed - Updated NetworkManager (f13, f12) available for test

2010-05-03 Thread James Laska
Greetings Dan Williams posted updated NetworkManager packages for testing. These packages are intended for both Fedora 13 and Fedora 12. The update is available in updates-testing, and requires bodhi karma in order to make Fedora 13. Brave testers, please take a few minutes to install the app

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: > The stable packages work is an extension of this. Even if we, as > maintainers, have plenty of fun, that's pretty easily wiped out if even > a small proportion of our users have to spend time fixing a system that > a stable update has broken. And without users who enjoy usi

[Bug 585336] Review Request: perl-Sys-CPU - Getting CPU information

2010-05-03 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585336 Tom "spot" Callaway changed: What|Removed |Added ---

Re: Super accurate timing?

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Christopher Brown wrote: > On 2 May 2010 15:51, mike cloaked wrote: >> I saw that there is an interesting ultra precise timing code being >> developed - to possibly supercede NTP: >> http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/tscclock/ >> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1773943 >> >> Is this code be

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: > I do not wish to stand for such a committee anymore Kevin, thank you for your attempts and for raising attention on the difficulties you have faced. If some of the time you save by not doing meetings will be spent on additional excellent technical contributions of yours,

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > Wait, I thought libvdpau had a VA-API backend? AFAIK, no, there's only the opposite (a VDPAU backend for VA-API). And VA-API also has no implementation in Free drivers other than a proof of concept for the intel driver which: * only supports MPEG 2, no MPEG 4, *

F-13 Branched report: 20100503 changes

2010-05-03 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Mon May 3 09:15:07 UTC 2010 Removed package paperbox Summary: Added Packages: 0 Removed Packages: 1 Modified Packages: 0 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Great work on F13

2010-05-03 Thread kernel basher
Wow, Great work on Fedora 13. I just installed F13 on my R61 Lenovo. It has the familiar feel that I expect with fedora and the installer worked flawlessly and quickly, except it didn't automatically pick up another Linux OS, so I added that in manually to menu.lst Once I installed flash and then

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 07:02:23PM -0700, Henrique Junior wrote: >Unfortunately, what I have seen over time is that Fedora is changing to >something that worries me and that is getting less fun to contribute. I >remember the time when I liked to say that fedora was the "voice of the >

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Kevin, one way you might help for this election is add some questions to the question that you think are important for voters to know about the candidate. So far only Paul and I have added questions, and I really think the community needs to be more involved here. As a reminder it's at: https://fed

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