Re: Start of systemd timers after install/update of a package

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 05:31 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:53:01PM +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: Was the timer unit active? What does systemctl status yourunit.timer show? I think, this is a good hint, systemctl status innd-expire.timer told me something like Active: inactive...

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 01:49 AM, Andrew Rist wrote: We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora, and would like to provide additional data to help the community make the most informed decision. Instead of switching**the default to MariaDB 5.5 we would like to propose

Re: Start of systemd timers after install/update of a package

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 05:41 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 05:30:52PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What surprised me the most was that none of those components packages depended on cron which was the same thing with rsyslog when I looked into that which is what I expected

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 03:19 PM, Remi Collet wrote: Le 24/01/2013 02:49, Andrew Rist a écrit : We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB ... /me speaking from my experience. I don't maintain MySQL, but various other mysql packages (mysql-utilities, mysql-connector-python,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 10:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 14:57 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: But I guess we simply have a different definition of a user here. Your definition is probably closer to what the page calls admins, which is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/23/2013 09:08 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 01/23/2013 12:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Also, I strongly question this line in the Feature page: Users generally won't see this, as interface names are not exposed in high-level UIs. This is simply not true for many values of the word

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/23/2013 07:29 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznikjrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/FedoraUpgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade Feature owner(s): Miroslav Suchýmsu...@redhat.com Upgrade Fedora to next version using yum

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please enlighten me why that's not an option. Users are better of keeping /home on a separated partition and re-use it

Re: MariaDB in Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/16/2013 10:07 AM, Henrique Junior wrote: Other distros are discussing about the future of MySQL and the implementation of MariaDB as default. What is Fedora position about this matter? Got any links to those other distributions discussions JBG -- devel mailing list

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/16/2013 04:23 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 1/16/13 10:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com mailto:jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: It affects also compilation, GDB was rebuilding for 10-15 minutes instead of

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/09/2013 12:18 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:17:35PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/08/2013 08:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, what do folks think? Workable? Crazy? Crazy enough to work? And we are supposed to QA this how? Like any software? I'm not sure

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/09/2013 04:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:18:36 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:17:35PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/08/2013 08:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, what do folks think? Workable? Crazy? Crazy enough

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 03:48 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 03:06 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: So the remaining webapps that ship with the broken configuration that we are about to release into the hands

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: NodeJS - The JavaScript runtime and associated ecosystem, including the npm package manager

2013-01-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 03:59 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 01/08/2013 10:40 AM, Adrian Alves wrote: why am not in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NodeJS If i was the first one on start with NODEJS package The list of people on that page is volunteer-added. If you would like to help on

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 07:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:39:10 + Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: This may come as an completely stupid question but given that we have not released yet why cant we remove those packages? Because we are in the very last stages

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 08:13 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Surely we must have some kind of omg we cant release with this component in final it's utterly broken or posses security risk! fail safe mechanism in place to deal

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 08:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, what do folks think? Workable? Crazy? Crazy enough to work? And we are supposed to QA this how? JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/07/2013 02:54 PM, Remi Collet wrote: 2 months ago I have open a bug tracker for all packages with an apache configuration file, which need to be fixed to work with httpd 2.4. The current situation, 1 week before release, don't seems really good, see

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/07/2013 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Why? What can FESCo do about it? We don't need to kick every damn issue to FESCo, as seems to be a trend lately. Ah I see but it's ok when you do... There's no high-level technical decision to be made here. The bugs just need to get fixed.

Re: Fedora 18: WebApp and httpd 2.4 configuration

2013-01-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/08/2013 02:10 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 01:56 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/07/2013 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Why? What can FESCo do about it? We don't need to kick every damn issue to FESCo, as seems to be a trend lately. Ah I see but it's ok

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. snip.../snip I

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 09:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: I really didn't want this to turn into a release philosophy thread, the question was limited strictly to a 'how bad do we really think these keymap issues are' thing. Yes and I think they are bad enough that we should delay the release for them

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 10:37 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: So yes, these issues are serious, but IMHO rather a long-term problem we should focus on after releasing F18. I disagree I think we need to fix those things first. Ask yourself this, If the roles where reversed and US keymaps and translation was

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 01:57 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:43 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:13 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote:

Re: fedup: does not verify source

2012-12-17 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/17/2012 01:23 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: I don't think FESCo should interfere according to the process: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process Imho you can join their next go/no-go meeting and try to persuade all stakeholders. This falls under fesco to decide.

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-10 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/10/2012 04:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: c) how do you define 'contributor' ? Active fas account... JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/10/2012 09:40 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: are not worth paying support for. I suggested to RedHat that they provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case: it's possible manually anyway, so it would be a nice gesture

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the potential

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My primary problem with Fedora isn't lack of stability, but lack of API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades. In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes upgrades typically come along with, but the number

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 09:28 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create feature page for it. Period. That describes the current state and is your point of view. To me an Feature is a completely different thing. I am not sure why do you want to

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 11:13 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 7.12.2012 11:13, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson napsal(a): On 12/07/2012 09:28 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create feature page for it. Period. That describes the current state and is your point

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 12:53 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora community member. Red Hat has nothing to do with this. I don't want to start yet another rant saying that everything is broken and we'd be better off if we aped Debian.

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 03:11 PM, Andrew Price wrote: Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok, I'll bite. This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done. Usually it consists of debates between three camps: 1. Those who see Fedora as an

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from Fedora 14 to 15, that was the upgrade from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. … Fedora community should test big

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. It's common knowledge that you cant

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 04:59 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 05:22 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:51:43PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure why do you want to categorize

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 06:37 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: While I cannot answer for Jóhann, I think a proposal could be to contact for example QA, as some features will have a huge impact for them. Contact irc support, as they may have some insight on the common issue reported by people, etc. We have a

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 06:58 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: I do not care ab out arguing with him, I care to give advice to others (if they care for my advice, feel free to fully ignore). Don't follow that model, it's broken security wise, unless you keep your machine disconnected from the network. In the end

Re: Grub2

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 07:54 PM, les wrote: Hi, everyone, My name is Les Howell. I do semiconductor test programs for mainframe ATE. My current issue is with GRUB2. I am slightly visually impaired due to glaucoma. This is important, because setting my system up to use bigger fonts is

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2012 04:20 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one. Feature to me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted. If there is some other class of thing

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/28/2012 08:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, this proposal was recently linked in various places, so let's formally introduce it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Feature_process This an incremental change, not a major overhaul designed to solve all problems. The benefits

Re: Using snapper for OfflineSystemUpdates

2012-11-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/14/2012 03:53 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates we've implemented doing the package updates at first-boot time. This makes a lot of the hard-to-fix problems a lot easier. The question then becomes, how do we make the OS Update process

Re: remove polkit from core?

2012-11-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/14/2012 07:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Great - let's take something that people are using, remove that functionality, and not announce it! This is

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2012 09:05 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they pass that they might just as well be doing so deliberately to deliver better out

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2012 09:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: FESCo decided the benefit to always having mini-debuginfo available outweighed the downside of increased space. I see done to making abrt atleast somewhat usable JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/11/2012 05:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: We need to get the live images back to CD size Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they pass that they might just as well be doing so deliberately to

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 02:15 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'd put things more strongly than Bill: what's been happening in anaconda lately is the precise opposite of what Johann suggests, and that's exactly the right direction. I question if that's the right direction since I cant for the love of me

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 01:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:12:50AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: firewalld isn't in the minimal comps groups. However, it's pulled in by anaconda, see pyanaconda/install.py: # anaconda requires storage packages in order to make sure the target

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 04:43 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: While that has some obvious issues, like new hardware doesn't work with old kernel/syslinux/grub/udev/etc..., It's not like it always works in that area anyway there are further issues as some configuration has to happen within the installed

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 05:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On 11/09/2012 05:48 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote: I still think there would be room for shrinking both code base and the system dependencies if the installer focused on its core responsibility - getting the bits on disk. That is an important and very

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 05:13 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: As far as Anaconda reverted in the future, I'm confused as to when/where this became a requirement. It never was up to this point you know the usual attitude of let's cross that bridge when we get there and this release cycle has proven that it's

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 05:17 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: I can keep going, but is it really necessary? I argue yes maybe not here but having a wikipage under the anaconda name space which mention all the package and configuration files change that can directly affect the installer and how would be

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 05:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:13:32AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: As far as Anaconda reverted in the future, I'm confused as to when/where this became a requirement. I think he's saying this because: 1) Features have a section for contingency

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2012 09:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: We just just have feature submission deadline, feature approval deadline, then we work on approved features until they are done and then give releng/marketing x time to prepare for release. that means we can have 5 month release cycle or 7 or 9

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 12:12 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: It's not one of our supported upgrade mechanisms, and there appears to be no chance of that changing. That's the whole problem. Why is our most reliable upgrade mechanism not supported? For the first QA got completely bypass

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 12:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're being pretty absurd comparing 2003 requirements to 2012 requirements without allowing at all for hardware inflation. My hp pavilion came out of the box with 2GB ram bought last year ago and tablets and various other devices aren't that

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 01:19 AM, Carl G wrote: Could you provide a link to that discussion? pick a release cycle and go through the mailinglist archives. It's one of those topics that resurface on each of them so you should not have a hard time finding something in each of them... JBG -- devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 02:01 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 02:49 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: You're being pretty absurd comparing 2003 requirements to 2012 requirements without allowing at all for hardware inflation. People thinking like you are the reason why

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 04:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 04:40 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/10/2012 12:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're being pretty absurd comparing 2003 requirements to 2012 requirements without allowing at all for hardware inflation. My hp

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/10/2012 05:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: But it's not_helping_ anything. It's not signal. It's just noise. I didn't say 'you need 6GB of RAM to install Fedora'. I said to Kevin 'you're comparing the minimum requirements from a time when 256MB of RAM was a standard desktop configuration to

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:56 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: It turns out that software development is hard. It's especially hard when you have a hugely complicated system with no central management and no real incentive for most of the skilled workers to cooperate on sections of the project that influence

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 09:21 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: time/feature based distribution Hmm interesting Actually feature based release cycle might work and should be something we should aim at. JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 12:42 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: The other problem is that it continues to make Fedora as a project look bad How Fedora looks is in the hands of the beholder. While you see the delayed release as a negative thing I see it as a positive and a strong thing since from where

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 01:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Hi, I'm upgrading Fedoras by yum [1] for some time. I know that is not supported method and can have some problems. But the truth is that it was always less error prone as compared to upgrade using Anaconda or preupgrade. Even with upgrade from

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Is it not just time to form a CoreOS SIG which include Anaconda, the storage developers, The kernel, Dracut,/Systemd/Udev, and arguably selinux and the network guys as well

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 03:58 PM, David Cantrell wrote: I completely agree! Which is why we were getting early test builds done during the F-17 cycle and working to get people testing the installer then. The main problem is that no one_wants_ to test the installer. It's a utility. A necessary step to

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use Anaconda in it's form that it existed in F17 until the new installer was *completly* done? Because nobody

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use Anaconda in it's form that it existed in F17 until the new installer was *completly* done? Because nobody

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: 1) highly user visible changes (beyond artwork or theme changes) * Possibly. I'm unclear as to precisely what has changed here. If it's just the default but the user can select custom partitioning and is able to use LVM there,

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:14 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 10:06, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:30 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 10:20, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Your problem is that you are assuming a lot of things without actually doing any legwork to find out what anaconda does. Anaconda does a lot of probing of hardware

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 06:37 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com mailto:johan...@gmail.com wrote:Bro... It should be sufficient to just tell/point the installer to use new packages while still retain the same functionality/support

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: or do you have any other installer you can point to that behaves like this? Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change my opinion on the fact that if an installer ( any installer ) cannot run on his own bits

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 08:40 PM, David Lehman wrote: No. It is an inevitable consequence of the feature set demanded of the Fedora OS installer. If thing A must be able to set up and configure thing B and thing B changes in ways directly related to said configuration, how can you reasonably expect thing

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 09:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 13:02, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: or do you have any other installer you can point to that behaves like this? Pointing out how the installer currently

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2012 05:35 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2012-11-05 12:22, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/05/2012 07:52 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A crit path update that affects, say, two packages and nothing else, could be approved by default as well. Many of the crit path features however

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Is it really that hard for you people to follow our mailing list guidelines[1]? JBG 1.https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2012 01:07 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: Oh no, you are top posting again ;-) Could you create fesco ticket for this package? I proposed usage of the script in Johann's ticket https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/967#comment:7 Imho it might be better to give acl to more people, then

Re: New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy (was ...))

2012-11-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2012 07:54 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: One have to say the hard truth - only the latest fedora release is supported by many maintainers because that's what they/we use. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team Please read and follow the mailinglist guidelines... JBG -- devel

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/05/2012 09:22 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: You are using your use-case for everyone. If you insist on automatic process, then the metric should work with more data. It's good that we elected FESCO to find out and decide which appropriate metric data should be used to determine that...

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/05/2012 07:52 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A crit path update that affects, say, two packages and nothing else, could be approved by default as well. Many of the crit path features however affect a large or extremely large package set (e.g. the sysv-systemd script migration), in which case

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

2012-11-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/03/2012 08:17 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 11:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, it would maybe a start to DROP packages which are still missing systemd-units

Re: Fedora 18 : broken configuration for httpd 2.4

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 05:25 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: It would have been super nice to actually include a link in all of those bugs, or some reference. I mean, they must have been filed by program, so it's not as if you would have had to do a bunch of extra typing. Most of us do this actually

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 10:55 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: Quoting Michael Cronenworth (2012-11-01 18:33:24) Adam Williamson wrote: I didn't want to throw this grenade into the debate, but now someone else has, I'll just note that I was in favour of this before and I'm still in favour of it now. :)

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 01:20 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Trust me when I say this we have to fix other processes we have *before* we can properly fix the feature process. Which? As soon as an feature depends on other components

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 02:58 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 02:52:46PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: As soon as an feature depends on other components or several other components and their maintainers involvement/participation, then for example the unresponsive maintainers

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 03:32 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:12:56PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: As soon as an feature depends on other components or several other components and their maintainers involvement/participation, then for example the unresponsive maintainers

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 04:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: =?UTF-8?B?IkrDs2hhbm4gQi4gR3XDsG11bmRzc29uIg==?= johan...@gmail.com writes: On 11/02/2012 03:32 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:12:56PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Dead/un-maintained packages need to be removed/reassigned

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 04:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:44:06 + Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/02/2012 04:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: =?UTF-8?B?IkrDs2hhbm4gQi4gR3XDsG11bmRzc29uIg==?= johan...@gmail.com writes: On 11/02/2012 03:32 PM, Matthew Miller wrote

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 04:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: How exactly are you going to force maintainers who go missing to do so at a prescheduled time? Real life is seldom that convenient. bash script + a cron job should suffice to achieve just that. Somehow, we are failing to communicate. We would not

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 06:05 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: No, they might simply have had nothing to do. Sometimes applications are stable, have no releases, and have no bugs files against them. sigh Then those individuals would simply respond to the email that that was the case and they are still alive

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 06:27 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: Wrong. Do you know how few of the problems we see in Eclipse land don't need fixes upstreams? And some of these issues require man/months (years sometimes) upstream before there is smth to show in Fedora. Don't make your assumptions based on

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 06:56 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: If a package is unmaintained, send out a call to co-maintain to devel@ and open up its ACLs. That package would hardly be un-maintained if it has co-maintainers now does it... JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

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

2012-11-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/02/2012 07:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Anyway, we've rather torpedo'ed the feature process discussion now, and I'm sorry about that :/. Hence the topic change. But while we're blue sky thinking about massive release process changes, I think it's worth keeping a firm grasp on what Fedora

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

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 12:22 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Maybe having some kind of dependencies between feature could also be a idea. Anaconda requires dracut to not change, so we need a way to express this, and a way to avoid changes at the same time. The same goes for a python upgrade or lots of things.

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

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/31/2012 05:59 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:56 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: * Jesse Keating, Jeremy Katz, and others who helped shape the current policy and theory of our release schedule felt that the 6 month release cycle was fine but that certain features were going

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 06:09 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: We were thinking with a few folks more about Self contained feature but yeah, there's a lack of real definition. Other thing is - these Self contained features could be approved implicitly once are announced on devel list (in cooperation with

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 08:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: The other thing that we mustn't forget are major changes that aren't put through the feature process, but slip in via the back door. As far as I know you are not obligated to participate in the feature process and what do you exactly define as

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

2012-10-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/30/2012 06:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: How is it that we're even considering shipping this version for F18? For any other package, we'd be telling the maintainer to hold off till F19. The rest of us don't get to be doing major feature development post-beta-freeze. That's what I have been

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