Re: trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

2010-10-14 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Brandon Lozza wrote: I think an exception should be made for Chromium too. No. Just no. The exceptions for Firefox need to stop NOW, i.e. no new ones should be granted and the ones that have already been granted

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-05)

2010-10-14 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: There was also talk about whether or not it would be allowed for there to be a separate Iceweasel package in Fedora. This might be done to test the feasibility of maintaining it. There were mixed

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-14 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 01:39 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: Er, really? I don't see where I offered any insult or un-excellent-ness. I just meant it as a vaguely humorous way of wondering why Kevin was

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-12 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Michal Schmidt mschm...@redhat.com wrote:  - remove any features Michal How do you guys update Gnome then? ;) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-12 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Michal Schmidt mschm...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:43:16 -0400 Brandon Lozza wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:  - remove any features Gnome is known for removing features, it was a joke. Perhaps you're confusing me

Re: trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

2010-10-07 Thread Brandon Lozza
On 10/6/10, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: However, this here is Fedora, a project that once was aiming at Freedom - As trivial as it is, restrictive trademark policies simply do not fit into this philosophy. If we don't

Re: trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

2010-10-07 Thread Brandon Lozza
I think an exception should be made for Chromium too. Having a more secure browser would benefit the main repositories. On 10/7/10, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: On 10/6/10, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: However

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-05)

2010-10-06 Thread Brandon Lozza
On 10/5/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: === #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2010-10-05) === Meeting started by nirik at 19:30:01 UTC. The full logs are available at

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-06 Thread Brandon Lozza
On 10/6/10, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: I won't comment on the trademark issue (because that's just pure lunacy), but let me comment here they don't accept my patches, so they are non- free. That's just nonsense ... Yes it is, that's not the issue. They aren't letting us distribute it

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/05/2010 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:08 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: That's what i've been saying all day. It's only free software if you change the name, in which case you may loose

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: that's the entire point of having trademarks. Free software projects are obliged to allow you to access and modify their code. They are not obliged to allow you to benefit from their reputation. It doesn't make any

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: We knew that this would happen.  We would lose some people.  When a project like us goes basically directionless for years it picks up people who have different ideas about what they want to create and where they want to

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis fed...@leemhuis.info wrote: Maybe I'm missed something, but there is a (relative) simple question that always pops up in my head when I read things like this. I never bothered to ask it in public, but I'll do now:  * Why haven't those that

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca In-reply-to: aanlkti=whj55xtdwfpfxylzuuccyrgqdjwedlkdsv...@mail.gmail.com (message from Brandon Lozza on Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:26:34 -0400) Subject: Re: Trademarks make software nonfree? Reply-to: r...@gnu.org References

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-05 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 10/05/2010 06:26 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Maybe I'm missed something, but there is a (relative) simple question that always pops up in my head when I read things like this. I never bothered to ask it in public,

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Brandon Lozza  wrote: el Fedora shouldn't include software it doesn't have the resources to maintain. Fedora doesn't have resources to fork it.  Not the same thing at all. Rahul

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free software?  Good luck getting anyone including FSF to agree with that interpretation. Rahul I'm sure they will. Trademark restrictions violate one of the

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: We have been through this before.  If you take Fedora and modify it, you are not allowed to use the Fedora name either.  Trademark cannot be ever free as in freedom. Rahul Exactly the point I brought up Rahul, thanks

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: It would be really helpful if instead of calling programs unmaintainable and similar non-sense you would research a bit what really is the problem ... take

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: It would be really helpful if instead of calling programs unmaintainable and similar non-sense you would research a bit what really is the problem ... take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 10/04/2010 06:53 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free software?  Good luck getting anyone including FSF

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 10/04/2010 06:53 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free software?  Good luck getting anyone including FSF

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Brandon Lozza  wrote: GNU Icecat doesn't tell you something? You said you are going to ask FSF.  How about you just ask them if the presence of a trademark is enough to call software

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: No need to call it “political reasons” (on the side of MoFo) ... nowhere in the definition of free software is written, that upstream has to accept your patches. It may happen upstream (any upstream) disagrees with your patch,

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 10/04/2010 06:50 PM, Florent Le Coz wrote:   On 04/10/10 14:52, Rahul Sundaram wrote:  Trademark cannot be ever free as in freedom. That's why Fedora should not ship Firefox, but Iceweasel, or Icecat, or Minefield,

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Florent Le Coz lo...@louiz.org wrote:  On 04/10/10 15:23, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Ignoring upstream and patching without consent is only feasible if you have the amount of resources to do a good job with that.  Fedora doesn't have that. Rahul I'm not talking

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 10/04/2010 03:34 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Rahul Sundarammethe...@gmail.com  wrote:   On 10/04/2010 06:53 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Brandon Lozza  wrote: That's what i've been saying all day. It's only free software if you change the name, in which case you may loose brand recognition. Imagine if Linus forbid

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Michal Schmidt mschm...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:24:30 -0400 Brandon Lozza wrote: Firefox doesn't just include source code. It includes intellectual property with specific restrictions on what you're allowed to do with it. Did you use the term

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Brandon Lozza wrote: Let's say I recompile Firefox and make a bunch of my own changes and REFUSE to change the name. How long do you think it'll take for Mozilla's lawyers to start threatening me with trademark

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-03 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 20:56:21 -0400, you wrote: Fedora is just going to end up having a million repos for all the software that will not be updated for six months. And that makes us look silly. Windows doesn't have

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-02 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: Look, I realise you are passionate about KDE, and want the best KDE experience in Fedora.  But most people are not developers, they instead are using their desktop environment of choice to get regular, everyday things

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-10-01 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: It shouldn't be. Never be afraid of learning, even in the tightest of situations. It is good for your brain. It helps with analytical thinking. Once constant

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-27 Thread Brandon Lozza
What does matter to Fedora is having an updates policy that is designed to minimize disruption to users during a release is pointless if a significant part of Fedora - KDE - is going to be allowed to ignore the updates policy and deliberately introduce visible to the user changes in the

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:41:38 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:53:49 -0400 Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: It would be nice to list

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-25 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Say you ship with 50 bugs in a package.  As you update it through the lifetime of a release, that number should decrease more or less monotonically.  The bugs

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-25 Thread Brandon Lozza
It would be nice to list it somewhere as an exception, to avoid panics :) On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Brandon Lozza wrote: It seems like the policy would kill the use of an upgraded KDE (4.5 to 4.6) because KDE almost always makes UI changes

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-25 Thread Brandon Lozza
Wasn't this exception allowed for KDE at Fesco? Considering that a typical KDE upgrade contains bug fixes, security fixes as well as new features and UI changes. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:53:49 -0400 Brandon Lozza bran

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-25 Thread Brandon Lozza
to backports like everyone else, how does that make Fedora better? And we do want to be better than everyone else if we want to compete with Apple and Microsoft. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: Wasn't this exception allowed for KDE at Fesco? Considering

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Brandon Lozza
Er, whut? I didn't post anything advocating people use Rawhide for day-to-day purposes. I wouldn't suggest such a thing. All I said was that I haven't noticed the speed difference between debug and non-debug kernels, because I haven't. I know it's measurably present, but it doesn't affect any

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:58:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: 2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: I should add that whether this testing happens in Koji or in AutoQA isn't material.  AutoQA is probably better.  *Provided* that if the basic sanity tests fail they must prevent the packages from going into the

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Brandon Lozza
something like sidux, but fedora based im thinking stable f14 with the goodies stable vision blocks because people want stale software, and i'd rather not use rawhide or opensuse On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Richard W.M

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-21 Thread Brandon Lozza
One thing I wanted to point out. Windows users get to install the latest Firefox, KDE, and other apps without having to wait for a new Windows release. If users had to wait for Windows 8 to get the latest Firefox, things would be messy. I don't understand what the fear is of doing this on

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-21 Thread Brandon Lozza
Is GNU/Linux supposed to be a mirror into software's past? On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: One thing I wanted to point out. Windows users get to install the latest Firefox, KDE, and other apps without having to wait for a new Windows release. If users

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-21 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2010 07:20 AM, Brandon Lozza wrote: One thing I wanted to point out. Windows users get to install the latest Firefox, KDE, and other apps without having to wait

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread Brandon Lozza
If I have to wait for the next release of Fedora (14 for example) to get KDE 4.5 then it's looking like the stable updates vision has made Fedora incompatible with what I need. I will need to consider another distribution (OpenSUSE most likely, their GCC 4.5 also doesn't suck; LTO = enabled).

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-22 Thread Brandon Lozza
1) I was the one who put a google wave link in the wiki, I tought it might be a good way of comunication because anyone with a Gmail account can acess to a wave and use it. If someone do not have a Gmail account he/she simply can use the IRC, can contact anyone that's helping via their

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-20 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Léon Keijser keij...@stone-it.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 03:46 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: The lesser of 2 evils is no solution. Only NO evil at all will keep the user's freedom. Users should NEVER use proprietary software, be it as JavaScript or using

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-20 Thread Brandon Lozza
You are requesting people participate in discussions via Google Wave. This is problematic for two reasons: a) Google Wave is dead b) Noone wants to use Google Wave. See a) Rahul a) you're a troll b) you're a troll -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-19 Thread Brandon Lozza
Well, that's not what HTML, nor the underlying HTTP, was designed for. I don't see it as being an appropriate platform for software at all. (And I don't see plugins such as Flash as being the solution either. I believe this needs a completely different protocol, e.g. NX is something going

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-16 Thread Brandon Lozza
I've already seen websites exploit firefox tabs and they made use of my gmail account to send spam. Why should we make firefox easier to exploit? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:07 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-16 Thread Brandon Lozza
By your logic we should ban gcc, java, mono, python, perl, bash ... as one can use them to create and/or run non free software. Also you may be aware that javascript has its uses *outside* of the web too (just like you can write apps in python you can do it in JS; and having a JIT that

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-11 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.comwrote: Michał Piotrowski on 08/11/2010 09:28 AM wrote: I downloadedhttp:// alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/desktop-x86_64-20100810.15.iso - it is too large to fit on the CD. This is the Green Age

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-11 Thread Brandon Lozza
2010/8/11 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com 2010/8/11 Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Michał Piotrowski on 08/11/2010 09:28 AM wrote: I downloadedhttp:// alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Brandon Lozza
Which is great and I understand that but systemd will basically cover the release time frame for F-13 and F-14 and in that timeframe the support and issues for PA are going unfixed or even un triaged. Not great for a core sub system. So maybe it would be a good idea to train up a few people

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro wrote: On 07/28/2010 01:08 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?  Beta 2 has been released recently and I am wondering if we can go with it if it fits

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/28/2010 04:15 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: We're NOT allowed to make changes (patches) without their permission. This is defacto non-free. I understand we work with upstream but that shouldn't prevent us from

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/28/2010 04:22 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote The FSF drafted up the four freedoms and it's not offtopic, we're discussing Firefox4 and the fact that we won't be able to make changes to it to fix it without

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/28/2010 05:47 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/28/2010 04:22 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote The FSF drafted up the four freedoms and it's

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/10 13:52, Mike McGrath wrote: snip  Maybe as firefox4 available in updates-testing, but certainly not a core default package. +1 -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- devel mailing

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:57 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 07/28/2010 01:08 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?  Beta 2 has been

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-27 Thread Brandon Lozza
Doesn't our version already support WebM? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?  Beta 2 has been released recently and I am wondering if we can go with it if it fits into the schedule.  There are dozens of new

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-27 Thread Brandon Lozza
F11 or F12 had a beta version of firefox spot's chromium builds do support webm, it works great :) On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/27/2010 11:08 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM,

Re: Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

2010-07-26 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:31 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 09:10:24AM -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: Hey all!  It's

Re: Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

2010-07-24 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: Hey all!  It's that time again, we're gearing up to branch for Fedora 14 this coming Tuesday!  There is a major twist this time around, we're going to attempt a roll out of dist-git! --snipped--- I'm just curious but

Re: Using LLVM for build package instead gcc, why not?

2010-07-24 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl wrote: Jonathan MERCIER bioinfornat...@gmail.com wrote: LLVM itself could allow for much greater flexibility in programming language choice. It can allow for anyone to take any language and output it in bytecode, machine

Re: gcc-4.5-RH in F14

2010-07-16 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 07/13/2010 11:55 AM, Brandon Lozza wrote: I'm going to keep a personal note of the apps which do perform faster and grab the src rpm's so that I can compile them myself with LTO. Jakub Jelinek said

Re: gcc-4.5-RH in F14

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon Lozza
A mass rebuild would be recommended as the new compiler will produce faster code. I believe everything will benefit and it's worth looking into. For example I noticed a significant difference on the OpenSUSE distro when GCC was upgraded and they repackaged their software with it in their

Re: gcc-4.5-RH in F14

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon Lozza
On 7/8/10, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:31 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: A mass rebuild would be recommended as the new compiler will produce faster code. I believe everything will benefit and it's worth looking into. For example I noticed

Re: Feature, Fedora 14: Go Programming

2010-07-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
ok :) On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silva...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: http://www.pwnage.ca/dist/SRPMS http://www.pwnage.ca/dist/RPMS Working F13 packages are available if anyone wants to try

Re: Feature, Fedora 14: Go Programming

2010-07-04 Thread Brandon Lozza
you're in now Michel On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: ok :) On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silva...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: http://www.pwnage.ca/dist

Re: Feature, Fedora 14: Go Programming

2010-07-01 Thread Brandon Lozza
http://www.pwnage.ca/dist/SRPMS http://www.pwnage.ca/dist/RPMS Working F13 packages are available if anyone wants to try or make comments on them. (Might not meet package guidelines yet) On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: I got it setup for the feature

Re: Feature, Fedora 14: Go Programming

2010-06-29 Thread Brandon Lozza
I got it setup for the feature wrangler too On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Brandon Lozza bran...@pwnage.ca wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Go_Programming https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Go_ProgrammingHere is the feature page On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:58 PM

Re: Feature, Fedora 14: Go Programming

2010-06-28 Thread Brandon Lozza
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Go_Programming https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Go_ProgrammingHere is the feature page On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/6/27 Brandon Lozza : No I have not actually, didn't know I had to. I saw

Re: rfc: python2.7 for F14

2010-06-22 Thread Brandon Lozza
I know this might be slightly off topic because of python but: I would love to see a feature for GCC 4.5 if its not already assumed to be in F14 (OpenSUSE will have GCC 4.5 in 11.3 out soon) On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:02 AM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:40

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-10 Thread Brandon Lozza
I think you guys are experiencing the infinite loop bug On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:07:16 +0200, Kevin wrote: It fails for a Yum install. I warn about such competing Obsoletes, because they strictly require the user

Re: bodhi statistics

2010-06-08 Thread Brandon Lozza
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Luke Macken wrote: This report definitely conveys the shortcomings in our testing, however, it does show us improving with each release. For Fedora 13, we implemented the No Frozen Rawhide process with improved Critical