Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Gerald B. Cox
From what I've been reading it seems the path of least resistance is to just keep the Fedora Workstation branding and have two options: GNOME or KDE Plasma. I don't believe that it should be overly confusing to ask people to pick one. I just asked Google Gemini to come up with a suggestion

FYI... yubioath-desktop is slated to be removed from F38 repository

2023-01-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
yubioath-desktop and potentially yubikey-manager-qt will not be included in the F38 repository due to packaging issues. For additional information and suggested mitigations, please review:

Re: F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop (System-Wide Change)

2020-12-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I really don't see we have much of a choice here. X11 is eventually going away and Wayland is the path forward. That's already been decided, so at this point it isn't a matter for debate. Human nature being what it is, people tend to procrastinate and not do anything until pressed up against

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-01 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 7:54 PM Gerald B. Cox > I'm wondering, how do you actually want to define a "production > release" of a kernel module? > Does being part of an upstream kernel release (not in staging modules) > not qualify? > Because that's already the

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
bes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:17 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:30 PM Chris Murphy > wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:53 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > >> > >> > Why would we

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
in non-critical systems - if you're concerned about stability you shouldn't be running it." ===> If we are considering BTRFS as a default, at a bare minimum there should be an official production release from the project. On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 6:31 AM Michael Catanzaro wrote: >

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:04 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > But if you can state clearly why it isn't persuasive in a way anyone > could possibly answer, I'm sure someone will try. And it would help > improve the proposal. > Making something the default is a high bar to clear. There needs to be a

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:30 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:53 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Why would we be installing something by default that has widely known > broken functionality? > > Because the default configuration we're using isn't broken

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:01 PM Josef Bacik wrote: > On 6/27/20 4:53 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 1:23 PM Chris Murphy > <mailto:li...@colorremedies.com>> wrote: > > > > > > The proposal

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 1:23 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > The proposal has nothing to do with raid56, let alone by default. The > installer doesn't offer it as an option. And it's not relevant to the > desktop. We're talking about single device btrfs file systems. > > Isn't the proposal talking

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I was an early adopter and used BTRFS for many years, singing its praises. I was particularly interested in the RAID capabilities. Then in 2016 the bomb was dropped that: "It turns out the RAID5 and RAID6 code for the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID support is faulty and users should not be

Re: New version of Copr

2019-09-05 Thread Gerald B. Cox
If I understand the discussion here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/can-the-copr-category-be-removed-from-the-latest-list/2420 Alot of the traffic can be dealt with using the "do not list this category in latest" function - and there will be an RFE for the "new" category. The one thing

Re: Debates/back and forths

2019-09-03 Thread Gerald B. Cox
ohn Harris wrote: > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 6:22:04 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > John you're comparing apples and oranges. One is active the other is > > passive. One uses your space allocation the other doesn't. > > Sorry, what? What space allocation? If you're tal

Re: Debates/back and forths

2019-09-01 Thread Gerald B. Cox
John you're comparing apples and oranges. One is active the other is passive. One uses your space allocation the other doesn't. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 19:07 John Harris wrote: > On Friday, August 30, 2019 5:40:22 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > You just explained exactly why it was

Re: Debates/back and forths

2019-08-30 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:55 AM Chris Peters wrote: > > PS I won't take this thread any further. The irony of a back and forth in > the back and forth thread doesn't escape me! > > That's hilarious and true. I was thinking the exact same thing... ___

Re: Debates/back and forths

2019-08-30 Thread Gerald B. Cox
You just explained exactly why it was different ;-) On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:23 PM John Harris wrote: > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:09:23 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > It's somewhat ironic that Discourse would solve this issue. As I > > previously mentioned, I also do

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-30 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I use the gmail android app and on desktop I use the gmail web interface. On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:19 PM Przemek Klosowski via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 8/27/19 8:36 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Regarding NNTP I've haven't used newsreaders in years a

Re: Error with fedpkg update

2019-08-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:52 PM Iñaki Ucar wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 17:36, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > If I do that, I believe I get into a situation where the other builds > f29, f30 and F32 are behind, which if I remember correctly causes other > issues - and shouldn

Re: Error with fedpkg update

2019-08-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 07:56 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Guys, I'm still getting this message: > > fedpkg update > > Could not execute update: Could not generate update request: Cannot find > > release associated with build: copyq-3.9.2-1.fc3

Re: Error with fedpkg update

2019-08-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Guys, I'm still getting this message: fedpkg update Could not execute update: Could not generate update request: Cannot find release associated with build: copyq-3.9.2-1.fc31, tags: ['f31'] A copy of the filled in template is saved as bodhi.template.last I just checked bodhi and other packages

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 31 Beta Freeze

2019-08-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I'm still getting these messages when I try to do "fedpkg update" for F31: fedpkg update Could not execute update: Could not generate update request: Cannot find release associated with build: copyq-3.9.2-1.fc31, tags: ['f31'] A copy of the filled in template is saved as bodhi.template.last On

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Neal, while you're at it, can you find out what is going on with the RSS support. There was quite a bit of discussion about it - but that has been going on for years now and nothing seems to be happening. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:49 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:31 PM

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:40 AM Kevin Kofler wrote: > I wrote: > >> But what about the die-hard NNTP users? You entirely ignored my post to > >> which you are supposedly replying. > > Gerald B. Cox replied: > > I believe there is a plugin for that with Discourse:

Re: Debates/back and forths

2019-08-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
It's somewhat ironic that Discourse would solve this issue. As I previously mentioned, I also don't like having my inbox flooded with forum threads that don't interest me. The mailing list solution requires you setup filters or continuously delete dozens of emails. Discourse however allows you

Re: HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Google John, Google is your friend... ;-) https://wiki.list.org/DEV/ModernArchiving On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:32 PM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:27:49 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Don't know what to tell you... it was a planned feature for

Re: HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Don't know what to tell you... it was a planned feature for Mailman 3, and it is mentioned here: https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/issues/51 On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:23 PM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:20:57 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Well, there i

Re: HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Well, there is an open ticket to do just that - apparently some people > have a bigger imagination. ;-) > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:08 PM John Harris wrote: > >> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:43:54 PM MS

Re: HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Well, there is an open ticket to do just that - apparently some people have a bigger imagination. ;-) On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:08 PM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:43:54 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:02:36 PM MST Gerald

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
within HyperKitty. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:00 PM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:58:11 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:36:58 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > > > How exactly do your RSS feedreaders handle thr

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:36:58 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > How exactly do your RSS feedreaders handle threading? Don't you mean how HyperKitty will handle it? I won't be responding from my Feedreader, I would be reading the contents from the feed, and if I was interested in

Re: HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:02:36 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > You could also just use NNTP, which wouldn't require you to have anything in > your mailbox. Then you can reply from the same client, as well :) Yeah, Kevin mentioned NNTP also... but as I mentione

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On 8/27/19 11:00 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Would your concerns be addressed if tjere was a gateway from this email > list to Discord? Would something simple that just stores each email in a > separate Discord item work, and if not, why? > > BTW, is there a gateway

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Hey Kevin: > Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > If the plan is to replace mailing lists with something that cannot even > provide the same functionality, that is unreasonable and isn't going to > happen. > > > But you are assuming that we actually WANT to migrate,

HyperKitty as a Discourse Replacement - Why still no RSS Support

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
People keep mentioning HyperKitty as an alternative to Discourse. While I believe Discourse has more functionality, one thing that would make HyperKitty a somewhat acceptable alternative would be the addition of RSS support. So I started to investigate and found that several tickets were

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
PM Dan Book wrote: > This conversation is pretty pointless. You are never going to convince > other people to like Discourse more than mailing lists, and they are never > going to convince you the other direction. > > -Dan > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:35 AM Gerald B.

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
g 27, 2019 at 12:20 PM Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 12:00 -0300, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Why is it when I say that I don't want to clutter up my email with mail > from mailing lists I'm told it's a misconfiguration. It's not a > misconfiguration. I don't want the

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I never said they were. What I said was expecting and requiring Discourse to 100% replicate everything a mailing list does isn't going to happen and shouldn't be a requirement. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:55 AM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:29:28 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wr

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
to understand? On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:47 AM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:29:28 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Using mail, I have to access the archives to read the full thread. > > This is just due to your configuration. You could easily either save the

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
isn't going to be 100% feature parity, but it should be good enough - and if it isn't we should be working with the Discourse people to improve it rather than just using it as an excuse to not moving forward. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:32 AM John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I would assume you would just use mailing list mode and address additional recipients. To receive an expert reply I would suggest you ask the question here: https://meta.discourse.org/c/support On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:54 AM Julen Landa Alustiza < jla...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > I'm

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-27 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I read all the comments and my response is this... First of all, there is no limit to the amount of emails that discourse will send out. That is a site parameter, and whomever supports it for Fedora needs to change it: https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-limits-for-outgoing-mails-per-user/41458

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On 26 August 2019 16:04:12 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" > The only reason to bring it up when replying to me is that you think it > applies here. So > while you explicitly did not mention me there's not very many other ways it > can be > interpreted. >

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On 26 August 2019 14:27:53 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" > Was it a lengthy conversation where you needed context from earlier posts? > Was is easily at hand right in your email client? > > > That's exactly my point. The advantages listed are mere stated opinions. >

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> It seems that the only thing in that link that has merit in regards to this > list is that > discourse allow editing of messages that has been sent. > > As for the other things I disagree with pretty much everything. I don't think > email is > too hard to use, I don't think large mailinglists

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
If you disagree with something that is stated, you need to in detail explain why, not just claim it is marketing and therefore invalid. On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 8:30 AM Markus Larsson wrote: > > > On 26 August 2019 13:25:52 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" wrote: > &g

RE: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Here you go... https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-email-mailing-lists/54298 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

RE: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-26 Thread Gerald B. Cox
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 7:32:06 AM MST you wrote: > > > > > > > > RE: No longer supporting mailing lists: > This project literally cannot function without mailing lists. We do not > currently have a viable alternative. See all of the issues we've had trying > to > work with

Re: Error with fedpkg update

2019-08-23 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:49 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > bodhi is not yet enabled for fedora 31. > > > > According to the schedule, that's supposed to happen on 2019-08-29: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/31/Schedule > > And just to be clear - that means you don't *need* to

Error with fedpkg update

2019-08-23 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I've been trying to submit an update to testing for several days now and it keeps failing with the following message: Could not execute update: Could not generate update request: Cannot find release associated with build: copyq-3.9.1-1.fc31, tags: ['f31'] A copy of the filled in template is saved

Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

2019-08-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 6:51 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > > Have you ever encountered the daily message limit? It seems to be quite > low, at 100. That alone seems to make mailing list mode useless. > > The daily message limit is a site controlled parameter. It can be changed by the

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-23 Thread Gerald B. Cox
>...I think this should be retracted before it ends up being a > phoronix article making the project look bad. I 100% agree... but too late: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Fedora-31-Possible-AVX2-Require ___ devel mailing list --

Re: IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
This was pretty much inevitable. Out of companies with deep enough pockets - IBM is a good outcome. In the end, it will be good for both companies. It isn't helpful to have a negative attitude about it. “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
a bit about the problem space, and I'd like to > discuss *some* aspects here. I expect it's clear which I prefer, but > there are a lot of arguments "for" that I don't deal with. > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes: > >>>>> Gerald B. Cox writes: >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
hoose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox. > > As I previously mentioned with all the top-posting, excerpts and hyperbole interjected by others people get lost and run with mis-quotes - perhaps Discourse could help with that. ;-) Software is a tool for me. I don't get emotionally att

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:43 AM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox a écrit : > > And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to > > a new topic ;-) > > And if it where is discourse

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > I'm not talking about you in the Fedora sense. I'm talking about > Gerald and his saying "we must move everything to Discourse". > Oh really... I said that... perhaps you should take 5 seconds and read the subject of the thread. As far as

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to a new topic ;-) On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:21 AM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 14:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé a écrit : > > > > I don't know why Red Hat's mailman impl isn't upgraded, but it is >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:45 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison > with Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the > gr

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 4:26 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 03:53:06AM -, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > But we can file bugs against Discourse and they will be magically and > > quickly fixed to our satisfaction, yes? > > Of course not. However: development is very active. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison with Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the ground up with the goal of fostering communication and collaboration. Hyperkitty is a bolt on HTML to mailing list archives. It's good for what it is,

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM Randy Barlow wrote: > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Discourse is *definitely* not a smooth, drop-in mailing list > > replacement > > like Hyperkitty is. > > I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does > well

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:40 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 10/18/18 6:31 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Actually, I think that just creating a new discourse instance for > > discussions keeping the mailing > > lists around would be a good solution. You woul

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > You need to read the entire thread in context, including subsequent > > responses. I realize that can be difficult on a mailing list, with > > all the top-posting, conversation snippets, etc. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:24 PM Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > You like gmail […] > > Using GMail (both legacy and Inbox) as a representation of email > workflow and ergonomy is not fair. Gmail as a client is abysmal. > No threading, no coloring of different level of citation, no integrated > GPG

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:03 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I use gmail a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:33 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:39:30PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > I cannot *ever* recommend, in good conscious, moving to Discourse for > > Fedora development discussions. > > > > However, I think it's fantastic for user support, as those are

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 16:35 Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:52:17PM -0300, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > I'm not an email expert by any means. What I said was that it works > > perfectly fine for me. If people have an issue with it they should file a > &g

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 15:31 Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:02:58AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I use gmail a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:48 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > > The thing is, it doesn't matter. Discourse is *not* designed to >> support the types of discussions that do happen on these lists, nor is >> it designed to handle the load or the number of disparate >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
The thing is, it doesn't matter. Discourse is *not* designed to > support the types of discussions that do happen on these lists, nor is > it designed to handle the load or the number of disparate > conversations. I've experienced the switchover from mail lists to > Discourse before with

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:31 AM Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "GBC" == Gerald B Cox writes: > > GBC> People keep saying it isn't sufficient or it doesn't work. I've > GBC> been using it for 3 days and looks and acts like a normal mailing &g

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:15 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:00:32PM +, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > How do I start a thread on Discourse from email? We should start this > > discussion over there so we can experience it ourselves. > > So, yeah, that's a thing: we

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:40 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM Jason L Tibbitts III > wrote: > > While I'm not a contributor to these lists, I do follow them > and have so for probably 20 years now. Like Jason, I have had > other projects move away from mailing lists,

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:38 AM Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:07 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < > > domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > > > I tried the mailing list

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:07 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 22:38, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > [...] > > And I agree, too much clicking. Reading e-mail with mutt on a terminal > > is so much faster. > > So, I tried

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:59 AM stan wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:51:33 -0700 > "Gerald B. Cox" wrote: > > > Yeah, based upon the trial and previous comments I knew it was being > > considered. The point > > of my thread was that many people probably h

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:35 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > Ah nice side-thing I just found out, discussion.fedoraproject.org does > > not show *anything* unless I let my browser access this website > > http://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com > > > >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:32 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > From the foreman post, in the comments: > Email interface does not really work, there should be rather called > “notifications”. You must visit the site ev

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:41 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > Council is considering it, and CommOps just started a 2-month > experiment to see how it goes. It makes sense to me that we wait and > see how those go before we start considering larger moves. I'm worried > in particular about larger lists

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:06 AM Ben Rosser wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > But RSS really isn't the point of this thread. My point is that Fedora > should move to Discourse. It's a much better solution for > > discussion. We should

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:25 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 8:13 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller >> wrote: >> ... >> > That's why the general trend is *away* from email. >>

Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller wrote: ... > That's why the general trend is *away* from email. > > The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this way, > and https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html > is really interesting

Picard Version 2.0.3 is available

2018-10-14 Thread Gerald B. Cox
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1603193 Hello, this record has been open since July with no response from the maintainer. I'm not actually sure if this has dedicated maintainer or is just reliant on proven packagers. Another user has even provided a spec file which builds fine, so

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-10 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 8:21 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > > nice for you, other prefer email and *local* archives which sirely don't > disappear *because* you control the whole client and if somebody next > year makes a relaunch of the online stuff with a bad usability or > lacking features you are

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-09 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:06 AM Anderson, Charles R wrote: > One click is too much for my terminal email client via SSH on my > phone. My email client already supports filtering into separate > mailboxes for each list and also supports threads shown in a > hierarchy. If Fedora lists go away in

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-09 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:33 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > The fact is, the world has moved away from quoted mail with inline replies. > Top posting rules basically everywhere except hold-out old-school mailing > lists. Gmail, both on the web and _especially_ on mobile, makes it almost > impossible

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-02 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:46 AM Ankur Sinha wrote: > A known, but unsolved issue from the looks of it (from a 2014 post): > https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/d7ySu-m1rgY Yep... and the issue is 4 years old and ends with the recommendation of "Send Feedback". I have no idea why

Re: Heads Up: python2 is marked as deprecated

2018-09-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 4:12 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > We CANNOT just drop half of the distribution just because upstream > arbitrarily decided to desupport its widely used language interpreter in > favor of an incompatible new major version. > Well, to be fair the writing has been on the wall

Re: DNF: "There are following alternatives to this package"

2018-09-13 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Tomas Orsava wrote: > Hi! > We'd like to propose a new functionality for dnf: When a user tries to > install a package XYZ and dnf doesn't find it, dnf would recommend them > alternative packages. These offered packages would advertise that they are > an

Re: Orphaning clementine

2018-09-05 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:22 AM, John Florian wrote: > On 2018-09-05 13:41, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > I would recommend you check out qmmp. It's light weight, runs with qt5 > and does what it sets out to do, which is be a flexible, lightweight music > player that runs on qt5, supp

Re: Orphaning clementine

2018-09-05 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I would recommend you check out qmmp. It's light weight, runs with qt5 and does what it sets out to do, which is be a flexible, lightweight music player that runs on qt5, supports skins, has many good plugins for extra features, supports tagged and folder based album covers, etc. There is a

Re: Source tarballs are being placed in git?

2018-07-25 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > "new-sources" should not be mentioned in basic documentation. These should > be added via means of "fedpkg import package.srpm". > > The workflow for new package is then: > > ~~~ > $ fedpkg import mypackage.srpm > $ git commit -m "initial

Re: Source tarballs are being placed in git?

2018-07-24 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Artur Iwicki wrote: > That section of the guide is a bit poorly worded. You should *not* use > "git add" on source tarballs. These should be added only via means of > "fedpkg new-sources $FILES; git add ./sources". I believe what the guide > means under "new

Source tarballs are being placed in git?

2018-07-24 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I received an email this AM from a fellow packager: *Please, do not put source tarballs in git. This is not what is supposed to happen. Package sources are managed with fedpkg, they are just added to the lookaside cache and to the .gitignore file so you don't add them by mistake to the

Re: Change DNF to use Zchunk for F29

2018-07-02 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 07:46 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata > > > > It appears to be a good idea, but when going through the readme, I > > found this: >

Re: Change DNF to use Zchunk for F29

2018-07-02 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:06 AM, Igor Gnatenko < ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 15:54 Gerald B. Cox wrote: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata >> >> It appears to be a good idea, but when goi

Change DNF to use Zchunk for F29

2018-07-02 Thread Gerald B. Cox
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata It appears to be a good idea, but when going through the readme, I found this: *Please note that, while the code is pretty reliable and the file format shouldn't see any further changes, the API is still not fixed. Please do not use zchunk

Re: F29 Self Contained Change: Deprecate YUM 3

2018-06-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:49:39PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 02:37:07PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > If we're keeping both commands, I don't really care - but to make > >

Re: F29 Self Contained Change: Deprecate YUM 3

2018-06-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 03:45:06PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > To tie two recent devel list threads, this is a perfect use case for > > a ~/bin being first in PATH: a ~/bin/yum -> /bin/dnf symlink for > > those that don't want to

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