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

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Janssen
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 it somewhere as an exception, to avoid panics :) Well, I personally do not want to say: Hey, anytime you like down the

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

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:26:46 -0400, you wrote: I can't tell people Fedora is the best if it's not carrying the latest upstream KDE, its just not possible. I'm constantly recruiting new users. I'm in regular contact with

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

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, 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: F12/ Cannot update

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Andrea Musuruane wrote: Why xulrunner has been built against this and pushed to stable? Because Firefox/Thunderbird maintainers have the ability to Push-To-Stable regardless of what the Fedora package policies say.

Re: F12/ Cannot update

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: rant My security fix build was rejected going to stable directly, because it could break anything (freeciv game), so i expect critical packages

Re: F12/ Cannot update

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andrea Musuruane musur...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: File a ticket with FESCo. We should have *all* packages go trough updates-testing, regardless of who's the maintainer or what's

Re: Recently FTBFS stfl, fails on ruby installation

2010-09-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi, i tested today why stfl FTBFS. I found out that it doesn't installs a file into /usr/lib.. but lib/.. That happens just for the ruby part of stfl, the perl parts getting installed into /usr/lib.. just fine

Recently FTBFS stfl, fails on ruby installation

2010-09-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
Hi, i tested today why stfl FTBFS. I found out that it doesn't installs a file into /usr/lib.. but lib/.. That happens just for the ruby part of stfl, the perl parts getting installed into /usr/lib.. just fine. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2450778name=build.log I checked

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net wrote: Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What previous niche? We had a distro that was pretty general purpose, worked for servers and desktops and even laptops. We had a predictable schedule. We had new

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: The cynic in me would expect that the people who want something different than the fire hose we have now

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-27 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Manuel Escudero jmlev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've been working in a project called Hermes (For more information refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hermes) The idea is to build a Feed Parser customizable by the user that notifies when there are important

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: As several people have pointed out, there's a fundamental inconsistency in your position - you can't simultaneously claim that lots of

Re: F14 Question: AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Black HD/-A850 availability

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: Hi, I have the impression that the  DVBT-USB stick mentioned in the subject line is not supported by F14. After plugging in, I got an error msg: missing firmware file in /lib/firmware:

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Thomas Janssen wrote: I'm part of the KDE SIG. I will apply today for proventester to become the KDE proventester. Actually, Rex Dieter already started the application process, so you'll probably become a KDE

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le jeudi 12 août 2010 à 13:51 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit : I guess I'm just saying that, if we had the developer time to do it, it would be super nice if we could get the pre-F15 rawhide is useless bit

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-02 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 02.08.10 17:01, Mike Prispan (fr.p...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi all, maybe I'm wrong (I guess I am), but is PulseAudio really dead? What lead me to this conclusion? Well look at this: * Fedora has 201

Re: Can anyone contact Gérard Milmeister (gemi)?

2010-07-06 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Gérard Milmeister g...@bluewin.ch wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:13 +0800, Chen Lei wrote: Hi FESCo, Can we orphan his packages now? I'd like to take scons, I don't think waiting more time will be helpful. Hi, I am still alive. I had always hoped to find

Re: concept of package ownership

2010-07-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Thomas Janssen wrote: You have to accept the maintainers decision to not update it yet? What do you think will happen if everyone builds the wishes he has and breaks a lot of stuff with it? Anarchy? We have processes

Re: concept of package ownership

2010-07-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Thomas Janssen wrote: I'm sorry, i can't agree with you here. Being more aggressive, putting pressure on whatever just to have the latest versions of all the software around in rawhide, sounds to me like we would go

Re: rebuild of wxGTK without the internal crash handler in Rawhide

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Dan Horák d...@danny.cz wrote: Kevin Kofler píše v Pá 02. 07. 2010 v 04:06 +0200: Dan Horák wrote: I will rebuild wxGTK without the internal crash handler for the the devel/F14 branch so we can use ABRT to report crashes from wxGTK-based apps. This will

Re: concept of package ownership

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Peter Czanik pcza...@fang.fa.gau.hu wrote: 2010-07-02 03:18 keltezéssel, Kevin Kofler írta: Dave Airlie wrote: So I've noticed maintainers of packages in Fedora seem to have a concept of ownership, and I'm wondering if we could remove that word from usage

Re: Subscribing to package updates in bodhi?

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Julian Aloofi julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a pretty simple question: Is there a way to subscribe to certain packages in bodhi so that I get a notification via mail whenever updates are queued for it or pushes happen? That would be

Errors, warnings during yum update

2010-06-25 Thread Thomas Janssen
Hi folks, todays yum update spit out some errors and warnings not too hard to fix: Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/gnome-default-handler is discouraged (x-directory is an old media type that should be replaced with a

Re: Orphaning google-gadgets

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm orphaning google-gadgets -- there are trivial crashing bugs (like Miro before it switched away from xulrunner, the

Re: Bug on NetworkManager (#600656)

2010-06-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: Hi, You can either run dbus_send --print-reply --system \        --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \        /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \        org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wake or run service

Re: sources file audit - 2010-05-31

2010-06-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: thomasj:BADURL:glob2-0.9.4.4.tar.gz:glob2 Thanks, fixed in cvs. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Blockers via flags?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 22:47 -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: Fedora only has one branched, yet unreleased release at a time.  Can we recycle the same tag(s) for every release instead of creating new ones every time? We

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:14 AM, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote:  Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote:   Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64,

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: If we, as a -community- project, want to remain relevant, it is time to decide who we are and what is our goal. Agreed. The who we are is easy answered, we're RHs *playground*. That is what everyone, not completely new to

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/5/3 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se: Thomas Janssen wrote: Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be on by default. NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in. If it were

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:03:34PM +0200, Thomas Janssen wrote: - Helps to decide if a package can be easily removed from Fedora (upstream dead, no users left, good bye is no problem) Sounds like another tool to beat

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

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Rudolf Kastl che...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/4 Thomas Spura toms...@fedoraproject.org: Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 22:37 -0400 schrieb Orcan Ogetbil: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: Sorry if i answer that

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/5/4 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se: Thomas Janssen wrote: Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware. There's nothing at all that gets sent

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

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Thomas Janssen wrote: Maybe i'm wrong and nothing is decided, but why don't we do something then and get the data we need to decide the*right*  direction in the first place? Because the important people of Fedora have

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

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

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

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

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: - Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not the correct value) users use the software i package It may or may

Re: Orphaning my packages

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Rafał Psota rafal...@gmail.com wrote: cssed -- CSS editor and validator diffpdf -- PDF files comparator geekcode -- Geek Code generator glob2 -- An innovative RTS game metacafe-dl -- Command-line program to download videos from metacafe.com ranpwd -- A

Re: Orphaning my packages

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Rafał Psota rafal...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/29 Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Rafał Psota rafal...@gmail.com wrote: cssed -- CSS editor and validator diffpdf -- PDF files comparator geekcode -- Geek Code generator

Re: The package 'gentoo' seems unmaintained for months

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Robin 'cheese' Lee chees...@hotmail.com wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/gentoo If the owner takes no count of this package, I would like to co-maintain it. My FAS account is 'cheeselee'. Thank you! You added yourself already to the

Re: How to contact Matthias Saou?

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/4/26 Chen Lei supercy...@163.com: On 2010-04-26 21:35:53,Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com  wrote: I had started[1] this process weeks ago. He rebuilt easytag a few days after my initial e-mail but for an unrelated bug report. He has not responded to my direct e-mails or bug reports or 

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:03:28 -0400,   Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Wouldn't it be sensible to approach the Mozilla folk about getting them to relax their requirements so that sane

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:03:28 -0400,   Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Wouldn't it be sensible

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-23 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Martin Stransky stran...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2010 09:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/23/2010 09:03 AM, Martin Stransky wrote: Hi, we're patching mozilla packages only for really critical issues because of mozilla trademarks. We can't put any patch

Re: Orphaning kftpgrabber

2010-04-21 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Johan Cwiklinski maili...@x-tnd.be wrote: Hello I've not used kftpgrabber for a long long time ; and I wish to orphan it. I've just taken a look at upstream and even if the latest stable version came in 2007 ; according to

Re: Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: I'm against making a mess of PATH with a crapload of symlinks. If this were to happen, it should happen at a bashrc alias level, and even then I'm still against it. i agree, also the proposed commands are too long

Re: Reverting kaddressbook back to previous version?

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:53 +0200, Thomas Janssen wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Ryan Rix wrote: On Mon 12 April 2010 6:40:59 am Juha Tuomala

Re: Reverting kaddressbook back to previous version?

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Ryan Rix wrote: On Mon 12 April 2010 6:40:59 am Juha Tuomala wrote: I recall, that the earlier version had some level of Akonadi support as well, so in theory, would it be possible to revert the

Re: non-responsive maintainer: thomasvs

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Julian Sikorski beleg...@gmail.com wrote: W dniu 03.04.2010 20:52, Felix Kaechele pisze: I talked to him on IRC three days ago and he accepted one of my bugs I filed at morituri's (a cd ripping tool of his, best there is) bugtracker. Maybe ping him on IRC. His

Re: URGENT! These review requests needs your attention!

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I just found that some folks submitted some interesting packages for the review. Not all of them are in good shape, though. * wow-oss (Fedora Games SIG members, please take care of it) * iTunes (nice, Qt-based

Re: Orphaning DR17 and EFL

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Simon Wesp cassmod...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.03.2010, 22:11 +0100 schrieb Thomas Janssen: Hi, As-Salāmu `Alaykum im orphaning: e_dbus ecore edje eet efreet embryo emotion epeg epsilon evas ewl libeina and I will also orphan

Re: Non-responsive maintainer Karsten Hopp?

2010-03-22 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Karsten Hopp kars...@redhat.com wrote: Am 22.03.2010 12:05, schrieb Till Maas: Hiyas, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:45:25PM +0800, Chen Lei wrote:  The privoxy current in F12 is a beta version and had a lot of bugs.  See

Re: Orphaning Packages

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/18/2010 02:01 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote: Warren Togami wrote: I am orphaning the following packages.  Two look pretty important for someone else to save. NEWLY ORPHANED PACKAGES

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Matěj Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 14.3.2010 19:29, Kevin Kofler napsal(a): Nonsense. There ARE users who want this kind of updates. Please don't generalize your own opinion to ALL users in that way. no is a strong word! And yes, these are users who have

Re: Plan for tomorrow's (2010-03-16) FESCo meeting (note new DST meeting time)

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:09 -0700 Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:14 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: #355 Let rel-eng untag embryo from F-13 because it breaks the chain and upgrade path Does

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 21:48 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: Why, do you think, should just a single user change to Fedora, away from Ubuntu or any other Distro? Because we're blue? If the only reason to choose Fedora

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:05 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I'd expect people that want 100% Free to use gNewSense. I'm not sure how you define more ammeniable to new contributors, so that's harder to address. Still, I

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:05 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I'd expect people that want 100% Free to use gNewSense. I'm not sure how you

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 00:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: Fundamental point of view difference.  You take the point of view of push everything all the time /unless/ there is a good enough reason not

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/10 19:27, Adam Williamson wrote: --snipped-- Bringing it back to dialup. Fedora liveCD 500-700mb CentOS DVD 3.5GB app. Fedora 1, CentOS 0 In my experience, many users with restricted bandwidth actually

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/12/2010 04:36 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: And i disagree here. People like that have to face that Fedora or any similar distro isn't for them. I don't see why you want to continue pushing off users instead

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/10 11:33, Thomas Janssen wrote: -snipped-- If I can be indulged. it's because i can't believe that dial-up-land user are really that stubborn It's not the endusers fault, they have bad infracture. Oh, so

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/10 11:56, Thomas Janssen wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com  wrote: On 12/03/10 11:33, Thomas Janssen wrote: -snipped-- If I can be indulged. it's because i can't believe

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/12/2010 05:03 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: I wasn't answering the ABI stability part. But the people-in-dial-up-land part. It is interconnected in my argument and doesn't make sense to debate in parts.  If you

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/10 12:12, Thomas Janssen wrote: --sniped-- Oh, so it's our fault? It's just life, in all it's forms. Exactly. And if i live in an area where i cant have everything, i can't choose everything. Bringing

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM, John J. McDonough wb8...@arrl.net wrote: Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: If the infrastructure sucks where you live, what needs to happen is that the infrastructure needs to improve, not that the whole world

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default? (was: Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism)

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: Also thanks for packaging that immediately -- what about installing it by default? It's a tiny package and we really do want our users to provide feedback. I do not mind, if

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Sven Lankes s...@lank.es wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Before being added to updates, the package must receive a net karma of +3 in Bodhi. [...] It is the expectation of Fesco that the majority of updates should

Karma threshold for kernel

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Janssen
Hi, what kind of karma threshold is set for the kernel? The page in bodhi says it has a karma of 9, but if you count it, it's 13+ and 10- And the kernel got -5 since it's pushed to stable. Shouldn't that one stay out of stable for now?

Re: Karma threshold for kernel

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:36:18PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: Hi, what kind of karma threshold is set for the kernel? The page in bodhi says it has a karma of 9, but if you count it, it's 13+ and 10- And the kernel got -5

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:34:03PM -0500, Will Woods wrote: Adam's poll results are valid *only* for Fedora users who: a) Are members of the Fedora forum, b) Enthusiasts/power-users to the degree that they would notice a

Re: Another great update

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/3/7 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com: The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core components revision number . I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros in past 11 years, and this is something new to me...

Re: Another great update

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you get too many complaints. But make it available

Re: Another great update

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Debarshi Ray debarshi@gmail.com wrote: Again I say updates-testing! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them plenty of time to adapt. If you have a large codebase two months is barely

Re: Another great update

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/3/7 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/3/7 Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org: 2010/3/7 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com: The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core components revision number . I'm not convinced

Re: Another great update

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/3/7 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/3/7 Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org: Why are you trying to change the Face and Character of Fedora instead of using what fits your needs (your own mentioned RHEL/CentOS)? RHEL5/CentOS5 is outdated for my needs. I had two ways: 1

I love Fedora

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Janssen
Dear readers. The last two weeks have had a few big, very hot discussed threads. I personally was a few times way too much involved with my feelings and i suspect a few others here as well. As the subject says it clearly, i love Fedora. I love it as it is. It is leading edge, i can have latest

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, right? Here it

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2010 02:06 PM, Sven Lankes wrote: Maybe it isn't written down as a policy but in my mind it's a big part of the four foundations. Unless we want to make them freedom friends frozen frustration in the future ...

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2010 03:55 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: I read about regressions all the time in KDE releases, over and over again. What's a regression you Rahul have faced and can you provide a BZ as well? A while back a kde

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2010 04:33 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: So you filed a bug. I will search for it. So you stop'd using it, BUT you faced more problems like that. Now that's interesting. Or is it that you blow into the same horn

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar rajeeshknamb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2010 10:16 AM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: Does

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/05/2010 10:25 AM, Thomas Janssen wrote: I can see the need and agree that maybe not every big push needs to go to N-1 releases. But not pushing 4.x.x relases to the currently stable N release is just plain wrong

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:25 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: I read about regressions all the time in KDE releases, over and over again. What's a regression you Rahul have faced and can you provide a BZ as well? (snip

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:10:41PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/05/2010 03:25 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: So i (and others who think like me), have no reason to use Fedora over one of the other mainstream Distros

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an unofficial one will no doubt spring up, or an existing unofficial repo will pick up that role (for KDE, kde-redhat

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thomas Janssen wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: current stable release nor support an official backports repo

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:30:43 Juha Tuomala wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an unofficial one will no doubt spring up, or an existing

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 21:07 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:07:29PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 March 2010 16:23, Thomas Janssen wrote: [..] BUT, Fedora was my choice BECAUSE i get/got the latest and greatest. Even without running rawhide/factory/cooker. [..] Well, update to latest release (every 6

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 13:51, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 13:33, Thomas Janssen thom

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org said: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: My own personal opinion is that stable updates should only fix serious issues

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org said: If you want RHEL, use it. People keep saying this, as if the opposite of updates every day is release every 3 years.  Those are two extremes

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:08 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So why we can't use it as our advantage and fill this gap? We could very well fill that gap with rapid release cycles (every 6 months) and updates for those

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Thomas Janssen (thom...@fedoraproject.org) said: When there's no policy, and the user has to guess whether or not they need to do this for every package on their system, however, you have a mess. Well, except

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I would like to collect feedback on this issue. If you want to disable direct stable pushes, why? Could there be a less radical solution to that problem

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:57:11PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:48:15PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes dafr...@gmail.com wrote: I agree

Re: Heads up! Broken deps in Upgrade from 12 to 13

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/2/21 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com: Just for kicks, the current   Upgrade from  12+updates  to  13+updates+testing broken deps look like below. While several may be due to dead packages that have been removed in 13, some are likely due to violated upgrade paths and bad/missing

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