Re: duplicate f13 package announcements

2010-03-05 Thread shmuel siegel
On 3/4/2010 5:04 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:54:28AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: M A Young wrote: I don't know if this has already been raised but I notice on the package-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org list that several Fedora 13 packages keep getting

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

2010-03-05 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:11 AM, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:14 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: Extras had significantly fewer packages, Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Like most any group making hard decisions, the KDE SIG bases them on the best information available.  Fact is, we extensively tested this new version for over a month, and every serious issue/blocker that was reported or identified was

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: It's actually almost no extra work to build the updates also for the previous stable release. We have to build them for the current stable anyway. It just means doing the usual routine (copying the specfile,

[Bug 555420] FTBFS perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.005-6.fc12

2010-03-05 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555420 Marcela Mašláňová mmasl...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

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

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:11:47 -0500, James wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:14 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: Extras had significantly fewer packages, Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 less

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:19 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: Obviously this would require some tools work, but isn't it worth considering? This is essentially serviced by KoPeRs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos Except this is still vaporware.

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

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:41:46 -0500, James wrote: % yum repolist --releasever=11 updates repo id repo name status updates Fedora 11 - x86_64 - Updates9,390 ... This probably won't go well unless you two are

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Till Maas wrote: F13 updates will be supported until F15 Alpha is created, so everyone has a about a three month update window to get from FN-updates to F(N+1)-updates or F(N+1)-updates-stable. FN-updates to F(N+1)-updates-stable is unlikely to work, because FN-updates will be including stuff

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it, boot it, get a network connection, and install updates'. That's what the

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kalev Lember wrote: If upstream really issues security fixes for 4.x-1, Their security advisories include patches, which usually either apply just fine to the old releases or have a version for the old releases included. then this is pretty much perfect. We get 4 or 5 bug fix releases, and

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Sven Lankes
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:15:50PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: latest-and-greatest, bleeding edge policy of Fedora. If you would point me to such a bleeding edge policy then I could agree but I believe this is merely assumed by some and if you want the latest always you could use kde-redhat

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 04 March 2010 22:13:05 Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:59 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: The problem is that there _aren't_ bug fixes for these old releases. When 4.x comes out, upstream pretty much drops development on 4.x-1 except for security issues which are backported

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Juha Tuomala wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: What bugfix releases would we be supposed to push? There are no further 4.3.x releases. Nothing, if that's the case. That means bugs will no longer be fixed, is that a price we want to pay just to avoid the small risk of

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 March 2010 19:59, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I think we really need to be more conservative about what version of our default updating tool we include in our releases (and in fact pushing PackageKit 0.6 as a post-release enhancement update once the issues with it are

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Juha Tuomala wrote: Was it so that mysqld wants to communicate through fs sockets which does not work on NFS $HOME? [akonadiserver] Failed to use database akonadi [akonadiserver] Database error: Can't connect to local MySQL server [through socket

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 ... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations The four foundations have

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:52:56AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: One size does still not fit all, although this is a great idea for most packages in Fedora for packages in certain niches this is a bad idea. I've said this before (and got 0 response), I believe there should be some divide made

Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
(Starting a new thread because this hardly has anything to do with the original infamous thread. Dear hall monitors: I hope I won't get put on moderation for posting this, but this subthread didn't have much to do with the original subject. If you also want me to stop posting to this split

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:42 +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have taken over the maintainership from Robert, and the new usb_modeswitch rpms are in rawhide now. And F-13? Let me know if you guys need anything fixed on that :) --

[Bug 493799] [virt-top] Translations for Fedora 12

2010-03-05 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493799 --- Comment #39 from Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com 2010-03-05 05:15:39 EST --- Thanks Yulia, those are upstream here:

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 Rahul Sundaram
On 03/05/2010 03:45 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: So I don't see that policy as backing your claims at all. Of course you don't which is part of the problem since you continue to not treat the risk of regressions as seriously as you should even though the latest push did cause problems despite

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 update caused kmail to stop working on imap accounts and I dont use the DE

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: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Chambers
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 22:53 -0500, TK009 wrote: We will be automatically changing the version all rawhide bugs to Fedora 13. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 13 development cycle being changed to version ‘13' instead of their current assignment,

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:03:12 +0100, Kevin wrote: Yeah, basically mash is a really brute force solution, I think directly writing out only the new updates as the first prototypes of Bodhi did and as the Extras scripts also did/do is a much smarter solution. Always recomputing everything

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 as others do? If so, i would have expected more from you I faced more

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
Here is now a review request for fedora-easy-karma: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570771 pgp3bH9mzb8w2.pgp Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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 as

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
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 that mean if Fedora N is released with KDE 4.x, the users get 4.x+1 only in Fedora N+1? It sounds diagonally opposite to the latest-and-greatest, bleeding edge policy

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: duplicate f13 package announcements

2010-03-05 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:12:51AM +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: On 3/4/2010 5:04 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:54:28AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: M A Young wrote: I don't know if this has already been raised but I notice on the

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:53:54PM -0500, TK009 wrote: I hope everyone is well. With the worst of the “snowpocalypse behind us  (here in the Northern Hemisphere) and the branching of Fedora 13, there is a bit of ‘spring cleaning’ the the bugzappers need to do. This e-mail is designed to

Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
Hi, I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to switch to this? I created a wiki page for this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Till/update_availability_speedup_ideas The basic idea is to create new

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: Hi, I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to switch to this? I created a wiki page for this:

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 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

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:08:09AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: Hi, I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to switch to this? I created a wiki page for

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: the problem is you have to depsolve both sets of pkgs separately keeping in mind stable vs unstable. And the depsolving impacts the multilib selection (and vice versa). I do not understand the problem, can you maybe give an example? Does the current

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:06:33 -0800, Adam wrote: as we've explained several times, It won't get more correct by simply repeating it over and over again. most packages that go to updates-testing for a few days *are* being tested, even if they get no apparent Bodhi feedback. Certainly not

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread James Laska
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: I did explicitly explain to you and the other desktop SIGs at the start of the F13 cycle that, because we just hadn't had time to discuss all the thorny implications of the question, the desktop criteria would be

rawhide report: 20100305 changes

2010-03-05 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Fri Mar 5 08:15:12 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires libboost_serialization-mt.so.5

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Haley
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. That kills what Fedora stands for out there in the wild. To be a leading

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Laska wrote: Quality isn't something you staff and hope they cover all your testing needs. Quality practices are expected of everyone at all stages of the process. In the QA team, we work to provide a framework and guidelines so people interested in making a difference have an

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: I must be looking at the wrong places then... I could find no 4.4+ RPMs either in one of the mirrors: http://apt.de.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/fedora/12/i386/unstable/RPMS/ 4.4.0 is already an official update, why would kde-redhat carry it? 4.4.1 is not built yet. It

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Till Maas wrote: Before you do anything that is described on that wiki page, it needs to be updated to match the current no frozen rawhide situation. Since it requires FESCo approval, targeting 2010-03-09 seems to be kind of unrealistic. Quite the opposite, the switchover needs to happen ASAP

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Seth Vidal wrote: If only 3 of those 5 make it through updates-testing into updates, then you have to figure out if the other 3 actually need the versions of the other 2 or if they can work with what's already available in GA or updates. How's that relevant to his proposal? Or more precisely:

Re: Limited options in bugzilla

2010-03-05 Thread Tareq Al Jurf
On 5 March 2010 13:51, Tareq Al Jurf wrote: * When i'm using bugzilla, i've noticed that i have some limited options in ** flags ** fedora-review: i have only a ?, i dont have any + ** fedora-cvs: i can't change it, see the link below. ** ** my info: ** taljurf: Approved Groups: fedorabugs

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
For all those who're claiming users don't want upgrades like KDE 4.4.0: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-February/367266.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-March/006102.html Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:11:23PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Till Maas wrote: Especially it needs to be made sure that only bugs created prior to adding F13 to RedHat Bugzilla or the branching of F13, depending on what happened later, are touched by the Rawhide bug rebase.

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: I must be looking at the wrong places then... I could find no 4.4+ RPMs either in one of the mirrors: http://apt.de.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/fedora/12/i386/unstable/RPMS/ 4.4.0 is already an

Re: VCS key in spec files and some scripts

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: Also a link to an example spec would be helpful. For just the #VCS key? Let me instead write up a formal proposal: It helps to have something that is

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: For all those who're claiming users don't want upgrades like KDE 4.4.0: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-February/367266.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-March/006102.html Now, lets see you take the leap in

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. That

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 05:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it, boot it, get a

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 05:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: We should change or refine the Freeze Policy page then. Having different definitions of what is required for alpha to go out and what can go in after

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: We have a written down policy that specifically recommends that our maintainers consider the issue of regressions seriously and not push every upstream release into the updates repository

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:11:23PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Till Maas wrote: Especially it needs to be made sure that only bugs created prior to adding F13 to RedHat Bugzilla or the branching of F13, depending on what

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:27 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Especially it needs to be made sure that only bugs created prior to adding F13 to RedHat Bugzilla or the branching of F13, depending on what happened later, are touched by the Rawhide bug rebase. We already did that, though tk009 forgot to

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/3/5 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: We have a written down policy that specifically recommends that our maintainers consider the issue of regressions seriously and not push every upstream release into

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Thomas Janssen [05/03/2010 17:03] : If you ask me, i say, have a face, have a character and offer something the others dont. Fedora is exactly that right now. We're left with the problem that what Fedora is right now isn't working (massive amounts of updates that our users have to download,

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 14:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: which go through updates-testing. They do not file positive feedback for every single package because there's just too many, but if they notice breakage, they file negative feedback. And they simply don't and can't notice all

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
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) The nepomuk problem some face is something that falls under, damn, that

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 21:47 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: That's because you're misreading Rahul's claims. Rahul was replying to a post which claimed Fedora has a 'policy' of being 'bleeding edge'. Uh, oh - it wasn't a *claim*. Its just the popular saying, urban myth, a general feeling

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 Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:40 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: There are regressions. But not just in KDE. But interesting that so much people cry about KDE only. I agree with that, and I said so earlier in the thread... And Yes, it's always bad if terrible stuff happens. But you cant reduce

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: So what? That's not twice as much as FE6, which would not have taken several hours to push into such a repo. Not even when running repoclosure on the needsign repo prior to pushing and when updating repoview pages afterwards. Simply because the

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:01 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: It doesn't change anything, though. No feedback = nothing to rely on. These recent discussions on this list could have been fruitful, btw. For some people it has become a game of I'm right - you aren't, unfortunately. Nothing like

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:11:10 -0800, Adam wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:01 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: It doesn't change anything, though. No feedback = nothing to rely on. These recent discussions on this list could have been fruitful, btw. For some people it has become a game of

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:52:56AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Make rawhide consumable as a semi-rolling release itself. We already have this it is called early branching of the next release. I would fully agree with you if it were not for the early branching feature, which means we

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: It seems to be missing something - it says 'all rpms that are not included in the prior metadata will be deleted', but there's nothing in that proposal as written that will cause rpms to fall out of the metadata. It was probably to unclear. This

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Doug Ledford
On 03/05/2010 04:49 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: So, I'm going to reiterate my policy suggestion: Make Fedora releases (all of them) stable in nature, not semi-rolling. Make rawhide consumable as a semi-rolling release itself. And let me reiterate my objections, because you

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Orcan Ogetbil (oget.fed...@gmail.com) said: There is one more thing. Very important thing. We have been pushing KDE releases asap so far, and although it hurt me at times (at school and at work), I like it. I don't blame people who don't. Here is the thing: The bugs need to be reported most

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Doug Ledford
On 03/05/2010 02:52 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: One size does still not fit all, although this is a great idea for most packages in Fedora for packages in certain niches this is a bad idea. I've said this before (and got 0 response), I believe there should be some divide made between core

rpms/perl-DBIx-Class/devel perl-DBIx-Class.spec,1.22,1.23

2010-03-05 Thread Štěpán Kasal
Author: kasal Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-DBIx-Class/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv27846 Modified Files: perl-DBIx-Class.spec Log Message: - filter also requires for hidden package declarations Index: perl-DBIx-Class.spec

F-13 Branched report: 20100305 changes

2010-03-05 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Fri Mar 5 09:15:06 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 doodle-0.6.7-5.fc12.i686 requires libextractor.so.1 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires

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 if

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: For all those who're claiming users don't want upgrades like KDE 4.4.0: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-February/367266.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-March/006102.html Now, lets see

[389-devel] Please review (take 2): [Bug 570667] MMR: simultaneous total updates on the masters cause deadlock and data loss

2010-03-05 Thread Noriko Hosoi
Subject: MMR: simultaneous total updates on the masters cause deadlock and data loss https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570667 [Revised proposal] -- (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=398089) git patch file I revised the previous patch to allow sending simultaneous

Perl, Imap and Kerberos

2010-03-05 Thread Christoph Höger
Hi all, I am currently writing an IMAP client script in perl. Since this script will only be used in one single use case and the IMAP server supports Kerberos authentication, I thought it would be a good idea to use Mail::ImapClient together with Authen:SASL This works well until I want to

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: The issue there is then you have to properly determine what packages to remove from the repo (unless you just keep everything, which has its own problems); in this case, recomputing actually makes the code simpler. Sure, it makes the code simpler, but a lot slower!

Re: F-13 Branched report: 20100305 changes

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:16 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:12 +, Branched Report wrote: koan-2.0.3.1-1.fc13.noarch requires mkinitrd This should be blocked from composes already. What's the deal? It is blocked, perhaps the block action took place after the

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:07 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: And since I was lost at the previous step, I wonder here what you think Thomas wants that's rather specialized. If you think it's drink from the firehose and that == rawhide, I agree that that's specialized. If it's semi-rolling

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 19:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: For all those who're claiming users don't want upgrades like KDE 4.4.0: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-February/367266.html

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to switch to this? I created a wiki page for this:

Re: Proposal: move comps to fedorahosted git

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) said: I'd like to propose moving comps to fedorahosted git. Why? Because CVS is a pain. I can work on fixing the automated releng tasks that use comps. What I'd like to know is if doing this at some point over the next few weeks (say, post-Alpha)

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: If we are going down the road of providing absolute-latest-versions on older releases, perhaps not pushing it to prior releases until it's actually been in wide use on the next release? So, you have, for example: - new version 4.6 - push it to rawhide, get testing -

Re: F-13 Branched report: 20100305 changes

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jesse Keating (jkeat...@j2solutions.net) said: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:16 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:12 +, Branched Report wrote: koan-2.0.3.1-1.fc13.noarch requires mkinitrd This should be blocked from composes already. What's the deal? It is

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:55:23PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Orcan Ogetbil (oget.fed...@gmail.com) said: There is one more thing. Very important thing. We have been pushing KDE releases asap so far, and although it hurt me at times (at school and at work), I like it. I don't blame

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: If we are going down the road of providing absolute-latest-versions on older releases, perhaps not pushing it to prior releases until it's actually been in wide use on the next release? So, you have, for example: - new version 4.6 - push it

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Doug Ledford wrote: On 03/05/2010 04:49 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Yet it is the only solution which really satisfies both groups of people. You should always be more clear when writing emails such as this. The Yet it is above is unclear. Are you referring to a stable rawhide, or the two

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:33:02 -0800, Adam wrote: No, not in a clear way. Instead, you keep emphasising that no negative feedback is not equal to a package not having been tested at all. That's just plain useless. Not even all broken deps are reported in bodhi. Why do you keep talking

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:56:11 -0500, Doug wrote: It seems obvious to me that even if we made a policy that Fedora was primarily stable once released, that there would always be exceptions to that rule and things that should be updated more aggressively. So I would not advocate for any policy

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it,

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
Interesting script. Nice idea, Till! Comment? -1/0/1 -karma, other - skip 1 With defaults (no command-line args), it here prompted me to enter the FAS password for localhost. I had to use --fas-username=... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:27:53AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:07 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: And since I was lost at the previous step, I wonder here what you think Thomas wants that's rather specialized. If you think it's drink from the firehose and that ==

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:16 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:33:02 -0800, Adam wrote: No, not in a clear way. Instead, you keep emphasising that no negative feedback is not equal to a package not having been tested at all. That's just plain useless. Not even all

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: With defaults (no command-line args), it here prompted me to enter the FAS password for localhost. I had to use --fas-username=... These are the two commands that are used to get the username, what do they return for you?

Re: Speedup the availability of updates (was: Re: Push scripts, mash) pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:49:09PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: It seems to be missing something - it says 'all rpms that are not included in the prior metadata will be deleted', but there's nothing in that proposal as written that will cause

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