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

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 11:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > well, it would maybe a start to DROP packages which are still > missing systemd-units > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Fe

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

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

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-03 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:20:05 PM > Subject: Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process > > On 11/02/2012 06:27 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > > Wrong. Do you know how few of the

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

2012-11-03 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > My position is that the people who use Fedora and the kind of people we > really _want_ to use Fedora can cope with it. Maybe the majority can maybe they can't. But as evident by this thread even fedora *developers* don't want to deal with

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

2012-11-03 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 13:22 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I disagree with that. Fedora releases had some small regression > > introduced via updates from time but is is *very* usable as a stable > > operating system. > > I disagree. It's usable by the kind of people who use Fedora. Who like >

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

2012-11-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:17:02 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > ..snip... > > In my experience, in the last few years, Fedora stable releases have > become much more stable. My "stable" boxes here at home I have not > really had to poke at si

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

2012-11-03 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henrique Junior wrote: > It is difficult, for example, to understand why we have to wait until the > next release to have LibreOffice 3.6, since this seems an non disruptive > update that could bring major improvements in the productivity of users who > rely on of

F-18 Branched report: 20121103 changes

2012-11-03 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sat Nov 3 09:15:19 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [dhcp-forwarder] dhcp-forwarder-upstart-0.10-1801.fc18.noarch requires /sbin/initctl [dnf] dnf-0.2.14-2.git4831982.fc18.noarch requires python-hawkey >=

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

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 16:32:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:18 +0100, drago01 wrote: In a rolling release model, everyone deals with foo-1.0 to foo-2.0, then a week later they deal with bar-1.0 to bar-2.0, then a week later they deal with monkeys-1.0 to monkeys-2.0

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

2012-11-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:35:08PM +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > I understand that "regular users" are not Fedora's main target, but it > is a general-purpose operating system in the sense that it can be used > by people who want to have a stable working environment with all the > latest things fro

Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some initial network traffic, but then things hang. Has anybody successfully uploaded a new file to the lookaside cache in about the last 12 hours? -- devel mailing lis

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bruno Wolff III [03/11/2012 15:30] : > > Has anybody successfully uploaded a new file to the lookaside cache > in about the last 12 hours? Uploaded Queue-DBI-2.5.0.tar.gz just now. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev

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

2012-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" [02/11/2012 20:34] : > > That package would hardly be un-maintained if it has co-maintainers > now does it... Absolutely. Hence my request that any process we put in place be package-focused rather than maintainer-focused. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedo

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:29:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some initial network traffic, but then things hang. Has anybody successfully uploaded a new file to the

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:41:05 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:29:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some initial network traffic, but then

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

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 10:52 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > My position is that the people who use Fedora and the kind of people we > > really _want_ to use Fedora can cope with it. > > Maybe the majority can maybe they can't. But as evident by

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

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: > Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but > one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only two repos to > maintain - whilst in Fedora it is 5 repos! One might wonder whether > there is less effort needed t

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

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: > The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By > adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model. > Tumbleweed is more like a pool where updated, stable, non disruptive > software can be installed and I

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

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 01:09, schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 01:07 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 03.11.2012 00:58, schrieb Adam Williamson: >>> Microsoft don't really expect you to upgrade Windows. They expect you to >>> buy a computer with Windows X on it, use it for three years, th

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

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 11:35, schrieb Nikos Roussos: > In that sense, and from my point of view, if we had to rethink our release > model and dedicate time and energy on a > new approach, it would make more sense to have an extended support release > (providing only security updates after > 13 months)

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

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 15:38, schrieb Emmanuel Seyman: > * "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" [02/11/2012 20:34] : >> >> That package would hardly be un-maintained if it has co-maintainers >> now does it... > > Absolutely. Hence my request that any process we put in place be > package-focused rather than maintainer

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

2012-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:26:43 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > I don't think rolling release and getting work done are incompatible. > As I mentioned, I run Branched permanently on my desktop - so it > rolls from 'pre-Alpha' state through to 'stable' state briefly and > then back to 'pre-Alpha' agai

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

2012-11-03 Thread Alek Paunov
On 03.11.2012 18:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 10:52 +0100, drago01 wrote: Eh? That's not what I said at all. What I said was that I think in a well-managed rolling release model, users would actually run into trouble only about as often as they already do anyway. I don't mean

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

2012-11-03 Thread Alek Paunov
On 03.11.2012 19:17, Alek Paunov wrote: Adam, I think that the current "rolling release" discussion as many other "high interest" general ones in the recent months are pointless without some form of explicit definition and statistics of the current (and desired) distinct Fedora user profiles. J

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

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 11:11:18 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: In any case, I think we do need to look at release cycle changes or at the very least Feature process revamp. And get comments from other than developers. Marketting might have serious concerns about the loss of exposure not having

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

2012-11-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: > > > Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but > > one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only two repos to > > maintain - whilst in Fedora it is

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

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : > I'd rather see us do a better job with rawhide so that more people use it and > a better job at making upgrades go smoother so that people just trying > to get stuff done with Fedora have a better experience. Then the questio

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

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 00:26 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : > > > I'd rather see us do a better job with rawhide so that more people use it > > and > > a better job at making upgrades go smoother so that people just trying > >

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

2012-11-03 Thread Nikos Roussos
Adam Williamson wrote: >On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: > >> The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By >> adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model. >> Tumbleweed is more like a pool where updated, stable, non disruptive >>

Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full time on their main machine. As we get close

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

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 02:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > >On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: > > > >> The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By > >> adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model. > >> Tum

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-03 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 06:12:02PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/02/2012 06:05 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > > >No, they might simply have had nothing to do. Sometimes > >applications are stable, have no releases, and have no bugs files > >against them. > > > > Then those individual

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Sandro Mani
On 04.11.2012 01:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full time

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

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 00:26:08 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : I do not run it, so I cannot judge, but I think the first step to fix something is to know the exact problems to fix. If the issue is "too much breakage", how can

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 18:32:20 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Additionally, if some number of these folks who pledge to run rawhide full time were provenpackagers we could just go in and fix things as they hit (or soon after) instead of waiting a while for fixes to go out. I'm in proven packag

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

2012-11-03 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
I think we could, just for fun if you like, pursue making a good plan of how the transition would be and what changes should be done. Consider it objectively. What changes would have to be done the OS? What changes in infrastructure? What tools do we need? This could be a good exercise. The wik