Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-30 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-12-21 klockan 00:49 skrev Federico Mena Quintero: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: So either the list of guidelines is horribly long, or the co-maintainers are not doing their job. I'd like to know who they are, if you please, so that I can help :)

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-30 Thread Gil Forcada
done! http://live.gnome.org/HackergotchiGuidelines cheers, El dg 30 de 12 del 2007 a les 19:10 +0100, en/na Wouter Bolsterlee va escriure: 2007-12-21 klockan 00:49 skrev Federico Mena Quintero: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: So either the list of

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 15:06 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I just find it funny that this has been going on since September. That's three months to write a few guidelines and give the OK to some co-maintainers. So either the list

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Burger
On Dec 19, 2007 4:26 AM, Philip Van Hoof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 15:06 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I just find it funny that this has been going on since September. That's three months to write a few

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 15:06 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Federico Mena Quintero Who's on the potential maintainership team for PGO, so that we may inquire them about the progress? Sorry, but I'm not going to get caught up in pointless crap like this. Some folks may think it's okay

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-16 Thread Richard Stallman
I have not used Planet GNOME, and I have no opinions about how it is run. However, a site without editorial control, on which people can post whatever they like, should not be the public face of GNOME. If it is perceived that way, that is a problem. To solve this problem does not necessarily

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-16 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 14:34 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: I have not used Planet GNOME, and I have no opinions about how it is run. However, a site without editorial control, on which people can post whatever they like, should not be the public face of GNOME. If it is perceived that way,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-15 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Dec 14, 2007 11:38 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Julien PUYDT You've been asked to be more open, don't get annoyed if people are pissed by closed non-answers! I'm mostly annoyed at the attitude rather than the questions (even the ones that have already been

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-15 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 18:38 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Julien PUYDT You've been asked to be more open, don't get annoyed if people are pissed by closed non-answers! I'm mostly annoyed at the attitude rather than the questions (even the ones that have already been answered). I

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 08:24 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: The module's maintainership isn't sucking in general, but there have been a number of periods in which it hasn't been great. Please don't make this out to be worse than it is, that kind of approach doesn't help resolve anything. What I want

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero What I want to resolve is this: So do I, as already noted. Sucking guidelines out of my head --- that's exactly the kind of problem we need to solve. That's why I mentioned it. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Og Maciel
Federico, Thank you for spearheading this. My experience with PGO has been very smooth and I definitely do not have any complaints about the maintenance of it. However, a few weeks ago there were several posts with a very different view of it. I agree with your initiative to turn this great

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:51 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Federico Mena Quintero What I want to resolve is this: So do I, as already noted. Sucking guidelines out of my head --- that's exactly the kind of problem we need to solve. That's why I mentioned it. But please don't

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Og Maciel Federico, Thank you for spearheading this. Please don't turn this into something it is not. I had already been working on this before threads on this list, and before Federico's recent mails. It is not particularly motivating to see the issue approached in this way. -

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Og Maciel
On Dec 14, 2007 10:54 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't turn this into something it is not. I had already been working on this before threads on this list, and before Federico's recent mails. It is not particularly motivating to see the issue approached in this way. Dude,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero But please don't ignore the question I asked: Who's on the potential maintainership team for PGO, so that we may inquire them about the progress? Sorry, but I'm not going to get caught up in pointless crap like this. Some folks may think it's okay to treat

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Og Maciel
On Dec 14, 2007 11:09 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You thanked Federico for his efforts. That's what I read, and that's what I responded to. Definitions of effort on the Web: * attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; made an effort to

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Og Maciel
On Dec 14, 2007 11:17 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I should have avoided responding to the trolling in the first place. Wow... Really first class response. Good job at avoiding an answer too -- Og B. Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keys:

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Julien PUYDT You've been asked to be more open, don't get annoyed if people are pissed by closed non-answers! I'm mostly annoyed at the attitude rather than the questions (even the ones that have already been answered). I don't really feel an obligation to give answers to people who

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero It's somewhat more intricate than that -- I'm writing it up atm, so people can understand the decision making process (guidelines). That's the first step. :-) Ping. Any progress on this, so the editorial policy can be linked from Planet? Also, Dave's

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-27 Thread Murray Cumming
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 22:38 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:02 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: [snip] What I mean is that once you are syndicated in Planet, you can post whatever you want. That's why we have people posting all sorts of things that are not

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On 9/12/07, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:... 3. Jeff doesn't like you. 4. Jeff doesn't like your blog. 5. Jeff doesn't like your politics. 6. Neither you nor your blog is elite enough. 7. planet.gnome.org in an old boys club. -1 ... Which is why a transparent process is really

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Arangel Angov
На чет, 2007-09-13 во 09:40 +0200, Luca Cappelletti напиша: Which is why a transparent process is really really important. Requests should be handled through bugzilla because then everyone can see that it is all open and all allegations about nepotism

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: For my part, if I had anything else to argue it would be that p.g.o. should be handled by a formal team whos members could be subject to change from time to time (as I suggested before, possibly a marketing team or web team) - as opposed to add someone else

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007, à 17:37 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Because despite Gnome is people, I think that for most people, Planet Gnome is primarily about Gnome. No. The way planet started, it was about people. Or friends in fact. I personally am not interested in reading an

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Vincent Untz But I'm 100% fine with this since we still didn't change most of the world to understand French; hopefully we will get there soon! ;-) This would be an entirely reasonable catalyst for applying censorship to Planet GNOME. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 9/13/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Planet GNOME is about the people moreso than the project. We talk about the project *all the time*. The reason why I started Planet GNOME (and Planet!) was to read about and better understand the *people*. That's why full feeds are preferred over

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Vincent Untz wrote, On 13/09/07 11:00: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007, à 17:37 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Because despite Gnome is people, I think that for most people, Planet Gnome is primarily about Gnome. No. The way planet started, it was about people. Or friends in fact. I

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alvaro Lopez Ortega The planet is not a newspaper or a magazine, it is just a planet. That censorship / editorial line idea doesn't make any sense to me. I hope that this is a similar effect to that of great design -- you don't notice the editorship because Planet is highly readable

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alvaro Lopez Ortega Jeff Waugh wrote, On 13/09/07 11:43: The planet is not a newspaper or a magazine, it is just a planet. That censorship / editorial line idea doesn't make any sense to me. I hope that this is a similar effect to that of great design -- you don't

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I am more concerned about big posters, posting almost everyday some long text and for who I have never seen any GNOME related post, and who I never read anything from them except their blog on planet (should I really give names ?). People complain about the number of posts everyday and the

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak I would suggest opening pgo as a free-for-all for those with commit access Just so everyone knows: That is *extremely* unlikely to happen. There has been significant support for the editorial stewardship of Planet GNOME for ages

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/12/07, Tristan Van Berkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That way you get democracy at both ends - posting and viewing. GNOME is not democratic. :-) Well, gnome is people that have a choice to contribute or not - making those people (i.e. you me and everyone else) feel accepted and

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Julien PUYDT
Tristan Van Berkom a écrit : I think its important to note here that giving someone access to blog on planet gnome is like publicly aknowlaging that they are indeed a part of the gnome community - people who contribute to the project need to feel like they are part of the project. Agreed. And

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Tristan Van Berkom *sigh*, I wonder what you are basing this claim on, maybe there's an archived thread that you could reffer us to which details that ? Unfortunately my blog didn't have comments at the time, so most of the responses to this were on IRC or by mail. It's mentioned

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Julien PUYDT wrote: Tristan Van Berkom a écrit : I think its important to note here that giving someone access to blog on planet gnome is like publicly aknowlaging that they are indeed a part of the gnome community - people who contribute to the project need to feel like they are part

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 19:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: At what point do we recognise that editorial control is necessary for the planet to remain a useful resource? OK. But please, could someone tell us what's this Editorial Control all about? How does this Editorial Control balances with the

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 9/12/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just not going to get caught up in all this alarmism about censorship. I can't imagine why anyone would think I could get away with actual censorship of Planet... it would be laughable if it wasn't so mean spirited. It is not true, but it is

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 9/12/07, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not true, but it is not laughable. I don't for a second doubt that you do not censor planet.gnome.org. But many months ago I emailed you and asked to get my blog syndicated. I never got any reply and left it as that because I didn't

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: [...] Planet GNOME without a strong editorial control would probably suck. Just like maintainers vouch and check patches in each of their modules, we need to have some control on blogs getting added to planet. And that's Jeff's module...

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 04:00 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: [...] It's also related to *why* people want to be on Planet GNOME -- for instance, it sucks that some people make blogs solely to be published on Planet GNOME. Curiously, why does that suck ? Not everybody likes to make a hobby

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 12:21 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: Well, gnome is people that have a choice to contribute or not - making those people (i.e. you me and everyone else) feel accepted and important is central to having a healthy project where everyone wants to be involved. But if

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Steve Frécinaux I'd even go one step further saying than most people care about gnome and gnome apps, and not about one's cats and the other's culinar niceties. Because despite Gnome is people, I think that for most people, Planet Gnome is primarily about Gnome. Well, that's

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero The current editorial control is simply more or less if you ever did something peripherally related to GNOME, you can be on Planet, regardless of what you post. It's somewhat more intricate than that -- I'm writing it up atm, so people can understand the

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Pascal Terjan I think that asking people to have tags/categories on their blogs and not aggregate everything would be better than having all the content of the ones who arrived first. Planet GNOME is about the people moreso than the project. We talk about the project *all the time*.

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh That's why full feeds are preferred over GNOME-specific tags Minor point: I do mean 'preferred'. If someone has a good reason for wanting only their GNOME-related posts on Planet I'm cool with that, but I always go back to ask before putting them up. So no knicker-twisting,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-12 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:02 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Federico Mena Quintero We have no editorial control. Get over it :) We absolutely *do* have editorial control at the moment. The challenge I have at the

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-11 Thread Kevin Kubasik
I often just sit in #commits on irc.gnome.org... Works pretty well for me :) Cheers, Kevin Kubasik On 9/11/07, Paolo Borelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il giorno lun, 10/09/2007 alle 17.40 -0400, Claudio Saavedra ha scritto: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 17:01 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread David Bolter
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I know Planet GNOME maintenance has been patchy -- I've been thinking about ways to alleviate that while keeping strong editorship in place. The Board has prompted me about this too, so I have plenty of

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David Bolter wrote: I like this idea. I guess if we trust someone to commit code we should trust them not to abuse the planet... errr at least not planet-gnome anyways. Some editorial control for planet is essential - there are already so many feeds that the planet's become less useful

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: planet-web already exists, but making it a free-for-all isn't a useful solution. I re-read http://perkypants.org/blog/2005/06/10/1118362980/ and it mentions the possibility of making the SVN module essentially a free-for-all. .. And I quite

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: planet-web already exists, but making it a free-for-all isn't a useful solution. I re-read http://perkypants.org/blog/2005/06/10/1118362980/ and it mentions the

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:39 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: If you are feeling super-paranoid, we can have a Planet module on bugzilla, and we can point people to a page with instructions: 1. Get a bugzilla account. 2. File a bug under the Planet module. 3. A number of Trusted

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:05 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: Put another way, I would find it uncomfortable to say someone sorry, you don't belong here, so these situations should be avoided. I think that adding a requirement for the applicant to have someone from the community to sponsor

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:50 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:05 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: Put another way, I would find it uncomfortable to say someone sorry, you don't belong here, so these situations should be avoided. I think that adding a

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 17:19 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Some editorial control for planet is essential - there are already so many feeds that the planet's become less useful - we're up to 50 or 60 posts a day. The question is how to marry reactivity to requests and accountability with that

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: And this all is naturally from the developer/maintainer POV, as translators and documentors do not benefit from this as

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi all, Could you please move this discussion to d-d-l and/or gnome-infrastructure? This mailing list is definitely not the place to discuss SCM in GNOME. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/10, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I know Planet GNOME maintenance has been patchy -- I've been thinking about ways to alleviate that while keeping strong editorship in place. The Board has prompted me about this too, so I have plenty of incentive to resolve it without any

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:17 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Hi, Olav, You are ignoring the central place. You need somewhere all GNOME devs are able to commit. This is what is so wrong about www.gnome.org/~foo/git/. The interesting question is, why are people doing ~foo/git/blah in the first

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:43 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Does this need to be any more complicated than having a planet-gnome module on SVN, and a README that says to add someone to the feed, put him in people.xml? Then anyone who has a SVN account can add someone else to Planet.

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On 9/10/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: svn-commits-list exists and you can limit the email receive to one or more projects (or all). Right, but like I said I'm not sure it scales anymore; there's too much stuff in svn to want to get an email per commit. If you limit to only your

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:05:18PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:17 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Hi, Olav, You are ignoring the central place. You need somewhere all GNOME devs are able to commit. This is what is so wrong about www.gnome.org/~foo/git/.

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 17:01 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Then the daily summary could be in the planet gnome feed, perhaps. I don't know, I'm sure there are better solutions, and it's academic unless someone turns up who decides to try and code something. Just throwing out ideas.

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:21 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: That's the way things are handled ATM. With the exception that only Jeff is supposed to commit to the appropriate file (there's a README or HACKING somewhere there). Well, we can certainly stea^H^H^H^Hfree Jeff from the drudgery of

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:23:28PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:21 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: That's the way things are handled ATM. With the exception that only Jeff is supposed to commit to the appropriate file (there's a README or HACKING somewhere

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Sanford Armstrong
On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. This is an unfortunate cultural relic created by arch/tla, and hilariously

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, I hate to do this but... again... please move this discussion to a more appropriate mailing list like d-d-l or gnome-infrastructure. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/11, Sanford Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Curtis Hovey
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:41 -0700, Sanford Armstrong wrote: On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. This is an

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Havoc Pennington Bringing it back to the present, there's stuff on svn.mugshot.org that really belongs on gnome.org, but it seems it didn't end up there. I don't think this was a conscious thing, but I think it probably was due to just enough of a barrier to create a new gnome

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:24 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: Then you just do not create a new branch, commit when you're done on the master branch, and push the patch once it is ready, or attach it to a bugzilla bug using git-send-bugzilla [1]. Note that git allows you to amend a commit, ie

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 18:49 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: Nothing is ever solved by letting others be responsible for solving problems that may have been introduced by you. Or vice versa. That's a basic fact in SCM. But more often than not the build is left broken by a translator. -- behdad

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: Let's summarize it as: I don't know any D-SCM :-) (only investigate by

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:35:55PM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: While I don't wish to sound trite, I do think almost everyone here knows what everyone else is going to say, and maybe trying to headstart the discussion is a bad move, and presumptuous, but allow me to throw out an idea. I

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin Kubasik
I should start by saying, I used the word 'git' here to really mean most any dscm. I personally use Mercurial for my school stuff, (small 3-4 person development teams on shorter term projects) and I use bzr with Launchpad daily. I would recommend against choosing bzr simply because the performance

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: I should start by saying, I used the word 'git' here to really mean most any dscm. I personally use Mercurial for my school stuff, (small Ok. I think if we choose something, it should something we want to switch to. E.g., if we try

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Sanford Armstrong
On 9/8/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:23:31PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali wrote: Hi! Was hard to sleep last night after i sent my last message so i must clarify something before i attempt to answer anyone's reply: You need to look at it a bit

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: Let's summarize it as: I don't know any D-SCM :-) (only investigate by checking out docs) (but I am also not interested in learning a SCM) Hopefully that doesn't translate I don't know and

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: Let's summarize it as: I don't know any D-SCM :-) (only investigate by checking out docs) (but I am also not interested

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Julien PUYDT
Zeeshan Ali a écrit : About the svn access, all centralized VCS's are meant for dictatorships. If the gnome foundation really wants to improve the situation, i recommend moving to git or some other non-distributed VCS instead of brain-dead centralized svn for the following reason: At one

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin Kubasik
Since this discussion seems to have rapidly devolved from discussing slow Sysadmin response times to a futile debate over revision control, I'll share my $0.02 on both topics. 1) Gnome Systems - This is always going to be less than perfect, but the current state of affairs is almost embarrassing.

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Mikael Hallendal
7 sep 2007 kl. 13.15 skrev Zeeshan Ali: Hi, Hi! That being said, I can't help but notice that svn itself isn't the cause of the problem : Maybe not in this case, but there wouldn't have been a problem (at least not a big one) in the first place if this was a matter of write-access

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Julien PUYDT
Luca Cappelletti a écrit : You made the righe choose changing to sourceforge, you can go to launchpad or savannah nongnu, very good place to work... No such choice has been made yet. Snark ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:57:19AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali wrote: About the svn access, all centralized VCS's are meant for dictatorships. If the gnome foundation really wants to improve the situation, i recommend moving to git or some other non-distributed VCS instead of brain-dead centralized

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On 9/6/07, Damien Sandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I am more and more disappointed by the way some people *control* that community, even if they never contributed anything back to it. Hello, totally agreed with you. To much politics into GNOME...but it works!! To much

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hi! On 9/7/07, Damien Sandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I think to Julien, I am also getting mad. He has been contributing to Ekiga for 5 years. He recently created a blog and asked to Jeff to be added on planet.gnome.org. He was first ignored, then Jeff told him that he had to post

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-07 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! 1. Developers can clone the main repo and the maintainers (people with write-access) can just pull from their cloned repos. This way a developer won't really need write access and he'll just keep on committing his changes to his repo and inform the maintainer(s) about his newest cool

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin Kubasik
While I don't wish to sound trite, I do think almost everyone here knows what everyone else is going to say, and maybe trying to headstart the discussion is a bad move, and presumptuous, but allow me to throw out an idea. I think we are more or less in agreement that: 1) git would lower the

Can we improve things?

2007-09-06 Thread Damien Sandras
Hello, As a long time contributor to the GNOME project, I will take the freedom to directly mail the foundation about the current problems I experience in the GNOME community. You probably know that I started contributing to GNOME in my spare time back in 2000. I have dedicated countless hours

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:19:49PM +0200, Damien Sandras wrote: You probably know that I started contributing to GNOME in my spare time back in 2000. I have dedicated countless hours to my project, GnomeMeeting, now known as Ekiga. It means 7 years of development, exclusively done during

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Damien, The problems you raise are real, and not unknown to the community and the foundation board at all. However, I'm not sure who you have in mind when you say am more and more disappointed by the way some people *control* that community, even if they never contributed anything back to