Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 22:41 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I've put together a kind of FAQ for the most common maintainer-wanted problems: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/ The idea is to replace most of my usual bullet points in the please fix list with URLs with more complete

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Alin Nastac
Aron Griffis wrote: Alin Nastac wrote: [Sun Sep 11 2005, 05:02:27PM EDT] Gentoo history is full of such individuals who only want to be sure that they could become devs but are not willing to put any effort behind it. Gentoo's history is full of hard-working devs. The slackers are

Re: [gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-09-12 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Sunday, September 11, 2005 20:42, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. Why does this script no longer include the results in the actual message? It was helpful to have both as a reference source. -- Anthony Gorecki

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/mpeg2-video

2005-09-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
As the subject says, if nobody step up for mpeg2-video, it will go away in a week. It's currently masked being broken (no author nor masking date). It's discontinued upstream, as its functionality are provided by cinelerra. So, if nobody step up, I'll remove it.. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò

[gentoo-dev] app-shells/tcsh

2005-09-12 Thread Daniel
In what I can only describe as a random act of stupidity I put myself as maintainer of app-shells/tcsh. The real truth is I don't care about tcsh. Rather than let a few bugs be ignored for grossly longer than they are already can anyone with a interest in this package please look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-12 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 22:41 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I've put together a kind of FAQ for the most common maintainer-wanted problems: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/ The idea is to replace most of my usual bullet points in the please fix list with URLs with more complete

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 12 September 2005 02:25, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If you're not up for having your code reviewed, don't contribute to an open source project. No-one expects you to produce perfect code straight off (at least, we don't until we give you commit access). We *do* expect you to be prepared

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-12 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:44 +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 22:41 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I've put together a kind of FAQ for the most common maintainer-wanted problems: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/ The idea is to replace most of my usual bullet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 12 September 2005 14:26, Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. This is true only for development of these packages itself. Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:26 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. This is true only for development of these packages itself. Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:26 am, Frank Schafer wrote: we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. not quite sure what you mean by 'faulty', autoconf/automake is used heavily throughout portage I'd suggest

[gentoo-dev] Bugs in autoconf/automake and python-fchksum

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, It took me the whole weekend to build a stage1 system. (Took 5 hours during last night ;) I had to work around the bugs this way: scripts/bootscripts.sh emerge --oneshot --nodeps autoconf emerge --oneshot --nodeps autoconf-wrapper This solved the problem, that automake installed during

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugs in autoconf/automake and python-fchksum

2005-09-12 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:41 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: During ``emerge system'' python-fchksum failed with a not existing i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a i686 system. I don't know if python hard codes the native compiler to the one it was built with or if this compiler is hard coded in setup.py

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugs in autoconf/automake and python-fchksum

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:47 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:41 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: During ``emerge system'' python-fchksum failed with a not existing i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a i686 system. I don't know if python hard codes the native compiler to the one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:48 am, Frank Schafer wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 08:26 am, Frank Schafer wrote: we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugs in autoconf/automake and python-fchksum

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:49 am, Frank Schafer wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:47 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:41 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: During ``emerge system'' python-fchksum failed with a not existing i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a i686 system. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on it ;) Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are braindead and don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage log suggestion

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I fought with a stage1 install during this weekend. Today in the morning I succeeded. I had to move a lot in /var/log/portage. For the content of this directory I'd suggest the following: Remove the 4 digit number from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage log suggestion

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:01:29 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're seeing two logs due to the fact you have FEATURES=buildpkg on; No need to use buildpkg for that, the counter is always incremented before pkg_postinst, creating a 2nd log for that phase (and then pkg_*rm create a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage log suggestion

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:01 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I fought with a stage1 install during this weekend. Today in the morning I succeeded. I had to move a lot in /var/log/portage. For the content of this

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Jakub Moc
12.9.2005, 16:03:17, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Many users seem to think that a WONTFIX is non-negotiable. I tend to agree with them, for the most part. Rather than WONTFIX them, simply tell them that they won't be included as-is. WONTFIX gives the user the impression that we are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Many users seem to think that a WONTFIX is non-negotiable. I tend to agree with them, for the most part. Rather than WONTFIX them, simply tell them that they won't be included as-is. WONTFIX gives the user the impression that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on it ;) Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake And furthermore,

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Hyman
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:28 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Many users seem to think that a WONTFIX is non-negotiable. I tend to agree with them, for the most part. Rather than WONTFIX them, simply tell them that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on it ;) Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build as Paul and

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:03:17 +0200 Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Looks good .. any chance you can stitch it up in a guide, and we can | get it added somewhere ? No. GuideXML URLs utterly suck. They're impossible to memorise and the second I changed anything every link would become

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Hyman
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:12 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:41 -0400, Peter Hyman wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:28 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Many users seem to think that a WONTFIX is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-12 Thread Ed W
| Is there any possibility that easier low quality contribution makes | the high quality contributions easier? Only to the extent that they get me to write better documentation :) | Look at wikipedia - it's amazing that such high quality work (in | general) can come from lightly peer review

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
Peter Hyman wrote: 1) what IS the status of svyatogor and lanius? I don't know if they are active or not, but you can always try to *unofficially* check when did they last committed something to CVS - [1], [2]. [1] http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/svyatogor [2]

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No. GuideXML URLs utterly suck. They're impossible to memorise and the second I changed anything every link would become invalid. Please see our XML guide [1] - you can use id attribute and make links like file.xml#reboot. [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Kohl
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:04:52 +0100 Ed W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the simplest this could be used to allow a non core developer to bump an ebuild to a new version in response to some release. It goes into the highly unstable section which shouldn't be seen by any normal person, yet at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
I think you need to rethink that. Notifying a maintainer that there is an update or new add on to an existing project is not really getting involved. It's HELPING. I realize that maintainers cannot stay on top of all 120,000 packages. That's where the everyday users come in. They, selfishly,

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 12 September 2005 19:03, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: The easiest way to improve those ebuilds' chances of getting into the tree is by getting them up to a good enough standard that whoever picks them up is very unlikely to have to do major extra work on them. To have even more

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Jakub Moc
12.9.2005, 19:32:32, Carsten Lohrke wrote: To have even more unmaintained packages in the tree. The tree it is that needs QA. If maintainer-wanted bugs stay open forever - who cares. [left for later reference] Thanks for the pointer. :p So from the user point of view it's better to file a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote: Since you said above, that you really don't care if those user-submitted ebuilds will ever get into portage or will stay in maintainer-wanted queue forever and that's the stuff in portage that actually matters QA-wise, I'm missing why are you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Thierry Carrez wrote: The first Gentoo Council meeting will be held Thursday, September 15th, at 1900 UTC. And the place? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:53:26 +0200 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote: | 1. The biggest share of maintenance isn't getting an ebuild right, | but the ongoing effort keeping it up to date, applying patches, | interact with upstream

[gentoo-dev] Re: ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Meltzer
The problem is, trying to fix ebuilds in tree is a lot more complicated.. You have to fight with multiple herds, and multiple developers, and explain to them why it should occur, in order to get anything to happen.. In addition, even a global gigantic one liner to add quotes to $D and $S would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
Thierry Carrez wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 02:04:10PM CDT] The first Gentoo Council meeting will be held Thursday, September 15th, at 1900 UTC. The deadline for agenda item submission is set to tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13th, 1900 UTC. To submit an item, you can reply here or send an email

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/lzo-2 help

2005-09-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Marcin 'aye' Kryczek wrote: here's a patch for mplayer: http://darcs.frugalware.org/repos/frugalware-current/source/xapps/mplayer/mplayer-1.0pre7-lzo2.patch.bz2 i was able to compile and run all mplayer's version from portage with it (with USE=lzo and lzo-2 installed ofcourse). i'll keep

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi all, This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's done. I'm curious what you think of it. Have a nice day, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] GLEP: 41 Title: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff Version: $Revision: 1.1 $

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:04:10 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The deadline for agenda item submission is set to tomorrow, Tuesday, | September 13th, 1900 UTC. To submit an item, you can reply here or | send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could we get GLEP 31 (Character Sets for

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Not that I'm against this proposal necessarily, but it seems like this is everything short of giving them commit access to the tree. Perhaps the arch tester job could simply be made as a probationary period for developer recruits. The good ATs typically go on to be developers anyway, no?

Re: [gentoo-dev] subscribe

2005-09-12 Thread Curtis Napier
Josh M. Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe This is not the proper way to subscribe to a gentoo mailing list. Please see this page for the correct way to subscribe. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Thank You curtis119 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:04 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Added by Grant Goodyear : glep40: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs Added by Brian Harring : glep33: Eclass Restructure/Redesign glep37: Virtuals Deprecation I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Simon Stelling wrote: Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer, assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. Users which want to become developers should also run through the process of an AT. The amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Stephen P. Becker wrote: developer recruits. The good ATs typically go on to be developers anyway, no? This is sort of like how many companies like to hire you for an internship the summer before you graduate, then full time when you graduate if you were/are good enough. That's what the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Simon Stelling wrote: Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer, assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. Users which want to become developers should also run through the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Thierry Carrez
Grant Goodyear wrote: Yikes, that's short notice. Of course, almost by definition the first meeting had to have a fairly limited amount of lead time. *Shrug* Any chance of getting a schedule for the next couple of meetings or so? (Actually, I'd be quite happy if the date of the next meeting

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer, assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. Users which want to become developers should also run through the process of an AT. The amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:13 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Do you mean only users who wish to become arch devs need to be AT's? It reads as all users who want to become devs must be ATs. That's the way we've been handling it with the amd64 team for a while now, and it seems to work

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:30 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: I guess what I'm *really* asking is whether this GLEP is necessary? There are those that want to help, and so become an AT. The project has worked well for amd64 and ppc, so we are proposing the GLEP to get the ATs recognized

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 03:08:53PM CDT] I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script repository (working prototype has existed for some time) I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:39:48 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's | done. I'm curious what you think of it. Could we get some numbers? How many arch testers have gone to become official developers? How many have

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Homer Parker wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:30 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: I guess what I'm *really* asking is whether this GLEP is necessary? There are those that want to help, and so become an AT. The project has worked well for amd64 and ppc, so we are proposing the GLEP to

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Stephen P. Becker wrote: business and make them an arch dev. I guess what I'm *really* asking is whether this GLEP is necessary? As of now, amd64 has 20 ATs, 6 of them became devs, 1 is inactive. The rest stayed AT. The oldest of the remaining has been AT since February, the youngest since

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:39:48PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Arch Testers should be treated as official Gentoo staff. Reminds me of the forums glep - and as there, people working for Gentoo should become part of the team. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 12 September 2005 22:45, Homer Parker wrote: That's the way we've been handling it with the amd64 team for a while now, and it seems to work well. We have ATs that have no ambition of moving to dev. But, if a dev sees an AT with the skills, he approaches him about becoming a

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 20:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:39:48 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's | done. I'm curious what you think of it. Could we get some numbers? How many arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Olivier Crete
On Mon, 2005-12-09 at 20:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:39:48 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's | done. I'm curious what you think of it. Could we get some numbers? How many arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 20:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Could we get some numbers? How many arch testers have gone to become official developers? How many have disappeared without trace? How many stuck around but didn't do much? This page has a list of all of the amd64 ATs, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:57 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: If they don't want to become devs, then why give them more privileges than some devs get even? What would that be? -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Strategic Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:02 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: As of now, amd64 has 20 ATs, 6 of them became devs, 1 is inactive. The rest stayed AT. The oldest of the remaining has been AT since February, the youngest since Aug 23, so I think it definitively is. And ppc has 3-4. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 03:08:53PM CDT] I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script repository (working prototype has existed for some time) I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Joseph Jezak
Homer Parker wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:02 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: As of now, amd64 has 20 ATs, 6 of them became devs, 1 is inactive. The rest stayed AT. The oldest of the remaining has been AT since February, the youngest since Aug 23, so I think it definitively is. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:46 -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: We have 3 that have passed the quiz so far. Of those, 1 has become a dev. W00t! Time to do some more recruiting, eh? ;) -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Strategic Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-dev] [Summary] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Chris White
Leave to gleps to make long threads ;). So anyways, here's what the deal is so far: Simon Stelling(blubb) starts out by producing the glep. For those of you that have no idea, arch testers were something mainly promoted by the amd64 team. Basically, arch testers are non gentoo devs that do

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Chris White
Alright, so here's what I think on the whole thing now that I made a nice tidy [Summary] thread. There seems to be some concern about AT testers having more privileges than some other devs. First off, I hope everyone saw the readonly access, and even so, the whole point of this thing is to

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Chris White wrote: Alright, so here's what I think on the whole thing now that I made a nice tidy [Summary] thread. There seems to be some concern about AT testers having more privileges than some other devs. First off, I hope everyone saw the readonly access, and even so, the whole point

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:47 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Chris White wrote: Alright, so here's what I think on the whole thing now that I made a nice tidy [Summary] thread. There seems to be some concern about AT testers having more privileges than some other devs. First off,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen P. Becker wrote: Chris White wrote: Alright, so here's what I think on the whole thing now that I made a nice tidy [Summary] thread. There seems to be some concern about AT testers having more privileges than some other devs. First

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Let me clarify here. I'm not concerned about ATs having more privileges at all. I just want to know why if we're making them full developers for all intents and purposes, we don't go the extra step and get them commit access after a probationary period? It seems like this is supposed to be the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:47 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Let me clarify here. I'm not concerned about ATs having more privileges at all. I just want to know why if we're making them full developers for all intents and purposes, we don't go the extra step and get them commit access

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-12 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck of a lot -- is of the thanks for the pointers, please could someone check this

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Homer Parker
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 19:34 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: For once agreeing with Ciaran, the less people who aren't seasoned developers with commit access the better? Some don't want commit access, most of them really don't need it. Those that want it can ask for it and take any requisite

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 19:53 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Let me clarify here. I'm not concerned about ATs having more privileges at all. I just want to know why if we're making them full developers for all intents and purposes, we don't go the extra step and get them commit access after a

[gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
This is a summary of maintainer-wanted packages which are tagged as REVIEWED. Please take a few moments to glance over this list and see if there are any packages which your herd would like. The REVIEWED tag is used for ebuilds which have been checked for basic syntax and style issues. It does

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 00:05 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Simon Stelling wrote: This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's done. I'm curious what you think of it. I'm curious how much change this would involve for the people involved. Perhaps you could explain how

Re: [gentoo-dev] Berkeley DB, coexistence of different versions

2005-09-12 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 13/09/2005-00:50:47(+0200): Stefaan types snip So I'm wondering, what would be a clean solution for this problem? The same way that gtk-1 / gtk-2 goes -- add a bunch of useflags and force the package to use a particular version. :) So for heimdal it becomes: db1? ( sys-libs/db-1* )

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen P. Becker wrote: You're somehow implying that being an AT is not as good as being a dev. Wrong. My understanding is that this GLEP is supposed to make AT as good as being a dev, but with a different role, one that doesn't need commit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 06:00 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 04:29:45PM CDT] I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the implementation. or rather move it from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Berkeley DB, coexistence of different versions

2005-09-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:50:47AM +0200, Stefaan wrote: Hi all!! Here's an issue Seemant and I have been struggling with, and doesn't seem as easy to solve as like touching one ebuild. You're making the problem seem much larger than it is. Pauldv and myself have been managing berkdb pretty

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Harring
Top posting, since trying to make a point here in relation to everything that follows from your email. define exactly how one proves themself, and in what context. It's the arguement against (essentially) having AT's on the same level as ebuild devs, so it best be defined. On Tue, Sep 13,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:51:38 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | define exactly how one proves themself, and in what context. Repeated good contributions. | It's the arguement against (essentially) having AT's on the same | level as ebuild devs, so it best be defined. ATs are welcome

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Lance Albertson
Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 04:29:45PM CDT] I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the implementation. or rather move it from gentooexperimental.org to official gentoo infrastructure

[gentoo-dev] New infra dev: markm

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All- Take a moment to say hi to our newest infra dev, Mark Mahle. Mark will be helping out infra with web, security and nagios related things. A little about mark, I live in Silicon Valley, work insane hours and have a 1 year old son. Times are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: right ... once a GLEP has been hammered out and approved, there isnt really anything left for managers/council to do ... it's then up to whoever to get it done ;) They *could* do some 'creative re-org' a.k.a. remove some

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Harring
With the 'proven' definition being repeated contributions, and explicit in the previous email the view AT's are lesser, but can move 'up' to the level of an ebuild dev, back to this email... On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:14:34AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:01:20 -0400