Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
060505 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: Although modular, KDE 3.5 has to go stable _at once_ and if KMail is totally broken or has major feature loss, we can't. I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ? Many packages have 1 stable version available, so users might

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-05-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
The repository for SDCC has recently moved from CVS to Subversion. From now on, please use dev-embedded/sdcc-svn instead of dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs. dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month or so if nobody complains. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-05-06 Thread Simon Stelling
Denis Dupeyron wrote: dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month or so if nobody complains. A pkg move might be wise to do, no? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/4/06, Bart Braem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes us think we can not trust the KDE devs? 1. bugs.gentoo.org 2. bugs.kde.org I personally have been running KDE 3.5 since the RC days...when you actually had to add it to package.unmask. And *yes*, it has had more than it's share of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/5/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 060504 Chris Gianelloni wrote: If we followed others blindly, as so many users suggest, then we would have stabilized KDE 3.5 ages ago, and every single one of you KDE users would be complaining about how our QA sucks because KDE doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/5/06, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the whining leaves me with the feeling that I'm less interested to work for you. The question What can I do? I do never hear. Stop whining, but decide to help or give another distro a try. These are your choices. Just to try to counter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote: I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ? Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together! Many packages have 1 stable version available, so users might have KDE 3.4.3 (all) 3.5.1 (parts) by now, with the rest of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
060506 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote: I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ? Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together! That's not an explanation: it merely restates your assertion. Many packages have 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Jakub Moc
Philip Webb wrote: Any stable version of KDE will need kdelibs kdebase , but otherwise why can't the packages be made stable at least as each big downloadable file becomes ready, if not individually ? Because they have to be stable at once. Period. Can't go stable piece by piece. Period.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Duncan
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 06 May 2006 13:41:50 +0200: Any stable version of KDE will need kdelibs kdebase , but otherwise why can't the packages be made stable at least as each big downloadable file becomes ready, if not individually ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-06 Thread Tuan Van
Daniel Goller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving them to the teams maintaining those herds, others might face extinction w/o a direct maintainer.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-06 Thread Thomas Cort
On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700 Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website redesign. Larry is disappearing from the site. That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-06 Thread Jonathan Smith
Thomas Cort wrote: On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700 Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website redesign. Larry is disappearing from the site. That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, and would like to keep him around and improve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-06 Thread Shyam Mani
Thomas Cort wrote: That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo. I completely agree. Let's not try to change things that have been part and parcel of Gentoo for