RE: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread achumakov
-Original Message- From: Xavier Neys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage Larry asked me not to top-post... Josh Saddler wrote: In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing. . . .

[gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread achumakov
Hi devs, I've recently (too late ;-) read that we (Chris White?) had proposed the GuideXML editor project for GSoC. I have some ideas to describe here, and (possibly) willing to act as a co-mentor for this challenge. It is interesting that we've already approached this task at Russian doc

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Disenchantment

2006-05-08 Thread Benjamin Smee (strerror)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lo, On Sunday 07 May 2006 06:00, Daniel Goller wrote: snip I can honestly say that after reading your entire email I was no more enlightened on what you were actually disenchanted about then before. Perhaps your lack of clarity in your email

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-08 Thread Duncan
Peter posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 07 May 2006 16:08:52 -0400: Anyway, I am a user, and I feel like I can respond. I have participated on bugzilla, contributed some ebuilds, tried to get a project going (nvidia unified drivers), and I never felt like I was not encouraged

Re: [gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped) Templates seem a bit . . . hackish. Mostly we also need documentation writers to be/who are comfortable with working with the XML code itself, tags and all. WYSIWYG editors just don't strike me as a good idea for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Evan Wagner
moooOn 5/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Xavier Neys [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage Larry asked me not to top-post... Josh Saddler wrote: In

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Ehmsen
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata/herd info and CC yourself on the bug. I seems that the text-markup team could absorb this package (seems very related). If no one objects to this, I'll add it to the text-markup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a new media-sound/easytag maintainer

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 00:23 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I use it myself, but haven't ever looked at any of its bugs. I guess I can take it, provided you're going to be available to answer questions on it for a bit. ;] Of course. I know the codebase quite well.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a new media-sound/easytag maintainer

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Muraco
Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in taking over maintenance of easytag? I still use it, but am looking to free up some time for other things. It doesn't require much commitment: there aren't many bugs filed for it (none open at the moment either). Easytag 2.0 is just around the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:14 +0200, Martin Ehmsen wrote: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata/herd info and CC yourself on the bug. I seems that the text-markup team could absorb this package (seems very

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-05-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
Molle Bestefich wrote: I was trying to say that a QA tool in form of a SVN pre-commit hook seems like a perfect fit. The entire infrastructure to run an external application to check a commit before carrying it out, approve the commit, send appropriate error messages back to the SCM client

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Do we really need this package? There is ghostscript: /usr/bin/ps2ascii as well as: /usr/bin/ps2pdf + poppler: /usr/bin/pdftotext Does that replace the functionality? - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOo etc could make editing more productive for those not familiar with XML odds - just imagine why translation of Gentoo doc is so slow and weak? Because you basically have to do everything yourself. Yup, you get some contributions from your users, but those are of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Curtis Napier
I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larry just like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. I already used him for a custom error page[1] and was planning on working him into other

[gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Duncan
Curtis Napier posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 08 May 2006 17:42:29 -0400: I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larry just like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread George Prowse
On 08/05/06, Curtis Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larryjust like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. Ialready used him for a custom error

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:42, Curtis Napier wrote: In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. I already used him for a custom error page[1] and was planning on working him into other places on the website. Presently the only place Larry is mentioned in any way shape or

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-08 Thread m h
Alec- What is the status of my patches? I'm assumming that they are rejected... I'm curious the know the reason. If the plan is to migrate to a new improved version of portage (sooner rather than later), then maybe I'll try to help out Brian with his efforts. If current version of portage