[gentoo-dev] Leaving Gentoo

2006-06-01 Thread Dan Armak
Hi all, I'm leaving Gentoo. This isn't due to ill feelings or anything like that; I just have no time to work on Gentoo anymore, and have been 'dormant' for many months now. This isn't going to change anytime soon, and so there's no point in my keeping the account. I've enjoyed working on

[gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Respectful Gentoo developers, I would like to ask what do you think about UTF-8 encoded manual pages? I mean, the files like ls.1.gz, which are used by honorable man program. Recently I attacked the problem a little and before submitting any patches/proposals to Gentoo bugzilla I'd like to know

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Jan Kundrát
Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Any constructive comments are more than welcome! The very same problem exists with man-pages-cs (which are outdated as a bonus). Blésmrt, -jkt --

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the portage install

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Would it be possible to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2006-06-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
Paul de Vrieze wrote: [Thu Jun 01 2006, 02:44:39PM CDT] I would like the council to discuss GLEP 49 as has been discussed on the list some weeks ago. It is about the package manager requirements. Incidentally, I drafted a competing GLEP that I posted to -dev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that was either

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2006-06-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: [Thu Jun 01 2006, 02:44:39PM CDT] I would like the council to discuss GLEP 49 as has been discussed on the list some weeks ago. It is about the package manager requirements. Incidentally, I drafted a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2006-06-01 Thread Thomas Cort
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:10:04 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: [Thu Jun 01 2006, 02:44:39PM CDT] I would like the council to discuss GLEP 49 Incidentally, I drafted a competing GLEP Realize

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.1 and gentoolkit-0.2.2

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 18:20 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: Things can be fast tracked if it's better for the overall health of the tree. The 30 thing is just a general guideline and more so before we had any arch teams/ATs/etc... Now that we have arch teams the QA/stable process has been highly