Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel. Could someone clear me up on this? Thanks, Donnie Sorry, but I must second this, especially

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Anders Hellgren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Anders Hellgren wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel. Could someone clear

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Daniel Drake wrote: Testing of 2.6.17 is very much appreciated, please also file bugs against problems you have with the kernel itself :) For the e1000 driver to work on my new ThinkPad X60s I had to patch Linux 2.6.17. It would be nice if this patch that I found in a bugtracker (IIRC, in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua Nichols
Jakub Moc wrote: Anders Hellgren wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel.

[gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Caleb Tennis
Ok, so there are two fundamental ideas here: 1) Keep the qt use flag, use it if a package offers qt3 or qt4 support. If both, then make it for the more recent version and add a local flag for qt3 support. A few of us like this one, including me. The downside to this is you get a USE that may

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you can't have your toy going on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 22:18 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 06:50 -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: OK, so - java folks, please, take your java migration overlay bugs somewhere else from bugzilla. The gentoo-java developers have been working their tails off for over a year

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Seemant Kulleen wrote: First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? Not sure either, maybe brix will be able to answer your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Seemant Kulleen wrote: This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast. People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama. +1 (with gusto!) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Patrick Lauer wrote: No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. If sunrise gets blocked with the argument it's an overlay then, by logic, the Java overlay should get the same treatment, even if this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. If sunrise gets blocked with the argument it's an overlay then, by logic, the Java overlay should get the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 19:05 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: All- We've had a discussion about sunrise and have reached a compromise. Someone will summarize it later, I've attached the raw logs for now. Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted overlays, this will be the

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Doty wrote: All- We've had a discussion about sunrise and have reached a compromise. Someone will summarize it later, I've attached the raw logs for now. Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted overlays, this will be the defining method of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:43:23AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? What is this

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel. Could someone clear me up on this? Thanks, Donnie Sorry, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
Seemant Kulleen wrote: First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread George Shapovalov
This was originally supposed to go into another thread, but hey - this is a perfect illustration of what I am going to talk about (to unconfuse Seemant right away - this is not related to your posting but rather to the situation that lead to it). I really was considering sending this as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 09:58 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: With respects to Gentoo trademarks. That is a foundation issue and would have to be raised with them. Well, if it doesn't follow the guidelines[1], then it is improper usage and would either need to adhere to the guidelines or quit using our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua Nichols
Patrick Lauer wrote: No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. If sunrise gets blocked with the argument it's an overlay then, by logic, the Java overlay should get the same treatment, even if this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because | he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over | another? One unofficial project that has screwed up so badly that the council has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:50 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Frankly said, neither council nor devrel have any say in suspending projects hosted outside of gentoo, be it sunrise, gentopia, java-migration, java-experimental, BMG, or whatever else. You just can't dictate unpaid people what are they going

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Doty wrote: It is devrels place to attempt to stop the fighting. This is what I did. I clearly indicate that this is temporary and when the council is willing to clear this nonsense up, it will supersede anything I put forth yesterday. I agree that it is devrel's place to help people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Joshua Nichols wrote: Umm maybe it's just to early in the morning, but I don't see anything in the logs regarding using bugzilla for overlays not on overlays.gentoo.org. I only see references to sunrise specifically, not a blanket statement for all non-overlays.gentoo.org overlays Or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alec Warner wrote: I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it is :) I mean if he was serious, he would have addressed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:20:44AM -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote: Unless there's more discussions going on than I'm privy too... what I grokked out of the IRC log was that the argument was that it's an 'unofficial overlay'. No, this is about a project that was supposed to be suspended until its

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:50 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Perhaps it is a few developers trying to actually enforce the council's decision and make sure that the 100% unofficial project doesn't *look* official. Using InOverlay as if Sunrise is some sort of Gentoo official

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because | he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over | another?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another? The jave unofficial overlay is well on its way to becoming an official and officially hosted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Also, just so I'm clear on my stance on this: I don't care one whit about whether those keywords are used in bugzilla or not. Keywords are a way to help bugzilla users use bugzilla. As for perceptions about it -- as long sunrise is clear on their pages that they are absolutely not official as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another? The jave unofficial

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Doty wrote: It is devrels place to attempt to stop the fighting. This is what I did. I clearly indicate that this is temporary and when the council is willing to clear this nonsense up, it will supersede anything I put forth yesterday. I agree that it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, Tuan Van wrote: I don't really object to #2 but please do inform current users so thing still work after an `emerge world -Du` That's why we're going to ask them to be added to default useflags :) -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Alec Warner wrote: I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it is :) I mean if he was serious, he

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
Executive summary: There is a (by now) well established knowledge on group dynamics depending on its size, involving parameters such as Dubnar's number for example. Two references I spotted just recently (well, Ok, they are from 2004 actually :)) can be found below:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:33:21PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:07 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I'm not really big on one versus the other. I was for #1 simply because it required the least amount of effort to implement, however the people who are in favor of #2 have volunteered to do the work to

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
I've been thinking about Solar's email. I believe Solar is actually very correct in his assessment. I think I'll recant my initial statement about devrel. To KingTaco and the gang: my apologies, you guys did the right thing at the time. Thanks, Seemant -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] VNC packages need your help [pre-emptive last rites]

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Not really, tightvnc isn't on this list ... is there some reason you can't use it instead? tightvnc doesn't provide the vnc.so module for X. x11vnc can do the job, but it's unstable for me and quite sluggish... -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, It may or may not be what you want, but what you've described sounds very close to what Mark Shuttleworth articulated as the vision behind launchpad. https://launchpad.net/ on a short view, I didn't see any parallels to my source-db project. LT

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Greg KH wrote: Have a link for this patch? Sorry, I forgot to give it in my original posting: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2006-June/006422.html Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:43:49AM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Greg KH wrote: Have a link for this patch? Sorry, I forgot to give it in my original posting: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2006-June/006422.html That bug does not include a patch that has been accepted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt use flag recap - qt3 and qt4 as default?

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
Hmm...Are thre any packages out there which *must* be built against the same qt as (the rest of) kde? If so, I don't think qt4 should be in the default use flags until KDE4 hits arch. This keeps people from reporting issues with KDE apps built against the wrong version of QT. --Arek On

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
There is a problem here for the java folks...Technically, their migration-overlay is an overlay, and technically, that overlay is currently unofficial. Therefore, technically, if it is against the rules for projects and/or devs to use bugzilla for unofficial overlays, then it is against the