[gentoo-dev] The first Bugday in 2007!

2006-12-30 Thread Alexander Færøy
Greetings honored users and developers! Saturday the 6'th of January is the important date where the first Bugday event in 2007 is going to take place. As usual, join #Gentoo-Bugs and hang out there and help out making Gentoo and even better distribution. We have got a lot of new members in the

[gentoo-dev] OT - My introduction

2006-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
My name is Michael Sullivan. I have an Associates of Applied Science in computers from a small college in Oklahoma. In September of 2003 I was legally declared disabled. Now I do just about anything to avoid boredom. I'd like to help out; I love working with code. I'm not sure how qualified I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-30 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:14, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:02:00AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 23:20 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending

[gentoo-dev] Careful when punting old versions

2006-12-30 Thread Bryan Østergaard
Hi all. Just a quick reminder to be careful not to remove the last stable version of packages on any archs when cleaning out old ebuild. I'm getting rather tired of having to fix dependency issues on both Alpha and IA64 because developers don't pay (enough) attention when cleaning out ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal Announcements (or, Bring out yer dead)

2006-12-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:25:50 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | what would we have to do to have this happen? Implement GLEP 42. Talk to Christel, she started work on it for Portage. After that, it's just a case of writing tree cleaner notices in a slightly more standardised format...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal Announcements (or, Bring out yer dead)

2006-12-30 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:25:50 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | what would we have to do to have this happen? Implement GLEP 42. Talk to Christel, she started work on it for Portage. After that, it's just a case of writing tree cleaner notices in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal Announcements (or, Bring out yer dead)

2006-12-30 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:25:50PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: two, we have a perfectly good announce ML that right now is only used for GLSAs, and an announcement forum that is used for GLSAs and major announcements. what do people think about posting last rites to these places, maybe in one