[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, I want to propose a Maintainer Timeout such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) Thanks for your time :) -- Timothy `Drizzt`

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against you ;) ) living and working n Portugal. He is experienced with C,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 11:53:19 +0100, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Martin Jackson (mjolnir)

2007-02-02 Thread Markus Ullmann
Christian Heim schrieb: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Martin Jackson (also known as mjolnir40k - on IRC at least) our latest addition joining the netmon herd. Please welcome Martin as a new fellow developer among us ! Really looking forward to work with you :) btw in german we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 02 February 2007, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: He is a post-doctoral researcher in observational cosmology - I think that means he gets paid to stare up at the sky and tell us all how big it is. May be you could ask him to clarify, His interests include gastronomy, outdoor activities and

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-02-02 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:16:11 -0500: i'd say no myself ... or you'd have to add RESTRICT=interactive to the eclass Good point! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up

2007-02-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 01 February 2007, Zac Medico wrote: Portage does create the dir files for each of the directories listed in the INFOPATH and INFODIR environment variables.  It would be best for you to remove the file from the sandbox image since portage currently isn't doing it for you

[gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
Lately I have been trying to make a dependency resolver for Gentoo. Meaning I want do deduce the runtime dependencies from the installed files, and check them against the dependencies denoted in the packet. This is in response to numerous comments I have gotten about running emerge --depclean and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: Lately I have been trying to make a dependency resolver for Gentoo. Meaning I want do deduce the runtime dependencies from the installed files, and check them against the dependencies denoted in the packet. This is in response to numerous comments I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
I want to propose a Maintainer Timeout such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) There's a little difference between does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Martin Jackson (mjolnir)

2007-02-02 Thread Martin Jackson
Markus Ullmann wrote: Christian Heim schrieb: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Martin Jackson (also known as mjolnir40k - on IRC at least) our latest addition joining the netmon herd. Please welcome Martin as a new fellow developer among us ! Really looking forward to work with you :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Tobias Scherbaum wrote: I want to propose a Maintainer Timeout such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) There's a little

[gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
@devs, I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, which there actually are a few of. Sword, gnomesword, sword modules, bibletime, gramps would all fall under the responsibilty of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Steve Dibb wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of Would the non-believers in the group be able to ignore it like we do the real thing? :P -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Alin Năstac
Steve Dibb wrote: @devs, I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, which there actually are a few of. Sword, gnomesword, sword modules, bibletime, gramps would all fall under the

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 2/2/07, Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I talked to squinky86 who was previously maintaining most of these, and since he is temporarily retiring I've assumed ownership of the packages in his absence. A herd would of course let anyone else interested work on them, and be recognized as

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:54:51 -0800, Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, Genealogy is a religion?

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 16:00:32 +0100, Drake Wyrm wrote: Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, Genealogy is a religion? How about

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Fisette
On Friday, 2 February 2007 05:49, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against you ;) )

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Grant Goodyear
Timothy Redaelli wrote: [Fri Feb 02 2007, 04:17:32AM CST] I want to propose a Maintainer Timeout such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up

2007-02-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007, Zac Medico wrote: Portage does create the dir files for each of the directories listed in the INFOPATH and INFODIR environment variables. It would be best for you to remove the file

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:19 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: I have mixed feelings on the notion of ownership of ebuilds. When Gentoo had only a handful of devs, the tree was almost entirely collectively owned by all devs, with baselayout and portage being the only packages that were labelled

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites:net-analyzer/prelude-nagios

2007-02-02 Thread Markus Ullmann
Depends on much outdated libprelude and has 404 upstream. Removal on 2nd of March Jokey -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] integrating Lisp asdf-install with portage

2007-02-02 Thread Hans Halvorson
Common Lisp and Gentoo have a packaging incompatibility: Common Lisp has its own package installation system (asdf-install), and this can cause conflicts and confusion with Lisp packages installed via portage. Furthermore, there are many Lisp packages that are stable and useful, but which have

[gentoo-dev] Last rites : dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic

2007-02-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
I have p.masked dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic. Their functionality is now included in all recent versions of gpsim, at least all versions that are currently in portage. Plus, they are suspected of being compilation-challenged (which is hardly surprising), see bug #96578.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:19:21 -0600 Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [lots of good stuff] I was going to respond to Timothy's proposal in much the same way - but Grant has said everything much better than I would have done! +lots Grant :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against you ;) ) living and working n Portugal.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: Anyway, as I'm developing this program, I'm discovering a lot of minor bugs in the Gentoo system along the way. At the moment I'm counting 546 bugs out of which some are probably false postives, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Alec Warner
Timothy Redaelli wrote: Hi, I want to propose a Maintainer Timeout such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Josh Saddler
Alec Warner wrote: Don't be an asshole Don't screw up* * Corollary: if you do screw up, take responsibility and fix it/find someone to help you. DON'T MAKE IT WORSE. Indeed, agreed. An excellent response. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:29:06 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: Anyway, as I'm developing this program, I'm discovering a lot of minor bugs in the Gentoo system along the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Luca Barbato
Grant Goodyear wrote: [something I'd say in a less effective way] +1 -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:56 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:29:06 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: A file that needs to be looked at fulfills the

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 08:41 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Steve Dibb wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of Would the non-believers in the group be able to ignore it like we do the real thing? :P Would Jihad related packages fall under this category

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 02 February 2007, Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: net-misc/dhcpcd-3.0.10 installs /usr/share/man/man8/dhcpcd.8.bz2 with execute permissions grabted for user group and others. executables in mandirs sounds like an easy automated qa check -mike pgpTF2RpNd99F.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:25:55 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:56 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:29:06 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-02-02 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 04:08 +, Duncan wrote: Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:46:41 +0100: sys-kernel/*? Or perhaps genkernel? Being able to build kernel images just like any other package in Gentoo would be nice.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Marcus D. Hanwell a écrit : It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against you ;) ) The (re)birth of a French

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Black
Wondering if the religion herd would kindly see over the last rites of packages on their journey into oblivion? -- Daniel Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Foundation pgpJiNMiFzyiY.pgp Description: PGP signature