Re: [gentoo-dev] Flourish Conference Reminder

2007-04-05 Thread Charlie Shepherd
On 04/04/07, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please except my apologies I don't know about excepting them. I might accept them though. :) -- -Charlie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:10:30 -0700 antarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is a difference. Take the issue with the ubuntu installer that left the root password in a log in /var. Who was responsible? Ubuntu. Why? Because it's their installer, their project. And who would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Flourish Conference Reminder

2007-04-05 Thread Samir Faci
or accepting them I suppose makes more sense. Alright, last email from me that's flourish .. I'll let you guys get back to what you do best. Sorry again, I'll go through the proper channels from now on. -- Samir On 4/5/07, Charlie Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/04/07, Seemant

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:51:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - PMS: - status update from spb - moving it to Gentoo svn - schedule for getting remaining issues settled Same question as last time this came up: Can you name any other projects where the Council

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

2007-04-05 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:28:17 +0100: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:51:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - PMS: - status update from spb - moving it to Gentoo svn - schedule for getting

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

2007-04-05 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 4/5/07, Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the thing is, vote happens only once a year, and quite a lot of things can be done during that time. I just think that not having any rule at all concerning limitations to the council is tying our hands in our back. If the council never

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:17:18 -0500 Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Buisse wrote: [Wed Apr 04 2007, 02:36:43PM CDT] I won't take this to the council myself, but I think this should be discussed at the very least: we need a way to limit the council power, since it seems there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Flourish Conference Reminder

2007-04-05 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:16 +0100, Charlie Shepherd wrote: On 04/04/07, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please except my apologies I don't know about excepting them. I might accept them though. :) Nice catch. My language skills are degrading rapidly :( signature.asc Description:

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

2007-04-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of those meetings but even the topic. Perhaps a requirement that any Council meeting logs be

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

2007-04-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:27:09PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: sorry, due to the thread (things for Council to talk about), i thought the work you were talking about was stuff for the Council to discuss ... that seems to not be the case Ah, sorry about that. As you said, right now there is

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

2007-04-05 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:29 +0200, Denis Dupeyron wrote: Why not simply allow trustees to veto a council decision ? This does not give trustees enough power to be a second council, but would permit them to stop something that they believe will damage Gentoo. This is very little red tape IMHO.

[gentoo-dev] Switch to libchipcard3

2007-04-05 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I'm currently the maintainer of libchipcard. There are three slots of libchipcard in the tree at the moment. I think there's nothing in the tree any more that deps on 1, so that is about to be removed soon. Now, I wanted to ask if there are any issues that would prevent us from getting

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

2007-04-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:09:12 Wernfried Haas wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of those meetings but even the topic.

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:29 +0200, Denis Dupeyron wrote: On 4/5/07, Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the thing is, vote happens only once a year, and quite a lot of things can be done during that time. I just think that not having any rule at all concerning limitations to the

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:19 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:29 +0200, Denis Dupeyron wrote: Why not simply allow trustees to veto a council decision ? This does not give trustees enough power to be a second council, but would permit them to stop something that they

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:37:28 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:28:17 +0100: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:51:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - PMS: - status

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:09:12 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of those

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

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of those meetings but even the topic. Perhaps a requirement that any Council meeting logs be made public would be useful, with a waiver

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

2007-04-05 Thread Matti Bickel
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they want to have sekrit meetings with sekrit handshakes, let them. If enough people think this is not acceptable, they'll be gone on the next election. Which is all very well, but it's kind of hard to evaluate the effectiveness of Council

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: details can remain private if necessary, but publishing a brief summary along the lines of we discussed x and y and decided z *has* to be less harmful than the current mess where people are deleting their work and considering

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:47:37 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, all this the Council is hiding something conspiracy theory is bullshit. Then why are certain Council members, you included, threatening to remove other Council members' and Gentoo developers' access if logs of

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Honestly, the only reason there is any suggestion of a conspiracy is because of the threats being made by certain people to keep a certain log a secret... The log contains information that was given to us in confidence. How much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switch to libchipcard3

2007-04-05 Thread Carsten Lohrke
Asking here and hoping everyone reads it may result in stable tree breakage. Open a bug and cc all maintainers of packages which depend on it, to get a definitive answer, please. Carsten signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2007-04-05 Thread Josh Saddler
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Honestly, the only reason there is any suggestion of a conspiracy is because of the threats being made by certain people to keep a certain log a secret... The log contains information that was given to us in

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:04 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Honestly, the only reason there is any suggestion of a conspiracy is because of the threats being made by certain people to keep a certain log a

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

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Doty wrote: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Anyone got numbers for that? Talking opinions, as in the SCM discussion, isn't real meaningful. Thanks, Donnie What metric would you use? the number of stages

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:04:09 -0700 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's how it appears to someone reading all this, though: Ciaran *already knows* what's going on, which means that some person(s) who *were* privy to those meetings have talked, plain and simple. If that's true, then

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:24:06 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, from what I can gather, he only *thinks* he knows what was going on and he's filled in the blanks himself with whatever ideas he's come up with on his own. If he really does have the logs, he wouldn't be

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

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:24:06 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, from what I can gather, he only *thinks* he knows what was going on and he's filled in the blanks himself with whatever ideas he's come up with on his own. If he really does have the

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

2007-04-05 Thread Torsten Veller
* Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Why do you want this to be a council topic if it wasn't even a topic here or on gentoo-qa@ ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: pciparm init script for sys-apps/pciutils

2007-04-05 Thread Patrice Bouvard
Le Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:43:07 +0100, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : federico wrote: Steve Long ha scritto: What benefits does it show; why would I want it on my machine? because it provides a place to store those settings; latency timer settings? the coder in me can

[gentoo-dev] QA sucks

2007-04-05 Thread Torsten Veller
* Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Why do you want this to be a council topic if it wasn't even a topic here or on gentoo-qa@ ? Because our QA sucks and noone is doing a damn thing about it. So

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

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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 list to see. another one i had mentioned earlier: - a time frame on moving gentoo-core to public

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:06 +0100, Steve Long wrote: He has already stipulated that all decisions we made were 100% public and We do have to have all of our decisions made public, obviously. Exactly. Everything that was decided was done so in public and quite plainly. If certain people have a

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 14:09 schrieb Wernfried Haas: If they want to have sekrit meetings with sekrit handshakes, let them. If enough people think this is not acceptable, they'll be gone on the next election. Especially as there are council members who don't rely like any privacy in that

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

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 05 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of those meetings but even the topic. Perhaps a requirement that any Council meeting logs be made public

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

2007-04-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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 list to see. another one i had mentioned

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 20:20 schrieb Mike Doty: Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Why do you want this to be a council topic if it wasn't even a topic here or on gentoo-qa@ ? Because our QA sucks and noone is doing a

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 21:20 schrieb Mike Frysinger: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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 list to see. another one i had mentioned

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

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:15 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 14:09 schrieb Wernfried Haas: If they want to have sekrit meetings with sekrit handshakes, let them. If enough people think this is not acceptable, they'll be gone on the next election. Especially as there

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

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 05 April 2007, Danny van Dyk wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 21:20 schrieb Mike Frysinger: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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

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

2007-04-05 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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 list to see. another one i had

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

2007-04-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 20:20 schrieb Mike Doty: Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Why do you want this to be a council topic if it wasn't even a topic

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

2007-04-05 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 4/5/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just find this whole situation hysterical since you have so many people saying the Council needs to grow a pair and actually try to enact some good, and when we do, you hear a few vocal individuals running around screaming like we killed

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

2007-04-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Ned Ludd kirjoitti: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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 list to see. another

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

2007-04-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:18:40PM -0700, Ned Ludd wrote: I object and hope this is never done. There are things said on core that I do not wish to be public. I've sent mails myself that if they were ever going to be published publicly I would of never sent them. As far i remember the idea

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 23:24 schrieb Brian Harring: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 20:20 schrieb Mike Doty: Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apparent decline of QA in our packages. Why do

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

2007-04-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:16:18AM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: * There is at least one outstanding QA issue that i know of which is related to Portage and can't be fixed w/o slot deps properly. Read: KDE's problems with ranged deps and the way it currently breaks the vdb's RDEPEND

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

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 05 April 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:18:40PM -0700, Ned Ludd wrote: I object and hope this is never done. There are things said on core that I do not wish to be public. I've sent mails myself that if they were ever going to be published publicly I

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

2007-04-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: Breaking EAPI=0 via pushing slot deps in isn't much of an option in my opinion; usual needs to have been on release media for at least 6 We can push for an EAPI=1 == (EAPI=0 + slot deps)... Can, yep, although that was

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 6. April 2007 00:41 schrieb Vlastimil Babka: Brian Harring wrote: Breaking EAPI=0 via pushing slot deps in isn't much of an option in my opinion; usual needs to have been on release media for at least 6 We can push for an EAPI=1 == (EAPI=0 + slot deps)... Can, yep,

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

2007-04-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny van Dyk wrote: Not sure if slot deps themselves could even replace version ranges hacks without also solving bug 4315 (native version ranges) in all cases. IMHO it should be possible at least to specify slot+usual version limit, to make it

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 6. April 2007 00:11 schrieb Brian Harring: You can trigger the same issue in portage via wiping pretty much everything in PORTDIR (switching the tree, or just a literal rm of everything but profiles crap), but that's fairly corner case. Don't much like the behavior

[gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Cummings
When you pop into your mail client of choice and find 50+ unread messages in the last few hours, you know what kind of day [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having. Don't suppose we could get on with that silly topical thing of development? Surely there's a usenet channel where you can discuss

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

2007-04-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:41:50AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Brian Harring wrote: Breaking EAPI=0 via pushing slot deps in isn't much of an option in my opinion; usual needs to have been on release media for at least 6 We can push for an EAPI=1 == (EAPI=0 + slot deps)... Can, yep,

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-05 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Cummings wrote: When you pop into your mail client of choice and find 50+ unread messages in the last few hours, you know what kind of day [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having. Don't suppose we could get on with that silly topical thing of

[gentoo-dev] s390 and s390x dev hosts

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
thanks to some awesome sponsor help, we have s390 and s390x hosts now (btw, as of two days ago, we have a port of Gentoo to s390x) for devs who wish to help out the s390/s390x team, feel free to contact me ... note that i mean people who wish to join the s390/s390x team, not just test random