Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Monday 11 February 2008 14:47:35 Petteri Räty wrote: Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use this info to forward

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Loeser
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Given that, what I think is that people's willingness to mentor may depend on the recruit. So you'd need more than a simple on/off bit, you'd also need a maybe option. And probably area's of interest should be part of it. Even though I have nothing to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

2008-02-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:47 Mon 11 Feb , Petteri Räty wrote: Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use this info to forward people to

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

2008-02-11 Thread Petteri Räty
Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use this info to forward people to these developers. Regards, Petteri

[gentoo-portage-dev] relying on vdb only

2008-02-11 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Hi, reading comments on bug 209538, I've seen this dangerous thing from Zac: Once these issues are solved it will be nice if we can rely exclusively on the dependencies from /var/db/pkg. Well, the idea that devs will have to revbump packages just for RDEPEND version restrictions so that

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] relying on vdb only

2008-02-11 Thread Selckin
On Monday 11 February 2008 12:50:39 Brian Harring wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:48:01AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Well, the idea that devs will have to revbump packages just for RDEPEND version restrictions so that portage picks it freaks me :) Then there's: I do have a tool that

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] relying on vdb only

2008-02-11 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:48:01AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Hi, reading comments on bug 209538, I've seen this dangerous thing from Zac: Once these issues are solved it will be nice if we can rely exclusively on the dependencies from /var/db/pkg. Well, the idea that devs will have