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

2008-03-06 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's not too late for this month's meeting, I'd like to discuss the possibility of including a new post in our developer base - the package maintainer. The idea is interesting. We have been thinking about something similar in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SoC] yet another proposal

2008-03-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 06-03-2008 10:50:33 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: I'd like to have something along the line of wubi/debian.exe possibly a little smarter (get the network configuration from the windows setup, automatically import the users and the users' home if possible) Do you think that would be a good

[gentoo-dev] [SoC] yet another proposal

2008-03-06 Thread Luca Barbato
I'd like to have something along the line of wubi/debian.exe possibly a little smarter (get the network configuration from the windows setup, automatically import the users and the users' home if possible) Do you think that would be a good SoC project? What about having the same thing for

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

2008-03-06 Thread Zhang Le
On 21:07 Wed 05 Mar , Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of you may argue that we already have proxy-maintainers. That's a great idea, all I'm asking for is for us to formalize the position. Giving a proxy-maintainer

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

2008-03-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maintainers don't need to complete the staff quiz. The staff quiz is focused on our general procedures and how to behave and interact with other devs. It is a great opportunity for the recruiter to get to know who he (no

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

2008-03-06 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 01 Mar 2008 05:30:01 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe

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

2008-03-06 Thread Petteri Räty
Jeroen Roovers kirjoitti: On 01 Mar 2008 05:30:01 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Renaming the caps USE flag to libcap

2008-03-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I'd like to propose the rename of caps USE flag to libcap. The reason for this is that I'd like to free the caps USE flag from the (runtime) dependency of libcap, so that, one we have the framework to do so, we could use the caps' USE flag to set file capabilities directly (rather than setuid for

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

2008-03-06 Thread Markus Ullmann
Zhang Le schrieb: IMO giving proxy-maintainer due credit and publicity, meaning make it a formal position, could solve the very problem Anant's proposal intended to solve. we had that in the past already yet it didn't solve one problem at hand: users getting distacted and devs getting nervous

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Ricardo Mendoza (ricmm)

2008-03-06 Thread Petteri Räty
Hailing from the Venezuela, more precisely Caracas, we have Ricardo ricmm Mendoza. When he's not fighting in the jungles, he likes to play around with those expensive paper weights that some people call mips computers. Luckily for him he will be soon moving to the comfort of Europe. Now it's

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

2008-03-06 Thread Petteri Räty
Markus Ullmann kirjoitti: So giving both (devs and users) an automated way of working with that would help a lot IMHO. like the user submits using echangelog My cool change repoman submit then the dev gets a diff or whatever against current state and then just does repoman accept or

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

2008-03-06 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Markus Ullmann wrote: we had that in the past already yet it didn't solve one problem at hand: users getting distacted and devs getting nervous b/c the process is a) undocumented and b) a bit complex as you have to keep $repo and gentoo-x86 in sync So giving both (devs and users) an automated

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Ricardo Mendoza (ricmm)

2008-03-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: Hailing from the Venezuela, more precisely Caracas, we have Ricardo ricmm Mendoza. When he's not fighting in the jungles, he likes to play around with those expensive paper weights that some people call mips computers. Luckily for him he will be soon moving to the comfort

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

2008-03-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Anant Narayanan wrote: P.P.S. Maybe this is more suited for -project, but everyone knows that nobody reads that list :-p Only because nobody posts there. Knock it off. ;P -- fonts,by design, by neglect gcc-porting,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ricardo Mendoza (ricmm)

2008-03-06 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petteri Räty wrote: | Hailing from the Venezuela, more precisely Caracas, we have Ricardo | ricmm Mendoza. When he's not fighting in the jungles, he likes to play | around with those expensive paper weights that some people call mips | computers.