[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th Thursdays 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 even vote on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz 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. I know at least one person has already submitted an agenda item. Please do so again here

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:22:05 -0700: I waste a lot of time digging through lists looking for requested agenda items, and I could be spending it making Gentoo better instead. BTW, thanks for all the hard work you put

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

2008-08-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
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 even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Lukasz Damentko
2008/8/1 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz 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. I know at least one person has already

[gentoo-dev] Interesting article from the Times Magazine

2008-08-01 Thread Denis Dupeyron
From the Times Magazine : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html It mostly doesn't apply to us as a community (hopefully), but one paragraph is especially interesting. In 1981, [Jon Postel] formulated what's known as Postel's Law: Be conservative in what you do; be liberal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:17 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th Thursdays 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 even vote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:48 +0200, Lukasz Damentko wrote: 2008/8/1 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz 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

RE: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Chrissy Fullam
Fair enough. Let me wrap up the IRC part. 1. I'd like to ask Council to discuss possible reactions to our developer being banned from Freenode without providing us with a reason. The situation looks like one of Freenode staffers overreacted over something Chris said during previous Council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:48:21 +0200 Lukasz Damentko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I want Council to consider moving their meetings somewhere where third parties can't control who in Gentoo can attend and who can't. So that would be not on the Internet then, I take it? -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! Jokey pointed out that in fact the council meeting is August 14. -- Thanks, Donnie

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-01 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: | Hi everyone, | | It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in | ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to | indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some | type of live