Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: changepolicies

2010-02-25 Thread Markos Chandras
On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote: Metadata.xml should allow use of a changepolicies element. Within the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how non-maintainer changes to the package are handled.

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: changepolicies

2010-02-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Markos Chandras wrote: Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too? Its value there would be the default for the category, with the possibility to override it for individual packages. How are you so sure that a general rule can apply to a whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Loeser
Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net said: * Torsten Veller t...@gentoo.org: Can we please move the mips profiles from dev to exp in profiles/profiles.desc? Based on the current feedback I'll change it not earlier than friday next week if nobody objects. That would be nice. I'd also love to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/25/2010 05:14 PM, Mark Loeser wrote: Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net said: * Torsten Veller t...@gentoo.org: Can we please move the mips profiles from dev to exp in profiles/profiles.desc? Based on the current feedback I'll change it not earlier than friday next week if nobody

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] Making repoman/metagen check for validity of herds

2010-02-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
I agree that additional repoman checks can help to improve quality in Gentoo... It seems that currently neither metagen nor repoman check what I put in for herd (i.e. if such a herd exists or not). Does anyone feel like getting his hands on that or like teaming up on it? Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:24:25PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: Every machine type profile has a developer, desktop and server sub profile. How about deleting those? If you are capable of setting up a Gentoo/MIPS setup, then you are certainly capable of setting up few profile defaults on

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: changepolicies

2010-02-25 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 02/25/2010 02:41 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote: Metadata.xml should allow use of achangepolicies element. Within the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: changepolicies

2010-02-25 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-02-2010 23:41:26 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Proposed types: --- - version-bump - trivial-version-bump - trivial-fixes - fixes - enhancements - qa-fixes - trivial-qa-fixes Isn't the QA team by its definition allowed to fix QA issues? If so, I don't see a point in

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: changepolicies

2010-02-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Stop. Is introduction of such a high level of bureaucracy really a good idea? In my eyes it could backfire and make matters worse as people either - start ignoring it due to high noise - reduce people's activity below set permissions To summarize presented proposal has a few points that may not

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2010-02-25 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Friday 22 January 2010 18:15:49 Ben de Groot wrote: 2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com: Hi there! Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo GNOME team

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:30:32 +0100 Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net wrote: * Torsten Veller t...@gentoo.org: Can we please move the mips profiles from dev to exp in profiles/profiles.desc? Based on the current feedback I'll change it not earlier than friday next week if nobody objects.

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption

2010-02-25 Thread Ben de Groot
I think this is good to go, let's get some comments from the list. Ben -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org Date: 24 February 2010 16:57 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org How about this revised

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Torsten Veller
* Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org: Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net wrote: * Torsten Veller t...@gentoo.org: Can we please move the mips profiles from dev to exp in profiles/profiles.desc? Based on the current feedback I'll change it not earlier than friday next week if nobody