Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-07 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Thu, Jun 7, 2007 at 12:20:07 +0200, George Prowse wrote: [...] before trying to stop a thread descending into anarchy? I wish it was descending into anarchy. Which is a highly organized social system, and doesn't have anything to do with chaos. Anarchy is just a system where there is no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

2007-04-27 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:25:01 +0200, Duncan wrote: It's a very good question, it was posed at the time, it was never answered and at last we can now say it was almost completely ignored. I (and I expect others who know) didn't answer this before, as it would have been too easy to start

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

2007-04-10 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi everyone, as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big reformation that would help solve some of the issues we are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

2007-04-10 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 22:32:20 +0200, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: work. Stage 4's were going in this direction, but they were too isolated and, as far as I know, they are dead now. Wow. I'm glad to see that yet another thing I

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

2007-04-04 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sun, Apr 1, 2007 at 12:32:06 +0200, Mike Frysinger wrote: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1500 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 April

2007-04-04 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Apr 4, 2007 at 22:27:45 +0200, Grant Goodyear 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 is nothing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] My turn to wear the cursed medalion of retirement

2007-03-19 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 21:34:09 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: On 2007.03.19 00:10, Alexandre Buisse wrote: Hi, [snip resignation] Alexandre, We have not worked together and have only spoken briefly on IRC. OSS is a kind of anarchy, you only get what you fight for. Yes, and it's

[gentoo-dev] text-markup hydra has born two new heads: sgml and tex

2007-03-18 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi everyone, as announced some time ago on this list, the text-markup herd has been split in two different herds: sgml, which will deal with (surprisingly) sgml and docbook packages, and tex for (La)TeX packages. An arbitrary decision of herding general text and OCR packages under tex has also

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 19:10:06 +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If someone were to publish an article saying Embedded and arch support is killing Gentoo by forcing all the development effort into supporting minority platforms rather than those of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 18:24:58 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:38:20 +0100 Ioannis Aslanidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran, honestly and without any offense intention, what would be your answers to the questions you formulated? If you ask all that, assuming it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 20:56:51 +0100, Caleb Cushing wrote: Perhaps they're more interested in generating ad revenue from whipped-up scandals... or maybe they have a point. distrowatch hpd ranking show's us down from a few years ago we were 7 in '04 9 '05 10 '06 11-12 '07 right

[gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi all, I've been voicing my concern repeatedly on irc, and I believe that it would probably be more effective here. I believe that the solution of adopting a Code of Conduct, especially in this rushed way, will ultimately hurt us, and that the disadvantages far outweight the benefits. Our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ebuild syntax highlighting

2007-03-10 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Mar 9, 2007 at 14:13:22 +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but I hacked together a syntax highlighting file for katepart (as used in kwrite and kate of course ;) based on the BASH one. You can d/l the first version from: http://phpfi.com/214109

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

2007-02-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 11:53:19 +0100, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 16:00:32 +0100, Drake Wyrm wrote: Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, Genealogy is a religion? How about

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-sound/lilypond needs a maintainer

2007-01-21 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 22:58:11 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Now that agriffis retired, this package is orphaned and has quite a couple of stale bugs... Anyone interested, please see this link: http://tinyurl.com/26gczq Well, if really no one wants it, I guess you can add it to text-markup,

[gentoo-dev] Split of the text-markup herd (sgml/tex)

2006-12-04 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi, the text-markup herd currently manages two very different types of packages: those sgml/docbook related and those TeX related. This is a problem, since many members of the herd (me included) know only one of those two fields. That's why I propose to split the text-markup herd into two new

[gentoo-dev] Trustees 2006 election results

2006-10-21 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi everyone, here are our 2006 trustees : seemant g2boojum wolf31o2 mcummings stuart Master ballot and personal confirmation emails will follow. Thanks to KingTaco and g2boojum for the technical support :) Congratulations to our new trustees! For reference, the complete ranked list is:

[gentoo-dev] Master ballot for 2006 trustees election

2006-10-21 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Here comes the master ballot for the trustees election. Personal confirmation emails will follow in a little while. - confirmation 299e - g2boojum seemant wolf31o2 rl03 mcummings pauldv stuart - confirmation 2afa - seemant g2boojum mcummings wolf31o2 rl03 pauldv

Re: [gentoo-dev] a new TLP to unify programming langiages?

2006-10-12 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 19:33:16 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: Hi gang. [snip] The principal list of individual TLPs (as they stand now) is below: Common Lisp eselect java perl php python Ada -- to be added Hi, if you go ahead with it, we'll probably want to add a ml subproject.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alexis Ballier (aballier)

2006-10-09 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 20:30:36 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: Its my pleasure to introduce to you Alexis Ballier (also known as aballier), our latest addition joining to help out with the media-sound and media-video herd. He hails from Marseille (that's in France if someone doesn't know

Re: [gentoo-dev] SCHEDULED DOWNTIME: {cvs,svn}.gentoo.org - 2006-10-05 - 1900UTC - 2300UTC

2006-10-03 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Tue, Oct 3, 2006 at 10:38:32 +0200, Nick Devito wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:29 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:13 -0700, Chris White wrote: On Monday 02 October 2006 13:30, Robin H. Johnson wrote: We'll keep status in the topic at #gentoo-dev while we're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 22:18:35 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: snip I would call you a horrible administrator since this: I run an update w/o knowing that it downgrades should NEVER happen. emerge -pv foo [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-dev] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Aug 2, 2006 at 12:26:57 +0200, gwe wrote: Hello, I use gtk+ for my soft's graphic interface. [...] Someone has the same problem or an solution to solve this leak of memory? Hi, it's best to file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org or post to the gentoo-user mailing list. This list is for

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 23:14:56 +0200, Ned Ludd wrote: -- No -- nattfodd (nfc) Is that no fucking chance or no fucking clue? I might agree to both :) I'm quite a young dev (joined last fall) and though I hang quite a bit on #gentoo-dev and try to follow -dev, I don't speak that much. I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-28 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 21:27:31 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:26:31 -0400 Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Cernansky wrote: Oh, if I can speak for me as a user I'll not like it. One of the major advantage of Gentoo is easy maintenace (not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-07 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Jul 7, 2006 at 09:53:36 +0200, Seemant Kulleen wrote: Hi Everyone, I just wanted to put a few thoughts out there as people contemplate nominees and the elections for the Gentoo Council. I personally am on the fence about running this year, because I think there are a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-05 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Jul 5, 2006 at 18:20:08 +0200, Patrick McLean wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to nominate: vapier/SpanKY flameeyes Kugelfang uberlord wolf31o2 seemant solar Mr_Bones_ KingTaco Please correct me if I am wrong, but there is no point in

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugzilla 2.22 masked ~x86

2006-07-05 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Jul 5, 2006 at 19:15:50 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: snip Please file it with the maintainer/herd of the package, instead of directly to the arch team you want it stable. In this case x86. It makes it easier for the arch team to not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

2006-07-01 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Jul 1, 2006 at 13:36:10 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: Hi gang It looks like we got all the coments we could get, so lets get done with it then. What's left is minor legwork that is best done by the maintainers of the individual herds, here is the approximate list: math-proof

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: the proposal

2006-06-26 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 14:26:16 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: sci-mathematics: 34 Ok size. There were calls to split it into symbolic and numeric, also -proof was suggested (but I understand the packages for that one are not in the tree yet). 3-tier categories might be nice here :) (as

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:48:30 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: While talking about herds etc... Please, stick your addy into the relevant eclass if you are actually a maintainer or at least a person to contact about the given eclass. Examples of eclasses that just let me clueless and digging in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-05 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, May 5, 2006 at 10:02:10 +0200, Daniel Goller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving them to the teams maintaining those herds, others might

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating Council page with voting information

2006-04-22 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:10:01 +0200, Mike Frysinger wrote: with the trustee voting process coming up i thought i should get on the ball and give a brief overview of the current Council election process so can people check out the new Voting section and tell me what ya'll think:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Apr 7, 2006 at 18:07:14 +0200, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: What Alec said, however, this would require that we have interested developers who would subscribe and be active when they can, to avoid it becoming another -user. Well, even if it's a small percentage of the devs,

[gentoo-dev] GLEP discussion: pink bugzilla with ponies

2006-04-05 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi, dear gentoo folks, this is the first round of discussion of a GLEP that intends to bring joy and happiness to every bugzilla user, of course ending in world peace. The draft is attached to this email and you can also find it on http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd/glep-pink.txt Please share all

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP discussion: pink bugzilla with ponies

2006-04-05 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Apr 5, 2006 at 19:50:14 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: The draft is attached to this email and you can also find it on http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd/glep-pink.txt Now it is attached, sorry (murphy law instance: whenever you say that you attach something to an email, you forget

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Tue, Apr 4, 2006 at 00:37:12 +0200, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:38:48 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i dont see how anyone can be against this (unless you're a | terrorist!) I for one welcome our new infra overlords. Perhaps you should add in a clause

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Tue, Apr 4, 2006 at 01:17:59 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: Alexandre Buisse wrote: On Tue, Apr 4, 2006 at 00:37:12 +0200, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:38:48 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i dont see how anyone can be against this (unless you're

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer : Gérald Fenoy

2006-02-03 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 11:28:16 +0100, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, please take a moment to welcome djay. Gérald is already a French GDP translator, and now will help out the sci herd with ebuild maintenance. In his own words, I've end my studies

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Jokey (Markus Ullmann)

2006-02-01 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 18:31:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Please welcome Markus to the team. I'm a bit late for this, but still: welcome, Markus! It's great to have you eventually on the team (assuming you still join text-markup, of course). Regards, Alexandre

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos

2006-01-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 13:44:52 +0100, sanchan wrote: Hi all, I'm working on TinyOS related ebuilds (Bug #78908) and since actually there are 20 ebuilds in my overlay may be worth proposing a dev-tos category. It will take a few weeks in order to have all the ebuilds updated for the new

[gentoo-dev] Some LaTeX news

2006-01-14 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi, for all of you who have been using latex on gentoo, here are some news on what is currently happening. First of all, we have a new tetex (tetex-3.0_p1). It should have hit the mirrors this morning. This is not an official release from upstream (that would be 3.1) but a snapshot of their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: shoving utils from xpdf to poppler...

2006-01-02 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 14:08:18 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 17:32, you wrote: It's not supposed to break runtime dependencies.  Everything that was installed before is installed now, in the same location. But installed by another package. Of course it

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-24 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 00:49:35 +0100, Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug fixes since 6.8.2. Over the next few weeks we'll be finalizing licenses

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild suggestion: texmaker

2005-12-10 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:41:53PM -0200, Herbert Lists wrote: Hi, A great software that would be fun to have on Gentoo is texmaker. http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ Actually, it's already in portage (and have been for some time). It was even bumped to the latest qt4 version a few days

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexandre Buisse (Nattfodd)

2005-11-29 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 23:39:17 +0100, Michael Cummings wrote: Tom Martin[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ... and he participated in the Google Summer of Code in writing a generational garbage collector, GMC, for the Perl 6 VM (http://www.parrotcode.org). Sweet! Does this mean he can

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-25 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On 11/25/05, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 25.11.2005, 0:58:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petteno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that | we can make it a sort of rule). | How should