[gentoo-dev] Hackontest

2008-05-02 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi, I added the Gentoo project to Hackontest (for more information, visit http://hackontest.org/) . Developers and users are invited to add feature requests for Gentoo (preferably with links to bugzilla :-)). Hopefully, some of us developers can get together and implement them at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Anant Narayanan
This conversation reminds me of Human Resources. They always have 'procedures' and 'career tracks.' Gentoo's chitchat about earning gold stars and brownie points is giving me HR sickness. You're asking Michael Jordan to prove himself on the high school team. You must be American. I am

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

2008-03-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi, 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. 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 -

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

2008-03-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
Please elaborate on how a full.fledged developer would differ from a package maintainer technically. What requirements and/or priviledges do you think could be reduced? I haven't thought that through fully (in hopes of a few good suggestions!), but off the top of my head, maintainers don't

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

2008-03-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 06-Mar-08, at 2:35 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: Thomas Anderson kirjoitti: Arch Testers don't have tree access. This proposal gives the package maintainer the ability to commit their changes. How would you ensure ebuild quality for these package maintainers? Maintainers will also go through

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and subproject status

2008-01-10 Thread Anant Narayanan
Good day All, Sorry for the thread hijack, but... GWN: The GWN is currently in a permanent state of hiatus. I have no intentions on spending another minute working on the GWN. While many, many improvements have been made in the processes for getting the automated data, getting articles has

[gentoo-dev] Re: GMN (was: Re: Projects and subproject status)

2008-01-10 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi, On 11-Jan-08, at 4:14 AM, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Some of the scripts would need to be updated to work on a monthly- basis rather than weekly. Also, I still think that it would be good to automate the scripts that run by putting them on infra somewhere and having just the output mailed to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages.gentoo.org lives!

2007-11-14 Thread Anant Narayanan
But shouldn't there be some sort of area at the top with links to the other parts of the site, as the other pages do (the navstrip across the top)? Right now there's zero integration with the gentoo.org site, and even the old p.g.o had at least minimal integration with the other parts of our

Re: [gentoo-dev] New staff : Elias Pipping (pipping)

2007-10-27 Thread Anant Narayanan
Denis Dupeyron wrote: Please everybody, give a very warm welcome to Elias. Welcome Elias! Now, get to work :) -- Anant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers

2007-07-11 Thread Anant Narayanan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Networking, modelling and predictive applications: net-analyzer/ns I can take over ns, if no-one has any objections or pet-peeves over this project :) - - -- Anant - -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Anant Narayanan
Christian Heim wrote: It's my please to introduce to you Le Robert Zhang (also known as r0bertz on IRC), our latest addition joining the GWN Translators. Oriental! A warm welcome to Gentoo, Zhang Le Robert :) -- Anant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

2007-05-13 Thread Anant Narayanan
Thilo Bangert wrote: the packages in the attached list have no metadata.xml. I have taken maintainer-ship of the following packages and modified metadata.xml accordingly: app-doc/doc++ missing metadata.xml x11-libs/xclass missing metadata.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deskzilla license for Gentoo Bugzilla for everyone

2007-04-23 Thread Anant Narayanan
I couldn't find it either which is why I still use my server-side queries. Another issue I experienced is that the date fields on our Bugzilla can't be parsed. Every single date is displayed as 01-01-70 for me. Anyone else with that problem? I'm facing the same issues here. Although

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Dawid Węgliński (cla)

2007-04-23 Thread Anant Narayanan
It's my please to introduce to you Dawid cla Węgliński. A fellow with enough weird letters in his name and who hails from Kłodzko, Poland, cla is going to start a new artwork project so we are expecting a lot of good quality wallpapers etc to follow. At least this time the German conspiracy

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 29-Mar-07, at 2:26 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:19:45 +0530 Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly don't think so. A lot of people *switch* to Gentoo because of portage. Portage is a core part of our distro, and I don't see it being replaced for a long time

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 29-Mar-07, at 11:20 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Have a look at [1] and all the open Portage should... bugs. Would any of those improve the user experience for you? Can you think of other features of a similar nature that would make your life easier? That Portage works does not mean that it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Anant Narayanan
snip See above: not every developer is technically capable of evaluating the underpinnings of the tools we use. For most of us, those underpinnings do not matter. I find the reasoning to be quite justified. It's probably a little early to initiate such a proposal, seeing as the PMS is

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project,Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

2007-03-28 Thread Anant Narayanan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Vlastimil, I think it lacks advertisement, IMHO many people just know there was such project but have no idea if it was completed or what. And having it online (at least some demo) would help greatly so people can easily try it out without

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-28 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi Ciaran, On 28-Mar-07, at 1:45 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Do you acknowledge that Portage is a severe limiting factor when it comes to improving the Gentoo user experience as a whole? I certainly don't think so. A lot of people *switch* to Gentoo because of portage. Portage is a core part

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project,Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

2007-03-26 Thread Anant Narayanan
Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a problem within gentoo since before I arrived and probably has been a problem since we started having webpages. One of the issues I wish to address is whether or not writing webpages in XML (Guide or Project or something_else) is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-24 Thread Anant Narayanan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We should not have third-party projects be part of SOC -- specifically, things that are not Gentoo projects. I'd lobby this whether it was pkgcore or paludis being proposed, so don't bother trying to pin partisan accusations. Point is, it's not a