Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08

2007-07-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 01:04 +, Blackace wrote: I'd like to nominate: vapier tsunam nightmorph seemant avenj christel Thank you for the nomination! I would be delighted to stand, and do indeed accept. And hope that if elected I can help make Gentoo a better place, both for developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08

2007-07-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
I'd like to nominate Marien Zwarts (marienz) for the Council 2007/2008. I believe he would make an excellent council member, not only does he have the technical smarts necessary to help give the council the technical spine it needs, but he also has incredible skills when it comes

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 00:33 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! major snippage Tobias, I just wanted to say that I feel you raised some very valid points and your e-mail was pretty good! Thanks for taking the time to write it. Christel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:43 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially suggested.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 03:35 +0200, Bryan Østergaard wrote: It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally retiring from Gentoo. I've been a Gentoo developer for nearly 4 years now and I like to at least pretend that I've made some important contributions to Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Conflict Resolution Project Member Changes

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, I've had three new people join the conflict resolution sub project of devrel over the last couple of weeks. Chrissy Fulham aka musikc Deedra Waters aka dmwaters Michael Marineau aka marineam I'm glad to have them onboard and they've already convinced me that adding them to the team

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Foundation Mentor

2007-04-12 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya Arockiasamy, Thank you for your email and congratulations on being selected for Summer of Code this year. I'm Christel, one of the SoC administrators for Gentoo. I will be e-mailing all accepted students over the next few hours with information. Until then, take care and I am sure we will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-25 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 04:54 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-25 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 09:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 04:54 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-25 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather

[gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-24 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather than any outside party, how about the following addition to the Social Contract? headingWe will be run by the

[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-16 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, It is that time of the year again, and we have yet once more been accepted as a mentoring organisation for SoC. Interested mentors (current Gentoo developers) should fill in the mentor application (link sent to -core). Interested mentors, co-mentors, people with project ideas and

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

2007-03-12 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
questions regarding the mechanics of enforcing such a code. Christelx -- $a=gentoo.org; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User Relations, Developer Relations, Gentoo/MIPS, QA, Gentoo/Alpha, PR, Events, Release Engineering, Conflict Resolution, Recruitment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:14 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: ffmpeg got just vc-1 working as should, all the other code got somewhat halfway, mostly because we expected a lot. (amr and ac3 seems to have something alive, aac isn't something that good) The Gentoo results

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:35 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: So, is there support among devs for hosting another round of Summer students? Are there good problems for those students to work on, and, if so, what are they? Were people

[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code - worth repeating?

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, Let's do a quick re-cap of Summer of Code '06: Gentoo had 14 project slots, out of these fourteen two were on Gentoo external Gentoo project which I will leave out of the re-cap. That leaves us with twelve projects, four of which were being worked on by at the time current Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Update from User Relations wrt User Representatives.

2006-12-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
-il as the eleventh and last User Representative. This motion passed unanimously and Alex accepted the position with immediate effect. We welcome Alex onboard and look forward to working closely with him over the next year. On behalf of User Relations, Christel Dahlskjaer. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Call For Interest: Scale5x

2006-10-31 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:36 -0800, Chris White wrote: Scale5X announcement just hit my inbox, so away we go. Scale 5X will be taking place at: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1005 The Westin Los Angeles Airport from Feb. 10-11 2007 (That's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-24 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 21:43 +, Peter wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:01:02 -0400, Mike Pagano wrote: snip Since you mentioned my name in your e-mail I figured I had something to do with the delay on your becoming a developer, however, having consulted bugzilla I find that this is not the case.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:01 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) The package was masked without

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 21:25 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30 days. Er, as someone

[gentoo-dev] New Developer - Vlastimil Babka

2006-09-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Bordering with Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland you find the Czech Republic, smack bang in the centre you find Prague, one of my all time favourite places to go for a long weekend of cheap beer and much fun. Beer isn't all that comes out of this place though, they also make mighty fine Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30 days. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 12:32 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

2006-09-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:24 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: Dear All, Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago. It's high time for the official announcement. This year's Board of Trustees for the Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13. That was something

[gentoo-dev] What would Freud say? New developer; Mike Kelly!

2006-09-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
mind but he does speak bash, C, C++, Java, Perl and some sml. So yeah, buy him a pint and welcome him onboard! -- $a=gentoo.org; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User Relations, Developer Relations, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha, PR, Events, Release Engineering

Re: [gentoo-dev] What would Freud say? New developer; Mike Kelly!

2006-09-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:22 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, the cognitive science department at Carnegie Mellon University comes Mike Kelly aka pioto. Already known by some of us from his excellent work on dynusers[1] during this years Summer of Code he now comes

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Project proudly presents *drums* anigel *applaud*

2006-09-04 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:06 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: Yes indeed my best audience, Gentoo now has a new developer in town. His name? Not important. His function? Not important either. His looks? Ugly as hell... why we want him? Because I am fond of french wifes, and he has one. Yes indeed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 00:31 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: Hi, We'll also need to sort out a process for handling complaints against developers from the folks they help. Doesn't matter how well we make it clear that these folks are independent; their actions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1

2006-09-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 10:36 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: On 9/3/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And no one has implemented any kind of solution. You need someone to implement a solution? Surely what we need is for folks to actually make an announcement in

[gentoo-dev] Paludis version 0.6.0

2006-08-31 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, Just a quick note to let you know that the Paludis guys are happy to inform you that they've just released version 0.6.0 of Paludis, the most popular and widely used alternative to Portage. With this release they're finally more or less VDB compatible with Portage, so switching to and

[gentoo-dev] Announcement - Conflict Resolution Board.

2006-08-24 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
; Conflict Resolution Lead: Christel Dahlskjaer aka christel Primary Board members: Ferris McCormickaka fmccor Marien Zwartaka marienz Olivier Fisette aka ribosome Joshua Kinnard aka Kumba Reserve Board members: Stuart Herbert aka Stuart Jason Weever

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : jmbsvicetto

2006-08-21 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 00:44 +0530, Shyam Mani wrote: Hi Everyone, Please welcome our latest forums staff, Jorge Vicetto aka jmbsvicetto. snip So, throw up the usual parties, say hello when you meet him and make him feel at home :) Welcome Sir! :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Brand spanking new developer - Anrdrew Ross aka aross

2006-08-08 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
; Fiona. For us he will be maintaining xen alongside chrb and agriffis, considering latching on to the hardened team in a bit and may offer a hand or two to the zope team. Welcome on board Andrew! -- $a=gentoo.org; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User

[gentoo-dev] New(-ish) developer - Elfyn McBratney

2006-08-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
, but a UK based dev with a great taste in music, a sick and twisted mind and the ability to put up with me singing. Welcome back, Elfyn! Christelxx -- $a=gentoo.org; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User Relations, Developer Relations, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha

[gentoo-dev] Developer Upgrade! Steve Dibbs

2006-08-06 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
, media-tv and Knowlegde Base! So yeah, bottoms up for beandog! (No, not that sort of bottoms Chris White..) Christelxx -- $a=gentoo.org; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User Relations, Developer Relations, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha, PR, Events, Release

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

2006-07-29 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 15:07 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: We're nearing the end of the nomination period. So far (if we are to trust http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/council-2006-nominees.xml) the following developers accepted their nomination : snip (Those developers should accept their

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

2006-07-27 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:28 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: 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_

[gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise - Update.

2006-06-24 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
to work towards its other aims. Please ignore any noise in the log, I'm afraid it is the entire log of the 24hours of the day and thus may contain some off-topic chit chat at the start and finish. Kind Regards, Christel Dahlskjaer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 12:55 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 00:26 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: Alec Warner wrote: So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group packages and maintaining developers? How exactly does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 14:00 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 04:51, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: How exactly does one go about maintaining our developers? ;) It's devrel's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-16 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 00:26 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: Alec Warner wrote: So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group packages and maintaining developers? How exactly does one go about maintaining our developers? ;) I suggest we create a murder of developers!

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
After waiting for my replies for 24+ hours I presume they disappeared into a blackhole while we were lacking lists, so I'm resending. Forwarded Message From: Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
The reply appears to have disappeared into a black hole. Forwarded Message From: Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:26:31 +0100 On Sat, 2006

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Another vanishing reply from yesterday. Forwarded Message From: Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:44:02 +0100 On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:56

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 09:27 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:28:36AM +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and future of the GWN at their next meeting. Council? Why escalate things? Have you talked to Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:07 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: Congratulations. I just unsubscribed from the gwn-feedback-alias after reading your mail. * Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/06/10 04:28 +0100]: 1. Reliability. The GWN claims to be a weekly publication, yet it frequently

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:56 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 03:28 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and future of the GWN at their next meeting. I don't think you have to escalate that far. We should be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-10 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:27 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: субота, 10. червень 2006 04:28, Christel Dahlskjaer Ви написали: I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and future of the GWN at their next meeting. Hah? What has concil to do with this? Is it going

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-10 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 11:40 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and future of the GWN at their next meeting. This is an open project. The solution to the problems you raise is incredibly simple: Contribute

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-10 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 09:35 +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: First of all, someone from infra/recruiters might please revoke my write access to gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/gwn. I'm no longer interested in contributing to the GWN. I also believe that when posting an article or interview, a copy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 02:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:49:14 +0200 Markus Ullmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | No. It clearly says that you would be doing the basic QA checks and | repoman checking on initial commit. You even said it right above | where I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 20:32 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:06:04 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'd say that it's entirely possibly for some non-dev to sneak | malicious code into the tree as is now, just as it will be possible | to do in an overlay

[gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-09 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and future of the GWN at their next meeting. 1. Reliability. The GWN claims to be a weekly publication, yet it frequently fails to publish without prior warning. There was no edition this week, and Patrick Lauer says that it is

[gentoo-dev] User Relations Co-lead

2006-06-02 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
; Christel Dahlskjaer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.$a Gentoo Developeress - User Relations, Developer Relations, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha, PR, Events, Release Engineering signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:30 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not have them already Why a new domain? We've already got a blog setup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:05 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not have them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:57 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual blogs off-site (should irk less people, although presumably most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:29 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual blogs off-site (should irk less people

Re: [gentoo-dev] New staffer: Steve Dibbs

2006-05-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:14 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All- Take a moment to welcome our newest staffer, beandog. Steve will be helping dsd with planet/universe administration. In his own words, Hi there, I'm Steve from Utah. Lots of Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-05-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:33 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: Hi all, For some time now, the idea of a Gentoo Knowledge Base, like RedHat [1] and Microsoft [2] do, has been brewing in Andrés Pereira and my minds. Not only that, but a feature request was also filed some time ago [3] and just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:38 -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: As the latest long thread has shown, there seems to be a split (it is hard to tell exactly) on whether or not alternative package managers, that support Gentoo ebuilds to some degree, should be added to the tree and supported. Supported in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 00:23 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:38 -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: As the latest long thread has shown, there seems to be a split (it is hard to tell exactly) on whether or not alternative package managers, that support Gentoo ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] I'm retiring

2006-05-17 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:56 -0700, Rob Holland wrote: Hey all, As I've done very little Gentoo work in last few months and have generally lost interest in Gentoo, I'll be retiring. If you need to reach me you can find me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or on IRC where I'll continue to sit in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union + suggestion for global dev conference (at bottom, if you want to skip)

2006-05-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:43 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 03:55, Lance Albertson wrote: Here's an idea I had tonight. Since we're going to be doing the Google SoC this summer, perhaps a great project would be having someone work on this migration (or at least do an

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: squinky86

2006-04-18 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
A few words from the horses mouth: I'm Jon Hood from Huntsville, AL. I was a Gentoo developer before, but some problems came up and now I'm returning. All my spare time is put into developing applications for voip (esp. Asterisk), Gentoo, and last but DEFINITELY not least, my wonderful

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:07 -0500, lnxg33k wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: snip * If we're looking to increase the flow of end users - super users - developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development tools or development documentation. I'm a little late jumping into this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations (fwd)

2006-04-08 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:40 +, S. Lockwood-Childs wrote: I apologize if this is a resend, but it seemed to me like the 1st attempt didn't get through (can't imagine why it would take longer than a couple of days to get to a gentoo-hosted mailing list from a gentoo-hosted mail account...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Heya Chris, Thank you for responding! On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:51 +0100, Christopher O'Neill wrote: As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regarding

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 Christopher O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly | newsletter (which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:33 +0200, Grobian wrote: On 07-04-2006 11:07:28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [let's pretend I snipped a bit here, oh wait, I did!] Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:32 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:33 +0200, Grobian wrote: Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of what kind of things are being done in Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 02:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: [snip] The general case of the above is that if you want information, you need to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific relevant list or Bugzilla. The information doesn't come looking for you. That may have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:37 +0100, Jonathan Coome wrote: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:33:07 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general case of the above is that if you want information, you need to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific relevant list or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:30:10 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do you believe could make Gentoo more attractive | to new users and to current users? Something that's often missed in these discussions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:32 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: Perhaps we should have a page explaining all of the ways someone can help / contribute to Gentoo. There is no central place (that I know of) for finding out what you can do as a user to make your favorite distribution become even better.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:35 +0200, Martin Ehmsen wrote: [snip] How about a website/blog hosted on www.gentoo.org pr. project and a little tool for posting on such a website (ala echangelog). I don't have the time to set something like that up on my own, but I would use it if it was given

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:20 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: [snip] On the other hand, this problem does have a solution--another level of indirection. Anybody who wishes, dev or user, could spend time tracking Gentoo development (through bugs and the mailing lists) and submit status reports to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:43 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:19:35 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of | keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of | your time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:42 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * If we're looking to increase the flow of end users - super users - developers, perhaps we should focus more upon

[gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-06 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
(irc.freenode.net) in the #gentoo-userrel channel. And we have a mailinglist[3] for those who wish to partake on that. I hope my e-mail wasn't too vague, I also hope that I will wake up and find my inbox full of exciting ideas and suggestions from all of you! ¡Viva la revolución! Christel Dahlskjaer

Re: [gentoo-dev] How many users? [WAS] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-06 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:17 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: So now we are faced with the challenge of resurrecting the project and making it the best it can be. We have a blank page to colour in in such a way it becomes attractive to the majority of our ~200,000

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staffer: Christel Dahlskjaer

2006-03-13 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:49 +0100, Jochen Maes wrote: /me gives a hot welcome hump to christel now yer branded :-) Is this where I say Yeah, I like it like that? :) Thanks SeJo! :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staffer: Christel Dahlskjaer

2006-03-13 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:43 +0100, Boris Fersing wrote: [snip] Welcome Christel !! ;) Boris. Thank you Boris! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staffer: Christel Dahlskjaer

2006-03-13 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:02 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: [snip] I don't remember you branding *me* when I was new. :)) Anyway, welcome, Christel! Thank you! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list