Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-26 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:04:31 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. How about unified (and enforced) rules about Manifest PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-26 Thread Alec Warner
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:04:31 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. How about unified (and enforced)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-22 Thread sanchan
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. A simple QA review of the entire portage tree, fixing any trivial QA concern like missing headers inclusion,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:14 +0100 sanchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Chris Gianelloni wrote: | Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing | one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of | Council-driven projects. | | A simple QA review of the entire

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-22 Thread sanchan
Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: And ultimately, it's a waste of QA's time. There are far more severe breakages and there are not many people in QA. That's why I proposed this for a small targeted project. -- Sandro (sanchan) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-22 Thread Alec Warner
sanchan wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: And ultimately, it's a waste of QA's time. There are far more severe breakages and there are not many people in QA. That's why I proposed this for a small targeted project. It was my interpretation that the benefit of a council driven non-tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-22 Thread Daniel Black
While hanging around lca07 it was mentioned how bandwidth hungry Gentoo is. Given a lot of the world is still on dialup this could increase the potential userbase for Gentoo. As such the project idea is Automated Xdelta Generation. principles: no manual generation of xdeltas by gentoo devs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-13 Thread Thilo Bangert
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. packages.g.o is a really helpful tool - which could be even more helpful if there where some

RE: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
] [RFC] Ideas for projects... I like the idea. Something really useful I could think of is *drums* the implementation of GLEP 42. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
The Gentoo Council is looking for some ideas for some small projects that we could initiate that would help Gentoo. These project ideas should be things that are attainable in a measurable amount of time, and should be fairly small in scope. This would be in the same vein as the Google Summer of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: The Gentoo Council is looking for some ideas for some small projects that we could initiate that would help Gentoo. These project ideas should be things that are attainable in a measurable amount of time, and should be fairly small in scope. This would be in the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:04:31PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Robin Johnson came up with a good example, which was genflags an application that was to gather information from the running system and spit out a customized set of C(XX)FLAGS for the user. I should clarify, that genflags was a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. Construction of a dynamic website for tracking kernel security issues. There are too many of them and too many

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Stelling
I like the idea. Something really useful I could think of is *drums* the implementation of GLEP 42. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Jason Huebel
for the implementation of ALL approved GLEPs. Maybe GLEP 42 could be the pilot. :-) Jason Huebel -Original Message- From: Simon Stelling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:24 PM To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Alec Warner
Simon Stelling wrote: I like the idea. Something really useful I could think of is *drums* the implementation of GLEP 42. GLEP 42 is almost fully implemented and is currently undergoing local testing (by me) to find the last of the obvious bugs. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Gentoo Council is looking for some ideas for some small projects that we could initiate that would help Gentoo. My idea would be to extend emaint to check package.keywords and package.use for obsolete flags, unnecessary atoms (like

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 12 January 2007 05:43, Richard Fish wrote: My idea would be to extend emaint to check package.keywords and package.use for obsolete flags, unnecessary atoms (like foo-1.2 in keywords when foo-1.3 is stable), atoms that don't match any current ebuild, and so on. app-portage/eix

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 05:43, Richard Fish wrote: My idea would be to extend emaint to check package.keywords and package.use for obsolete flags, unnecessary atoms (like foo-1.2 in keywords when foo-1.3 is stable), atoms that don't