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

2006-07-30 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 28 July 2006 20:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Robert Cernansky wrote: If I have some application that is not included in portage why I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big thanks for this).

[gentoo-dev] last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-07-30 Thread Petteri Räty
dev-java/saxon-bin is going to be removed from the tree as soon as the from sources version dev-java/saxon gets marked stable on arches that have saxon-bin stable. I will add a package move and a revision bump so that user will have a smooth upgrade. I will also adjust app-text/jing to work with

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

2006-07-30 Thread Simon Stelling
Enrico Weigelt wrote: The gentoo devs currently do much of the upstream's work. Fixing bugs or even adding new stuff which does not directly have to do w/ gentoo should be done exlusively by the upstream. This is not really a problem. Fixing bugs is what I enjoy after all, this is the

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

2006-07-30 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:50 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 28 July 2006 20:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Robert Cernansky wrote: If I have some application that is not included in portage why I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be accepted and included to

[gentoo-dev] Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Alec Warner
As the lead for the treecleaner project (team, whatever you want to call it wolf ;) ), I've been trying to fix old broken packages, many have been slated for removal, some have had minor fixes, and others are still setting waiting for me to get some free time. Another class of packages I wish to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/30/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another class of packages I wish to discuss (not remove quite yet, just talking ;) ) are older packages with stable markings. By Stable I mean debian stable, IE we stabled it in 2004 and no one has touched it since. Do these packages still work

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

2006-07-30 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:07, Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : jaervosz I'll accept the nomination again this year. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Gentoo Linux Security Team pgpMVPo0HIJAx.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-07-30 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:07:03PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : plasmaroo I'll decline, maybe next year... :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-30 Thread Jakub Moc
Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : jakub Wh, someone nominated me? Thanks, I accept. ;) -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7

[gentoo-dev] ppc32 meeting summary

2006-07-30 Thread Lars Weiler
Good evening, the ppc32 team had a short monthly meeting tonight. Discussed topics: 1) kernel for 2006.1 We will include the 2.6.17 kernel for the 2006.1 release. There is one issue with the Marvell NIC on the Pegasos left, but including that driver as a module will not hurt anybody by

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

2006-07-30 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:07:03PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : rl03 Thanks, I accept. -- Renat Lumpau all things web-apps C6A838DA 04AF B5EE 17CB 1000 DDA5 D3FC 1338 ADC2 C6A8 38DA pgpRG5Jh34ZKG.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 28 July 2006 01:55, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: So long and thank you for all the fish, Brix I really hate to return home from a long weekend to read these kind of emails. I'm very sad to see you go, you really improved alot on the wireless experience! Good luck with your future

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

2006-07-30 Thread Jan Kundrát
Thierry Carrez wrote: We're nearing the end of the nomination period. (Those developers should accept their nomination before July 31, 23:59 UTC, else they won't participate in the election) I'd like to nominate Andrej Kacian (ticho). He's quite a silent dev (speaking about -dev and -core

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

2006-07-30 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : tsunam While honored to be possible considered to be able to help guide the technical direction of gentoo. I however don't feel that I'm capable of it at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 28 July 2006 06:02, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:35:24AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: Mike asked you repeatedly to voice your issues or concerns in relation to Project Sunrise, which you failed to reply to. How many times are we supposed to raise our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:51:09 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | then what else would you expect the Council to do ? Personally I'd expect the council to block the thing permanently. The council is, after all, supposed to serve as the last line of defence against people pushing

Re: [gentoo-dev] langs.eclass (deprecating linguas.eclass)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 July 2006 20:28, Peper wrote: Comments are welcome again :] what ebuilds would this actually be useful in ? looking through the code largely gives me the impression of over engineering and not much else -mike pgpdWFj2i5blA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:21, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Looking at the meeting log, the council even noted that the concerns had not been addressed no, we noted that people claimed they had concerns but when cornered and asked what exactly their concerns were, no more

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner wrote: Another class of packages I wish to discuss (not remove quite yet, just talking ;) ) are older packages with stable markings. By Stable I mean debian stable, IE we stabled it in 2004 and no one has touched it since. Do these packages still work with a current system (linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Ok, since the first time around apparently wasn't good enough, how about this? This project sucks. It takes random ebuilds without enough merit or demand to even have some team and/or developer within Gentoo pick it up, and dumps it to a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Alec Warner
Ryan Hill wrote: Alec Warner wrote: Another class of packages I wish to discuss (not remove quite yet, just talking ;) ) are older packages with stable markings. By Stable I mean debian stable, IE we stabled it in 2004 and no one has touched it since. Do these packages still work with a

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

2006-07-30 Thread Joshua Nichols
Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : agriffis AllanonJL azarah christel CHTEKK george jaervosz jakub johnm kito kosmikus `Kumba marienz Mr_Bones_ nichoj plasmaroo pvdabeel Ramereth rl03 seemant solar tsunam Uberlord

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner wrote: I'm not sure if I'm misreading here, I'm not advocating we dump older gcc versions. Moreso I'm advocating we dump code that doesn't compile with newer gcc/toolchain versions that no one is willing to fix. We have had devs in the past bring in far too many packages and then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make me think otherwise, You won't listen, yet you expect to be listened to. Speaking as a user and lover of Gentoo I believe you should resign as a developer. On this list and on IRC,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Personally I'd expect the council to block the thing permanently. hard to address any sort of concerns here, so i guess i'll just regurgitate the council log to you it's hard for users to get involved in our development process ... i imagine

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:47, Stephen P. Becker wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say well if you're coming forth with such stout resolution of ignoring any one else's input, then there's no point in debating the topic with you now is there ? -mike pgpRLmOrTjAue.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 7/30/06, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Personally I'd expect the council to block the thing permanently. hard to address any sort of concerns here, so i guess i'll just regurgitate the council log to you it's hard for users to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | we take a risk with this project (like every single other | project) ... if sunrise turns out to suck and cause problems, then we | kill it, no big deal How many more users and developers will have to be lost before it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 03:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | we take a risk with this project (like every single other | project) ... if sunrise turns out to suck and cause problems, then we | kill it, no big deal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. load up your browser and check out how many bugs are assigned to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' opening a bug, putting together an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | we take a risk with this project (like every single other | project) ... if sunrise turns out to suck and cause problems, then we | kill it, no big deal How many more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:50:31 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Show me at least that concern being concrete and we have a | starting place. -!- [Users #gentoo-sunrise] -!- @genstef devon bonsaikitten_ Zamorate eimono|home dev-zero brebs staskorz @nichoj_work eimono SunriseCIA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 04:06 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:50:31 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Show me at least that concern being concrete and we have a | starting place. -!- [Users #gentoo-sunrise] -!- @genstef devon bonsaikitten_ Zamorate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I am only a user and have been keeping out of this debate but I feel I need to at least express my thoughts. I have been folllowing the Sunrise thread(s) since it started.  I have done a couple of ebuilds a long time ago and would love to have been able to contribute to Gentoo but due to time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
OK wait, on your servers, are you actually planning to *use* any of the ebuilds in Sunrise's overlay? If not, how is it a concern? I personally don't use any of them, and my system is running perfectly fine. Let's not forget that nobody is shoving Sunrise down anyone's throat... -- Seemant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:32, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: - first for my systems - are that it is allowing essentially anybody to submit almost anything with no QA. no, read the FAQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My concern is beyond me. As I stated I know enough about what to expect IF I use sunrise. But many do not and with it becoming official people figure it's gentoo and when it breaks Gentoo suffers. Gentoo has a reputation as a good solid, stable distro. As user and big fan of Gentoo I'm

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

2006-07-30 Thread Kumba
Thierry Carrez wrote: Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : `Kumba Arrr me mateys! err, that's not until Sept. 19thmy bad. Reading over the current nominees, the field looks pretty varied. It'll be a fun race. So I suppose I'll throw my hat into the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My concerns - first for my systems - are that it is allowing essentially anybody to submit almost anything with no QA. This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Every

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:50 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: My concern is beyond me. As I stated I know enough about what to expect IF I use sunrise. But many do not and with it becoming official people figure it's gentoo and when it breaks Gentoo suffers. Gentoo has a reputation as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? Even that aside, if a couple of hundred

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 05:27 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? Is this sort of degeneration really necessary? Even that aside, if a couple of hundred developers can't handle doing QA for all those maintainer-wanted ebuilds, what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:36:36 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 05:27 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? | | Is this sort of degeneration really necessary? Considering how one of the major

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:42:52 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What, honestly, are people worried about with Sunrise? Partly, the part where it's run by people who have little clue about ebuild development or QA, who will be taking code from people who have little clue about ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-30 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Did you look at *which* actual

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 03:53 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Partly, the part where it's run by people who have little clue about ebuild development or QA, who will be taking code from people who have little clue about ebuild development or QA and giving it to other people who have little clue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers

[gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-30 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? You know, that was a completely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:50:40 -0400 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Continue with *top-posting* as it is. Does Gentoo gives more choises to users or not? With the freedom/choise comes the responsibility (if anything breaks). Gentoo is known not to be for *everybody* (unless he/she is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:22:33 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky | | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual | | Gentoo developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. | | Did you look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Their commit history backs it up all by itself. Ppint to specifically what, in their respective histories, proves your case. This is like pulling teeth. | Where is this code being pushed to, exactly? Users. Please note the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:38:42 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Their commit history backs it up all by itself. | | Ppint to specifically what, in their respective histories, proves your | case. This is like pulling