Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. Gentoo's always been exclusively for the developers. Nobody's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grab

2007-07-16 Thread josé Alberto Suárez López
I'm the gnap leader/maintainer since Thierry leave gentoo. We are working in new releases. El sáb, 14-07-2007 a las 12:13 +0200, Christian Heim escribió: The following packages need some love and/or a new maintainer: Previously maintained by Thierry Carrez (Koon): - dev-embedded/gnap -

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grab

2007-07-16 Thread Christian Heim
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:19:19 josé Alberto Suárez López wrote: I'm the gnap leader/maintainer since Thierry leave gentoo. We are working in new releases. El sáb, 14-07-2007 a las 12:13 +0200, Christian Heim escribió: The following packages need some love and/or a new maintainer:

[gentoo-dev] Re: iuse defaults example

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: there are ways to make the USE=nocxx - USE=cxx transition nice and i plan on going that route What would those/that be? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. Gentoo's always been exclusively for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. Gentoo's always been exclusively for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Krelin
That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. Of course Gentoo owes to the community a lot. A lot of its progress, progress of

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: Are you people serious? Let's ban nondevs from bugzilla then? Close #gentoo, disband PR, etc? Not sure if we can keep any sponsors then... ...or devs... Seriously, no users == no community. Why? Because devs don't get along

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

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Knight
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:43:36PM +0100, Peter Weller wrote: I nominate... tomk Thanks for the nomination but I'll have to decline as I haven't got enough free time at the moment to be on the council. Tom -- Tom Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomk/tomk.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:42:44 -0400 Michael Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: Are you people serious? Let's ban nondevs from bugzilla then? Close #gentoo, disband PR, etc? Not sure if we can keep any sponsors then...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Alin Năstac
Steve Long wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Vlastimil Babka wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Marius Mauch wrote: I think you're misinterpreting those statements. Consider if you have choose if you spend your time implementing a feature that you personally want to have or one that a user wants (and is of no use to yourself), which one would you choose, assuming that both have the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Yep, this is all anyone is trying to say. We aren't paid, so we work on what we feel like working on, and do what we feel like doing (within reason). This is the great difficulty with any open-source project, and yet most

Re: [gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:11:56PM +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote: I have always thought that proctors/COC is useless, I vote to remove it. Proctors have already been removed in the last council meeting. As far the CoC is concerned, i'm not sure what the current status is and if anyone is

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Andrew Gaffney wrote: You misunderstand. I'm not saying that all non-devs can get bent and their opinions be damned. I'm just saying that at the core, Gentoo is still the same as it was back in the day. Gentoo isn't a commercial distribution, and nobody pays us, so we can do anything we want,

[gentoo-dev] Re: council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:11:56PM +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote: I have always thought that proctors/COC is useless, I vote to remove it. Proctors have already been removed in the last council meeting. As far the CoC is concerned, i'm not sure what the current status

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Petteri Räty
Steve Long kirjoitti: Wernfried Haas wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:11:56PM +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote: I have always thought that proctors/COC is useless, I vote to remove it. Proctors have already been removed in the last council meeting. As far the CoC is concerned, i'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:54:44 -0400, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I do like the gentoo-politics idea that came up a few weeks ago, which was to move politics off gentoo-dev and to another list, but I'd view it from another perspective (and avoid the words 'politics'): make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello Steve! On Monday, 16. July 2007 18:17:00 Steve Long wrote: Sure, but since you're only doing exactly what you want, when you want, why do you guys keep bleating about how much work you have, and what extravagant demands us lusers make on you? Now, now. You're a nice guy on IRC so what

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:42:44 -0400 Michael Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talk like this, especially from people I respected, makes me question just what its worth to keep going. If Gentoo is only about the devs, well, I'm happy with the way things are now, they work for me, so no sense in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:34:31 +0100 Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It also happens that bugs are reported, and patches provided, by users. Not to mention documentation written, support provided on irc and in forums, which are the envy of every OS out there. Oh and the small matter of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Jakub Moc
__ __ _ |__ / _ \| \/ |/ ___| | / / | | | |\/| | | _| | / /| |_| | | | | |_| |_| /\___/|_| |_|\(_) Anyone tell me how can I get rid of this junk in my mailbox? Where's the damned -announce list? Please, stop feeding this kind of debates down everyone's throat.

[gentoo-dev] About to retire

2007-07-16 Thread Ned Ludd
Well it's clear that nearly everybody is a fucking tard on this list. So before I depart. Here is a list of shit that's going to need to be maintained or dropped from the tree. Do what you will I could give two shits less. dev-embedded/gpio dev-util/elfkickers net-firewall/arptables

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. Gentoo's always been exclusively

Re: [gentoo-dev] About to retire

2007-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/16/07, Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's clear that nearly everybody is a fucking tard on this list. So before I depart. Here is a list of shit that's going to need to be maintained or dropped from the tree. Do what you will I could give two shits less. We don't really know each

Re: [gentoo-dev] About to retire

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Volkov
В Пнд, 16/07/2007 в 10:50 -0700, Ned Ludd пишет: net-firewall/ebtables net-misc/netkit-telnetd taken. base-system, are there any objections if I add you as the herd? related applications like iptables and other netkit-* apps belongs to your herd... net-firewall/arptables and if I manage

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16:45 +0100 George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is becoming more and more a

[gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Roy Marples
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:37 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! Sorry, but on topic posts are not allowed here. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! I don't care, as long as the temperature is somewhere in the

[gentoo-dev] Re: So...

2007-07-16 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Did you know that a black body of that temperature would have a heat flux density of 518,65 W/m^2? Or

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Catalin Zamfir Alexandru
On Monday 16 July 2007 19:12, Roy Marples wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:37 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius...

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Dale
Roy Marples wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:37 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! Sorry, but on topic

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! Well Celcius isn't the S.I scale for temperature but it's related with

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Catalin Zamfir Alexandru
On Monday 16 July 2007 19:27, Vlastimil Babka wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss!

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Weller
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:24:32 -0700 Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All- [..snip..] We're voting on this next council meeting so if you have input, now would be the time. --taco Eeer, I think this is one of the most idiotic ideas I've heard since I started using Gentoo. As I've seen

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:02:07 +0100 Peter Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] The moderators should get the final word, end of. That would only work if Gentoo could find decent moderators who are prepared to put lots of effort into work that is, let's face it, entirely unnecessary and serving no point

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:37 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius...

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:41:42PM +, Luis Medinas wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss!

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:41:42PM +, Luis Medinas wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:49:23 +0200, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: __ __ _ |__ / _ \| \/ |/ ___| | / / | | | |\/| | | _| | / /| |_| | | | | |_| |_| /\___/|_| |_|\(_) Anyone tell me how can I get rid of this junk in my mailbox? Where's the damned

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Reich
Mike Doty wrote: All- We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate in bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the gentoo-project list will be created to take

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: Oh dear. slight delay in an email list forum? That's like saying you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to wait 30 seconds before you can say anything In effect you reduce that person to an on-looker who can

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:45 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. Exactly. I work on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:34 +0100, Steve Long wrote: Are you really claiming that Gentoo could possibly function as an organisation without the users? Who ever said that? Please don't read your own whatever into what is being said. I know I, for one, don't really care what your opinion is on

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:37 +0200, Michael Krelin wrote: That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. Of course Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Torsten Veller
* Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. What will you do when users start sending mail from dev addresses? Thanks, Torsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. What will you do when users start sending mail from dev addresses? There's nothing to prevent that

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: Oh dear. slight delay in an email list forum? That's like saying you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to wait 30 seconds before you can say anything In effect you reduce that person to

[gentoo-dev] For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
:0 * ^List-Id:.gentoo-dev.gentoo.org. * ^Subject:.*ML changes /dev/null -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0100, George Prowse wrote: This is going to crash and burn but wouldn't it be an ideal job description for the proctors? Instead of telling people off they could just stop people posting. That way you dont even get to know that they are even there. Seeing as

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Will Briggs
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: Oh dear. slight delay in an email list forum? That's like saying you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to wait 30 seconds before you can say anything In effect you reduce that person to

Re: [gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:08:31 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:11:56PM +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote: I have always thought that proctors/COC is useless, I vote to remove it. Proctors have already been

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:45 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Krelin
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:37 +0200, Michael Krelin wrote: That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. Of course Gentoo owes to the

RE: [gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Chrissy Fullam
Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far the CoC is concerned, i'm not sure what the current status is and if anyone is supposed to enforce it atm (devrel? userrel?). I am sure not devrel. That's one reason we had proctors to begin with.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:34 +0100, Steve Long wrote: Are you really claiming that Gentoo could possibly function as an organisation without the users? Who ever said that? Please don't read your own whatever into what is being said. I know I, for one, don't

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

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Torsten Veller wrote: | for the quick low down: | - nominations are from July 1 through July 31 | - anyone can nominate | - only Gentoo devs may be nominated | | so get with the nominating people ! I noticed Kumba isn't nominated, so I'll throw him into the ring. -- dirtyepic

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0100, George Prowse wrote: This is going to crash and burn but wouldn't it be an ideal job description for the proctors? Instead of telling people off they could just stop people posting. That way you dont even get to know that they are

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Pierre-Yves Rofes (p-y)

2007-07-16 Thread Camille Huot
Welcome p-y! 2007/7/15, Pierre-Yves Rofes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: @Remi: Yeah, the french conspiracy strikes again :D btw, I hope we'll have an opportunity to meet all the frenchies near Paris around some beers one of these days :) Be sure we will ;) -- Camille Huot -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Just because developers develop because they want to doesn't mean they dont want to be part of a community, if that wasn't the case then none of the current developers would have originally been part of the userbase to begin with. What relevance does this have to

[gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: :0 * ^List-Id:.gentoo-dev.gentoo.org. * ^Subject:.*ML changes /dev/null Sorry was there some reason the rest of us had to read this? If so, please explain it like a responsible Council member. Or is this your swansong? If so it's l4m3. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-dev] Re: About to retire

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Denis Dupeyron wrote: On 7/16/07, Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's clear that nearly everybody is a fucking tard on this list. So before I depart. Here is a list of shit that's going to need to be maintained or dropped from the tree. Do what you will I could give two shits less.

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Pierre-Yves Rofes (p-y)

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Petteri Räty wrote: It's a joint pleasure for me and diox to introduce to you Pierre-Yves py Rofes. Instead of the snake people he will be joining our security team. Py originates from Paris, France, and has just finished his studies in computer science. He'll be hired soon (or maybe already

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:02:07 +0100 Peter Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] The moderators should get the final word, end of. That would only work if Gentoo could find decent moderator Sorry I know I said ignore thread but really: just cos the forum mods banned you it really

[gentoo-dev] Re: So...

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Richard Freeman wrote: Then again, I guess this post pretty-much obliterates my chance of getting a patent. Nah, you have a year to file in the US ;) The ROTW might not agree, however. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: :0 * ^List-Id:.gentoo-dev.gentoo.org. * ^Subject:.*ML changes /dev/null Sorry was there some reason the rest of us had to read this? If so, please explain it like a responsible Council member. Or is this your swansong? If so it's l4m3. Please

RE: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chrissy Fullam
Could we try to keep this thread, and all the similarly named ones, on topic? The pointing fingers, trash talking, etc is not furthering anything. If you don't like councils opinion, or someone elses opinion, well respect them enough to allow them their own opinion. The real topic at hand is about

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

2007-07-16 Thread Jan Kundrát
I'd also like to nominate mcummings (he's an old guy in Gentoo land and his mails look reasonable), lack (he's a bit fresher, but his mails are good) and kumba (old guy, nice mails). XML has been updated. Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Pierre-Yves Rofes (p-y)

2007-07-16 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Steve Long wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: It's a joint pleasure for me and diox to introduce to you Pierre-Yves py Rofes. Instead of the snake people he will be joining our security team. Py originates from Paris, France, and has just finished his studies in computer science. He'll be hired

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Chrissy Fullam wrote: Could we try to keep this thread, and all the similarly named ones, on topic? The pointing fingers, trash talking, etc is not furthering anything. If you don't like councils opinion, or someone elses opinion, well respect them enough to allow them their own opinion. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Steve Long wrote: Perhaps you'd like to explain just how Mr Gianelloni's post was NOT a troll then? Or is every developer's procmail setting (particularly for such a stupid thread) a matter we should all be discussing? It's not like amne never pointed out, several mails ago, that the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread George Prowse
Steve Long wrote: Perhaps you'd like to explain just how Mr Gianelloni's post was NOT a troll then? Or is every developer's procmail setting (particularly for such a stupid thread) a matter we should all be discussing? It's not like amne never pointed out, several mails ago, that the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
Richard Freeman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:37 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: And no, I don't like being lumped in with Mr McCreesh. Why would anyone do that? His trolling is sophisticated, but you're just an annoying spammer. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New developer: Pierre-Yves Rofes (p-y)

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: Steve Long wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: It's a joint pleasure for me and diox to introduce to you Pierre-Yves py Rofes. Instead of the snake people he will be joining our security team. Py originates from Paris, France, and has just finished his studies in

[gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-16 Thread Alin Năstac
I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1]. Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the context of the upcoming ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create command. The package where I need it is app-mobilephone/bitpim. The upstream doesn't offer a source tarball,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:25:02 +0300 Alin Năstac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1]. Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the context of the upcoming ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create command. The package where I

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-16 Thread Alin Năstac
Marius Mauch wrote: Two questions: - are there more packages that could benefit from this? None that I know of. However, there might be other similar packages without a source tarball (slim chance, but quite possible). At first, I asked upstream to provide such tarball, but I got refused

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Marius Mauch wrote: Alin Năstac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1]. Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the context of the upcoming ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create command. The