Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] Team : Recruitment Process.

2010-04-11 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 03 April 2010 16:40:20 Ben de Groot wrote: On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev and to help somebody

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-11 Thread Duncan
René 'Necoro' Neumann posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0200 as excerpted: Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a) understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the

[gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Markos Chandras
Hello folks, Looking through the Council project page, the policy regarding the inactive council members doesn't look optimal to me To ensure that the council stays active, the chosen metastructure model says that if a council member (or their appointed proxy) fails to show up for two

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sunday 11 April 2010 16:16:37 Markos Chandras wrote: Hello folks, Sorry for the html email. Kmail betrayed me once again -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 16:16 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is active? 0_o Yes, since council meetings are where the crucial voting happens. Council members that fail to show up to meetings are not generating the output we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Matti Bickel
/me puts on his asbestos underwear Markos Chandras wrote: So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is active? 0_o Yes. Anything else is just too hard to measure, imo. If you notice a council member acting w/o knowing what the heck is going on, then vote him down

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello folks, Hi Markos. A small detail first. You shouldn't cross post as it makes things confusing and often results in threads splitting. I have no problem with that because my email client merges threads but it's not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.11 14:16, Markos Chandras wrote: Hello folks, Looking through the Council project page, the policy regarding the inactive council members doesn't look optimal to me To ensure that the council stays active, the chosen metastructure model says that if a council member (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 04:04:57PM +0200, Matti Bickel wrote: /me puts on his asbestos underwear Markos Chandras wrote: So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is active? 0_o Yes. Anything else is just too hard to measure, imo. If you notice a council

[gentoo-dev] Re: Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Duncan
Matti Bickel posted on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:04:57 +0200 as excerpted: A council member is inactive when: 1) He is inactive in critical discussions ( such as the whole Phoenix discussion ) for a certain period of time Please, no. Or we start to get -council/-dev threads about why a certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Matti Bickel
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: But isn't it the councils purpose to lead gentoo? It's my understanding that council gets elected to lead gentoo as a whole. But in the end the one doing the work gets to decide what's going on (as long as it's intra-project; the only thing i remember where council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-04-2010 13:16, Markos Chandras wrote: Hello folks, Looking through the Council project page, the policy regarding the inactive council members doesn't look optimal to me As others have already explained, this is from GLEP39 and it has an

[gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2010-04-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
What do you think about creating a new virtual package, icon-theme? This would for example simplify the dependencies for www-client/chromium, which currently uses this: || ( x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme x11-themes/tango-icon-theme x11-themes/xfce4-icon-theme ) Also, possibly other

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2010-04-11 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/11/2010 10:38 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: What do you think about creating a new virtual package, icon-theme? This would for example simplify the dependencies for www-client/chromium, which currently uses this: What other packages would make use of the virtual? Regards, Petteri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 11/04/2010 15:16, Markos Chandras a écrit : How about the participation to the discussions which took place every day on our mailing lists or in IRC? I, for one, am actually glad that the council (as such) isn't involved in every troll fest we have on -dev, and I hope we keep it that way.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:13:41 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org: I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a different resolution should be used.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2010-04-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/11/2010 10:38 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: What do you think about creating a new virtual package, icon-theme? This would for example simplify the dependencies for www-client/chromium, which currently uses this:

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2010-04-11 23h59 UTC

2010-04-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2010-04-11 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-nntp/bnr2 2010-04-06 17:29:22 ssuominen net-im/naim 2010-04-06 17:31:30 ssuominen