Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2021, Alec Warner wrote: > I'd argue we can add NOTES.md to packages (e.g. allow those files.) > Then we modify packages.gentoo.org to render the markdown; or users > can render locally or read unrendered. How would you deal with translations? One NOTES file for every

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions

2021-10-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2021, Sam James wrote: > +Notes element > +~ > + > +The element describes important information on how to maintain > +a package. > + > +The element has an obligatory ``type=""`` attribute whose value > is > +can be either ``text`` or ``url``. If its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2021, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 19:27 +0100, Sam James wrote: >> This is a preliminary version/draft of a proposed change to >> GLEP 68. >> >> I'd like to introduce a method for developers to signal anything >> special about a package and how to correctly

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:31 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > branch of Portage. > > Roughly, the idea is that: > > - master becomes 3.1.x, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-text/mupdf

2021-10-05 Thread Wolfgang E. Sanyer
I can proxy-maint this if no real devs want it El mar., 5 de octubre de 2021 10:23 p. m., Sam James escribió: > Hi, > > Putting app-text/mupdf up for grabs because I've not used it for a while. > > It needs a version bump (1.19.0) and some minor patches rebasing. > > Please note that anyone

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-text/mupdf

2021-10-05 Thread Sam James
Hi, Putting app-text/mupdf up for grabs because I've not used it for a while. It needs a version bump (1.19.0) and some minor patches rebasing. Please note that anyone taking this over should keep an eye on upstream's git occasionally to look for security relevant patches. Best, sam

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 10/5/2021 16:29, Alec Warner wrote: > I thought we were going to go with the github-pages type route > (markdown, rendered online or locally.) > > -A > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:28 AM Sam James wrote: >> >> This is a preliminary version/draft of a proposed change to >> GLEP 68. >> >> I'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions

2021-10-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > I generally agree that comments are more visible/noticeable than > metadata, however, I also think that this could be a good step forward > for overall maintainability. The issue with documenting these things > in comments is that the comment lives only within the specific version > of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item

2021-10-05 Thread Sam James
> On 5 Oct 2021, at 18:43, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert > --- > .../2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt| 26 +++ > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 > 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt > > diff

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:36 PM Sam James wrote: > > > > > On 5 Oct 2021, at 21:29, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > I thought we were going to go with the github-pages type route > > (markdown, rendered online or locally.) > > > > So, the thinking was, we could allow somewhat shorthand > notes or for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item

2021-10-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 PM Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > > I think it may be helpful to include the specific file(s) those > options > need to be added and to clarify whether they need to be added to > the > server host or the clients. > > Perhaps like so: > > hashes may be re-enabled on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change

2021-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:48 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 17:36 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > I know I'm going to regret asking this... but I've prepared a change to > > the Portage output format and I think it asks for a wider discussion > > than internally in Portage team. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Sam James
> On 5 Oct 2021, at 21:29, Alec Warner wrote: > > I thought we were going to go with the github-pages type route > (markdown, rendered online or locally.) > So, the thinking was, we could allow somewhat shorthand notes or for the people who want to invest more time, allow the GitHub-pages

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Alec Warner
I thought we were going to go with the github-pages type route (markdown, rendered online or locally.) -A On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:28 AM Sam James wrote: > > This is a preliminary version/draft of a proposed change to > GLEP 68. > > I'd like to introduce a method for developers to signal

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item

2021-10-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
I think it may be helpful to include the specific file(s) those options need to be added and to clarify whether they need to be added to the server host or the clients. Perhaps like so: hashes may be re-enabled on the server by adding the following config options to the end of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
> Maybe we could just add README files to the package directories > in question. This would have the clear advantage that the files will be > immediately visible. > I'll personally prefer a readme. Also almost all metadata.xml features are underused >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change

2021-10-05 Thread A Schenck
On 10/2/21 10:51 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 1:25 PM A Schenck wrote: >> Further discussion belongs on a different list, but the link provided by >> mgorny and repeated by you does not allow collaborating in compliance >> with the Gentoo Social Contract. > The patches were

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions

2021-10-05 Thread Wolfgang E. Sanyer
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 3:10 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:27 PM Sam James wrote: > > > > This adds a new '' element to allow maintainers to describe > > package-specific quirks or other instructions on how to correctly > > maintain a package. This is intended to encourage

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions

2021-10-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:27 PM Sam James wrote: > > This adds a new '' element to allow maintainers to describe > package-specific quirks or other instructions on how to correctly > maintain a package. This is intended to encourage developers to document > knowledge and increase the bus-factor of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 19:27 +0100, Sam James wrote: > This is a preliminary version/draft of a proposed change to > GLEP 68. > > I'd like to introduce a method for developers to signal anything > special about a package and how to correctly maintain it. > > Sam James (1): > glep-0068: Add

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions

2021-10-05 Thread Sam James
This adds a new '' element to allow maintainers to describe package-specific quirks or other instructions on how to correctly maintain a package. This is intended to encourage developers to document knowledge and increase the bus-factor of packages which are delicate but must live beyond a

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Add 'notes' element to metadata.xml (GLEP 68)

2021-10-05 Thread Sam James
This is a preliminary version/draft of a proposed change to GLEP 68. I'd like to introduce a method for developers to signal anything special about a package and how to correctly maintain it. Sam James (1): glep-0068: Add notes element for package maintenance instructions glep-0068.rst | 26

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item

2021-10-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert --- .../2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt| 26 +++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt diff --git

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 13:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released? > > > > > > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could > > bump 'master'

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released? > > > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could > bump 'master' Portage to newer EAPI earlier or...? > I just mean that, a priori, the

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:15 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > > branch

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > branch of Portage. > I think this is healthy for most software projects, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: misc packages from chainsaw@

2021-10-05 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2021-10-05 05:04, Sam James wrote: Hi all, Chainsaw asked retirement@ to drop him to maintainer-needed on his packages, so here's the resultant packages with no maintainers left: app-admin/ansible-lint > dev-python/requests-credssp I'll take these. -- Marecki OpenPGP_signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: misc packages from chainsaw@

2021-10-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi, On 2021/10/05 05:04, Sam James wrote: > Hi all, > > Chainsaw asked retirement@ to drop him to maintainer-needed on his packages, > so here's the resultant > packages with no maintainers left: That's a shame.  Big loss. > app-arch/rpm createrepo_c depends on this, willing to grab it purely

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
In all fairness, there haven't been that much incidents with Portage in the past under Zac's supervision, isn't it a bit overkill to bureaucratise the release model just after one incident? It appears to me that changes to Portage need to be considered very carefully, always, since it affects

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, everyone. I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS branch of Portage. Roughly, the idea is that: - master becomes 3.1.x, and primary development happens there - 3.0.x becomes the LTS branch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change

2021-10-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 05-10-2021 09:35:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 09:18 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > > Final question, am I understanding correctly that normal lines are not > > > > prefixed with something? Would it be, for consistency, alignment, and > > > > certainty of selecting

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 09:18 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > Final question, am I understanding correctly that normal lines are not > > > prefixed with something? Would it be, for consistency, alignment, and > > > certainty of selecting rows something to use a prefix for those lines > > > too