Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel Goller
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:09 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote: > Bret Towe wrote: > > perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such > > from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help. > > similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly > > w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel Goller
> Now that I'm an AMD64 laptop Gentoo user I would like a concise way of > communicating back to my community the AMD64 users and specifically the laptop > users. In fact I'd like to know what other people are using the Compaq > Presario > V2000Z AMD Turion64. I'd also like to know what software t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Brandon, Brandon Edens wrote: When I was a system administrator working with Gentoo I would've appreciated a way to interact with the other Gentoo system administrators. You seem to be purely describing interactions with the user community from a user perspective. My post was about the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Karol Pasternak (reb)

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Cummings
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 14:25, Karol Wojtaszek wrote: > Welcome aboard Karol! One more person from Poland! Let's takeover Gentoo > and make it Polish distro! ;> i thought it was polished alreadyoh...polish ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Karol Pasternak (reb)

2006-03-21 Thread Karol Wojtaszek
Danny van Dyk wrote: > Ladies and Gentoo-men, > > [This announcement comes a bit late, sorry :-)] > > It is my honour to proudly present you Karol Pasternak, also known as reb. > Karol lives in Koszalin, Poland and turned 20 some days ago (I hope you had a > happy birthday). Besides his interest i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Brandon Edens
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:07:37PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm looking for ideas - preferably big, drastic, shiny ones. Ignore any > issues relating to migration away from our current system. What would be > the _ideal_ way for Gentoo to handle contributions from anyone? (note > that I'm dr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 07:05, Alin Nastac wrote: > Yes, it is hard to find the right people. Yes, a big percentage of > recruiting team's time will be lost on useless additions/removals. But > the only solution is scaling the recruiting team to gentoo needs. > IMO recruiting team is too small to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global logrotate use flag

2006-03-21 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:28:38 + Markus Rothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27451 I read that at the time. This is just a reminder. JeR -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: package naming

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:20:35 -0500: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:37 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> Agreed if keeping the old name with a gentoo prefix/suffix is chosen. >> However, nearly all Gentoo system tools are e (not only portage >> rela

[gentoo-dev] Global logrotate use flag

2006-03-21 Thread Jeroen Roovers
Hi everyone, I noticed 'logrotate' is becoming quite generic as a use flag: # euses logrotate app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files for logrotate mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files for logrotate net-ftp/vsftpd:logrotate - Use logrotate for rotating logs net-misc/nt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global logrotate use flag

2006-03-21 Thread Markus Rothe
Jeroen Roovers wrote: > All descriptions seem to indicate exactly the same thing. Maybe now it's > time to make it a global use flag. There was already a discussion about this. Look here: [1] Regards, Markus [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27451 pgpxiTaRKSW71.pgp Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global logrotate use flag

2006-03-21 Thread Alin Nastac
Jeroen Roovers wrote: >All descriptions seem to indicate exactly the same thing. Maybe now it's >time to make it a global use flag. > > Please read this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/35675 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global logrotate use flag

2006-03-21 Thread Grobian
Have a look at these: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27451 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/30090 On 21-03-2006 14:19:31 +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I noticed 'logrotate' is becoming quite generic as a use flag: -- Fabian Groffen -- gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Stelling
Bret Towe wrote: perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help. similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly without having to go thru the long process of becoming a dev Users can (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Thomas Cort
> One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user > community who are keen on contributing, but we have such > a high barrier for entry to the developer community. There are the arch tester[1] projects (x86, amd64, ppc, alpha (soon), and maybe others). Those lower the barrier a lot while st