[gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan
Daniel Goller posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:50:17 -0500: * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the majority of established QA members must agree with the action. you shouldn't disagree about this policy, or you might as well not have

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:30:41 -0700: The idea in either case is to minimize the possibility of something occurring without enough of a majority opinion to make the decision look arbitrary or subject to immediate reversal upon the whims of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Daniel Goller posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:50:17 -0500: * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the majority of established QA members must agree with the action. you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-laptop/ibm-acpi

2006-04-24 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:03:02PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: That's a different matter. I didn't realize that it was 2.6 _only_. My apologies. I should have looked for that before responding. Also: while there are still a couple of 2.6 kernels in the tree prior to 2.6.10, I'm going to

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:51, Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted on by the council at the next meeting. It looks reasonable to me.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan
Daniel Goller posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:16:48 -0500: the reason for my feedback was to have things laid out much clearer, less vague and thus avoid problems down the road by situations occuring in which things go like well i thought i (a QA dev) had the

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted on by the council at the next meeting. * The QA

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted on by the

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Thomas Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. The QA team does not want to override the maintainer's wishes by default, but only wish to do so when the team finds

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan
Mark Loeser posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:11:28 -0400: * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA team to assist in mentoring new developers that wish to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:11:28 -0400: * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA team to assist in

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
And now in GLEP format for those who like that sort of thing :) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0048.html I made the two wording changes so it is more clear what I wanted to communicate. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: killing USE=userlocales

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 17:37, Tuan Van wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: this is because your /etc/locales.gen isnt configured thus the default is to generate *all* locales can you magically migrate the existing /etc/locales.build to

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Loeser wrote: Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this

[gentoo-portage-dev] QA Notice: ECLASS 'foo' inherited illegally

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan
I continue to see way more of these than I'm comfortable with. Illegally implies the functionality will eventually go away, and stuff will quit working. That what's making me uncomfortable. Some time ago this came up on the dev list and I asked about bugging them at that time. The reply was

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] QA Notice: ECLASS 'foo' inherited illegally

2006-04-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:10:50AM -0700, Duncan wrote: I continue to see way more of these than I'm comfortable with. Illegally implies the functionality will eventually go away, and stuff will quit working. That what's making me uncomfortable. Some time ago this came up on the dev list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] glsa implemented as a special set

2006-04-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:55:58 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking that /etc/portage/sets/glsa could be a symlink to set list in the current metadata/glsa directory of the portage tree. That file should be relatively easy to auto-generate from the existing glsa*.xml files there

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] glsa implemented as a special set

2006-04-24 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2006-24-04 at 14:20 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:55:58 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking that /etc/portage/sets/glsa could be a symlink to set list in the current metadata/glsa directory of the portage tree. That file should be relatively

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] glsa implemented as a special set

2006-04-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:04:13 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-24-04 at 14:20 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:55:58 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking that /etc/portage/sets/glsa could be a symlink to set list in the current

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] glsa implemented as a special set

2006-04-24 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 17:13 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:04:13 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-24-04 at 14:20 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:55:58 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking that

[gentoo-portage-dev] emerge threaded

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I'm trying to setup my superkaramba theme to have the emerge module being threaded so the gui is still responsive while it's checking for updates. But I'm running into this error Unhandled exception in thread started by function main at 0xb68f356c Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge threaded

2006-04-24 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2006-24-04 at 22:09 -0400, Tom Hosiawa wrote: I'm trying to setup my superkaramba theme to have the emerge module being threaded so the gui is still responsive while it's checking for updates. But I'm running into this error Unhandled exception in thread started by function main at