RE: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-07 Thread achumakov
Shyam Mani wrote: Thomas Cort wrote: That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo. I completely agree. Let's not try to change things that have been part and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Mylchreest wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:09:39PM -0500, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming there are no objections I can take over the following. ./app-benchmarks/cpuburn ./app-benchmarks/bonnie++ Regards, John

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Buisse wrote: On Fri, May 5, 2006 at 10:02:10 +0200, Daniel Goller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-07 Thread Bartlomiej Szymczak
On 21:22 Sat 06 May , Joshua Jackson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've talked about this multiple times but its fallen on death ears so I'm going to bring it up to the everyone who reads this mailing list. I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website

[gentoo-dev] Looking for a new media-sound/easytag maintainer

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Is anyone interested in taking over maintenance of easytag? I still use it, but am looking to free up some time for other things. It doesn't require much commitment: there aren't many bugs filed for it (none open at the moment either). Easytag 2.0 is just around the corner and will be

[gentoo-dev] sys-kernel/usermode-sources facing removal

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been wrangling with usermode-sources maintenance for some time now, but I don't have any interest in it and have no clue how it works. The current version in Portage is a bit out of date and faces the usual minor kernel security issues. usermode-sources is actually just Paolo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentooforum.de needs you!

2006-05-07 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi, Quoting Florian Kielenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, My name is Florian Kielenbeck. I am a moderator at the german Gentoo-Forum http://www.gentooforum.de. I'm not against third-party sites about Gentoo ... but why don't you combine efforts with the Gentoo German Forum [1] instead?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentooforum.de needs you!

2006-05-07 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi, On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:22:06PM +0800, Florian Kielenbeck wrote: My name is Florian Kielenbeck. I am a moderator at the german Gentoo-Forum http://www.gentooforum.de. My name is Wernfried Haas, I am administrator of the official Forums on https://forums.gentoo.org, which also includes a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a new media-sound/easytag maintainer

2006-05-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:17 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in taking over maintenance of easytag? I still use it, but am looking to free up some time for other things. It doesn't require much commitment: there aren't many bugs filed for it (none open at the moment

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Daniel Goller wrote: get we have lost one important thing out of sight, gentoo is a distro by users for users, and the users i think are left out of the loop on this whole situation This may be true for you but not for all of us. Gentoo is a distro where I can have what I want, and I can make

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-05-07 Thread Molle Bestefich
If you want central control of what's happening in the repository, Subversion seems like the way to go. Better to fix the design of the repository, so that it can't be broken in the first place, than to try putting band-aids in place to cover the gaps. Wow, way out of scope. Sure, a Portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-kernel/usermode-sources facing removal

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:40 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, I've been wrangling with usermode-sources maintenance for some time now, but I don't have any interest in it and have no clue how it works. Any volunteers? If not, this package will be removed in 30 days. It will be put in

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Peter
On Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:36 -0500, Daniel Goller wrote: snip... get we have lost one important thing out of sight, gentoo is a distro by users for users, and the users i think are left out of the loop on this whole situation (more power to you userrel guys, please prove me wrong), why would

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Luca Barbato
Daniel Goller wrote: whole situation (more power to you userrel guys, please prove me wrong), why would we want to be more open and inviting if being a badass who passed some generic quiz is so much more fun. The quiz is just a dumb checklist, if you already know everything needed for writing

[gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-07 Thread Peter
On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700, Joshua Jackson wrote: all snip... Larry's alive and well at splash-themes-livecd-2004.3.ebuild. I remember when I first booted that CD and it was the wackiest thing I'd ever seen. Actually one of the reasons I persevered with Gentoo. Sort of like Ben and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 07 May 2006 16:08:52 -0400 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In fact, the only REALLY negative thing that | happened was when Ciaran ripped me a new a---hole because he objected | to the line spacing I used in a proposed ebuild. No, I closed your bug as WONTFIX and invited you to reopen it

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Peter
On Sun, 07 May 2006 21:51:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 07 May 2006 16:08:52 -0400 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In fact, the only REALLY negative thing that | happened was when Ciaran ripped me a new a---hole because he objected | to the line spacing I used in a proposed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 5/5/06, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving them to the teams maintaining those herds, others might face

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-kernel/usermode-sources facing removal

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
dang is the new maintainer - thanks! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a new media-sound/easytag maintainer

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Chris Gianelloni wrote: I use it myself, but haven't ever looked at any of its bugs. I guess I can take it, provided you're going to be available to answer questions on it for a bit. ;] Of course. I know the codebase quite well. If you are happy to take this, please put yourself in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-07 Thread Xavier Neys
Larry asked me not to top-post... Josh Saddler wrote: In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing. . . . *vanishes* Anyway, yes, our mascot has been along for the ride longer than most of us have been on the project. I'd like to see him stick around. Thomas Cort wrote: On Sat, 06 May

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Scott Shawcroft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip Anyway, I am a user, and I feel like I can respond. I have participated on bugzilla, contributed some ebuilds, tried to get a project going (nvidia unified drivers), and I never felt like I was not encouraged to participate or that my

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2006-05-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2006-05-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:31, Mike Frysinger wrote: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! sorry for the delay ... the mail server changes broke a bunch of my automated scripts :/ -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-07 Thread Eldad Zack
On Monday 08 May 2006 00:03, Peter wrote: On Sun, 07 May 2006 21:51:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 07 May 2006 16:08:52 -0400 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: going to have to get used to the fact that nobody is here to do your work for you and that we don't have time to babysit a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Loeser
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev list to see. I'd like GLEP 48 [1] to be voted on. Thanks, [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Dupeyron wrote: On 5/5/06, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving

[gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 15227 ebuilds. The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. The tests are: * if a version has been masked for 30 days or more. * if an arch was in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 08 May 2006 00:47, Denis Dupeyron wrote: Does the media-video herd^H^H^H^Hgroup automatically inherit this one ? If not, and if nobody volunteers, I'm willing to salvage it. I have somewhere an ebuild for kino-0.8.1 that includes an --as-needed fix. Feel free to join media-video team