Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:42, Curtis Napier wrote: > In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. I > already used him for a custom error page[1] and was planning on working > him into other places on the website. Presently the only place Larry is > mentioned in any way shape

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread George Prowse
On 08/05/06, Curtis Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larryjust like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. Ialready used him for a custom error pag

[gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Duncan
Curtis Napier posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 08 May 2006 17:42:29 -0400: > > I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larry > just like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. > > In fact, I was planning on using him a little more fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Curtis Napier
I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larry just like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. I already used him for a custom error page[1] and was planning on working him into other pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OOo etc could make editing more productive for those not familiar > with XML odds - just imagine why translation of Gentoo doc is > so slow and weak? Because you basically have to do everything yourself. Yup, you get some contributions from your users, but those are of v

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Do we really need this package? There is ghostscript: /usr/bin/ps2ascii as well as: /usr/bin/ps2pdf + poppler: /usr/bin/pdftotext Does that replace the functionality? - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-05-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
Molle Bestefich wrote: > I was trying to say that a QA tool in form of a SVN pre-commit hook > seems like a perfect fit. The entire infrastructure to run an > external application to check a commit before carrying it out, > approve the commit, send appropriate error messages back to the SCM > clie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:14 +0200, Martin Ehmsen wrote: > Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > > Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update > > metadata/herd info and CC yourself on the bug. > > I seems that the text-markup team could absorb this package (seems very >

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

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Muraco
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 either). Easytag 2.0 is just around the

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

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 00:23 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Ehmsen
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update > metadata/herd info and CC yourself on the bug. I seems that the text-markup team could absorb this package (seems very related). If no one objects to this, I'll add it to the text-markup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Evan Wagner
moooOn 5/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message-> From: Xavier Neys [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage>> Larry asked me not to top-post... >> Josh Saddler wr

[gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for app-text/pstotext

2006-05-08 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
app-text/pstotext is without an active maintainer and has an open security bug #132662 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132662 Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata/herd info and CC yourself on the bug. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Gentoo Lin

[gentoo-dev] Joining teams and a little curtesy..

2006-05-08 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all (devs). Just a quick reminder to talk to teams before adding yourself to herds.xml and dumping packages on them. Every so often I see or hear of devs joining teams without talking to them first and dumping packages on the team just to disappear again quickly. The obvious result is unmainta

RE: [gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread achumakov
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (snipped) > > Templates seem a bit . . . hackish. Mostly we also need > documentation writers to be/who are comfortable with working > with the XML code itself, tags and all. First of all, we need _documentation_ and _documentation wr

Re: [gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (snipped) Templates seem a bit . . . hackish. Mostly we also need documentation writers to be/who are comfortable with working with the XML code itself, tags and all. WYSIWYG editors just don't strike me as a good idea for w

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disenchantment

2006-05-08 Thread Duncan
Peter posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 07 May 2006 16:08:52 -0400: > 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 encour

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

2006-05-08 Thread Benjamin Smee (strerror)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lo, On Sunday 07 May 2006 06:00, Daniel Goller wrote: I can honestly say that after reading your entire email I was no more enlightened on what you were actually disenchanted about then before. Perhaps your lack of clarity in your email reflects s

[gentoo-dev] GuideXML editor, tidyGuide and Google SoC

2006-05-08 Thread achumakov
Hi devs, I've recently (too late ;-) read that we (Chris White?) had proposed the GuideXML editor project for GSoC. I have some ideas to describe here, and (possibly) willing to act as a co-mentor for this challenge. It is interesting that we've already approached this task at Russian doc transla