[gentoo-dev] If I may interject...

2006-08-16 Thread Mike Lundy
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:49, Duncan wrote: > You ever seen the term "slaveryware"? You have now. [This preface is directed at everyone who might respond to this, not just Duncan. I strive to be logical about this, and as un-inflammatory as possible. If you are going to respond, please mak

[gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Duncan
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:29:40 +0200: > Java generally is designed for a very wide range of platforms > and architectures. If some major archs are missing an proper > java implementation, then it's a bug, which sooner or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Martin Rud Ehmsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Martin Rud Ehmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. > > Well, it's not the overlay, but the clean subtree'ing what does > the trick. If you look at the whole de

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:29:40 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > No java available on alpha, arm, hppa, m68k, mips, | > sh, or sparc. Seven strikes and you are out twice over... | | hmm, AFAIK kaffe should support those platforms (didn't ever | worked on them). Nope. | Well

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen P. Becker
> Well, I don't see the current lack of an proper java runtime > on certain platforms an real blocker for some additional tool. Uhh...I'm not even sure what I can say in response to such an asinine statement. > Java generally is designed for a very wide range of platforms > and architectures. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stephen P. Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Jean-Fran???ois Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > > >> You know that java is not available on all arch that Gentoo > >> supports right ? > > > > Which one ? > > See tcort's reply. Okay, now

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:10:16 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | AFAIK there are opensource JVMs which should run on almost all | platforms, ie. kaffe. And yet again, you demonstrate that you know Jack. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:11:24 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on my own tool, written in java. > > That's great. Have you or are you going to setup a project page > somewhere (maybe sourceforge.net)? Not yet. Would

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Jean-Fran�ois Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >> You know that java is not available on all arch that Gentoo >> supports right ? > > Which one ? See tcort's reply. No java available on alpha, arm, hppa, m68k, mips, sh, or sparc. Seven strikes and

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jean-François Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > You know that java is not available on all arch that Gentoo > supports right ? Which one ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.d

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Thomas Cort
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:11:24 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on my own tool, written in java. That's great. Have you or are you going to setup a project page somewhere (maybe sourceforge.net)? You should be aware that java isn't available on every platform that Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Jean-François Gagnon Laporte
On 8/16/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I personally dislike python, and I'm not skilled enough in this language. So I'm not the right one for coding @ pybugz. But I'm working on my own tool, written in java. It's not very good yet (currently can only file new bugs), but it's from

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > You should look for existing tools which could be enhanced before > suggesting a new one. `bugz post` (from www-client/pybugz) allows you > to submit a new bug report from the command line. Why don't you go and > patch that to do all of the automated thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Martin Rud Ehmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, > I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. Well, it's not the overlay, but the clean subtree'ing what does the trick. If you look at the whole dependency graph, this subtree is an really independent part, just if it w

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alastair Tse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Somehow I believe that most people will encounter bugs when on the > command line, so being able to search/post in bugzilla from the command > line is a pretty natural extension. ACK. The query could be done based on the answers from the user. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mike Bonar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I think this is an excellent idea. I wrote an automated trouble > ticketing system years ago for the mainframe and it's an excellent way > to get quality information into the system. The one drawback was that > we ended up having a lot more bugs en

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise contemplations

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > People who use Sunrise as an overlay and then come whining to bgo > about their failed ebuild can be told. ACK. Sunrise and main Gentoo should have strictly separate Bugzillas (or at least separate products). BTW: my suggested bug reporting t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Alec Warner
hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. For example: KDE. Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). Others are very interested in it. If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Alec Warner
I think this is an excellent idea. I wrote an automated trouble ticketing system years ago for the mainframe and it's an excellent way to get quality information into the system. The one drawback was that we ended up having a lot more bugs entered into the system. Once you have the shell i

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Alastair Tse
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:18 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically > > collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is > > simply called by commandline and asks the users several questions. > > Then

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Thomas Cort
You should look for existing tools which could be enhanced before suggesting a new one. `bugz post` (from www-client/pybugz) allows you to submit a new bug report from the command line. Why don't you go and patch that to do all of the automated things you want it to do and then come back and show u

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Mike Bonar
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: That somehow looks like the guided file-a-new-bug form we had some time ago. It's still there, just not linked from homepage (and needs a few touches here and there) http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > That somehow looks like the guided file-a-new-bug form we had some time > > ago. > > It's still there, just not linked from homepage (and needs a few touches > here and there) > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided > http://bugs.gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically > >collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is > >simply called by commandline and asks the users several questions. > >Then it files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Martin Rud Ehmsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate > (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. > > For example: KDE. > Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). > Others

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Jakub Moc
Simon Stelling wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically >> collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is >> simply called by commandline and asks the users several questions. >> Then it files an bug with some certain syntax

[gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: hi, (I'm trying to splitt off sevaral sub-topics to get them more clear ...) > I initially provided an ebuild for a package I maintain. I also > provide a new ebuild for every new version. For this, proxy > maintainership is the thing to do, IMO.

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Simon Stelling
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is simply called by commandline and asks the users several questions. Then it files an bug with some certain syntax and uploads necessary informatio

[gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Denis Dupeyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi folks, just a few thoughts: > So yes, I'd love to see something like this someday. And I'd love to > help implementing it if such a decision was taken. But the question > remains : it obviously looks useful, but do we need it ? I already suggeste