Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/30/2015 12:03 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On 30 August 2015 at 07:53, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there a better way of directing reporters to file bugs upstream? Of course it's not always clear whether a bug is an ebuild bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/30/2015 12:54 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On 30 August 2015 at 19:20, Daniel Campbell z...@gentoo.org wrote: Quick question: what is RT? RT is rt.cpan.org, for which every cpan distribution that gets published gets a free bug tracker

Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 30 August 2015 at 07:53, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there a better way of directing reporters to file bugs upstream? Of course it's not always clear whether a bug is an ebuild bug or something easily patched in Gentoo vs a driver bug that requires an upstream developer...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 30 August 2015 at 19:20, Daniel Campbell z...@gentoo.org wrote: Quick question: what is RT? RT is rt.cpan.org, for which every cpan distribution that gets published gets a free bug tracker there where permissions assigned to that bug tracker reflect permissions granted under the CPAN

[gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:03:37 +1200 as excerpted: I've always seen it as a case where Gentoo devs stand as a layer of sanitization between downstream and upstream. Wherein reporting things upstream is good, but having a downstream tracker for it is also good, so that when

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] sync: include metadata/layout.conf with profile submodule (bug 559122)

2015-08-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:57:27 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Since metadata/layout.conf settings such as profile-formats affect the interpretation of profiles, make the profiles submodule include this file (which is all that's needed for a minimal binhost client). X-Gentoo-Bug:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] RsyncSync: add sync-rsync-vcs-ignore option (bug 296085)

2015-08-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 14:06:12 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: If sync-rsync-vcs-ignore = true is set in repos.conf, then ignore any vcs directories that may be present. It is the user's responsibility to set sync-rsync-extra-opts to protect vcs directories if appropriate.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 30 August 2015 at 21:37, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: In addition to the other services a distro provides, a big one is having one single place to file bugs, instead of a couple hundred different bug tracker accounts on a half-dozen tracker software bases, and that's not even counting

[gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Turner schrieb: Worse, users sometimes file bugs in our bugzilla that we don't have time to respond to for a while during which time they're waiting on people without the ability to help them. Is there a better way of directing reporters to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 31 August 2015 at 00:15, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: In theory it can, but my experience is that in practice it doesn't change very often. sometimes the metadata visible on the CPAN sources is also wrong, and requires an experienced developer to chase its tail to work out where it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Peter Stuge
upstream hat on Kent Fredric wrote: I've always seen it as a case where Gentoo devs stand as a layer of sanitization between downstream and upstream. This is the last thing I want. Did you play the whisper game as a kid? I want direct contact with the user who can reproduce the problem in the

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC

2015-08-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC. Removals: Additions: -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85