Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass db-use

2006-05-18 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:48:50AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Hi all, I have just committed a new eclass to the tree. This eclass has as purpose to make it easier to use berkeley db. Currently the eclass has two interesting functions (and some helpers that may or may not be

Re: [gentoo-dev] evolution of x86 stabling procedures

2006-06-05 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: I maintain very few packages these days, so it was quite a surprise to me today when I discovered that peer review is now effectively a part of the x86 stabilization process. When I wrote GLEP 40, the problem that I was trying to

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

2006-07-03 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:30:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 03 July 2006 08:06, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: What has the existence of Sunrise done for Gentoo? What new packages are now in the tree because of it? What

[gentoo-dev] Looking for mozilla maintainers

2006-07-11 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. As our old mozilla maintainer was retired a few days ago, we're urgently looking for new maintainers to help with all the mozilla related ebuilds. Stuart Longland (redhatter) kindly offered his assistance with mozilla but to avoid quick burnout we need a couple more persons. Depending

[gentoo-dev] Beware of the portage cache!

2006-07-12 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Just a quick reminder that you can only rely on static things in most top-level variables in ebuilds. See http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/portage-cache/index.html for details. For a real world example on how to break the cache see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-15 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:07:11PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK) wrote: I would like to nominate kloeri (Bryan Østergaard) to the council if he has enough free time and if his devrel lead position (where his work is

[gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. Joshua has an extensive background in programming and different OSes going all the way back to a hex based machine. We finally managed to convince Joss to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 03:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | we take a risk with this project (like every single other | project) ... if sunrise turns

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't have other choices* but 1) an endless wait for an open bug 2) becoming dev for

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:48:42PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: kloeri (nice guy but dunno if the council is a proper match) Guess I could do a lot worse than nice guy :) I haven't been part of the council before so it's a bit difficult saying if it's a good fit or not. But I'd certainly do my best to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-08-03 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:49:31AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 14:53, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for Gentoo, but when you're interested

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: On 2006.08.03 04:27, Lance Albertson wrote: [snip] There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or forget that they installed that app from sunrise

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Mart Raudseep (leio)

2006-08-08 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Mart hails from Estonia and recently joined the Gentoo team to take care of all the wx* stuff. Mart is also working on wx* stuff upstream so all this stuff should be in very good hands now :) Besides traditional Estonian stuff (wikipedia talks about Polka, movies like All my Lenins and

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Mart Raudsepp (leio)

2006-08-08 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:19:31AM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: I'm a coward... or just find estonian language in computer terminology a bit weird to read. I'd find it weird too :) And my family name is Raudsepp, not Raudseep, where seep in the typo means soap in estonian. Bad bad Bryan. At

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-03 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I don't think it's a good idea for devs to be putting stuff into the tree without taking responsibility for it. sure I can put myself in there but it will help no one because I cannot test the thing.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:38:19PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, as requested by multiple devrel members I have written a GLEP to standardize bugzilla access for contributors. It has already been discussed on the devrel mailing list before but I am looking for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:35:54AM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Alec Warner wrote: C. No real standard on any other fora. I don't need a GLEP to add someone to my project overlay, or grant them voice or ops in my project's IRC channel. I don't need a GLEP to get them subscribed to my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:54:02PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Josh Saddler wrote: Because as much as possible, we need to see something concrete, not maybe an arch tester. We need to have a better definition of what when needed is and who these some people are -- think about it. Do we