Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
to fix their packages. Here's the thing, there are certain points when you just have to say that you're not waiting on a few people who aren't keeping up anymore. Would you rather us lower the standards (just like the US education system) for the few that are a bit slow? -- Chris Gia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

2006-09-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
k the Release Engineering team, or learn how we work before they go off making accusations against us. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
perfect, but we don't release for 5 years? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1

2006-09-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
There's only so many times you can tell someone the *exact* same thing before it gets redundant. If you missed the announcement, I'm sorry to hear it, but I'm not apologizing for your perception that we didn't get the word out. We did. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Globalization of some USE flags etc.

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
of necessity of "Enabling udev rules file > installation" or because of necessity of "Installing as an udev helper > instead of a hotplug helper"? Actually, because of both. We definitely want the udev files installed. Truthfully, they should probably be install

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ntract is entirely between two third-party entities, the developer, and whomever contracts him. It isn't like the Foundation is offering services. It isn't. The individual developers are offering services. The Foundation is not any of our employer. We are not bound by any legal co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
g... anything masked by package.mask should show up as "M"... this should have a way of choosing to ignore profile-level masks or not, also... this is just an example, how we actually get the information doesn't matter, so long as we can get it... #9. a standardized api to connect to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Paid support

2006-09-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
the individual and the company. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Paid support

2006-09-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
The only reason that US law would be used is if you either live in the US or are working for a company in the US. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: New developer William L. Thomson Jr (wltjr)]

2006-09-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
e's a lamer > > I bet you say that about all the guys that turn ya down ;) We have pictures. Like this one... http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/images/wltjr_dostrow_vapier.jpg -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux

[gentoo-dev] profiles/default-linux/$arch/ChangeLog reminder

2006-09-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
amd64/ChangeLog ./hppa/ChangeLog ./ia64/ChangeLog ./sparc/ChangeLog ./x86/ChangeLog Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
is. I was planning on writing up something a bit more formal for this, just so we could fit it into the current "discuss on -dev, then add to agenda" way of doing things, to cross all the "t" and dot all the "i" so to speak. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for meeting on 20060914

2006-09-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
country code (*grin*) we adjourned. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for meeting on 20060914

2006-09-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 17:18 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > This is a simple summary of the recent Gentoo Council meeting from > September 14th, 2006. ...and this is the raw log: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20060914.txt I should have mentioned that in the prior

Re: [gentoo-dev] default USE flags in profiles (+acl)

2006-09-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
iles, where possible, so I wouldn't object to it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] default USE flags in profiles (+acl)

2006-09-19 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 02:20 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 18 September 2006 21:12, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> I would prefer that we add this into a new release profile and move it > >> "up" the profile inherit

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. duplicate functionality already provided by catalyst for quite some time? Why hasn't anybody even *tried* to contact Release Engineering on something like this, considering we already have all of the tools necessary to complete this, as well as the expertise? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Eng

Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 01:05 -0700, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > I would see the workflow proceed in the following manner: > Releng herd makes available new official gentoo releases Uhh... we aren't a herd. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Archite

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ven has access to the Release Engineering build box to do his work on GNAP. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 07:04 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > "bring the work to the main tree"? > > > > As in... duplicate functionality already provided by catalyst for quite > > some time? > > Catalyst doesn't provi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ted project and ready for public consumption? Why is it necessary to even... *sigh* Nevermind. I apologise to everyone for my responses to this. I'm done. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
?). There has to be a chain of > command. Otherwise, you are rudderless. This has been the problem with Gentoo since Daniel left, quite honestly. While things were far from perfect back then, the chain of command was much more defined. Currently, there is no chain, at all. Again, I thank y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
o take Gentoo's software and do Their Own Thing(tm) with it, so long as they follow the GPL. However, that does not mean that Gentoo itself has to have any part in it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Founda

[gentoo-dev] maintainer needed for net-misc/freenet6

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
tp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102947 -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: tuxracer/tuxracer-demo

2006-09-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nless someone steps up to maintain these, they'll be getting the "gentle" treatment with a chainsaw on October 27th. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask)

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
is means there needs to be a transition period. The fact that something works now really is more of a side-effect than an expected behavior. I plan on going through all of the "default-linux" profiles and cleaning them up in this regard, after speaking with each arch team that seems affe

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask)

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ist or something to put useful non-discussion information such as this, with reply-to set to this list? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: vmware-workstation-3.2.1

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I would like to remove VMware Workstation 3.2.1 from the tree. It is growing increasingly difficult to keep this version up-to-date with security fixes. Unless someone steps up to maintain this version of the package, then I'll be removing it on October 27th. -- Chris Gianelloni Re

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-fps/quake3-truecombat

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
This one is pretty simple. The Truecombat mod for Quake 3 has moved to Enemy Territory. Since ET is free (as in beer) and the Quake 3 version is no longer updated, I see no reason in keeping it around. I'll be punting it on the 27th of October. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engine

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
gt; optimization option by running: find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild'| > xargs grep -- '-'. It takes quite > some time, but might be enlightening: look for the 'filter-flags'. > > > > > --- Draft END --- > > Lionel -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus)

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
es the number of small files in the portage tree. Is this necessary? Who knows? Will it makes syncs slightly faster? Not a clue. I'm just throwing out an idea. Anyway, this looks really good. =] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Team

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
o be honest, rather than providing links to an external resource that may or may not be correct, and may be changed at any time by anyone, I would much prefer to duplicate the information in the GWN itself. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Game

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linking to Gentoo-wiki from www.gentoo.org

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
i just *happens* to also include some information about Gentoo isn't quite the same as telling someone "go here for the definitive answer to your question." Official documentation belongs on our infrastructure. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
eak, > understaffed, and unnecessary projects This would be highly subjective. Who would do this? > - Project status reports once a month for every project To whom? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
purposes. Basically, we'd just get a "Hey, where are you at on $x?" response from the teams. I don't *want* to drown projects in bureaucracy and paperwork. I want them to *accomplish* things, instead. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ld venture to say that it is, and CIA stats seem to agree. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s out quite well. At the same time, I dislike us having so much "competition" internally, as I think it helps to foster some of the conflict and ill will that many of us have towards each other. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
They can still *contribute* at their current pace without having CVS access and a nice @gentoo.org email address. All they need is for someone to commit for them, just like every other person who contributes by adding ebuilds/patches/etc to bugzilla. I saw bring in people that *want* to work harder a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
idea. Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a stronger core tree with fewer "developers" and a better interaction with the community. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:21 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> Now, perhaps what everyone would like, instead, would be status reports > >> *where necessary* from certain projects? > >> > >> In fact,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
oject communication, rather than developer-user communications. It isn't that I don't think dev-user communications are important, it is just that I don't see it as one of Gentoo's "problems" currently. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
at people are talking about dropping, yet the most productive people for Gentoo also happen to work on these and still manage to improve the "core" of Gentoo daily. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Fou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nications. A couple good examples of projects/teams that affect everyone are infrastructure and the trustees. These are two good places for status reports. Things like the games team are not. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ven then, I still give them a once-over. It is so little effort on my part to "maintain" the packages that, if I so chose, I could probably proxy 100 of these. The brunt of the work, such as keeping up with upstream, writing patches, etc. are done by the person whom I proxy for, and not b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I can't post bugs about > overlays in bugzilla, (I suppose) so no updated ebuild have been > submitted and I ended up just running my own local overlay. If your package was added to an overlay and the bug was closed, it was closed in error. Bug reports (unless they pertain to an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
"choice" means "forcing developers to do what *I* want them to do with *their* volunteered time". It doesn't. We release our code under the GPL. We release our release-building tool. We release our spec files for that tool. Anyone is capable of running a few scripts to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
g a kernel) was not added until after 2006.1 shipped, so you cannot do a completely networkless install with only the LiveCD/LiveDVD. > At this point though I think using the installer is reasonable enough. I would agree there. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
bilize glibc-2.3.6-r5 / glibc-2.4-r4 and make no more 2.3.6/2.4 updates > - move all of ~arch to glibc-2.5 > - cut all glibc 2.3.[345]* versions So we'll need to update the no-nptl profiles to be ~sys-libs/glibc-2.4 instead of >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4, obviously, but will there be any oth

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ng on a release easier for the guys doing the work. I don't see how doing reporting improves their lives. After all, we put out four "reports" a year, two releases, and two meetings between the releases where we plan the next release. Anything more than that is wasteful.

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 22:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 19:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > So we'll need to update the no-nptl profiles to be ~sys-libs/glibc-2.4 > > instead of >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4, obviously, but will there be any other > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
velopers that it would impact are likely already in the know. Again, the last thing that I want to do is enforce some arbitrary reporting where it isn't necessary. I do agree that it definitely is necessary in some places, though. It just isn't necessary ubiquitously. -- Chris Gian

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
uot; profile, and have the changes on all arches instantly. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
default-linux/? I have a set of profiles already (to replace default-linux) that use default/linux as the base. It can live side-by-side with the current profiles quite easily. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ill allow a user to *very* easily to networkless installs *without* requiring them use the installer itself. I will have this documented by that time, so there's no need to fret over it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
y* easily to > > networkless installs *without* requiring them use the installer itself. > > I will have this documented by that time, so there's no need to fret > > over it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Counc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 07:40 -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:48 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > What about *our* choice to not waste time building things we don't want? > > So what about those of us who DO want that? Forcing us into an installer is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ant to do, or would you rather have a few high quality release materials that are well-tested? Release Engineering has decided that higher quality media is better than lots of diverse low-quality media, and nobody is going to convince us otherwise. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
piled against the no-nptl profile. I don't plan on upgrading these until we switch over to the new multiple-inheritance profiles, at which point, I'll likely build a set of stages again for legacy hardware. The stages won't be supported, but they'll be available. -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
So long as glibc/gcc/etc still work on i586, we'll still provide the ability to use it on those machines. That doesn't mean we'll "support" it. It's like GCC 2.x, which is still in the tree. It's there. It's usable. It's totally unsupported. -- Chri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ands upon thousands of users. > On Monday 09 October 2006 5:45 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > That's only true if you assume Gentoo developers are in this for the > > users and not for themselves and their own personal satisfaction. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
rball and Minimal InstallCD are both built as "i386" and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42?

2006-10-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
set. > > That's [use]. I assume it is really [list of use] right? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
r pay me to do this, or do it yourself, then I simply don't care. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.1 is Stable

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
#x27;t needed for NVIDIA folks. All you need is the masked beta (9625) nvidia-drivers, a couple settings in xorg.conf (the drivers ebuild tells you what), then running compiz-nvidia. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council M

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resurrecting "Project Dolphin"

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
work on a USB stick (there was a bug in 3.4.1/2006.1 that caused them not to work) with minimal fuss (syslinux over isolinux). -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.1 is Stable

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 22:16 +0200, Simon Strandman wrote: > Chris Gianelloni skrev: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:28 -0600, Joshua Baergen wrote: > > > >> I also add that many, many bugs were fixed. To run Compiz using AIGLX, > >> xorg-server must be build wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resurrecting "Project Dolphin"

2006-10-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
cs already available. There's nothing stopping anyone from doing this. I haven't heard of anyone doing it, so it likely isn't as simple as just throwing the right packages on a CD. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
above will work, though i486-* and i586-* require much more be done in software than silicon. > I'm looking for clarification because very often i386 is used to mean > anything < i686. I have a personal interest too. My server is a k6-2. Here, i386 means i386. For Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
x/x86/no-nptl suffices until such point as glibc < 2.6 gets some nasty vulnerability that we cannot fix. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nptl/i386/glibc-compat20/etc... Well, people running ~x86 and default-linux/x86/no-nptl are already running on glibc 2.5, since it isn't masked in that profile. Once alpha gets ~alpha on glibc 2.5, then their no-nptl users will be upgraded, as well. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineeri

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 17:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:03, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Dropping support for "i386" means not being able to use the "i386-*" > > CHOST. > > you've hinted at the point of my e-mail ... mov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
es you makes me laugh > > -mike > > > Good good! Laugh is good for your health, and you'll > need lot of support in that area next time I see you... Are you going to climb him barefoot? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
in the Handbook. Remember, people, that we aren't necessarily talking about the i386 *hardware* here. We're talking about the i386-* CHOST. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee G

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
pwd /var/cvsroot/gentoo/src/releng/kconfig/2006.1/x86 The installcd has actually been i486 since 2004.3 was released. Actually, that was probably accidental and likely my fault, but it's been i486 since then (except for a short time as i586, which caused problems for some i586-class machi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s is what happens when you let a bunch of hippies build an OS. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Trustees - My Resignation

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
iority. I will still be > happy to provide any services to the Board as they need it (in the > capacity of an advisor, I suppose). Hrrrmn... ok... so what does this mean, exactly? Do we take seemant out of the winners and use the top 5 minus seemant... or do we run with 4... or? -- Chris Gian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-nfp] New Trustees - My Resignation

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
irst winner from Gentoo Devmatch and proclaim them supreme commander of the Gentoo fleet. Then, we'll just need to start building a fleet. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-fps/quake3-tremulous

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
oking it in the oven for a few hours. Speak now, or forever hold your peace. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: quake3-osp

2006-10-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
In my updating of all of the quake3 mods, I realized that quake3-osp was the predecessor to quake3-cpma. Well, quake3-cpma has all of the features of quake3-osp, so I see no point in keeping both. If nobody steps up with a good reason, it's getting the axe on November 23rd. -- Chris Giane

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure (was: [Council] Summary of the last meeting)

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
39 is amended, wouldn't it be better > to publish a new GLEP to superceed it, rather than revise the existing > GLEP?) For something like this, I think that merely noting that it was changed via an amendment from the Council should be sufficient. I do agree that changing it inli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure (was: [Council] Summary of the last meeting)

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
to both become the leaders of Gentoo that so many seem to want, yet also have to balance not overstepping the bounds some people think we need. We honestly do need everyone's opinions on these things, so thank you for posing yours. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alph

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure (was: [Council] Summary of the last meeting)

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:17 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 10/25/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I'd like to know what you would propose we do if we were to follow > > something like this. Would we post something like GLEP 39a, as an > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: put new additions along with removals in GWN

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
done by hand by some volunteers for the GWN. There's nothing automatic about it. Someone else already suggested this to us, but I explained to him that unless someone had some way to automate it that it simply wasn't feasible to do by hand. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: put new additions along with removals in GWN

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
actually add new packages) than try to keep track of what everyone else is doing. The GWN takes a significant amount of time as it is to put together. Any process that isn't automated is pretty much out of the question due to time constraints. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to move packages?

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Gianelloni
package name change and upgraded > > flawlessly? > > > > Thank you, > > Peter. > -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ompatibleLicenses [3] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses [4] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense [5] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#FreeDocumentationLicenses [6] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#NonFreeDoc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: quake3-osp

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:03 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > In my updating of all of the quake3 mods, I realized that quake3-osp was > the predecessor to quake3-cpma. Well, quake3-cpma has all of the > features of quake3-osp, so I see no point in keeping both. If nobody > steps up

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Dreaded herd tag

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Not being grouped with other packages doesn't mean it is unmaintained. So this bears the question, what is the proper solution? Make optional? Force the maintainer's email into for packages without a herd? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Archi

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Dreaded herd tag

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
sticking in bogus things like a maintainer of bug-wranglers > (really maintainer-needed would make more sense) ... Well, we enforce the maintainer tag if herd is no-herd. Then, we only allow valid devs, and maintainer-needed in maintainer. That should resolve the problem. -- Chris Gianelloni Relea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Econf

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I have defined ${S} > here, but no result. Set S globally (not in src_unpack). -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:02 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > 3) ?? Get your hands on some of the minority arch hardware and help out? Remember that some of the teams in question are sometimes only one or two people. In this case, a single developer does make a dramatic difference. -- Ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 20:06 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 19:51, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Remember that some of the teams in question are sometimes only one or > > two people. > Like x86? :P With Opfer on the team, I think w

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
catalyst) is designed more for testing. Using the stage4 catalyst target will save you a good amount of time, since it doesn't go through the unmerge/rsync/emerge cycle on each package. Just FYI. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ere I want to receive replies. Now, Andrea has explained his position on this, and while I do not agree with him, I do support him. In other words, so long as he wants it to remain the way it is, I'll support it, and use procmail to make the system work the way I want it for myself. -- Chris G

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
lso falls under Infra. Have you tried asking them, instead? Perhaps filing a bug like all other infra requests? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
e're at it, I'd like to propose we have Andrea flogged publicly at the town square at noon for not having the same opinion as everyone else. Damn free thinkers... -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Fou

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nfra > >> > > done in bug 154120 . > > > > And WONTFIXed in 15 minutes. In that case, I'd like to resubmit it to > the council... :/ So because you didn't like the answer from the people responsible for this, you'd rather go over their heads and try to b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patent threat?

2006-11-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Also, all Gentoo developers are unpaid volunteers. While some might have jobs that allow them to work on Gentoo on the job, the Foundation pays nobody. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gent

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo list server dropping mail

2006-11-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
gid of the failed message for him. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 1.x and GNOME 1.x dependent package masking

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
#x27;t do it. I've put this in the GWN for this week, which should be going out $soon. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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