[gentoo-dev] New developer : Ingmar Vanhassel (ingmar)

It's my pleasure to introduce Ingmar Vanhassel (ingmar) as a new Gentoo developer. He will be on the KDE team, as he already has extensive experience with the KDE4 overlay. Quoting his mentor in his new-dev bug: He has rewritten large parts of the KDE4 eclasses, single-handedly implemented new

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml

On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your oppinion? Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific versions.

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

On Feb 5, 2008 11:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:54 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/getting-involved.xml Maybe could we get it moved on the top level? Sure, there is some Java

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

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maintainers don't need to complete the staff quiz. The staff quiz is focused on our general procedures and how to behave and interact with other devs. It is a great opportunity for the recruiter to get to know who he (no

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Tobias Klausmann (klausman)

Congratulations Tobias. You're a worthy addition to Gentoo. And a lot of thanks to Petteri who's taking over my work while I'm stranded. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having discussed with one of your dev about it, he suggested me to ask here looking for a mentor. If there's anything I can do, I'm ready. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [02:31] Halcy0n lxnay: we offer all of our work that you base your distribution off, and you don't contribute back at all, in any way. ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. While I would agree Halcy0n's statement is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. [...] *Please* review these eclasses because with a simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you remove from that list vlc, pidgin and celestia which are false positives, that leaves us: Why are they false positives? They include the gnome2 eclass and other stuff, I guess they'll be affected too.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-electronics/lard

It finally happened. Last version was 5 years ago or so. From package.mask: # Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] (15 Mar 2008) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Requires Tcl 8.3 which # isn't in the tree anymore. See bugs 172356 and 173467. sci-electronics/lard -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-libs/libgdgeda

# Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] (22 Mar 2008) # Not needed anymore. Was only used by old versions of # sci-libs/libgeda which were just punted. Will be removed # in 30 days. sci-libs/libgdgeda -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/homebank: metadata.xml ChangeLog homebank-3.7.ebuild Manifest

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eautoconf is enough. Sorry about that. Fixed. Denis. ���^�X�����(��j)b�b�

[gentoo-dev] Return of a developer : Josh Glover (jmglov)

It's my pleasure to announce the return of Josh Glover (jmglov) as a Gentoo developer. Josh will resume his work on CJK and miscellaneous packages. Josh works as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon, developing the mobile phone version of the retail website. He also serves as Listmaster for

[gentoo-dev] New developer : Chris Henhawke (bunder)

It's my pleasure to introduce Chris Henhawke as a new developer among us. He is a forums veteran where he goes under the name of bunder, and has been a moderator there for about 9 months. Chris lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and is a computer operator who does maintenance and support. During the

[gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

It's my pleasure to introduce Markus Duft (mduft) as a new developer. He will go among us under the name of mduft, and will work in the Gentoo/Alt project porting Gentoo Prefix to Interix. Yes, people, that means Gentoo on Win32. Markus lives with his wife and daughter in Graz, Austria. He seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug wrangling

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only occured since we have no full-time bug-wrangler anymore. Was anyone successful to contact him, yet? I am told he should be back sometime soon, like today. Apparently someone is in contact with him.

Re: [gentoo-dev] LaTeX documentation

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Alexis Ballier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah or maybe they dont need any unusual fonts; its probably sane to set VARTEXFONTS regardless. Probably it'd be worth adding a latex eclass that would just contain: VARTEXFONTS=${T}/fonts and inherit it from any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think nominations are open. I nominate rane welp zlin Alright. Then I'll nominate all members of the current council. In alphabetical order: amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes jokey lu_zero vapier Denis. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Roy Bamford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before the flames start lets consider the Package Manager Specification (PMS) as an example. For this (very black and white) illustration, forget the council discussions to date and imagine that representatives of all three

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:58:40 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually in this category you put everybody that disagrees with you, no matter the topic. And what does that tell you about the average level of

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 - The Long Thread

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lot to be said about being stuck in the grand design mindset. I know many Gentoo, Portage, Exherbo, and Paludis developers are clearly coming to that point in their programming careers based on the comments on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you seriously suggesting that the portage and pkgcore developers think that they should be able to release a package manager that claims to support an EAPI when it in fact doesn't? Please stop your incessant and

[gentoo-dev] Interesting article from the Times Magazine

From the Times Magazine : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html It mostly doesn't apply to us as a community (hopefully), but one paragraph is especially interesting. In 1981, [Jon Postel] formulated what's known as Postel's Law: Be conservative in what you do; be liberal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They always say that stuff but never bother explaining what the direction they wish for actually is. As a user I get the impression that there's some kind of evil Cabal. Most of the Gentoo developer population is made

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Andrew D Kirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Looks like you counted the number of files in the files/ subdirectories. Not all of these are patches. Also, you probably forgot to count seds, as some of us use sed more than patches. Oh, and like Jeremy was hinting,

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, George Shapovalov geo...@gentoo.org wrote: Besides, in my opinion, the ability to see what's there in at least minimally categorized way without having to resort to using some special tools or going to some website is worht something. In this vain I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox-1.3.x testing for stable

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: i'm feelin pretty good about the latest sandbox-1.3.x (little stiffy even). little stiffy only ? That's OK, you're just getting old. Please come see me for your free prescription and directions for use of the blue pills.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Certainly. But it is likely much more interesting work and has considerably more impact. The mentoring period and the review have considerable impact too. Whether you think one is more important than the other depends on you

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

On 10/30/06, Jason Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please triple check what you want to commit and verify that you don't do any of the following (which are punishable by death): 1) remove the last ebuild that is keyworded for a given arch, especially when resulting in broken dependencies.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites : dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic

I have p.masked dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic. Their functionality is now included in all recent versions of gpsim, at least all versions that are currently in portage. Plus, they are suspected of being compilation-challenged (which is hardly surprising), see bug #96578.

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the Now you talk about this, a standard is, in standard practice, the result of a collaborative effort of representing members of the organization(s) that is (are) supposed to

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know that real standards aren't a free for all, right? They're usually written by a small group, and then commented on by interested parties when they're already well into being written. Which is exactly what we're doing... You forgot to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

On 2/22/07, Markus Ullmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So after peper and myself have been on fixing most stuff related to this topic yesterday, here now is a list with remaining packages and their respective maintainers. http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/manifest2/manifest2-20070222.txt I have fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

On 2/27/07, Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my please to introduce to you Daniel drobbins Robbins. Daniel is Who's that ? In his dark past Daniel has worked for companies like Microsoft I wish we had higher recruitment standards. He probably doesn't even know bash. Welcome

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

On 3/3/07, Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now, installing Gentoo is a chore, and the many wonderful choices of Gentoo end up making the install rather complicated. So I definitely support ideas to help make our installation process better/streamlined and less confusing. There are

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

On 3/3/07, Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next time, read the documentation first. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml We've several quickstart/faq-type guides, and an alternate installation howto. Man, I wish more developers would read the documentation, or at least bother to get a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Well, that was, um, interesting

On 3/5/07, Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I'm not necessarily opposed to mandating civility, a la Ubuntu. I do see a minor problem with that approach, though: right now it is not clear that Gentoo has a group of devs who are sufficiently trusted and willing to actually

[gentoo-dev] sci-electronics/modelsim

sci-electronics/modelsim needs its Manifest to be regenerated in Manifest2 format and I don't have access to the necessary tarballs to do so. Does anybody out here have access to a modelsim license or installation ? I used to, quite some time ago, but not anymore. If you do, please contact me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

From your draft: (note: most parts shamelessly stolen from Christel) In that case, showing only what differs from Christel's proposal would have been a better way to present yours. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

On 3/15/07, Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that sums the most important differences up, if you need more information, please read post proposals. ;-) It's much clearer like this, now. Thank you. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur)

Bernard, Welcome to the French Connection in Gentoo ! And thanks for updating NX. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to publish ebuild

On 3/22/07, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I write several ebuilds for packages which aren't available in the portage currently. I'd like to share them with gentoo community, but I don't know how to publish these ebuilds. And I also don't know by which way a package will be added to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: RE: New developer: Antoine Raillon (cab)

On 3/22/07, Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Antoine Raillon (also known as cab), our latest addition joining mcummings perl flock. Antoine is joining us from Cormeilles en Parisis, France (yay, french conspiracy++), where he's currently studying

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

On 3/24/07, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. We should ask Google for their opinion on this. They are, after all, running the scheme, PAYING US MONEY, and are the people who decide whether we get to participate in future years. I have asked Alec to inquire about this. This is by far

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cultural Differences (was: Suggestion: INVALID - NOCHANGE in bugzilla)

On 3/25/07, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I'm a native speaker [...] Yeah, right. May I remind you that you're a USian ? obligatory_smiley :o) /obligatory_smiley Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project, Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

I find that as long as you read and follow the Gentoo XML Guide, writing docs is easy and using XML is handy. What I like the most is, as it was already noted, that I don't have to take care of the layout. However I have never found anything about writing project pages. Is there anything out

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project, Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

On 3/28/07, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do (sort of), and it is documented at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/projectxml.xml Unfortunately I don't know of any page that uses all features, but if you look around you can find some. Thanks Paul, that's exactly what I

Re: [gentoo-dev] clanlib-0.6 and friends masked for removal

On 3/30/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the middle ground we're taking it is to leave these things in portage but masked with the clear message if it breaks, you fix it; dont bother the games team without a fix OK, I thought the intention was to remove it from the tree. When I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] clanlib-0.6 and friends masked for removal

On 3/31/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: regardless of whether someone wishes to help fix bugs (thanks by the way), i dont think we want to unmask these Loud and clear - over. That means it's going right into my local overlay until my son eventually gets tired of playing pingus.

Re: [gentoo-dev] clanlib-0.6 and friends masked for removal

On 4/1/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why ? are you not aware of portage's ability to unmask things ? (not knowing you that much, I can't tell whether this was a joke or not) I was expecting fixes proposed in bug #156496 to be looked over someday, and end up in the tree or be

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

On 4/5/07, Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the thing is, vote happens only once a year, and quite a lot of things can be done during that time. I just think that not having any rule at all concerning limitations to the council is tying our hands in our back. If the council never

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

On 4/5/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just find this whole situation hysterical since you have so many people saying the Council needs to grow a pair and actually try to enact some good, and when we do, you hear a few vocal individuals running around screaming like we killed

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

Tears of unfathomable sorrow Sad news, indeed. I only hope you'll take some time off and eventually come back. On 4/7/07, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You suck for leaving before me. No sir, you're not leaving. End of discussion. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

(Quoting Chris below, but actually replying to Alexandre) On 4/10/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this actually resolve any of the recent problems? That's a good point, let's list them. Will this stop flame wars? This a mailing-list issue, no amount of restructuring

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Gilles Dartiguelongue (eva)

On 6/9/07, Gilles Dartiguelongue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hu, belgium is not in japan, is it ? :p Honestly I don't know. My son was born in Belgium and he's Japanese. :o) Anyway, welcome to Gentoo and its french connection. And it's nice to see that the Gnome herd is getting some new blood.

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Santiago M. Mola (coldwind)

Please everybody welcome our new developer Santiago M. Mola, aka coldwind. He is joining us from Alicante, Spain and is studying Computer Science in Valencia. His main interests are hanging out with friends at obscure pubs, music and reading. I am told he has extensive experience with such

[gentoo-dev] Non-new developer: Tobias Heinlein (keytoaster)

It's my pleasure to not introduce you to somebody you already knew for the good reason he is already a Gentoo developer. He is the German translator follow-up to be exact. However, Tobias obtained today a shiny new license to break the tree as a full developer. He will initially work for that

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

On 7/12/07, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only comment for now is: why not just make -core read only, but public, and leave -dev as it is? That way we don't have to muck around with deprecating lists and introducing new ones. That looks like a good idea to me if the mandatory

Re: [gentoo-dev] About to retire

On 7/16/07, Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's clear that nearly everybody is a fucking tard on this list. So before I depart. Here is a list of shit that's going to need to be maintained or dropped from the tree. Do what you will I could give two shits less. We don't really know each

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans

On 7/21/07, Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now there are, as usual, some daemons and init scripts that probably won't work. For those that don't, I have either fixed or there's patches in our bugzilla. Here's a rough summary. About the nscd issue we discussed on irc on friday (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/x11 cleanups

On 7/22/07, Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie wants to remove virtual/x11 (can ya blame him?) and since Josh_B has retired (for now! ;) ) I wanted to help Donnie out a bit, since he is busy and X is a massive undertaking... a quick grep of the tree excluding ChangeLog files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New lists and their usage

On 7/21/07, Nathan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I can tell by reading the logs of the council meeting [1], the purpose of -project is to keep all the flamewars and bitching off the -dev list. On 7/21/07, Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is a good idea. If the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages of for grabs

On 8/29/07, Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the first bunch of packages sadly up for grabs, due to maintainers retiring .. [...] dev-embedded: - dev-embedded/avr-libc (gustavoz) - dev-embedded/avrdude (gustavoz) sci-electronics: - sci-electronics/oregano (gustavoz) OK.

[gentoo-dev] New developer : Michael Haubenwallner (haubi)

It's my pleasure to introduce Michael Haubenwallner (haubi) who will join us as a new developer for the Gentoo/Alt:Prefix project. Michael has been a programmer since 1996 and uses Gentoo at work. He plays all kinds of musical instruments, although mostly guitar, and sings in a chorus. He is

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: As decided in the last council's meeting, following the recent discussions about .la files removal, I'm sending an email to this list with a proposal for a plan to address this issue. 1- Why is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:02 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: This is nothing new; the qa team has requested that commit rights be suspended before. I am just proposing that we actually add the parts of the old patch to the glep that spell out when and how this can happen.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: It is more of a Do we want QA to delegate this through ComRel or not?. Actually, no. What it is is a Subject was thoroughly discussed in the past, and a decision was made. More than once, in fact. What basis do you have that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Thank you

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs This is totally unacceptable. I demand you take your thank-yous back. Who do you think you are to thank us like this, even with valid reasons? Good

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

Please do not take this personally. I honestly wonder what all the fuss is about. There are a few games I've helped with over the years and I've never had any trouble at all having my stuff reviewed and accepted. And I'm a lousy ebuild writer. Every time I'd suggest a fix, bump, or new package,

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: Last rites cancelled; found a version bump'ed distfile via icculus, so this one can live a little longer. I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:11 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: a) I'm not sure if I want to be in a team where vapier is lead. The only position you don't want vapier in is behind you. He humps. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:10 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: People often reply aggressively to unrequested reviews People often replay aggressively when they feel aggressed. Food for thought? Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Berntsen berna...@gentoo.org wrote: Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have anything to do with this. I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: So, RESTRICT=mirror would turn into RESTRICT=officially-dont-mirror-but-actually-do-just-in-case-distfiles-are-dropped-upstream-but-after-we-still-cant-officially-mirror-them-due-to-license-and-copyright-infringement-anyway

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: x265-1.2.ebuild:KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~arm ~x86 x265-1.3.ebuild:KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86 x265-.ebuild:KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86 As in... You forgot to add ~arm to -.ebuild Wait, what? Live ebuilds are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-libs/x265/x265-.ebuild?revision=1.9view=markup#l9 Thanks, Alex. This makes more sense now. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: AFAIK, gentoo policy is that live ebuilds should always be masked so as never to be automatically pulled in without a deliberate unmasking of the live ebuild, but whether that's masked due to lack of keywords (ebuild), or due

[gentoo-dev] It is GSoC season again

Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. If you are a student please be patient. Your time will come soon, at which point we'll be able to answer all your questions. In this initial phase the audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be a Gentoo developer to be a mentor. While we

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > developers who did what they cared about and ignored everything and > everyone else. > I don't know if I'm an exception to the rule, but I've always had fruitful interactions with the games team. I never felt they

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:32:53 -0700 > Denis Dupeyron <calc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Not true. I've been maintaining games for a decade and have never been > on > > the team. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > I was stating the apparent state of facts. If people are told they're > supposed to go with games team, use their eclass, follow their > policies, that's how it looks to people. That's an entirely different point from

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Well, maybe it's because you can talk to Python team, discuss and not > get ignored by them. We've already established the same is true for the games team. I'm a living example of it and I can't imagine I'm the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Matthias Maier wrote: > And I see absolutely no harm in explicitly annotating the actual > copyright in gentoo ebuilds. It seems like a simple and practical enough way to go. However, one of the arguments going for assigning copyright to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > When in the last 16 years was this 2 year period of running stable? > The general state of QA has varied quite a bit over that time. > I would say 3 or 4 years ago, roughly. > running unstable systemd has been Running

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > TL;DR;TL;DR: > [...] Here's a data point you may, or may not, find relevant. in 16 years of using Gentoo exclusively, the only one time I used stable on one machine for about 2 years it ended up being much more of a

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