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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
it's not in the -mm-dd format that the GLEP requires. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpZWN8eS1mJq.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
that well. *Sigh* -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpSSwFcVV2nQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
managed. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpmJcDuGxEXn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
that the lack of an acceptable solution there is what stalled things the last time around. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpvosMa1rv23.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
. Consequently, work on non-Linux actually does a fair bit to improve the entire community. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpVWVEQ7uLkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Fri Jan 06 2006, 10:46:55AM CST] Addressing your point about Enterprise Gentoo, I think you're probably right about it needing focus, direction, and a leader, but that's quite different from needing Gentoo as a whole to have any of those. The Gentoo *BSD work is a good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
parallel make issues and similar things that are tricky but usually just requires little knowledge of tricks. Again, I like devspace for these things. Of course, particularly useful docs would likely be adopted by the GDP (with the permission of the author, of course). -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear

Re: [gentoo-dev] NFP lack of progress

2006-01-29 Thread Grant Goodyear
to be accomplished. Not asking for hard figures, but if you're held up by X, I'd like to know when you expect X to be done so we can gauge how things are going. I don't have a good answer here, since I believe that the hangups are all personal, not technical. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-editors/gnotepad+

2006-02-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgptZM3WL4wlQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. My suspicion is that the more common problem is going to be inaccessible developers, rather than uncooperative ones. Certainly, if a maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go around filing more similar breaks non-interactively bugs because the discussion will just get repeated over and over. Huh? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Grant Goodyear wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go around filing more similar breaks non-interactively bugs because the discussion

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Renat Lumpau wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when a user files a report at bugs.gentoo.org I don't think that's the lesson. It oughtta be: we need a way to figure out which QA issues are

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 0042 (news) final draft

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 19:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Unless there are any huge flaws found, I'd like this to be voted on by the council -- looks like it'll have to wait until April's meeting to fit in with the two weeks rule. may push council meeting back to 3rd

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Sending this from the right address this time -g2boojum- Grant Goodyear wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: Please, until something is clarified/some consent reached, avoid changing the docs w/ funny stuff like just flip a coin... I don't believe the text is meant to be funny. It's meant (I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Jakub Moc wrote: Erm, how exactly will you find out that you need to recompile that package after such extensive build? You'll spend a couple of hours debugging when your server app stops working? Yay! :P I had assumed that in such a case the ebuild would output a scary-looking ewarn that

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Stuart Herbert wrote: I agree. Adopting a policy like this is a low quality solution for servers. I've no opinion on how this affects desktops, but packages for servers need to be precise.A policy that says if two USE flags deliver the same benefits, but conflict, pick one is fine. But

[gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-24 Thread Grant Goodyear
After reading through that fairly lengthy thread, I'm afraid that I can no longer tell exactly what is being proposed. Who has read access? Who has write access? Bugs are handled where, and by whom? Are we considering a fairly tightly controlled system, or a wild free-for-all? Exactly which

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
. Anybody, dev or not, can submit bugs and ask devs to commit on his or her behalf.) In any event, I thought we had devrel to handle suspending devs, unless there was some sort of clear urgency that required infra to do so? Wasn't that the outcome of the recent discussions? -g2boojum- -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
? Is this a statement the existing developers are making? The foundation? Infra? Here I'll certainly agree. In fact, I agree with the rest of your statements, so I can stop here. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
, but I do think it's sensible for infra to cover when devrel falls on its rear. Of course, it is possible that rational people might disagree that such an event has happened here. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
instead of merely assuming that your interpretation is correct If nothing else, it helps limit escalation.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpU4VcV2CE77.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
vim? than actual detailed instructions would be. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgphq4eQMaXfj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
. (Of course, if there's general consensus, then that's not really necessary.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpOol9Fy0RYG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-04 Thread Grant Goodyear
Vapier wrote: [Tue Apr 04 2006, 12:12:28AM CDT] On Monday 03 April 2006 22:57, Grant Goodyear wrote: Oh, one more probably useless comment: I would argue that the decision to enforce an etiquette guide that devs never really got to vote on has lead to a lot of grief in the past. Let's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Grant Goodyear
) and submit status reports to the GWN. Care to volunteer? I'd be happy to provide pointers on how to get started. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpoGkpFk6QUs.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Curtis Napier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 09:53:04AM CDT] I'm willing to theme *.gentoo.org to match [...]. Speaking of which, what is the current status of the web redesign? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
was the flying saucer guy. I believe that he was allowing us to use it while we got the redesign put together, but since that's dead it seems unfair to hold on to that flying saucer guy indefinitely. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Vapier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 05:25:23PM CDT] On Monday 10 April 2006 15:37, Grant Goodyear wrote: In any event, I think we need to remove the flying saucer guy. When drobbins left and turned over the Gentoo IP to us, one thing that he kept was the flying saucer guy. I believe that he

[gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-core] Council meeting log]

2006-04-20 Thread Grant Goodyear
Whoops ---BeginMessage--- I've attached a log of today's meeting. The agenda included Gentoo's participation in Google's Summer of Code and an update on portage gpg signing. In the former case, Gentoo has applied to participate, and assuming we get one of the handful of remaining slots then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
, but perhaps we can streamline things a tad. What's the major problem that you're looking to solve? Is it the shortage of developers, or the lack of progress in a certain area, or the (perceived?) difficulty in getting foo accomplished? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Fri Apr 28 2006, 01:55:01PM CDT] It's not quite true that the Council votes on GLEPs, but that's not really germane to your overall point. Oh, that was your point. Mea culpa. Okay, to address that point, the way that the current system works is that a GLEP is sent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
anyone agree that having a council is too political? I strongly believe it stifles gentoo. Do you have some specific examples of how you've seen the Council stifle Gentoo, or is it mainly just a general impression? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCESS DENIED during emerge

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: A. Khattri wrote: Does this sound right or is there a better (preferred?) way? Try to fix --enable-conf-install to respect DESTDIR or whatever other install method you're using, or look to see what flag it will take at 'make

[gentoo-dev] staffing needs expirations?

2006-05-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
need people to help w/ LDAP? -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpYpfv7VBNGY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
trying to explain a love story: You just can't without everybody looking strange at you afterwards. True! -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpf0G1RUMNPR.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
let me know, and I'll see what I can do to obtain any necessary rights. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpNDUDbMRug5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Wed May 10 2006, 08:32:01AM CDT] I have a copy of the font. It is ©2000 Ethan Dunham ‐ Fonthead Design ‐ http://www.fonthead.com Thanks! Okay, it's part of their freeware font font heads. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
it.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpAQhR879eWT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
the equivalent portage db)? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpCeUn97oRES.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-17 Thread Grant Goodyear
would want to discourage! -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpNAVhQZhJFm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | 4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? Pretty unlikely, past events considered. Personally I kind of like having commit access to my own code... I thought we (Gentoo) already had SVN repositories with non-Gentoo-dev committers? I'm pretty sure that was one of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Paul de Vrieze wrote: At present I ask not for support, but for a minor addition for convenience purposes. One that has more disadvantages than advantages as already pointed out. Many of your comments have been quite valuable, but I've noticed that your recent posts fail to distinguish

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: Incidentally, in reading this thread it seems to me that a tendency to offer opinions (or predictions) as though they were facts has been a common theme. Please try to separate the two, whenever possible. Just to clarify, I was not limiting that comment to pauldv

Re: [gentoo-dev] 259 paludis-profile messages. ENOUGH!

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
useful to contribute, shut up and go away. *Sigh* Be nice, please. Incidentally, he did have a point that this thread is now darn hard to follow. Perhaps it's time to split off a thread or two...? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2

2006-05-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
something obvious? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpRDW94TT7bg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2

2006-05-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
media being on obvious example). Perhaps something like the following would suffice: GLEP: xx Title: Supporting alternative package managers Version: $Revision: 1.3 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/11/13 17:16:50 $ Author: Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-25 Thread Grant Goodyear
McCreesh, Grant Goodyear, Aaron Walker, Robert Coie, Tom Martin, Paul Varner, Ilya Volynets-Evenbakh, Diego Patteno Fernando J. Pareda, Simon Stelling, Alin Dobre, and Joseph Jezak Seem reasonable? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-25 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: [Wed May 24 2006, 04:37:44PM CDT] Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How was the conversion done? Do we now have a tool to convert rst to guidexml, or was the conversion all done by hand (which would be a truly frightening thought), or something else entirely

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: Basically, it would be something that allowed you to browse the current tree of submitted ebuilds. This way users that submit something can categorize it for devs to easily look for ebuilds they may be interested in, and we can make it so we could easily grab the ebuilds

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

2006-06-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
overlooked in the rest of that thread or ignored because people considered it to be useless; I'm not sure which. In any event, I just want to bring it to the council's attention as an alternative approach. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

2006-06-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
. -motif - is unmaintained in portage and rather outdated, does not look good. Should not be default for optional interfaces I believe that flag is mainly there to reduce the Hey, my xpdf package lacks the xpdf binary bugs. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[gentoo-dev] evolution of x86 stabling procedures

2006-06-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
have any statistics or anecdotal evidence for what's improving, and whether or not anything is getting worse as a result? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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

2006-06-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
was rather hoping that x86 was doing peer review and at least one other arch team wasn't, since then we could try to make some sort of quantitative comparison. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion + 1

2006-06-07 Thread Grant Goodyear
for one-off builds.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp5cgkviFCsQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
life much simpler for everybody. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpcquPFfyhuM.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] herds.xml

2006-06-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
So, what would people think of moving herds.xml from gentoo/misc into the portage tree, with the rationale being that local tools could use that information for various useful purposes (compiling statistics, doing something that I can't think of right now, whatever)? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
, the kernel would be it.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpong75Uwgt9.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-07-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
is more than enough administrative annoyance all by itself.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpovh6Vp5JnS.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
, please let me know. All current devs are eligible to vote. Incidentally, I'm currently serving as an election official since I'm not running for a spot on the Council. It would be good to have a couple other people acting as officials, too. Volunteers? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Christel Doty wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 12:34:50PM CDT] Sure, just let me know what you need me to do Grant :) Thanks! Um, I'm not quite sure what's going to be needed just yet, but I'll keep you informed. -g2boojum- PS. With three election officials, we probably have enough now. -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Olivier Crete wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 11:42:14AM CDT] On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 10:57 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: I volunteer (again).. What's the status on the search for voting software ? Well, fmccor has suggested STV[1], so the current plan is to use countify to assemble the usual master

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Greg KH wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 12:42:47PM CDT] On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now open, and will remain so until UTC

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

2006-08-25 Thread Grant Goodyear
to pigeon-hole themselves into a rigid project structure, but I don't really have any evidence of that. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp6uCrXHt1yk.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Grant Goodyear
INSTALL_MASK) if those scripts weren't desired. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpGeOfoXqVF7.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] GLEP updates

2006-09-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
base) -- GDP want to approve this one so I can change the code? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpLFfzBPtDgc.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP updates

2006-09-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
. Updated in CVS. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpgBo5yLD4Xl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP updates

2006-09-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
things moving again, so given that the GLEP is more a statement of intent than something to be implemented I would say it can probably be marked final at some point. Marked final. Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP updates

2006-09-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
precise. The council rejected both GLEPs in favor of starting with a Gentoo package manager API (which spb is slowly assembling), and then requiring in-tree package managers to implement that API. Or at least that was my understanding of that meeting. Thanks! -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear

[gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Here's the master ballot for the election. Confirmation e-mails will follow. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 - confirmation 2b94 - vapier kloeri

[gentoo-dev] unofficial council election results

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
ballot that I just mailed out, as that's all that is needed, so if anybody else wants to provide an independent count, feel free.) -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

[gentoo-dev] unofficial results -- full ranking

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
: option jakub wins result: option spb wins result: option patrick wins -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpYOj1W4APDT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] unofficial council election results

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Wernfried Haas wrote: [Mon Sep 11 2006, 11:23:03AM CDT] I'd like to send my unofficial congratulations to the new council then. Also thanks to the folks who did the technical stuff behind the vote. Btw, how many people actually voted? 121 -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer

[gentoo-dev] Results now more official

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpUBNQWaNjZP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-21 Thread Grant Goodyear
that reality more clear, I'm certainly willing to listen to suggestions. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpFHSWMM48ya.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-09-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
it is developer self-interest that keeps things going. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpzB2b6XFdtf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to speed up maintenance and other Gentoo work?

2009-03-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
not going to break stuff, then do what needs to be done. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear web: http://www.grantgoodyear.org e-mail: gr...@grantgoodyear.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] death to mailer-config/mailwrapper

2007-11-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
is only intended to allow users to have two MTAs _installed_ on the same box, not actually have them both running simultaneously. It works pretty well for that, but I agree that there seems to be little real need for it. I have no objection to it going away. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-29 Thread Grant Goodyear
there are many, despite the fact that some good work was done last year. Thoughts? Comments? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpEPrC63gxw5.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Google Summer of Code 2008 is on!]

2008-02-25 Thread Grant Goodyear
/group/google-summer-of-code-announce?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- - End forwarded message - -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags names that make sense for boost lib suggestions needed

2005-04-21 Thread Grant Goodyear
(proposed default behaviour) to static, or ADD so build process uses runtime-linkstatic/dynamic (using static and staticonly if 3 states are needed?) In any event, would just ask vapier for his opinion, and do whatever he says. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-23 Thread Grant Goodyear
appears sound, and I believe that the portage team has something along these lines as part of their long-range plans. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
why dsd posted a notice on -dev. Reply here, or on the forums, or wherever, and people will probably notice. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpN1SzcWOR55.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Metastructure vote preliminary results

2005-06-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
-boot Task-force Keep-current Reopen-nominations My sincere thanks to those who voted. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp3v6YIpAQTT.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Metastructure vote preliminary results

2005-06-14 Thread Grant Goodyear
and then forget about it at the end (which I know is what happened in at least one case). -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp1CvTpyCZXO.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-dev] Project pages modifiable by all

2005-07-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
on the details). Best, -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpbwltQTUfEi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-31 Thread Grant Goodyear
, but, gosh, it sounds awfully hard! Perhaps this discussion might actually go somewhere useful if people could be pointed to how one makes this sort of thing work in practice? I'm more than happy to read the fine manual, once I know which one that is -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-31 Thread Grant Goodyear
on amd64, then those package are profile-masked, and there's separate amd64 and x86 profiles (as there are now) to handle those distinctions? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC

[gentoo-dev] Election results

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 - confirmation 294d - Stuart bonsaikitten kugelfang mcummings Koon seemant lcars tigger Weeve KingTaco azarah jaervosz

[gentoo-dev] council meetings

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
to you folks to make of it what you will. Personally, I expect great things. Best, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgppmuf99dRXQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about combining x86 and amd64? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpOrAAoHhL3q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] council meetings

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Thu Sep 01 2005, 11:50:56AM CDT] We needed to have the new metastructure plan someplace easy to find, so I created glep 39 for it. It's in CVS, but it may be a bit before it shows up on www.g.o. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
willing to drop it. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpT7K0wVex6k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Goodyear
for a living, and whether they suspect that I know the difference between a 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit int. Best, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpeDWIP2Ahm8.pgp

[gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Goodyear
incorporate them. Best, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 GLEP: 40 Title: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs. Version: $Revision: 1.8 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2005

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Goodyear
on a package going stable, since they're the ones with experience of the entire stable tree. Does that make a bit more sense? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

[gentoo-dev] GLEP: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs

2005-09-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
. I'd like to go ahead and push this GLEP to the council for a vote at the next meeting (which I assume will be sometime in the next twenty-two days). -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
be posted by the previous meeting, since that would generally correspond to about a month lead.) Added by Grant Goodyear : glep40: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs Please feel free to argue this GLEP in my absence. I'm fully aware that the council members understand

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
the legs of the offending devs -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpzVz0Jk7qi5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
this impression. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpjgJI8L4tcI.pgp Description: PGP signature

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