Re: [gentoo-dev] new developers' keyword requests

2016-05-20 Thread Ian Delaney
of becoming informed of the interest of an invisible audience; userland Hu knows -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2016-05-13 Thread Ian Delaney
testing? Or > reading diffs before committing? > Do you seriously expect us to sit and absorb this form of pious put down? From one who knows far better who is entitled to speak down to colleagues as is completely lacking a cerebral cortex? Those times are drawing to an end. Did anyone ever tea

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-09 Thread Ian Delaney
guidelines beyond our usual. > > - -- > Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer It's not just M.B. being confused about this. There appears to be a spurt of interest by other users to tackle games - -- kind regards Ian Delaney -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.1 iQ

[gentoo-dev] abusive behaviour / communications from a user

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Delaney
in the past of which I know nothing. Please consider this and assess as you see fit. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-24 Thread Ian Delaney
y maintainers and to forms of stats analysis. In discussions, points were raised regarding the gathering of stats data re packages' tally of downloads and instances of emerging into a gentoo system. Most of the desired stats appear to lack any form of tools available to gather and report dat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-23 Thread Ian Delaney
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-23 Thread Ian Delaney
gt; sys-apps/portage: show an elog message when merged package is > maintained by maintainer-needed > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398633 > > Can we reconsider implementing this idea perhaps? > Given the thrust of this whole discussion this is a good idea. It naturally advertises packages of this unmaintained status to users as they emerge. > -- > gokturk > > -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-23 Thread Ian Delaney
ng ebuilds. > > Try gentoo-devhelp@lists.g.o, or the associated #gentoo-dev-help on > IRC. > > We should be trying to get these things proxy maintained at least > since they don't do anyone else any good in a personal overlay. > > Are you not missing something here? -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] last rite; dev-db/drizzle, dev-php/pecl-drizzle

2015-12-06 Thread Ian Delaney
# Ian Delaney <idel...@gentoo.org> (07 Dec 2015) # "The drizzle project is long dead, it should be removed, # along with dev-php/pecl-drizzle", note by grknight # in Bug #501060 # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-db/drizzle dev-php/pecl-drizzle -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] last rite; all versions of xen-4.2.5

2015-11-28 Thread Ian Delaney
# Ian Delaney <idel...@gentoo.org> (29 Nov 2015) # versions of 4.2.x supporting the hypervisor for x86 # no longer supported upstream. The purging of 4.2.x # has been held off longer than required already. # Unless otherwise directed, masked for removal in 30 days <=app-emulation/xen

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-20 Thread Ian Delaney
k are NOT one to typically fall over this one. Wish it were someone far more 'typical'. But I stray, NOT troll. What were we talking about again? -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2015-11-01 Thread Ian Delaney
_IMPL} ]]; then > > This was intentionally wrapped to stay within 72-column line width. > Not saying the eclass is perfect in keeping text width, especially > with others committing random changes to it, but that's no reason to > introduce further offenders. > there's that random again. O

[gentoo-dev] new entry to metadata.dtd tag

2015-10-20 Thread Ian Delaney
A user wishes to set the remote-id type to gitlab where a package is located that he maintains. gitlab is both a software and a code hosting site. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563578 -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-12 Thread Ian Delaney
hat he's simply > attempting to provoke a response. I suggest not giving him that. > I won't be giving any more to him I suspect. enough it's late -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-12 Thread Ian Delaney
whole aim it seems is to help all us who cannot write ebuilds right? By going along with your flow, with neither question nor comment? Where is the part about the educators leading the way with tact and grace? Who is the leader here? -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-12 Thread Ian Delaney
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:47:19 +0200 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 10/12/2015 03:29 PM, Ian Delaney wrote: > > > > Not sure how to read this. The whole idea is for provider / client > > to communicate and negotiate a workable solution. At a glance this

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Ian Delaney
random? RANDOM? How about a carefully thought out and pertinent one then? While use of xmlizing appears fine, I fail to see anything wrong with entering a commented line in an ebuild as developers do all the time as standard 'workflow'. Just my 2 phennigs worth. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-11 Thread Ian Delaney
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:58 +1100 wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> wrote: > On 11/10/15 18:52, Ian Delaney wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:27:15 +0200 Alexis Ballier > > <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > I am one of the users who spoke to idell

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-11 Thread Ian Delaney
ry fundamental principle in the art of teaching that I learned from the course. There have also been users who have expressed concern to me over this directly, some of which have indicated they will also email this list to make their views known. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-11 Thread Ian Delaney
s are not educators. At least not effective ones. These students are so by nature of their own voluntary participation. They have the option of rejecting these lessons at their whim. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-11 Thread Ian Delaney
re." > The main target learners here are keen users. You can take told a mistake with the background and status of a dev. They don't. They are often intimidated and fearful if gentoo devs. We wonder why. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.5 is in, Python 3.3 deprecation

2015-10-05 Thread Ian Delaney
PYTHON_COMPAT in new packages" should be fine. I take it here you're only talking about skipping over py3.3 from this point. Adding support to 3.5 systemically would be another topic. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] Last rite defunct packages of net-firewall/shorewall-

2015-09-20 Thread Ian Delaney
commit 1e714de7382390bc75eb0a939f8dfcaea39763da Author: Ian Delaney <idel...@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Sep 20 17:31:41 2015 +0800 pmask defunct packages of net-firewall/shorewall listed in bug #560392 net-firewall/shorewall-core net-firewall/shorewall-init net-firewall/shorewall-li

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Delaney
at a level that made it a 'no go'. This came from members of the portage 'team'. It is a very awkward topic. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] lastrite; dev-python/gevent-zeromq

2015-05-13 Thread Ian Delaney
# Ian Delaney idel...@gentoo.org (13 May 2015) # package unused, no revdeps, obsolete. # masked for removal in 30 days dev-python/gevent-zeromq -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-08 Thread Ian Delaney
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 00:11:56 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Ian Delaney posted on Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:02:39 +0800 as excerpted: Personally I found your post most entertaining and had me riti (rolling in the isles). Like the use of cap, humour is rather an inexact science

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-07 Thread Ian Delaney
don't make it unnecessary, I'll try to file one later this week. Thanks again. Personally I found your post most entertaining and had me riti (rolling in the isles). Like the use of cap, humour is rather an inexact science -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC News item: FFmpeg default

2015-04-07 Thread Ian Delaney
, they overwhelmingly expressed support for changing the default to ffmpeg. I see no reason to stick with libav as default, except political (which I'm trying to avoid here). +1 -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-05 Thread Ian Delaney
/ desire and presented with due attention to glep requirements. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:45:21 +0800 From: IAN DELANEY idel...@gentoo.org To: gentoo-pyt...@lists.gentoo.org Subject: reviewboard and its bugs cancel the gentoo-python@lists, was intended for gentoo-dev@lists The package reviewboard has reached a stage of warranting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/eapi-5-files: ChangeLog package.use.stable.mask

2013-09-26 Thread IAN DELANEY
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:05:54 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Ian Delaney (idella4) idel...@gentoo.org wrote: idella4 13/09/26 09:52:25 Modified: ChangeLog package.use.stable.mask Log: Delete temp. entry of =app

[gentoo-dev] last rite of dev-python/elixir

2013-06-06 Thread IAN DELANEY
# Ian Delaney idel...@gentoo.org (06 Jun 2013) # Masked for removal in ~ 30 days. Upstream inactive dev-python/elixir -- kind regards Ian Delaney

[gentoo-dev] Last rites; dev-python/{etsdevtools,blockcanvas,envisagecore}

2013-05-12 Thread IAN DELANEY
# Ian Delaney idel...@gentoo.org (12 May 2013) # Recommended by upstream's own maintainer to drop the # package, no longer valid. # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-python/etsdevtools # Ian Delaney idel...@gentoo.org (12 May 2013) # Recommended by upstream's own maintainer to drop the # package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-emulation/xen: xen-4.2.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-02-04 Thread IAN DELANEY
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:48:50 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/02/13 16:41, Ian Delaney (idella4) wrote: idella4 13/02/04 14:41:03 Modified: xen-4.2.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog Log: Added acquired but missed sec patch 2012-5513-XSA-29.patch

Re: [gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

2012-12-31 Thread IAN DELANEY
of the archetypical gentoo dev is at its feisty best. -- kind regards Ian Delaney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Check for USE_PYTHON - PYTHON_TARGETS equiv.

2012-11-10 Thread IAN DELANEY
of the python state, be they simple or complex, easily understood or macabe, ripple and reverberate through to every corner of the gentoo portage list. It's no trivial task in process. He needs support, dollups and dollups of it. He has at least a trickle at this point. -- kind regards Ian

[gentoo-dev] A news item covering PYTHON_TARGETS

2012-10-29 Thread IAN DELANEY
deleting the word before. I think a simple comma might make the original valid; While before, the implementations being installed were used by default -- kind regards Ian Delaney -- kind regards Ian Delaney