Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Mylchreest wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:09:39PM -0500, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming there are no objections I can take over the following. ./app-benchmarks/cpuburn ./app-benchmarks/bonnie++ Regards, John

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Buisse wrote: On Fri, May 5, 2006 at 10:02:10 +0200, Daniel Goller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Dupeyron wrote: On 5/5/06, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving

[gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving them to the teams maintaining those herds, others might face extinction w/o a direct maintainer. ./app-admin/gtkdiskfree

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

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is interesting is that Source Mage Linux has already voted on a proposal similar to mine[2]. I truly think that making some changes in the gentoo way would benefit us and make gentoo a truly better distribution. Ryan Gentoo Developer

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

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Portnoy wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:41:31AM -0500, Daniel Goller wrote: inviting community) and why you think stricter test make for better developers, why you think harder tests would cut down more on the quick in and out people

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

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Cort wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:42:57 +0200 Bryan Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So.. What can we do to improve things? I think that there should be some sort of organized way of connecting potential mentors and potential

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

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Phillips wrote: Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tim Yamin wrote: Speaking of which, has anybody done any tests with svk? (http://svk.elixus.org) And: http://svk.elixus.org/?WhySVK -- it would be interesting to compare checkout

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, Teams and Projects

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seemant Kulleen wrote: Is there a reason for this besides the definitions not falling into place as they should? I'm not seeing a benefit from this to be honest. People refer to teams as herds a lot of the time. It has become a statement over

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Daniel Goller posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:50:17 -0500: * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the majority of established QA members must agree with the action. you

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Loeser wrote: Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-23 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted on by the council at the next meeting. * The QA

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-23 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * If a particular developer persistently causes breakage, the QA team may request that devrel re-evaluates that developer's commit rights. Evidence of past breakages will be presented with this request to devrel. define persistently, how

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-22 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken packages from the tree. I hope this is meant to read more like: QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained packages from the tree if they are severly broken or

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild Developer: Christian Hartmann (ian!)

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Goller
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 01:15 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: Hi, It is my pleasure to announce publicly that ian! has passed all necessary quizzes to touch our holy gra^H^H^H portage tree. He'll be helping mcummings in his perpetuate combat with perl and its dependencies. May the source be

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Goller
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well? If you actually read the GLEP, you will note that there is a provision to expand the idea to include herd testers. someone might like to help with testing one

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel Goller
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Eldad Zack wrote: Hello, Sometimes it becomes a problem whenever a new release or a tricky bugfix comes up for a certain package. To improve QA we can let our userbase help, especially people who use certain packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Goller
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:17 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 00:29, foser wrote: Already security related issues have been dropped by upstream for the simple reason that it hasn't been maintained since the day gtk went 2.0 . Why didn't you file (Gentoo) security bugs?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:20 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Sunday 02 April 2006 04:48, Daniel Goller wrote: exactly, what's the point of removing it so fast? give people a chance to miss it, it does not matter if it's removed or masked only as far as going woah, what? and if masked

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-01 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:18 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:55, Mark Loeser wrote: Not directed specifically at you, but it seems a lot of people are masking stuff and removing it very quickly, and I'd really like to see everyone wait the 30 days to remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss-config nspr-config

2006-03-24 Thread Daniel Goller
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:40 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:04 -0600, Jory A. Pratt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As many are aware nss-3.11 and nspr-4.6.1 are in the tree. Many packages still set the {nss|nspr}-libs and includes. With

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making the developer community more open

2006-03-23 Thread Daniel Goller
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:15 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: Asking developers to proxy takes almost as much time as it does to ask them to maintain a package by themselves. wrong The developer is directly responsible for anything he commits, so he will have to still test the ebuild, still test

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making the developer community more open

2006-03-23 Thread Daniel Goller
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:34 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: On 3/23/06, Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:15 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: Asking developers to proxy takes almost as much time as it does to ask them to maintain a package by themselves. wrong

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel Goller
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:09 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote: Bret Towe wrote: perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help. similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly without

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

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yes, Gentoo is supposed to be fun, but we also have a responsibility | to our users to ensure we are providing them with the best possible | distro we can.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Goller
from an overlay ;) you get the idea i will add your email to the dvd::rip filter in kmail so i hopefully do not miss things wife's surgery is friday, so i don't expect to do much before then Thanks, Daniel Goller pgpzxz08W7VDT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Goller
On Friday 09 December 2005 08:19 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? I'd rather say that we

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

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sunday 04 September 2005 03:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:26:37 +0100 Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Arch teams need to be allowed to override maintainers where | appropriate, | | Why not talk to the package maintainers instead, and convince them |

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

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sunday 04 September 2005 04:52 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of package.mask. ~arch means candidate for going stable after more testing, not might work. Agreed, but we both

Re: [gentoo-dev] Abuse by gentoo developer

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Goller
Allen Parker wrote: parrot yah, what he said! /parrot On another note, Casey, you should attempt to figure out if anything you've said might have been taken the wrong way... a while back, i managed to get myself banned from #apache after going off like an idiot and then making a comment that was

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-10 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Northrup wrote: | Joshua Baergen wrote: | | |2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of |interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning |with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-05-27 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:15 -0500, Daniel Goller wrote: | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | |Mike Frysinger wrote: || On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:04 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: || ||I'm asking because I

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-05-25 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want to get | new baselayout stable asap', we're serious | | so can people please try out baselayout-1.11.12-r2+ and see if they notice any | regressions ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-15 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | Another useflag-related question. | | Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow: | | encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable | | this is a loose definition which is quite