Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexander Gabert (pappy) returns from retirement
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 21:01 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: It is my pleasure to announce that Alexander pappy Gabert is returning from retirement to battle the hardened bugs. Retired sometime in 2004, he is now again interested in being blessed with a @gentoo.org email address. Nowadays he lives in Trier, Germany and is reaching his thirties. That's about all his quiz told me about him but I am hopeful that all you old farts who remember him are able to spread all kinds of FUD about him. So please welcome pappy back to the dev community with the usual rites. Regards, Petteri Wow, welcome back pappy. Does it mean I've been around a long time when I remember his retirement? -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://lisa.thedoh.com/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Funding from Gentoo UK 2006 event
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:32 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I was going to send this to the trustees, but I realised that they might be changing around soon, so I'll send it here instead: Dear future trustees, As you might be aware, we recently held a users-and-developers meeting in London: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-uk-2006/ This was actually our 3rd annual Gentoo UK event. The Gentoo Foundation were the biggest source of funds which allowed for this year's event to take place, for which we are very grateful. It turns out that the event attracted over twice as many people than we initially expected (even at short notice), some people even travelled from other parts of Europe. As well as some sessions run by Gentoo developers, we had two professionals who gave very interesting and entertaining talks: Hanni Ali of www.ainkaboot.co.uk (Gentoo-based clustering company) Andrew Cowie of www.operationaldynamics.com (enterprise risk management, involving Gentoo) All this made for a really successful event, everyone seemed to enjoy it immensely. In order to cover costs, we charged a small entrance fee, but many people who attended were very generous. This meant that we were able to donate over half of the funding back to the foundation (£88.23). I just wanted to make sure that you are now fully aware that we have sufficient capacity to organise relatively large UK events, and I hope that this and the fact we were able to return a lot of the money will be considered when we apply for funding for future events. :) Thanks! Daniel Is there any news on a 2007 event? This time, really, I promise I'll be in the country to attend! -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:14 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: I think the time is mature to ask for another step of Gentoo/ALT improvement ;) Currently ebuilds uses a sed syntax that's mostly GNU sed 4 compatible, but incompatible with BSD sed for instance. This is usually fine as we aliases sed to gsed in our bashrc so that the problem in sed calls is removed. The main problem happen with sed when called by xargs or by find, as that ignores the aliases set in bashrc. What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of sed (4.1.4; ppc-macos has no problem as the 4.0.9 version uses gsed anyway). It might require to change the dependency over =sys-apps/sed-4.1.4, but that would help making portage a bit cleaner IMHO (instead of relying on sed being the executable you need, it make sure you're using a GNU sed version) and solves quite a few headaches for us. Comments about this? (Please don't tell me to do a GLEP about this) Can you change the PATH that Portage uses to do ebuilds to favour, say, /usr/local/gentoo-bsd/wrappers/bin, first which will have a sed to gsed wrapper? -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP Memcached APIs, last rites for dev-libs/memcached-api-php
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:53 +, Lisa Seelye wrote: For a while the memcached community has had several PHP APIs. The first one is represented in dev-libs/memcached-api-php and a more recent (and maintained) version is a PECL version (dev-php4/pecl-memcache and dev-php5/memcache in the overlay). It's been package.masked for a month just to really make sure. The IUSE in memcache to pull in that api has been removed. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] i8k with torsmo
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 16:50 -0600, Lares Moreau wrote: I'm addding functionality to torsmo by adding support for i8k, The dell laptop utils. I am using existing source code from the i8kutils package to extend this functionality. Now my question is, Since I am using source code from i8kutils and adding it to torsmo, which would be the most appropriate method to pass this info on to torsmo? add a patch to bugs.g.o? pass it directly to torsmo? or something else. I'm still writing it, so nothing pressing yet. Lares Is there any particular reason you're posting in September 2006? -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] i8k with torsmo
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:45 +0100, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 12/29/05, Lisa Seelye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 16:50 -0600, Lares Moreau wrote: [...] Is there any particular reason you're posting in September 2006? That mail was sent 4 september 2005, according to the 'Received:' headers. Is there any particular reason you're posting this three months later? http://dev.gentoo.org/~lisa/images/Lares_Moreau_sep042006.png It's at the bottom of my reader, and because the date is wrong I have no idea when it was sent. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] Distcc and SLP - request for testing
With bug 80219 a user posted a patch for OpenSLP support with Distcc based off of the 2.18.3-r7 ebuild. I can't seem to make it work so I'm going to ask the dev mail list to see if anyone else can test and make it work. Perhaps I simply lack the SLP knowledge. At this time the ebuild and patch are not in CVS so you'll have to download the ebuild and patch and digest them. Please test if you can and post to the bug with your findings. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Distcc and SLP - request for testing
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:38 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisa Seelye wrote: | With bug 80219 a user posted a patch for OpenSLP support with Distcc | based off of the 2.18.3-r7 ebuild. I can't seem to make it work so I'm | going to ask the dev mail list to see if anyone else can test and make | it work. Perhaps I simply lack the SLP knowledge. | | At this time the ebuild and patch are not in CVS so you'll have to | download the ebuild and patch and digest them. | | Please test if you can and post to the bug with your findings. Out of curiosity, why isn't this patch just being sent upstream for incorporation there? It is, but there hasn't been much work on Distcc this year. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:58 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Feedback from people who have something useful to say would be very much welcomed, assuming of course that they've read the GLEP. It is written in the GLEP (Requirements): No user monitoring required It has already been demonstrated [#forums-whining]_ that many users do not read news items posted to the Gentoo website, or do not read news items until it is too late. A solution that relies upon active monitoring of a particular source has no advantage over current methods. And later in Specification-Overview: 5. Users fetch the news item when they sync. This ensures that the news items in question are pushed to the user before the user accidentally makes an unwanted change. No changes to the existing rsync process are required by this GLEP. My concerns are twofold: The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a relatively large amount of data along with the news. My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern is getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to gauge the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When is too late? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? It is not uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or even cvs up on the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on machines I wish to keep somewhat static. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: markusle
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:49 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: Hola all- Got us a new dev to harass, mentored by ribosome, and helping out in the scientific herd- quantum chemistry, and molecular dynamics packages, subjects that have have the potential to cause cereberal hemorrhaging :) We have quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics packages? *brain explodes* Welcome to the club. -- Regards, Lisa Seelye GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
