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

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Brown
list waste a lot of >>> time and energy since people will *always* reply to them. >> >> Replies? On a mailing list? Whatever is the world coming to? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics

2008-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:58, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote_mining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started

2008-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
test failed because no one else has ever run it with test in FEATURES? Also, I think you seem to be suggesting that gentoo is so well tested that once something's marked stable, there's no point in testing it. -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started

2008-06-10 Thread Richard Brown
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 17:39, Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, we should really only discuss features that all 3 package > managers have implemented. I'm not sure that's a good idea, only two have implemented EAPI 1 so far. -- Richar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-07 Thread Richard Brown
2008/6/6 Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:48:03 +0100 > "Richard Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > That's right. When a developer has certain amount of technical > and /non-trivial/ commits to the tree why should he explain hi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
ess.com/2008/06/05/gentoo-council-attendance/ A Council of Successes: An attempt to analyze what the incumbent council have achieved during their tenure. http://arbearohen.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/a-council-of-successes/ -- Richard Brown éí˘‡^žXŹśČžÚ(˘¸&j)bž b˛

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
-- gotta be worth seeing how badly one can fail to be elected > ;) Would you be able to maintain the same level of professionalism you have shown as both a freenode staffer, and member of devrel/infra if elected to the council? -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-03 Thread Richard Brown
one can clarify, but don't you need nominations to be open to nominate people? -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] DevRel policy update

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Brown
cess until such time as you are able to follow your own policy for conflict resolution. I'll be waiting for a proper bug that I can read that explains what I did to whom, and when and how they complained. Regards, -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Brown
ce a week, you're not worth having? Also, you said average, did you mean mode, median or mean? Over what time period? -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-ruby/rubygems: ChangeLog rubygems-1.1.0-r0.ebuild

2008-03-31 Thread Richard Brown
[SNIP] > Ebuild Review All fixed, thanks. -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC available for testing.

2008-01-03 Thread Richard Brown
sure as a past gentoo developer Roy remembers that we don't generally use gentoo-dev to bug fix poorly written makefiles, we have a bugzilla where people interested in fixing it can help, or perhaps upstream have a list where they can discuss it. Warmest Regards in the New Year, -- Richard Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Richard Brown
s head in shame, searches for a syntax highlighter written in cross-platform assembly. -- Richard Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-print/cups: ChangeLog cups-1.3.4-r1.ebuild cups-1.3.4.ebuild

2007-11-10 Thread Richard Brown
lf look clever on a public mailing list is probably a bad idea. I think dirtyepic said it best when he said "Let's stop this thread here please." -- Richard Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby ebuild "howto" question

2007-08-10 Thread Richard Brown
tter way? Yes, see: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-writing/index.html#export-functions Regards, -- Richard Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Brown
On 07/08/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in an ideal world, yes ... in the real world however, i wouldnt trust it > -mike You wouldn't trust what, exactly? A dev to install a package they're bumping? Surely everyone does that before they call echangelog and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
decision things. Proctors: please let me know when my ban expires. -- Richard Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-05-13 23h59 UTC

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Brown
2007-05-07 18:41:07 armin76 > www-misc/nsxml2007-05-07 18:41:07 armin76 what did these packages do ? Sounds like mozilla stuff. Am I correct ? Their removal was announced in a last rites email, you can find it in one of the list archives. R

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Brown
C is an honest mistake, and not one forced upon you as the result of some ultimatum, as I inferred from your conversation with tove. Your reply has certainly allayed the specific fears I expressed in my previous email, but it looks like you haven't convinced everyone yet: http://tsunam.org/2007/03/26/destoying-things-again/. Regards, -- Richard Brown signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Brown
n a mail is really, but you'll find about 5 minutes either side of that conversation here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbrown/gentoo-council.log Regards, -- Richard Brown signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:24 +0000, Richard Brown wrote: >> Why is it a such a problem to be clear? The council is proposing changes >> that affect us all, giving us two days to discuss it, and then a council >> member is shouting at someone when he s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
rification? After the council has declared it law, or after he's received his first warning? Finally, I'm struggling to see the respect in your replies to a jaervosz, something the new CoC the council are about to order us to follow suggests is an integral part of acceptable behaviour when disagreeing with or challenging someone. Apologies for length, -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another council topic for Feb

2007-02-03 Thread Richard Brown
to get your input in. I'm not sure that making that a standard policy would be in the spirit of GLEP 40. -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-14 Thread Richard Brown
ebuilds IMO... no, we purposefully want this to be tied to an exact ebuild ... nothing in a profile can get us there -mike > | At the profile level, I've added support for package.use > | which behaves like /etc/portage/package.use that everyone is familiar > | with. man portage sa