Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-21 Thread Mint Shows
This feature should only be used for things that are directly related to the tree, and will cause mass breakage if ignored.I fully agree with this statement. I am behind the adoption of the GLEP only if it does what (I originally believed) was its purpose...to get CRITICAL news regarding package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-21 Thread Andrew Muraco
Mint Shows wrote: This feature should only be used for things that are directly related to the tree, and will cause mass breakage if ignored. I fully agree with this statement. I am behind the adoption of the GLEP only if it does what (I originally believed) was its purpose...to

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-20 Thread Dan Meltzer
Personally, I do not think the tree is the place for anything besides that which relates to the tree. I really do not think users would appreciate there sync being burdoned by Developer x broke his toe this week ; developer y is going to italy ; We recently recieved 3 new mirrors and have all

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-18 Thread Duncan
George Prowse posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:44:31 +: Having organised several Gentoo UK meetings I would like to be advised if anyone has a problem; especially if they dont come or have no idea when, where or what they are. Top posting lost the

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-13 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:26:08 -0500: I hope that the technical solution will allow users to choose to see news about packages that are not installed - so that we can deliver news that isn't strictly package related, such as new Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Duncan
Grobian posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:49:11 +0100: Stuart Herbert wrote: I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've replied to that I support making the news available via other ways. It's the timing that I'm a bit worried about. And that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 04:32 -0700, Duncan wrote: I agree to some extent with both viewpoints, here. I think the viewpoint of the portage first side is that we already have the traditional stuff, the announce and dev list, the GWN, the forums, and system changing announcements generally make

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread R Hill
Dan Meltzer wrote: Forever. How about, as long as relevant? ;) --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Duncan
Grant Goodyear posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:09:58 -0600: I was going to say that the only way new news items could appear is during an emerge --sync, but of course that's not true for people who either add an overlay or use CVS. I'd be comfortable with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 11/11/2005-05:48:50(-0700): Duncan types Perhaps $PORTDIR/news, with seen and unseen subdirs (and appropriate no-sync settings on the subdirs) Remember that $PORTDIR can be shared between machines. That's why world is kept in /var/lib/portage. -- \Georgi Georgiev \ Ignorance

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Duncan
Stuart Herbert posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:37:14 +: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN. But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package refresh, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:38:47 -0700 Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | While I agree with the point you make, I don't believe the apache | upgrade issues were announced on the announce list. The news in the | tree thing is a good idea, IMO, but it'll take some time to | implement. Earth changing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 06 November 2005 13:38, Duncan wrote: I don't believe the apache upgrade issues were announced on the announce list. For the record, it was sent to the announce list on 2004-12-24. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-announce] Apache packages refresh on 8th January 2005