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

2008-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:52:37 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went and created a tiny script[1] to change mips KEYWORDS to ~mips in the tree, and created a patch[2] against the current CVS tree. Were the Council to choose this course of action, the work is mostly done.

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

2008-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:33:40 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why I find it funny that people even bother to listen to Ciaran, at all. All he cares about is his little pet projects/teams and doesn't care if it increases workload for everybody else. I mean, where would

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

2008-01-10 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:08:46 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the mean time, I'll just say that if you don't drop the personal attacks and apologise, I'll have no choice but to take it up with devrel. s|devrel|userrel| Thanks, JeR -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

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

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:33:40 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why I find it funny that people even bother to listen to Ciaran, at all. All he cares about is his little pet projects/teams and doesn't care if

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

2008-01-10 Thread Alexander Færøy
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:49:24AM -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I've not been doing the GWN for a few months now Yes, we noticed that. What about 2007.1? As release engineering lead that *should* be your pet project. -- Alexander Færøy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:49:24 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to bring up an issue with Developer Relations. They'll likely throw it out because YOU ARE NOT A DEVELOPER. Also, you'll notice that rather than call you names, which is really your forte, I have instead

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

2008-01-10 Thread Chrissy Fullam
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to bring up an issue with Developer Relations. They'll likely throw it out because YOU ARE NOT A DEVELOPER. Also, you'll notice that rather than call you names, which is really your forte, I have instead

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:37:47 +0100 Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A quick check [...] Hereby you have proven that you are not interested about real arguments...some people have tried to gather facts and you pick those that maybe have

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:11:58 +0100 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, this discussion is completely pointless unless some mips users/developers join in - or aren't there any at all? I'd imagine most of them are staying well clear of it because they've already seen this discussion

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:59:29 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue that was raised is that certain arch teams are incapable of keeping up with the minimal workload they already have and what should be done about it. The issue was raised, with absolutely no proof or

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

2008-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/8/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them? Of

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:58:40 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the argument here is that developers control ebuilds. If a given ebuild is causing 'trouble' for a maintainer it is within their control to remove the ebuild. Just as if a given package is causing the maintainer

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

2008-01-09 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A quick check [...] Hereby you have proven that you are not interested about real arguments...some people have tried to gather facts and you pick those that maybe have a weak reasoning or come from people you know how to upset. Congratulations.

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

2008-01-09 Thread Caleb Tennis
I'd imagine most of them are staying well clear of it because they've already seen this discussion a dozen times before and know that it's just the usual malcontents going around making largely bogus claims and backing them up with lots of thinly veiled mips bashing rather than anything

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

2008-01-09 Thread Caleb Tennis
The issue was raised, with absolutely no proof or justification, and every previous time said issue has been raised it's turned out to be somewhere between highly misleading and utter bollocks. Let's assume that you are right, and that dropping keywords is not a proper thing to do. What's

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:36:13 -0500 (EST) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue was raised, with absolutely no proof or justification, and every previous time said issue has been raised it's turned out to be somewhere between highly misleading and utter bollocks. Let's assume that

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in bugzilla? That depends upon whether the keyword request is important. Let's take a real world example: KDE 3.5.5 is old, buggy and has some important

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

2008-01-09 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:01 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it can't be *that* bad. So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root access? In your world you allow mips users to trivially install now flawed

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

2008-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/9/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in bugzilla? That depends upon whether the keyword request is important. Let's take a real world

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:07:31 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually if they dump kde-3.5.5 and anything depending on it, then they don't break the tree and everyone is happy, no? Everyone except the users, who end up with pages and pages of horrible Portage output... -- Ciaran

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:27:52 + Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:01 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it can't be *that* bad. So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root

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

2008-01-09 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:16:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root access? Then the one particular part of 3.5.5 that's affected gets fixed and priority keyworded. So you suggest that mips keeps doing nothing and expect

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:29:53 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:16:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root access? Then the one particular part of 3.5.5 that's affected gets fixed and

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:50:38 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you just ignore for example my post about CIA activity for the mips team? That falls into the highly misleading category. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-09 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:59:29 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue that was raised is that certain arch teams are incapable of keeping up with the minimal workload they already have and what should be done about it. The issue was raised, with

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

2008-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:06:00 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:45:38 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Then the one particular part of 3.5.5 that's affected gets fixed and priority keyworded. So you suggest that mips keeps doing nothing and expect

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

2008-01-09 Thread Roy Marples
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 18:16:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:27:52 + Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:01 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it can't be *that* bad. So

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

2008-01-09 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:45:38 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Then the one particular part of 3.5.5 that's affected gets fixed and priority keyworded. So you suggest that mips keeps doing nothing and expect others to work *more* in exchange for that? Well, most users will simply ignore

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

2008-01-09 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of packages. ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman

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

2008-01-09 Thread Pierre-Yves Rofes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:06:00 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:45:38 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Then the one particular part of 3.5.5 that's affected gets fixed and priority

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:44 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: We want the Council to do something about this issue. You can deny the issue all that you want or try to deflect conversation from the actual issue, but your opinion isn't very important to the much of the current developer pool,

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

2008-01-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: And why does repoman do that? Oh. Yeah. Because people with an attitude like yours think that the correct way to fix a repoman message is to start nuking arch keywords, ignoring what it does to the rest of the tree. Dropping keywords works perfectly to have repoman

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:11 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Heck, most of the repoman messages people are moaning about are caused by developers doing exactly this. No, most of the ones we're complaining about have nothing to do with KEYWORDS, at all, and everything to do with changes to policy

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:56 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I have foo 1.0, which is mips. There is foo 2.0, which is stable everywhere else. The foo 1.0 ebuild does not conform to current ebuild standards. I want to commit changes to foo 2.0, and repoman won't allow

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:11 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:07:31 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually if they dump kde-3.5.5 and anything depending on it, then they don't break the tree and everyone is happy, no? Everyone except the users, who end up

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:29:53 +0100 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 09. January 2008 19:16:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root access? Then the

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:50 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:59:29 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue that was raised is that certain arch teams are incapable of keeping up with the minimal workload they already have and

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:56 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:50:38 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you just ignore for example my post about CIA activity for the mips team? That falls into the highly misleading category. Yes, hard numbers are always

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

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:45 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of packages. ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of

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

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 04:32 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:20:18 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offense to anyone, but holding back hundreds of developers and thousands of users for a handful of developers ...and how exactly are hundreds of

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

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:34 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ok, so explain: * How perpetually open bugs are a maintenance burden. They don't generate emails and they don't require any work on the maintainer's part. Is the mere fact that they show up in queries all you're concerned about, and

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

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:35 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of conversation is not technical at all... Ciaranm, are you a MIPS user? If so, do you think that running KEYWORDS=mips is less likely to result

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

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 11:36 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: that has both sides happy here, but that won't happen if you don't admit there's a problem. He doesn't have to admit anything. He is neither an ebuild maintainer nor an arch team developer. Basically, his opinion is useless in this case, as

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

2008-01-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:04:49 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have foo 1.0, which is mips. There is foo 2.0, which is stable everywhere else. The foo 1.0 ebuild does not conform to current ebuild standards. I want to commit changes to foo 2.0, and repoman won't allow me due

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

2008-01-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:38:07 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:17 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Oh. Yeah. Because people with an attitude like yours think that the correct way to fix a repoman message is to start nuking arch keywords, ignoring what it

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

2008-01-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them? Of course they do Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that

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

2008-01-08 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them? Of course they do Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in

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

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them?

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

2008-01-08 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them?

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

2008-01-08 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/8/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:38:07 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:17 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Oh. Yeah. Because people with an attitude like yours think that the correct way to fix a repoman

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

2008-01-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 09:12 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:08:47 +0100 Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. What he meant and doesn't dare to say is you didn't ask, but demanded, in your usual dry and pesky I'm a spoiled 6-year old tone. And this as usual

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

2008-01-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any examples of where they really are being held back and where they really have given the arch teams plenty of time to do something, I'd like to see them... Somehow I doubt it happens very often, if at all. Why? You

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

2008-01-06 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Who knows how long that request would have languished if not for the security bug? Who knows indeed... Wouldn't the Council be better served with examples where we do know? URL:http://tinyurl.com/ypoxyg is a list of closed security bugs where mips is

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

2008-01-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of conversation is not technical at all... Ciaranm, are you a MIPS user? If so, do you think that running KEYWORDS=mips is less likely to result in breakage than running KEYWORDS=~mips? I think you'd need a

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

2008-01-06 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:35:41 +0100 Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: URL:http://tinyurl.com/ypoxyg is a list of closed security bugs where mips is still cced. 163 is the total number, where surely some duplicates can be found (PHP,

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

2008-01-06 Thread Petteri Räty
Christian Faulhammer kirjoitti: Hi, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:35:41 +0100 Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: URL:http://tinyurl.com/ypoxyg is a list of closed security bugs where mips is still cced. 163 is the total number, where surely some

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

2008-01-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:35 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of conversation is not technical at all... Ciaranm, are you a MIPS user? If so, do you think that running KEYWORDS=mips is less likely to result

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

2008-01-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:32:33 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:20:18 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offense to anyone, but holding back hundreds of developers and thousands of users for a handful of developers ...and how exactly are

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

2008-01-05 Thread Caleb Tennis
If anyone has any examples of where they really are being held back and where they really have given the arch teams plenty of time to do something, I'd like to see them... Somehow I doubt it happens very often, if at all. Why? You aren't the person I or anyone else has to make a case to. In

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

2008-01-05 Thread Luca Barbato
Chris Gianelloni wrote: This has been an issue for quite some time. Of course, the impact is debatable, but it seems that we cannot agree ourselves on what is agreeable, so I see this as a point to bring to the Council simply so it can be resolved once and for all and things can resume normal

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

2008-01-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Luca Barbato wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: This has been an issue for quite some time. Of course, the impact is debatable, but it seems that we cannot agree ourselves on what is agreeable, so I see this as a point to bring to the Council simply so it can be resolved once and for all and

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

2008-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:03:43 -0500 (EST) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any examples of where they really are being held back and where they really have given the arch teams plenty of time to do something, I'd like to see them... Somehow I doubt it happens very often,

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

2008-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:47:51 +0200 Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mainly, talking about categories (yes, categories, no need to mention single ebuilds at this point) xfce-* and media-* here. So nothing that's a priority for the users of those archs then. Now please provide specific

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

2008-01-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: I don't think any of the current suggestions are very good, but I don't have anything better, other than we get more mips/alt-arch ppl or access to hardware. Like I said, I'm willing to buy hardware if I can find any (must ship to Nowhere, Canada). Alright, I put my money

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

2008-01-05 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: PS: has anybody checked how viable is now qemu-system ? Does it build with GCC 4 yet? not yet... -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2008-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:19:10 +0100 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: has anybody checked how viable is now qemu-system ? Testing on qemu isn't anything like testing on real hardware. It's not a reliable or useful way of doing arch work. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description:

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

2008-01-04 Thread Caleb Tennis
Most of the time, when people are moaning about 'slacker' archs, they don't have any kind of decent technical reason for doing so... In cases where such a reason exists, the arch teams are usually quite happy to prioritise if asked. And the point of me asking for the council to talk about

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

2008-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:23:11 -0500 (EST) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the time, when people are moaning about 'slacker' archs, they don't have any kind of decent technical reason for doing so... In cases where such a reason exists, the arch teams are usually quite happy to

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

2008-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:26:39 -0500 (EST) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X and Y are pretty much irrelevant. The important factor is Z, the impact of leaving things the way they are. Well, I'm asking the council to discuss when pretty much irrelevant no longer applies. Compared to

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

2008-01-04 Thread Caleb Tennis
X and Y are pretty much irrelevant. The important factor is Z, the impact of leaving things the way they are. Well, I'm asking the council to discuss when pretty much irrelevant no longer applies. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:02 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: X and Y are pretty much irrelevant. The important factor is Z, the impact of leaving things the way they are. ...and the idea is to let the Council decide what level of Z is acceptable. Currently, it appears as if the issue is

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

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 22:37 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Really, I'd like to see some genuine examples of cases where people think they have a legitimate value of Z... How about we base X Y and Z on the number of verifiable users of said arch? That's just as arbitrary and fits with the normal

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

2008-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:20:18 -0800 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offense to anyone, but holding back hundreds of developers and thousands of users for a handful of developers ...and how exactly are hundreds of developers and thousands of users being held back? So far as I can

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

2008-01-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest something like if nobody could test your update in a timely way you should ask and possibly get an account on an arch box in order to test it and bump if the minimal test pass sounds fair? Sounds like a great way to get

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

2008-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:40:43 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have four versions of freetype sitting around that I'd really like to get rid of And what is the cost of you not getting rid of them? Is there any particular reason it matters when it's done? -- Ciaran McCreesh

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

2008-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:21:39 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:40:43 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have four versions of freetype sitting around that I'd really like to get rid of And what is the cost of you not

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

2006-01-06 Thread Duncan
Carsten Lohrke posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:30:27 +0100: On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:46, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Yeah ok, let me end up these holidays, and I'll prepare a written request to change the Linux part in something else You should

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

2006-01-06 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:37:45AM -0700, Duncan wrote: What word to use in place of distribution, when one wants to include the BSDs and other non-distributions as well, other than Linux/BSD[/*ix]][/OSX], or simply *ix... *IS* there such a term? Well we could say meta operating system if

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

2006-01-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 06 January 2006 09:37, Duncan wrote: Well, for that matter, distribution is considered at least by my *BSD friends, to be a peculiarly Linux term.  From their perspective, Linux has 1001 distributions, but they only have the one *BSD they choose to use. That's what we started

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

2006-01-06 Thread Marius Mauch
Lance Albertson wrote: I never meant that each subproject can't have their own goals. They need to have those of course! I was more directed that there isn't a person in charge of all the subprojects just to keep track of them (Not governing them). i.e. if subproject foo is working on adding

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

2006-01-05 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:49:56 -0800: Note I said 'intentional'; seems like people have been pushing for gentoo as a whole to slow down (note the enterprise concerns/complaints that hit the ml every 6 months for example). Dunno.

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

2006-01-05 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:26, Duncan wrote: This man speaks my mind. That's one of the things I'm worried about with the Enterprise Gentoo thing, and why I think it will make a better separate project than part of Gentoo itself. I agree mostly, too. Just that QA has more aspects than

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

2006-01-03 Thread Duncan
Patrick Lauer posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:52:43 +0100: Lance Albertson wrote: When I say we have a niche we're perfect at, I'm mainly referring to the source-based nature of our OS. There isn't another distro out there that does it as well as us and we

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

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: Patrick Lauer posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:52:43 +0100: Lance Albertson wrote: When I say we have a niche we're perfect at, I'm mainly referring to the source-based nature of our OS. There isn't

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

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Loeser
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very successful as an Enterprise distribution, and I don't think

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

2006-01-03 Thread Lance Albertson
Mark Loeser wrote: Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very successful as an Enterprise distribution,

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

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Loeser
Lance Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to