Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-07 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: If I understand the process correctly, spb et al are writing their best vision of an ebuild spec, while trying to strike a reasonable compromise between what portage does and what it should be doing, but once they're done it's going to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting (plus glep27)

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Mike Kelly wrote: My glep 27 implementation is essentially complete, though without making some changes to PAM and shadow, it won't really function for ROOT!=/ with a GNU userland. Because of this, I don't really deem it ready for general use yet. i dont think pam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, it's that you're dead set on derailing it and being as unhelpful as possible. You have absolutely nothing to contribute, as evidenced by every previous time you've gotten involved with anything I've done, and given how badly you tried to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Andrej Kacian wrote: Dňa Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:46:35 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Simon Stelling wrote: Daniel Robbins wrote: 1) Any material created by Gentoo developers, as part of an official Gentoo Project, needs to have copyright assigned to the Gentoo Foundation, whether or not it is currently included in the Portage tree. This protects

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:27:00 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That remainst to be debateable. It is however also true that he is a party with a vested interest in the process. As such we must be warry of what we allow. Everyone involved has a vested interest. If they weren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
Paul de Vrieze wrote: [Tue Mar 06 2007, 02:27:00PM CST] That remainst to be debateable. It is however also true that he is a party with a vested interest in the process. As such we must be warry of what we allow. I think you (and many others, including drobbins) have missed something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 02:12 -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: I'm also very interested to find out about this. I would be disappointed to find that the Foundation has chosen to not fulfill or neglect one of the key purposes for which it was created. Copyright assignment was pretty much dropped by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:20:48 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EAPI=0 document was supposed to be a QA project. What it is now, I have no idea. A QA subproject which has not yet released a public draft. What the Council is interested in is a specification of expected

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:56 +, Stephen Bennett wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:20:48 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EAPI=0 document was supposed to be a QA project. What it is now, I have no idea. A QA subproject which has not yet released a public draft. Now,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:49:10 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we want to discuss is a possible timeline for completion, and what resources you may need to get it done within the agreed timeline. Notice that I used timeline, instead of deadline. It was done on purpose

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 3/5/07, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:49:10 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we want to discuss is a possible timeline for completion, and what resources you may need to get it done within the agreed timeline. Notice that I used

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Grant Goodyear
Josh Saddler wrote: [Mon Mar 05 2007, 03:51:08PM CST] Technical point here -- the devmanual has never been in GuideXML; it was converted from RST into docbook. Oh! My apologies. Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Jan Kundrát
Josh Saddler wrote: Technical point here -- the devmanual has never been in GuideXML; it was converted from RST into docbook. Was it? IIRC it was a custom GuideXML-like format, but certainly not a Docbook. A quick glance at the Docbook DTD [1] and the devmanual itself [2] seems to confirm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread David Shakaryan
Jan Kundrát wrote: Josh Saddler wrote: Technical point here -- the devmanual has never been in GuideXML; it was converted from RST into docbook. Was it? IIRC it was a custom GuideXML-like format, but certainly not a Docbook. A quick glance at the Docbook DTD [1] and the devmanual itself

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:46:35 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I couldn't join any projects even as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Alexander Færøy
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:40:39AM -0800, Josh Saddler wrote: zOMG Cabal conspiracy!!1oneone! So, who'se conspiring against you now? Devrel? The Council? Oh...*Brian* this time. Or just anyone whom you've never liked or has disagreed with you about anything? Oh wait, I bet you think we're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:46:35 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I couldn't join any projects even as a member until I became a dev, and I created the distro. You are effectively co-leading (likely leading) PMS as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Daniel Robbins wrote: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I couldn't join any projects even as a member until I became a dev, and I created the distro.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Daniel Robbins wrote: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I couldn't join any projects even as a member until I became a dev, and I created the distro.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:46:35 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? I'm not co-leading it. You keep making things up. Stop doing that. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:46:35PM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: [snip] Would you be kind enough to stop hijacking the thread ? You are responsible for this last flame... just quit it please. - ferdy -- Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git) 20BB BDC3 761A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, again, since you are participating as a key member in an official Gentoo project, which is a developer-only privilege, you should either have your dev access reinstated or be removed from the project. This is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Martin Jackson
Today, being a dev (which essentially means having commit access to Gentoo repositories) is mostly about taking responsibility for what is finally committed. FWIW, FreeBSD has a long and glorious history of proxy-maintainership in their ports tree -- that model seems to work pretty well for

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
I note that FSF-Europe uses what it calls a Fiduciary Licence Agreement to gain the ability to prosecute license violations for software whose copyright is distributed amongst many owners. Discussion here: http://www.fsf-europe.org/projects/fla/fla.html and the boilerplate for FTF's agreement in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Robbins
In defense of my confusion, certainly appears from the perspective of the gentoo-dev ml that you are leading at the very least the day-to-day management of the project. But if I am wrong, I *sincerely* apologize. Let me see if I have all the facts right. Summary Of PMS: PMS is a project that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Daniel Robbins wrote: Rationale: You (Ciaran) have already been explicitly banned from Gentoo development yet are acting as the project's official spokesman on this list which is clearly a Gentoo development list. I am asking that you have a basic respect for your removal from Gentoo, despite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Robbins
OK. If that's not possible, I'll push for the banned from gentoo development status as it obviously makes sense, will help Gentoo, and will not impact PMS. If Ciaran is sticking around on this list using PMS as a pretext to insult various people and projects, then this is more than acceptable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Daniel On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:32:40AM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: If people are truly concerned about productivity, then I would expect them to support it. To me it seems that you aren't concerned about productivity, otherwise you wouldn't top-post. Please stop doing it and learn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:32:40 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: Really, I don't see any reason for any party to fight my suggestion, as it would benefit everyone. If people are truly concerned about productivity, then I would expect them to support it. I am concerned about PMS to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:03:54 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In defense of my confusion, certainly appears from the perspective of the gentoo-dev ml that you are leading at the very least the day-to-day management of the project. No, as I've already told you, I'm just the one who

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:32:40 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, I don't see any reason for any party to fight my suggestion, as it would benefit everyone. If people are truly concerned about productivity, then I would expect them to support it. If people are truly concerned

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 12:55 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: The Gentoo Java project has many users contributing to it and I wouldn't have it any other way. Users contributing is one thing. A former dev that was kicked now contributing as a user is quite different IMHO. One strike is not the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:32:40AM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: OK. If that's not possible, I'll push for the banned from gentoo development status as it obviously makes sense, will help Gentoo, and will not impact PMS. If Ciaran is sticking around on this list using PMS as a pretext to insult

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:24:32 -0500 William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: The Gentoo Java project has many users contributing to it and I wouldn't have it any other way. Users contributing is one thing. A former dev that was kicked now contributing as a user is quite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It's wasting everyone's time and annoying a lot of people. This sniplet was brought to you by the almighty Flaming Guide [1]: | One thing is to frequently refer to us or our. Pretend like people | are with you on this, so the uncertain ones will flock to your side! | |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Robbins
Ciaran, What I do know is that you should not be allowed to insult random developers like Jakub when it suits you. If things get slightly more unpleasant or unproductive for a brief period of time while I find an appropriate mechanism to remove you from this list (due to AWOL project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:03:39 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone should apologize, the Gentoo project leadership should apologize for not removing you from the list sooner. This project is screwed if people who act like you are allowed to stick around. One more time. Please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 3/4/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you've managed to launch groundless attacks against me, a whole bunch of other Gentoo developers, the Council, the Foundation and devrel. Well, I think it's a good thing to question whether the Council, the Foundation and devrel are really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 07:32 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'm also curious as to why people should be expected to assign copyright to a group that is known for licence violations and removing attribution from documents. How does this protect anything? Yeah, you cry foul when people paint you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Jakub Moc
Seemant Kulleen napsal(a): On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 07:32 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'm also curious as to why people should be expected to assign copyright to a group that is known for licence violations and removing attribution from documents. How does this protect anything? Yeah, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:03:54 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) move PMS discussion off this list That is the whole joke here: It was more or less you who started this discussion. The original mail was Mike mentioning something about a deadline on the PMS project as agenda item for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:08:40 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, you cry foul when people paint you with an overly broad brush. Is it known? As far as I remember, the issue was acknowledged when brought up, and then fixed. The issue hasn't come up again with your docs. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:08:40 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, to be precise here, noone has removed any ciaranm's attributions from devmanual, they've all been moved to the end of the document originally, so that people wouldn't be forced to scroll

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread bret curtis
Daniel Robbins wrote: Ciaran, What I do know is that you should not be allowed to insult random developers like Jakub when it suits you. If things get slightly more unpleasant or unproductive for a brief period of time while I find an appropriate mechanism to remove you from this list (due to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Robbins
I already removed myself from Gentoo - no need. Will be unsubscribing from -dev at the end of the day. On 3/4/07, bret curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Robbins wrote: Ciaran, What I do know is that you should not be allowed to insult random developers like Jakub when it suits you. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Jakub Moc
bret curtis napsal(a): No, you sir, should not be here. I've been a 'developer' since before you left us for Microsoft. I've read the -dev and -core since that time, only chiming in from time to time but this frankly is crazy. This sniplet was brought to you by the almighty Flaming Guide

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like it spelt out please. stop playing games So why not start by imposing deadlines upon more important projects like Portage USE deps, a Portage GLEP 42 implementation, a Portage GLEP 23 implementation, a stable Portage API, tree-wide

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Thilo Bangert
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: There is absolutely nothing Paludis specific in PMS. Nor is there anything Pkgcore specific, and the only Portage specific content is where we feel it's necessary to explain *why* something is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 03:09:33 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like it spelt out please. stop playing games No, I'm being entirely serious here. Everything I've heard about what PMS is supposed to achieve has been discussing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If there's some value to be found in having PMS ready in the short term that I'm missing then I want to hear it so that I can spend more time working on PMS and less on other things. where did anyone say short term ? in fact, the portion of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:26:07 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you appear to act as the project lead for PMS. No, I'm just the one who isn't yet sufficiently jaded by the whole people who don't know what PMS is jumping in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 03:34:49 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If there's some value to be found in having PMS ready in the short term that I'm missing then I want to hear it so that I can spend more time working on PMS and less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If there's some value to be found in having PMS ready by a particular date that I'm missing then I want to hear it so that I can spend more time working on PMS and less on other things. semantics aside, how much time you dedicate is entirely up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 04:02:50 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If there's some value to be found in having PMS ready by a particular date that I'm missing then I want to hear it so that I can spend more time working on PMS and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, you are at least a developer of PMS, if not the lead. If PMS is an official Gentoo project, then since when can official Gentoo projects have non-dev devs? How many non-developers contribute to the tree? How many non-developers have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:12:48 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's one thing to make a contribution or submit a patch - it's quite another to be actively and very significantly involved in a key technical project that is supposedly defining an interoperability spec for the key

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Josh Saddler
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: (Pkgcore is in parts based upon Portage code -- whether or not this is a good thing is irrelevant to this discussion) Nice way of adding in that little cover my ass so's I can snipe at a competing project parenthetical statement. That statement is in itself irrelevant to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:12:48 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Right now, you're effectively doing an end-run around the entire Gentoo management structure. Fortunately for you, it doesn't look like anyone cares. Not really. We're working on a document, as requested by the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:54:30 -0800 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: (Pkgcore is in parts based upon Portage code -- whether or not this is a good thing is irrelevant to this discussion) Nice way of adding in that little cover my ass so's I can snipe at a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 23:28:56 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, but it appears that PMS is not hosted on Gentoo infrastructure, and its development is not controlled by Gentoo. Therefore it is not a Gentoo project, and therefore the Council, QA, etc. should not be treating it if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 23:51:42 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo projects are controlled by and generally run entirely by Gentoo developers. You are not a Gentoo developer, yet you define the direction of PMS and Paludis. Therefore, PMS and Paludis can't be considered official

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:58:30 -0800 (PST) Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you are saying you cannot see Daniel's point of view at all? That Gentoo should perhaps have input on a specification whose goal is to essentially define what a Gentoo Package Manager should be? Because right now

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it matter whether it's written by Gentoo developers? What matters is that it's written by people who know what they're talking about and who can write reasonably decent technical material, and as the primary author of the devmanual, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Daniel Robbins wrote: 1) Any material created by Gentoo developers, as part of an official Gentoo Project, needs to have copyright assigned to the Gentoo Foundation, whether or not it is currently included in the Portage tree. This protects all of our collective contributions against misuse,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Charlie Shepherd
On 03/03/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it is difficult to determine 'people who know what they are talking about'. I would say Brian Harring is one of those, but I have a feeling you would disagree with me. All I really know is that I am not one of those people. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about this has actually asked to see it. I think ferringb did, just not very successfully. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like it spelt out please. Here we go: So why not start by imposing deadlines upon more important projects like Portage USE deps, [snip] USE deps can't be used anyway in EAPI=0 because it would break current versions of portage. So we need EAPI=1, but you can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Petteri Räty
Daniel Robbins wrote: On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it matter whether it's written by Gentoo developers? What matters is that it's written by people who know what they're talking about and who can write reasonably decent technical material, and as the primary

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:58:30 -0800 (PST) Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you are saying you cannot see Daniel's point of view at all? That Gentoo should perhaps have input on a specification whose goal is to essentially define what a Gentoo Package Manager should be? Gentoo, and any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:35:51 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about this has actually asked to see it. I think ferringb did, just not very successfully. Not so far as I've heard... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:51:27 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like it spelt out please. Here we go: So why not start by imposing deadlines upon more important projects like Portage USE deps, [snip] USE deps can't be used anyway in EAPI=0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:44:24PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:35:51 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about this has actually asked to see it. I think ferringb did, just not very

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:46:56PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:51:27 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like it spelt out please. Here we go: So why not start by imposing deadlines upon more important projects like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 05:57:35 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:44:24PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:35:51 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 03:27:37 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those reasons no longer apply, then your developer status should be handed back. You can't sorta participate - you're either in or you're not, and it looks like you're in. Right now it seems like you are fully engaged

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 06:00:32 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. It's very easy and probably the best way of doing things to say If ebuilds want to use slot deps, use deps or blah, they set EAPI=1. Otherwise, continue as normal.. So far as I'm aware, everything

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 .Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, I'm just the one who isn't yet sufficiently jaded by the whole people who don't know what PMS is jumping in and trying to derail it thing to have given up discussing it in public yet. Mike Frysinger wrote: i consider

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:44:17 +0100 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: i consider having a spelled out EAPI=0 spec to be quite valuable and worth spending time on and i have to say that i get the feeling that i'm not alone on this point I don't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Harring
General suggestion ciaran, calm the hell down and just wait for the council. Not helping your case for why you think I shouldn't see the stupid thing at all with rants like this (not saying I want you to succeed in blocking me from the doc mind you). On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:14:11PM +,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 05:57:35 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two angles on the behaviour BS; either related to the fact I'm dead set on the spec reflecting portage behaviour, and being finished, or it's related to the fact the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:51:39 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were two separate specifications - glep42 and multiple repositories - that should have been discussed seperately. On a seperate thread, Marius said something to the effect of specs are much easier to extend than to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 04 March 2007 02:05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:51:39 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were two separate specifications - glep42 and multiple repositories - that should have been discussed seperately. On a seperate thread, Marius said something

Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi Daniel, I'm also curious as to why people should be expected to assign copyright to a group that is known for licence violations and removing attribution from documents. How does this protect anything? Copyright assignment (first to Gentoo Technologies, Inc., then to Gentoo

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Danny van Dyk wrote: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation is useless in most countries of the EU.

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation is useless in most countries of the EU. E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:13:45 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the specifics, but I remember that there was something that didn't seem to go along with our vision. We disagreed over whether repositories should be named by the user or the repository itself.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Josh Saddler
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If it's later on, there won't be lots of holes that we know are there that he can use as some kind of twisted proof that PMS sucks. zOMG Cabal conspiracy!!1oneone! So, who'se conspiring against you now? Devrel? The Council? Oh...*Brian* this time. Or just anyone whom

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:40:39 -0800 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If it's later on, there won't be lots of holes that we know are there that he can use as some kind of twisted proof that PMS sucks. zOMG Cabal conspiracy!!1oneone! No, just a few noisy people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which would be worth what, for me? As far as I can see, there's absolutely nothing for me to gain by being labelled an official Gentoo developer, and an awful lot to lose. I think you're missing the point - I am not trying to convince you to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:40:39 -0800 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep your spewing on-topic: technical issues, not on your personal issues. Please do. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, again, since you are participating as a key member in an official Gentoo project, which is a developer-only privilege While this was no doubt true a while ago, a lot of people have been trying hard over the last year

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, again, since you are participating as a key member in an official Gentoo project, which is a developer-only privilege Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. and should be removed from PMS.

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas Rösner: Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation is useless in most countries of the EU.

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:24:23PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: Am Samstag, 3. M?rz 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas R?sner: Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a Copyright

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 3/3/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a developer-only privilege? You just made that up. To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I couldn't join any projects even as a member until I became a dev, and I created the distro. You are effectively

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting (plus glep27)

2007-03-03 Thread Mike Kelly
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 06:00:32 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats off the top of the head, and just the stuff I've had on hold for EAPI=1. Would expect user/group management (glep27 off the top of the head) would be on the radar also, although thats firmly in pioto's court.

[gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Doty
PMS: Deadlines and interested parties. Council Project: Gentoo branded and certified hardware. Council Project: Hardware vendor certification. --Taco -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:44:16 -0800 Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PMS: Deadlines and interested parties. Can the Council provide a list of other projects that have had deadlines imposed upon them by Gentoo? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:44:16 -0800 Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PMS: Deadlines and interested parties. Can the Council provide a list of other projects that have had deadlines imposed upon them by Gentoo? You can do your own research; I have no idea if someone

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