[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-08-10 23h59 UTC

2008-08-11 Thread Christian Hoffmann
On 2008-08-11 02:15, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Removals: www-apps/knowledgetree 2008-08-09 21:22:58 hoffie dev-php4/ZendOptimizer 2008-08-09 21:53:34 robbat2 dev-php4/adodb-ext 2008-08-09 21:53:34 robbat2

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alec Warner wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear to me that

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall we create a ballot for PROPERTIES value definition proposals?

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Zac Medico wrote: Given the vast number of possible choices to consider when defining new PROPERTIES values [1], perhaps we should create a ballot and hold a vote on definitions that people have submitted. I suppose that voters would be able to vote yes or no on each proposed property

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in the direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates that most current Gentoo developers appear to be

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New PROPERTIES=virtual value to identify meta-packages?

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Zac Medico wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:15:11 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this seem like a desirable way to represent the virtual attribute? Any suggestions? Again, I'm not so sure that this doesn't represent multiple separable concepts. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ingmar. Ingmar Vanhassel wrote: | Hello list, | | As usual with this kind of mails, this has been long overdue, but it's | about time that I retire from Gentoo. I'm sorry to see you go, but it's not a surprise. Thanks for all the hard work in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bo. Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: | My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for | several months. I'm sorry to see you go, but it isn't a surprise. Thanks for all the hard work in Gentoo and in QT/KDE in particular.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Ingmar Vanhassel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There're other projects in the Free-Software world that I currently enjoy putting my time into more, I'm sure it's more than obvious to those of you who know me which... Good luck with that project! -- Santiago M.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread David Leverton
2008/8/11 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Many folks are happy at the current pace of development. I imagine these two folks were frustrated at the lack of new features in the ebuild spec that were readily available in kdebuild-1 and decided to move on. More power to them I say. I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in the direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the problem. Some people think Gentoo should primarily be a fun-loving

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick Lauer
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the problem. Some people think Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Patrick Lauer wrote: If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum to keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things. Meh. I demand mandatory fun hours twice a week! And a coffee machine. And a pony. Yes! A pony! Being bitten by the Pony is not fun.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread George Prowse
On 11 Aug 2008, at 14:19, Patrick Lauer wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of

[gentoo-dev] Unmasking of qt 4.4?

2008-08-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I'm maintaining a package of merkaartor in gentoo, of which the latest version requires qt 4.4. I'll mask that for now, but I'm not really happy with that. I wanted to ask what are the showstoppers for qt 4.4 to get unmasked. The mask is commented with: Masked for testing, various

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking of qt 4.4?

2008-08-11 Thread Ben de Groot
Hanno Böck wrote: So question, what are the showstoppers for qt 4.4? And more general comment, especially on important packages that many people rely on, please provide more informative comments in package mask, e.g. bug numbers. Bug numbers should indeed have been provided. The tracker bugs

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Duncan
Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:31:03 +0100: Patrick Lauer wrote: If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum to keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things. Meh. I demand

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/twisted-{pair, xish, flow} and dev-python/twibber (Removal due 11 October 2008)

2008-08-11 Thread Jesus Rivero
The following packages have been masked for removal in 30 days. dev-python/twisted-xish dev-python/twisted-pair dev-python/twisted-flow They are either unmaintained or deprecated and they force downgrade on the newly stable dev-python/twisted*-8.1.0 dev-python/twibber is also unmaintained and