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Markos Chandras wrote:
Even a volunteer-driven organization needs some standard rules in order to
survive. From time to time this volunteer moto is what some people consider
as anarchy
As far as survival goes - I think the rumors of Gentoo's death are
greatly exaggerated. I certainly
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
Markos Chandras wrote:
Even a volunteer-driven organization needs some standard rules in
order to survive. From time to time this volunteer moto is what some
people consider as anarchy
As far as survival goes - I think the rumors of
Hi!
On Tue, 05 May 2009, Markos Chandras wrote:
Arch teams, according to their project pages, are in a good shape. Major
arches have enough people ( assuming that the project pages are up2date )
If I keel over and armin76 is stuck in work/'versity, the alpha
dev count is 0. Not exactly good,
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
Arch
teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs
on the major archs - if you use a minor arch that isn't as well
supported I'm sure we'd be
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what is
needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
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Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan srinc...@gmail.com posted
f01ff58b0905050926o74ddf373l85a1c49a6a32...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:23 -0400:
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see
what is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what
is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
Publish where? Blogs? mailing list? Forums? we dont have a centralized way to
inform users about such
Markos Chandras wrote:
Some one could say Post it on gentoo.org homepage. I wonder if users ever
visit that page to read gentoo news :\
I can safely say that some never do...
RobbieAB
Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:00 Thomas Anderson wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
Arch
teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs
on the major archs
Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what
is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
[snip]
Some one could say Post it on gentoo.org homepage. I wonder if
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:52:34 George Prowse wrote:
Is all this help needed stuff that ordinary users can help out with?
If so dont people go and ask for help in the forums?
I assume that this recruitment process does not address to every single gentoo
user but to those who actually have
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:03:58 Mounir Lamouri wrote:
Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see
what is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
[snip]
Some one
George Prowse schrieb:
Thomas Sachau wrote:
For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
ebuilds, there is already an option:
Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the
documentation from the topic. The
Sunrise Overlay (with the #gentoo-sunrise
Thomas Sachau wrote:
George Prowse schrieb:
Thomas Sachau wrote:
For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
ebuilds, there is already an option:
Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the
documentation from the topic. The
Sunrise Overlay (with
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer
then the
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo
On Tue, 05 May 2009 19:11:02 +0100
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
That's not how it works -- we know this from last time Gentoo
recruited a whole load of people without verifying their abilities.
With lots of new developers, what little time skilled developers
already have
While some of you may have heard of it, we -- the Prefix team -- have
the impression that for most developers the Gentoo Prefix project is in
general an unknown, hidden and vague project, that primarily generates a
lot of commits. Therefore, we have decided to try and explain what
Gentoo Prefix
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On 2009.05.05 18:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned
correctly
[snip]
That's not how it works -- we know this
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:37:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
walk people through
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:19:49 +0300
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
We surely need more developers. Otherwise we ll end up maintaining
100x500 each one. Just look at the numbers ( total packages/total
ACTIVE developers ). So first we need to attract more people.
Evaluation and
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On Tue, 05 May 2009 19:19:00 +0100
Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote:
- From your post, it appears that standards were lowered during the
recruitment drive you reference.
Not quite.
At the time, there weren't really any particular
El mar, 05-05-2009 a las 18:28 +0100, George Prowse escribió:
Thomas Sachau wrote:
George Prowse schrieb:
Thomas Sachau wrote:
For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
ebuilds, there is already an option:
Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise
There is already such a place [1] but I think not so much people knows
about it.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/
Mounir
None of the problems mentioned here are present on that page, the
information that could be useful is: how many developers are active, which
are
George Prowse wrote:
Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
Hi
Thanks,
welp
Sad to hear it mate.
As the person who did your first install for you (i think) I think you
will be missed.
I am quite surprised about what you said about the state of things
because i've got the distinct impression
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
At the very least, before attempting any mass recruitment, the quiz
needs to be lengthened, brought up to date and split into answer these
on the spot on IRC without having seen the question before and
research allowed questions, and recruiters have to be prepared to
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:45:14 AllenJB wrote:
George Prowse wrote:
Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
Hi
Thanks,
welp
Sad to hear it mate.
As the person who did your first install for you (i think) I think you
will be missed.
I am quite surprised about what you said about
What about this idea: list all files in ${FILESDIR} (patches, init scripts),
related to ebuild in this ebuild like:
FLS=( some-init-script ${PN}-patch1.patch ${PN}-${PV}-patch2.patch ...
${PN}-patchN.patch )
then using this files by addressing his index in ${FLS} array
applying patches with
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 02:26:21 Toha wrote:
What about this idea: list all files in ${FILESDIR} (patches, init
scripts), related to ebuild in this ebuild like:
FLS=( some-init-script ${PN}-patch1.patch ${PN}-${PV}-patch2.patch
... ${PN}-patchN.patch )
then using this files by addressing his
On May 5, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Michael A. Smith mich...@smith-li.com
wrote:
In theory, doing symlinks with distutils isn't a big deal, but
distutils.core.setup doesn't have the capability built in.
(distutils.file_util
does, but it's not clear how to trigger that intuitively within
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