Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 25

2009-06-25 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 22.06.2009, 15:18 -0400 schrieb Thomas Anderson: (This is late because I was traveling and dev-zero is/was on devaway.) This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd 4th Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 24. June 2009 17:48:38 Doug Goldstein wrote: I wanted to take this time to encourage everyone who can vote in this year's council elections. This is your chance to affect the technical development for Gentoo for the coming year and I encourage you to take it. Cardoe said it very

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit (2)

2009-06-25 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, Here I come again with another gsoc update. Nearly weekly (10 days) but still better than nothing ;) Last time, I was talking about an ebuild for packagekit soon. Actually, packagekit is not useful without a pretty frontend. I am using gnome-packagekit but packagekit and gnome-packagekit

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) Please point to the rule that says that a non-developer cannot be on the Council, and please point to the rule

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Alistair Bush
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Wulf C. Krueger w...@mailstation.de wrote: between both. This strengthening bridge of understanding can be seen in dev- zero's move to appoint ciaranm as his proxy for today's council meeting. Sorry to rain on your parade, but with

[gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-25 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Duncan
Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org posted 4a43e30e.4090...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:50:22 +1200: I realise that ciaranm has had a nasty past. But recently I haven't see anything. I for one hope that this continues and that other members of the community take a look

Re: [gentoo-dev] Illegal news item name

2009-06-25 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ulrich Muelleru...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Vlastimil Babka wrote: it was brought up by ulm that the news item '2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16' has an illegal name because it contains a dot. I stumbled upon this when I experimented with