Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Serheo
> On 20:59 Wed 31 Mar , Serheo wrote: > > > > Google summer of code test message. Sorry for interuption. > You might want to consider the impression you make on people when you > send an email like this. When you're required to send an email, why not > make it something useful and get people

[gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. For example: - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental overlay,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. > > For example: > - hardened-sou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 12:16 PM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure > there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no > offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their > spare time to infra work!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational subjects please ;) > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure > there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no > offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their > spare time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 04/03/10 11:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. So what are _you_ doing to make it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:40:12AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > So - what to do now? To be honest - I have no real clue. But a first > > step might be to collect your opinions on where we do lack manpower and > > ideas on how to solve this problems. A Wiki might be fitting well for > > that t

[gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a different resolution should be used. So what do you think about disabling later? I would like to avoid things like this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Krzysztof Pawlik
On 04/03/10 10:50, Petteri Räty wrote: > I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just > means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a > different resolution should be used. So what do you think about > disabling later? I would like to avoid things like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/3/10 12:03 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 04/03/10 10:50, Petteri Räty wrote: >> I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just >> means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a >> different resolution should be used. So what do you think about >> d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 02:37 -0700 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > Hell no, but ... > > Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational > subjects please ;) oh, well ;) > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 11:26 +0200 schrieb "Paweł Hajdan, Jr.": > > For example: > > - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental > > overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the > > hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist. > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Patrick Lauer: > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were > > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. > > So what are _you_ doing to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Krzysztof Pawlik
On 04/03/10 11:09, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 4/3/10 12:03 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: >> On 04/03/10 10:50, Petteri Räty wrote: >>> I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just >>> means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a >>> different resolu

[gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass

2010-04-03 Thread Torsten Veller
* Alec Warner : > It is obvious what many of the functions do (I can read shell, yay!) > but it is not obvious to me why they exist or why I would want to call > them. Why do I want to delete AppleDouble files? What are dual-life > scripts and why do I want to symlink them? Why would I want to d

[gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass

2010-04-03 Thread Torsten Veller
* James Cloos : > One change the perl eclasses require is elimination of the code which > deletes the man pages. > > Deleting the man pages is /extremely/ rude and should not occur. There was a reason why the man-pages were removed: I think it was collisions protection and perl people use `perldo

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
Problem ..is known, let me summarize briefly. Uninstalling packages providing libraries, without checking reverse runtime dependencies of those packages leaves their dependencies unsatisfied (packages with broken executables and/or shared libs). Some package managers try their best not to remov

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:38:17PM +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > exactly it's supposed to be achieved. As far as portage/pkgcore is concerned, > maybe - as Brian Harring suggested - sandbox could be used to somehow "hide" > preserved libraries or preserved library directory from ebuild environ

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 03-04-2010 12:38:17 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Problem > > ..is known, let me summarize briefly. > > Uninstalling packages providing libraries, without checking reverse > runtime dependencies of those packages leaves their dependencies > unsatisfied (packages with broken executables and/

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:38:17 +0200 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > 2. During "emerge", unset environment variable corresponding to said > preserved library directory - orphans are no longer located. Wouldn't that cause failure when the toolkit relies on a 'hidden' preserved library? -- Best regards,

[gentoo-dev] spin (spinroot.com) license

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
I'd like to add a package for spin to the tree (it's used at several universities, including mine and Caltech). However, it's not straightforward. The basic license is for educational purposes only. Here are my suggestions how to implement that. /usr/portage/licenses/spin-educational with the fo

[gentoo-dev]

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 12:38 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski a écrit : > There is opt-out suggestion[2], unfortunately it does not provide any info > how > exactly it's supposed to be achieved. As far as portage/pkgcore is concerned, > maybe - as Brian Harring suggested - sandbox could be used to som

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/03/2010 06:19 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: And still, when someone tries to fix things in such an understaffed herd people go all territorial and are like "omg u touched my package". Right now I'm quite confused what our project strategy seems to be, as far as I can tell there's one group ai

hardened-sources development (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?)

2010-04-03 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 03.04.2010 11:26, schrieb "Paweł Hajdan, Jr.": > On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> Hell no, but ... >> >> We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. >> Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were >> users might get the idea Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 02:33 PM, Richard Freeman wrote: > > I think the problem is that our recruitment process uses the ability to > answer complex technical and organizational questions as a way to assess > maturity. I think that maturity is far more important than technical > skill in a distro - a mat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Saturday 03 of April 2010 12:56:04 Fabian Groffen wrote: > Is it known why this does happen exactly? When a lib is kept because it > is still used, only its soname + what the soname points to should be > kept. That would mean the lib can no longer be found during linking, > unless you add some

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 03-04-2010 14:09:42 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > > because trying to link to libfoo using `gcc -o bar -lfoo bar.c` should > > (in theory and on some platforms at least) fail. > > It doesn't matter, as 'broken' build system may alphabetically find > library by file name, and link to this lib

[gentoo-dev][Gentoo Phoenix] Re: Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 11:46, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 04/03/10 11:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> Hell no, but ... >> >> We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. >> Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were >> users might get the idea Gentoo a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Magnus Granberg
lördag 03 april 2010 12.19.19 skrev Tobias Scherbaum: > > > - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental > > > overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the > > > hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist. > > > Yeah, we do have people wo

[gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 11:46, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 04/03/10 11:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> People are constantly asking for a documentation wiki, but ... > yeah, as long as no one just creates a wiki there won't be one. People > are waiting on other people, who are waiting for Godot. Just do it.

[gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freeman wrote: > I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right > now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev > and to help somebody become a Gentoo dev.  That means we have great people, > but not many of th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Dror Levin
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot wrote: > 1 - requirements > > > In order to choose the best possible wiki implementation, we need to > know our requirements. So what features do you think are essential or > good to have? What syntax would we prefer to use? > > I myself

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/3/10 3:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > Are there any other ideas on how to improve our recruitment process? The idea appeared before, but I think it's worth noting. Either merge the ebuild and end quizzes, or make the split actually meaningful. In my case I just finished both at the same time,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread George Prowse
On 03/04/2010 14:40, Ben de Groot wrote: On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freeman wrote: I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev and to help somebody become a Gentoo dev. That means we h

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 04:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > > Another problem I see is that our documentation seems to be scattered > all over the place. I propose that we make at least one portal page > for (prospective) developers that will link them to all the resources > they might need. It also means our

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Guy Fontaine
Hi ! I maintain Gentoo-Québec wiki. I'm not the only one as d2_racing and some other members also do. I maintain CSS, examples and wrote almost 60% of the stuff. If you think I could help, please just let me know. The wiki : http://gentoo-quebec.org/wiki/index.php/Accueil Guy Fontaine

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 04:53 PM, George Prowse wrote: > > Armed with a list of where developers are spread too thinly, a > willingness to answer questions (no matter how stupid you believe them > to be) and some prior organisation then i see no reason why Gentoo > wouldn't get an immediate influx of at le

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 16:04, Guy Fontaine wrote: > I maintain Gentoo-Québec wiki. I'm not the only one as d2_racing and some > other members also do. I maintain CSS, examples and wrote almost 60% of the > stuff. > > If you think I could help, please just let me know. I think you can help. Stay in tou

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 16:40 +0300 schrieb Dror Levin: > There is currently a wiki for gentoo at gentoo-wiki.com, which is > running MediaWiki, so it would be easiest to transfer the content if > we were to run the same software. This should happen (if at all) on a per article basis imho. Hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread George Prowse
On 03/04/2010 15:05, Petteri Räty wrote: On 04/03/2010 04:53 PM, George Prowse wrote: Armed with a list of where developers are spread too thinly, a willingness to answer questions (no matter how stupid you believe them to be) and some prior organisation then i see no reason why Gentoo wouldn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Alex Legler
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:19:20 +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > 1 - requirements > > > In order to choose the best possible wiki implementation, we need to > know our requirements. So what features do you think are essential or > good to have? What syntax would we prefer to use? > > [

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 16:12, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 16:40 +0300 schrieb Dror Levin: >> There is currently a wiki for gentoo at gentoo-wiki.com, which is >> running MediaWiki, so it would be easiest to transfer the content if >> we were to run the same software. > > This sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.03 10:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive > way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas > were > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. > > For example: [snip lots

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 April 2010 16:30, Alex Legler wrote: > I propose to use MediaWiki. As I said in my other post, MediaWiki and MoinMoin should, in my opinion, be on our shortlist to consider. > I'd be interested in helping out with the backend part, i.e. setting up > and maintaining the Wiki software and the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: > First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is > to measure it. So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a useful algorithm which helps to identify understaffed or orphaned areas.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Nathan Zachary
On 03/04/10 08:40, Dror Levin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> 1 - requirements >> >> >> In order to choose the best possible wiki implementation, we need to >> know our requirements. So what features do you think are essential or >> good to have?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03-04-2010 09:50, Petteri Räty wrote: > I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just > means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a > different resolution should be used. So what do you think about > di

RE: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sylvain Alain
Hi everyone, Gentoo-Quebec already use MediaWiki and I can say that for the spam prevention measures it can be pretty simple : For a new user, he needs to send an email to a specific adress, alos he needs to have a valid account on the forum just to be sure that he is not a spambot. So basically

Re: [gentoo-dev] spin (spinroot.com) license

2010-04-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/03/2010 04:16 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > I'd like to add a package for spin to the tree (it's used at several > universities, including mine and Caltech). > > However, it's not straightforward. The basic license is for educational > purposes only. > > Here are my suggestions how to im

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: >> First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is >> to measure it. > > So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a > useful

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: > The above are all pretty easy to do with the data in the tree. Some > other useful ideas might be: > - compare open bugs for the package, when was the last bug for a > package closed (bugs data kinda sucks for this) An additional search: last touched by assignee between neve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 06:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 03-04-2010 09:50, Petteri Räty wrote: >> I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just >> means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a >> different resolution should be used. So what do you

[gentoo-dev] Portage, kernel sources and setgid

2010-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I am using umask 027 on my Gentoo boxes, and setgid bit set on a few directories crucial to userpriv-enabled merges. This way, I do not have to worry about running e.g. layman through 'sg' or similar tools, as all newly-created files inherit portage group ownership, and newly-created direct

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread AllenJB
On 03/04/10 14:40, Dror Levin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot wrote: >> 2 - maintainers >> === >> >> Who is volunteering for maintaining the wiki? We need editors and >> moderators, people who look out for quality control and take care of >> spam removal. So let's g

Re: [gentoo-dev] are hardened-sources maintained?

2010-04-03 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On 1 April 2010 15:43, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Of course that would mean getting included in > hardened-ker...@gentoo.org, but I guess it's the easiest part. Yes, you can do it yourself: woodpecker ~ $ echo $USER >> /var/mail/alias/misc/hardened-kernel -- Best Regards Piotr Jaroszyński

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage, kernel sources and setgid

2010-04-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/03/2010 10:11 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > I am using umask 027 on my Gentoo boxes, and setgid bit set on a few > directories crucial to userpriv-enabled merges. This way, I do not have > to worry about running e.g. layman through 'sg' or similar tools, as > all newly-created files i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 04/03/2010 06:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> On 03-04-2010 09:50, Petteri Räty wrote: >>> I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just >>> means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 08:54 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 04/03/2010 06:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >>> On 03-04-2010 09:50, Petteri Räty wrote: I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just means it's n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 12:38 +0200 schrieb Maciej Mrozowski: > Problem > > ..is known, let me summarize briefly. > > Uninstalling packages providing libraries, without checking reverse runtime > dependencies of those packages leaves their dependencies unsatisfied > (packages > with broken

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread George Prowse
On 03/04/2010 18:40, AllenJB wrote: On 03/04/10 14:40, Dror Levin wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot wrote: 2 - maintainers === Who is volunteering for maintaining the wiki? We need editors and moderators, people who look out for quality control and take care of spa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 12:50 +0300 schrieb Petteri Räty: > I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just > means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a > different resolution should be used. So what do you think about > disabling later? I would lik

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
Hi guys, On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freeman wrote: >> I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right >> now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev >> and to help somebody become

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Alex Legler
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:56:53 +0100, George Prowse wrote: > Does mediawiki have captcha ability? > Yes, there are plug-ins provide that functionality. [1] Let's get a general Wiki concept done before talking about spam remedy in detail, though. :) [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Comb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 05:38, Petteri Räty wrote: > My perception from the outside is also that it's sometimes hard to offer > help. So if we now that we are busy then let's try to embrace others > doing the work. This is also what I have observed. I think Gentoo needs appear to be much more focu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Alex Legler
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:19:20 +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > Okay, so it seems a lot of people do want a wiki. So let's see what > we can do to make that happen. > I created a Wiki page (oh, the irony) to track the results of this thread in the Gentoo eV wiki: http://gentoo-ev.org/wiki/Official_Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

2010-04-03 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:27, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > What other distributions (*BSD, Linux, or...) do you know that use > openrc?  IOW, I know it was designed to be distribution independent, but I > don't know of anyone else using it (well, other than Gentoo derivatives), > and Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

2010-04-03 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 15:30, Jacob Godserv wrote: > Last I checked, Ubuntu is going to adopt it. How's that for a compliment? :) > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18452/ Sorry for the extra e-mail, but I should clarify: "Ubuntu is seriously considering adopting it." -- Jacob "For th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

2010-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:31:20 -0400 Jacob Godserv wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 15:30, Jacob Godserv > wrote: > > Last I checked, Ubuntu is going to adopt it. How's that for a > > compliment? :) http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18452/ > > Sorry for the extra e-mail, but I should clarify: > "Ub

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] More reliable hiding preserved libraries

2010-04-03 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Saturday 03 of April 2010 14:16:14 Fabian Groffen wrote: > Shouldn't we fix that buildsystem then? Do you have an example of a > package/buildsystem that does that? "We" already do, the thing is that maybe we don't have to. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240323 From top of my head: pyt

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 16:05, Petteri Räty wrote: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ > > I don't know if developers know that this page is autogenerated from > individual project pages these days so it's easy for any developer to > get stuff there. Has anyone every tried to read that pag

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote: >Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in > quizzes be more "exciting" to new devs, then we could still have a > strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the > quizzes. So, what I propose is to transform

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 12:50 +0300, Petteri Räty a écrit : > I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just > means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a > different resolution should be used. So what do you think about > disabling later? You are tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
2010/4/3 Gilles Dartiguelongue : > Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 12:50 +0300, Petteri Räty a écrit : >> I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just >> means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a >> different resolution should be used. So what do you thin

[gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
I'm calling for participation in a new team working on things around reports, bug analysis, heartbeat tracking in Gentoo: Goals = - help track the heartbeat/breath of Gentoo (bugs fixed per day, bug distribution per herd, ..) - point to problems we may be overlooking in Gentoo (letti

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > I'm calling for participation in a new team working on things around > reports, bug analysis, heartbeat tracking in Gentoo: > > > Goals > = > - help track the heartbeat/breath of Gentoo >    (bugs fixed per day, bug distribution per he

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > I'm calling for participation in a new team working on things around > reports, bug analysis, heartbeat tracking in Gentoo: I will help with scripting; but probably not much else. -A > > > Goals > = > - help track the heartbeat/brea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/04/10 00:30, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote: >Sebastian, count me in. Cool! > I believe this sort of stuff, or small > parts of what you are mentioning, was done in the newsletter. I > believe this is something real nice we should put somewhere public. Can you elaborate on that? I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/04/10 00:42, Alec Warner wrote: > I will help with scripting; but probably not much else. Just right, there will be lots of scripting :-) The current script dumping groud is hosted here: http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=gentoo-bug-heartbeat.git;a=summary Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 16:46, Ben de Groot wrote: >> I propose to use MediaWiki. > > As I said in my other post, MediaWiki and MoinMoin should, in my > opinion, be on our shortlist to consider. My vote on MediaWiki, too. (I do like DokuWiki better for personal things but mediaWiki seems the best choice for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 16:36, Ben de Groot wrote: > This also raises the question of license. Our current documentation > mostly uses the CC-BY-SA license, while the unoffical wiki adds a > non-commercial restriction. By choosing one license over the other > we will make copy-pasting content from the source t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ben, good to see you driving this process! Thanks! Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 18:03, Alec Warner wrote: > - date of last commit: Gentoo is fast moving and packages that > haven't had commits since 200{4,5,6} are probably old, unmaintained > and may not even compile or run. > - date of last listed maintainer commit versus last commit: > Basically if the maintain

RE: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sylvain Alain
> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:37:03 +0200 > From: sp...@gentoo.org > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki > > On 04/03/10 16:46, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> I propose to use MediaWiki. > > > > As I said in my other post, MediaWiki an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/04/10 02:11, Sylvain Alain wrote: > I hope that you will not migrate the GuideXML inside the wiki, because > it's so simple to write documentations inside a wiki and right now the > unofficial Gentoo Wiki is clean and simple. > > If you want to have registered users and contributors, then yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-03 Thread Ben de Groot
On 4 April 2010 01:37, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Btw was it Fedora having moved from MoinMoin to MediaWiki? > I remember something like that, could be erring though. You are right. Here are some relevant links a quick Google search turned up for me: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, > but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but > also to our docs-team) for years. People are constantly asking for a > documentation wiki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 > Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > >> - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, >> but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but >> also to our docs-team) for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Pheonix] Heartbeat team force

2010-04-03 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 04/04/10 00:30, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote: >>    Sebastian, count me in. > > Cool! > > >> I believe this sort of stuff, or small >> parts of what you are mentioning, was done in the newsletter. I >> believe this is something real n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but also to