[gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

2014-06-20 Thread Tim Boudreau
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask or if it's in some FAQ I've missed. I have an overlay set up here https://github.com/timboudreau/gentoo with a number of generally useful things in it (etcd, statsd, flatbuffers, ebuilds for some fonts available from dafont.com and some X themes). For

Re: [gentoo-dev] parser/generator for /etc/conf.d/net*

2014-06-30 Thread Tim Boudreau
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:46 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP c...@colliertech.org wrote: I've got a project on my plate to automate and reduce the human error in adding new VLANs, subnets, addresses, etc. to our production firewall fleet. Today, we manually make modifications to the following

Re: [gentoo-dev] A constructive reommendation on stablity improvemt

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Boudreau
FWIW: I have worked on a project for years where exception reporting was used as a pump handle for Bugzilla. It can be done; the trick is getting good data *in* and automating recognition of which failures are the same failure, doing NOTHING until some threshold number of failures are logged,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread Tim Boudreau
FWIW, I suspect npm is here to stay, and it has a facility for installing system-wide utilities; and NodeJS is both usable and convenient for system-level scripting which has no connection to webapps, and has the ability to build native code that integrates with NodeJS code as well. IMO, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-20 Thread Tim Boudreau
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) neurog...@gentoo.org wrote: I originally responded to another thread. Here is what I said: I gave this a try some time ago and was bummed down by some things. I dont like nodejs enough, and npm devs seems to not care about

Re: [gentoo-dev] git security (SHA-1)

2014-09-17 Thread Tim Boudreau
If someone wants to commit malicious code into Gentoo, they're far more likely to take the ugly but pragmatic approach of, say, forcing someone to commit malicious code at gunpoint and then shooting them, than to go to the vast effort it would take to come up with malicious code that conveniently