Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Tobias Matzat (SirSeoman)

2006-01-06 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 23:00 +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Please help me to welcome Tobias Matzat aka SirSeoman who just entered > the ranks of Gentoo Developers. Tobias is our new German GWN Translator. > > He is 25 years old and lives in Trier where he studies computer science > at the Trier Uni

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Tobias Matzat (SirSeoman)

2006-01-08 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:55 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:25:57PM +0100, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > Yo, Welcome Tobias! > > Oh no, not another Tobias! Isn't it a beautiful name? :P Tobias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Jokey (Markus Ullmann)

2006-01-28 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:37 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please welcome Markus to the team. ... and once again a candidate for the one and only German conspiracy :) Welcome aboard, Markus! wkr, Tobias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
First of all, someone from infra/recruiters might please revoke my write access to gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/gwn. I'm no longer interested in contributing to the GWN. > I also believe that when posting an article or interview, a copy should > be sent to the relevant people to ensure that they are ok

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-31 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mike Frysinger wrote: > net-ftp/ncftp i can take this one wkr, Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 05-06-2008 02:35:16 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: > > Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council > > members (again): > > I nominate: > > dertobi123 Though I'm in favor of just re-electing the current council members as they did a very good

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions [Clarifications]

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Doug Goldstein wrote: > > What is the benefit? > > > > Regards, > > > There is none really. Allow all use flags to exist in metadata.xml. It's > really more of a clarification to the GLEP if this is allowed. Agreed, it has no benefit at all plus would lead to some kind of useless duplication o

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Santiago M. Mola wrote: > I think that's all we need in order to know how were things when the > patch was added and if it needs to be pushed/tracked upstream, removed > in the next version of the package, etc. > > Some of us already put these kind of headers, or at least an URL to > upstream bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: remove app-office/borg from portage.

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
John Brooks wrote: > Random idea: How about a different bug assignee for maintainer-needed > packages with provided ebuilds/patches? Either something generic, or > try to go for something more category/package specific (herds, etc). > Lots of work for bugwranglers, though. There is a huge differenc

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tobias Scherbaum > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Santiago M. Mola wrote: > > > >> However, tracking the status of every patch since its inclusion in > >> portage until it's removed would b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add support for package.keywords in profiles?

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Zac Medico wrote: > Does package.keywords seem like a good solution for the types of > problems it's meant to solve? Would anybody like to discuss any > alternative approaches? I think it's a good and easy solution to the problem(s) solar described in #55321. But as Marius [1] said this can become

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mark Loeser wrote: > I personally don't see why they should be allowed to stay part of our > communication channels where they have caused problems bad enough to get > them retired. With that being said, I think the same technical issues > come into play here as with banning someone from "Gentoo"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mark Loeser wrote: > Lukasz Damentko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 1. I'd like to ask Council to discuss possible reactions to our [...] > Due to their privacy policy I don't think we'll ever be able to get > adequate explanations from Freenode staff when our devs are banned. I think that's a lim

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml status

2008-08-24 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Doug Goldstein wrote: > It seems Mr_Bones and I got a bit crazy and finished off the rest of the > tree, along with some help from jer. > > Thanks to everyone that converted a package, and a double thanks to > anyone that converted a category. > > GLEP 56 is now done. Thanks Doug (and also eve

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-11 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Luca Barbato wrote: > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > Hi again. > > > > Quoting Zac earlier in #gentoo-portage: > > > > 21:46 < zmedico> jmbsvicetto: I think we essentially have a spec already > > that people can agree on. just take my draft and subtract the eapi* > > functions and the gitw

Re: [gentoo-dev] mail-filter/spamassassin: maintainer needed

2008-09-11 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Torsten Veller: > I guess some of you use spamassassin. > Does anyone volunteer to maintain it? > Search bugzilla for open bug-reports. I (or much better net-mail) can take it. Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-13 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 > Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having > > a wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us > > having a wiki? > > What will policy on articles tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-13 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mark Loeser wrote: > Removing Stable Ebuilds > > If an ebuild meets the time criteria above, and there are no technical issues > preventing stabilization, then the maintainer MAY choose to delete an older > version even if it is the most recent stable version for a particular arch. What if this w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag)

2008-11-13 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Josh Saddler wrote: > Long as we're discussing things to punt, here's some stuff to kick out > of the desktop profile: and for the server profiles there's mailwrapper - merely broken, nothing useful at all Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-17 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Matti Bickel wrote: > Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if this would break deps or it's a very common package for example > > belonging to the set of system packages? > > Then the maintainer moans and does nothing. I guess that's where

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

2008-11-29 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote: > What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the > manifests. dev-zero and leio posted their manifests, they're available on the elections webpage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200811-nominees.xml Tobias signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-11-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Jan Kundrát: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage > > in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) > > I believe the reason was that HOMEPAGE might change with new versions > and that metadata.xml didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-11-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Matti Bickel wrote: > And while your proposal sounds more compliant to the DRY principle, i > would object it on the basis that it makes a single ebuild actually > harder to understand as you have to read (1) eclasses, (2) -base.ebuild > and (3) -version.ebuild. That's quite exactly what I wanted

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-11-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Serkan Kaba wrote: > I don't know if there are others but I can give one specific example, > sun-{jdk,jre-bin} where homepage differs in SLOT's > 1.4 pointing to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ , 1.5 to > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ , 1.6 to http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ > and 1.7 will probably

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-11-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But what about additional slot or version attributes like > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ > > (or a version attribute)? If slot and version aren't spe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time to say goodbye

2008-11-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Marius Mauch wrote: > So I guess that wraps it up. It's been a nice ride most of the time, > but now it's time for me to leave the Gentoo train. ... and time for another "sad to see you go". :( I'd link to thank you for contributions to Portage - but also for being a very active forums user as we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for December

2008-12-11 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 14:47 Mon 01 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Please give the OK on the following, assuming no objections crop up > > before then: > > > > * [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks (revised) > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic filing of stable requests

2008-12-14 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Thilo Bangert wrote: > > > Now what do people think about extending metadata.xml so that you > > > could have these > > > bugs filed automatically when there are no open bugs? Something like > > > a > > > element with the DTD setting the default as true and you could just > > > use a shorthand. >

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog use.local.desc

2009-01-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Matsuu Takuto (matsuu) wrote: > matsuu 09/01/02 16:19:02 > > Modified: ChangeLog use.local.desc > Log: > Adding local use flags for app-i18n/ibus-table-{erbi,wubi,zhengma}. Please add local use flags to metadata.xml ... see GLEP 56 for reference. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-22 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Discuss on-list before meeting > --- > - Council meta stuff (-council) > - Can the size change? Minimum? Maximum? > - Should we have 2-year staggered terms? I'm in favor of a fixed size of council members, I'd like to see at least 5

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-22 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > >> - PMS, bug #250077: Do we need to get involved in this? (-dev) > > > We haven't been asked to get involved, therefore we don't need to. > > <http://t

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Alec Warner wrote: > > Why do you not tend to commit news or approve things? > > PR@ is a nghtmare of spam and what I'll term 'crap.' having real > things marked as such with informative subjects would be useful. > having some kind of rotation would be useful > having some kind of vague 'we will

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku

2009-02-01 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Markus Ullmann wrote: > +# Markus Ullmann (31 Jan 2009) > +# Mask for removal in 30 days (found its way into mainline kde as > kde-base/ksudoku) > +games-puzzle/ksudoku > + > Wouldn't it make much more sense to package move ksudoku then? Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digit

Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

2009-02-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Petteri Räty: > Michael Sterrett wrote: > > I added a prepalldocs function to eutils.eclass to provide the > > functionality. It implements the > > behavior of the current stable sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4. > > > > Have fun, > > > > Michael Sterrett

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-09 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Montag, den 09.03.2009, 10:12 +0100 schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 21:22 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > I think the idea of ebuilds as scripts showing directly how to build > > software is a core part of the Gentoo build-system philosophy. This > > proposal pushes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as Meta Distribution?

2009-03-29 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Michael Haubenwallner: > Hi people, > > I've been cooking a thought for some time now, and now I'm inviting you > to have a look at and share your thoughts about it: > > The title could be somehow like: > > How to use "Gentoo, the Meta Distribution" to create my own > "Enterprise

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2009-04-08 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council > meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the > channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). > > If you're supposed to show up, please show up. If you're not sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ioannis Aslanidis wants to share their location with you on Google Latitude

2009-04-12 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Would you please stop that? kthxbye. wkr, Tobias Ioannis Aslanidis: > Ioannis Aslanidis (aslani...@gmail.com) wants to start sharing their > location with you on Google Latitude. You need to sign in to Latitude > with a Google Account (e.g., @gmail.com) and invite Ioannis Aslanidis. > To get st

Re: [gentoo-dev] PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready

2009-04-23 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
(Somewhat late, but here we go ) > * PKG-PRETEND critical > * SLOT-OPERATOR-DEPS yes > * USE-DEP-DEFAULTS critical > * DEFINED-PHASES critical > * PROPERTIES critical > * SRC-INSTALL critical > * CONTROLLABLE-COMPRESS critical > * DODOC yes > * DOINS yes > * ANY-USE whatever > * BAN

Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed email - Dropping old kde3 eclasses from the tree

2009-05-01 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Freitag, den 01.05.2009, 22:33 +0300 schrieb Petteri Räty: > > #gentoo-dev 20:19 <@zmedico> jmbsvicetto: it's only an issue for people > > upgrading from less than portage-2.1.4, which is pretty rare nowadays > > > > > > For the KDE team, > > > > It's an issue for people who have packages in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

2009-05-17 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Donnerstag, den 14.05.2009, 20:48 +0200 schrieb Thomas Sachau: > This is already done. darkside/idl0r did/do suggest sunrise to all > maintainer-wanted bugs, that meet > some specific criteria. noticed that, and i'd like to give a "thanks guys" for doing so :) > But have to say, while hundred

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-24 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Roy Bamford wrote: > Put all the downloads for a minimal gentoo install into dial up > context. You need the minimal CD, the stage 3, the portage snapshot, a > bootloader and a kernel. > > An extra 20Mb in that total size is trivial. > > Having done a few remote installs for blind users droppin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
And here we go, these are the ones I'd like to nominate: * dev-zero, well because ... i'd like him to be on the council again! * ulm because I think he's an excellent addition to the council * amne, because I want him to stop slacking :P that's it for now :) wkr, Tobias Am Montag, den 01.06.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Heya, thanks for bringing this up! Doug Goldstein wrote: > All, > > The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for > weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the > senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54, > GLEP55, and EAPI-3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Tiziano Müller wrote: > EAPI 3: Short discussion of the progress > > > zmedico will provide an update on the progress of the implementation. Short > discussion of problems and implementation decisions if needed. Guess that's a rather short topic. Nothing t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Oh please no wiki. Whatever. My requirements are quite simple: public accessible, no accounts needed on 3rd party systems (like Google) to add feature requests or comments and changes must be traceable. Using bugzilla fits those criteria as well. > The problem for EAPI 3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Roy Bamford wrote: > What about the case where the new EAPI breaks backwards compatibility > with existing package managers, as would be the case with glep 55? > > Its quite true that such changes can be introduced after a wait and > only upset late adoptors. By implementing the key feature of g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-12 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Tiziano Müller wrote: > The people I'd like to nominate: > > - dertobi123 ... for his solid comments, experience, common sense, > reliability And I accept the nomination. Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

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

2009-06-22 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Petteri Räty wrote: > I think we agreed that we would send comments about the agenda before > the meeting. The agenda presented seems fine to me. I don't see a need > for doing any major votes in the last meeting. ACKing the agenda, too. I didn't started to get the "deployment part" of the eapi-d

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-24 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder, Doug. > > Make sure to also check everybody's manifesto here: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200906-nominees.xml Just for the record - i did add my manifesto to the elections page myself as that somehow got missed. - Tobias

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ned Ludd wrote: > The devs have a voice one time of the year: when it comes time to vote. > But what about the rest of the year? What happens when the person you > voted for sucks? You are mostly powerless to do anything other than be > really vocal in what seems like a never ending battle. That ne

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Alec Warner wrote: > > What I'd like to see for sure is a formal rule on who can decide to > > modify or change parts of glep 39. As it's the council's constitution > > somehow, we have two options from my pov (besides that a former council > > did decide the council itself can change it's rules):

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2009-07-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mike Frysinger wrote: > here's an item that should be relatively quick to address: fix the typo in > GLEP 39 where this line is missing (it's been in the council homepage > forever): > Only Gentoo developers may be nominated I'd like to add that requirement for proxies as well. Varied inte

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resurrecting "Project Dolphin"

2006-10-14 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> Hello folks, > > it's been a while since I stepped back as a Gentoo-developer (about 1 1/4 > years) and in that time I did exactly zero. Good news to see you back in action, Benni! :) > I hereby request every person make suggestions. Please note, that Dolphin > will > be a CLI-based CD onl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resurrecting "Project Dolphin"

2006-10-14 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 23:33, Roy Bamford wrote: > > Evaluate the operating media. Should it be a CD, DVD, or USB > > A DVD+/-RW or USB would provide space for recovered data, if required. > > Currently the project is in the same state as it was months ago: an ISO-Image > with a maximum ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-21 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. > > Thoughts? I think it's a *very* bad idea - both from a QA and a "team spirit" point of view. Instead of having such "commitfests" and bounties for the one who managed to get as many as possible commits done within - say - 5 minutes I'd ra

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Matti 'mabi' Bickel

2006-10-22 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> Living in Weimar and studying CS in Jena, he is going to join the German > conspiracy. He is also a member of the local CCC there. Non-computer > hobbies are reading (science, "hitchhiker up and down", other novels, > but of course also computer-related) and adrenaline sports such as table > tenn

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Christian Faulhammer (opfer)

2006-10-28 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Freitag, den 27.10.2006, 22:32 +0200 schrieb Christian Heim: > Christian is currently studying mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen > (that's in Germany!) and has been an arch tester for the x86-herd for quite > some time - that's about 3 months. Welcome aboard, Christian! See you at LW

Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage

2006-11-05 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Sonntag, den 05.11.2006, 20:08 +0100 schrieb Christian Heim: > On Sunday, 05. November. 2006 19:02, John Jawed wrote: > > Two patches which allow a user to bypass files created with doman and > > dodoc in FEATURES: > > > > FEATURES="noman nodoc" emerge -av foo > > > > http://jawed.name/dev/gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. > If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a > reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it > (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) There's a little difference between "do

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-08 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Joseph Jezak wrote: > I like this thread! Indeed! This thread is fun - and fun is what Gentoo should be about. > The PPC team had a bugday yesterday and managed to get almost 70 > bugs off of our list of open issues! Thanks to nixnut, mabi, > dertobi123 and ndansmith for helping to clean up the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

2007-05-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Good luck to all of you and may Gentoo development be as much fun for you as > it used to be for me. Just as Marius already said, I usually also don't participate in the "goodbye and thanks for all the fish"-threads - but this one is kinda special. Bryan is one of the few

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-dns/bind{,-tools} needs an active maintainer

2007-06-17 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Konstantin V. Arkhipov wrote: > i'm too busy with real life atm, is there anyone willing to help with > bind's > maintaining? What's the current state of both packages? i.e. lots of open bugs? How much attention do these packages need? wkr, Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist e

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-dns/bind{,-tools} needs an active maintainer

2007-06-17 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Jakub Moc wrote: > Tobias Scherbaum napsal(a): > > Konstantin V. Arkhipov wrote: > >>i'm too busy with real life atm, is there anyone willing to help with > >> bind's > >> maintaining? > > > > What's the current state of b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-new developer: Tobias Heinlein (keytoaster)

2007-07-07 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > Tobias tells us his hobbies were computers, programming, reading, > meeting friends, and sleeping. Which means it's now down to computers > and programming only. > > So please, everybody, give a warm non-welcome to Tobias. Congrats! :) Und mach nix kaputt :P Tobias si

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-mail/cyrus-imapd needs an active maintainer

2007-07-09 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Jakub Moc wrote: > This ebuild has a security bug open for almost one year (Bug 142817), > plus lots of other bugs as well. > > If you are interested, please see http://tinyurl.com/32webs I'll take a look at it. wkr, Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachricht

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08

2007-07-09 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Markus Ullmann wrote: > > nominating: > > others are nominated already ;) > > d'oh, forgot fellow > > dertobi123 Thanks, I accept the nomination. Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations Update

2007-08-05 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Heya, Christina Fullam write: > Most who have accepted havent told us why we should vote for them. While > that information is not required perhaps it should be if we are to make > intelligent votes - sorry this isnt a popularity contest so give us some > content to review. I put my little manife

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Christian Hoffmann (hoffie)

2007-08-19 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Christian Heim wrote: > > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Christian Hoffmann (also known as hoffie > on IRC), our latest addition joining the PHP herd. > > Christian is joining us from Bamberg (which is about 60km north of Nuremberg, > which happens to be in southen Germany), where he's cu

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Timo Gurr (tgurr)

2007-09-24 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce Timo Gurr (tgurr) who will join us as a > new developer. He will work primarily on KDE and printing. > > Timo lives in Neckarsulm, Germany, and works as an IT technician in a > local city administration near his home. He finds his job very > in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-analyzer/nagios-plugins: ChangeLog nagios-plugins-1.4.10-r1.ebuild

2007-10-30 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > chown root:nagios "${D}"/usr/nagios || die "Failed Chown of > > ${D}usr/nagios" > > chown -R root:nagios "${D}"/usr/nagios/libexec || die "Failed Chown of > > ${D}usr/nagios/libexec" > > > > chmod -R o-rwx "${D}"/usr/nagios/libexec || die "Failed Chmod of

Re: [gentoo-dev] retiring + looking maintainers for sendmail, tenshi, scapy, ftester

2008-02-07 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Heya, Andrea Barisani wrote: > Hi folks, I'm retiring. Sorry to see you go - i'd like to especially thank you for your ldap+ssh +lpk effort! thanks! :) > I was maintaining the following packages: > > app-admin/tenshi (note: I'm upstream as well) I can take a look at tenshi if noone else is int

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Tobias Klausmann (klausman)

2008-03-11 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Montag, den 10.03.2008, 23:02 +0100 schrieb Lars Weiler: > * Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08/03/10 23:13 +0200]: > > One of those people working on those weird paper weights. This time our > > monkey comes from the world of alphas. Tobias hails from Germany (there > > seems to be no end).

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2009-07-09 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Heya, just to be sure: there is *no* meeting today. We're probably going to schedule a meeting for next week. - Tobias Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 03:00 + schrieb Mike Frysinger: > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council > meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-25 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 23:36 -0100 schrieb Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto: > nomination: December 17th to 30th I'd like to nominate dev-zero. - Tobias -- Praxisbuch Nagios http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pbnagiosger/ https://www.xing.com/profile/Tobias_Scherbaum signature.asc Description: Di

[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 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 quit

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] [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] 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] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Joshua Saddler wrote lots of: > Thanks for sh**ting on my efforts. See, this is not about your personal efforts. I really do appreciate the work and time you invest in improving both the docs and PR. But otoh try to compare what the docs-team and PR did say 5 years ago and what they're doing today

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Packages up for grabs -- xmerlin, yoswink, chtekk, omp, tantive, mueli, bluebird, hncaldwell, caleb

2010-06-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Mittwoch, den 02.06.2010, 09:18 +0200 schrieb Torsten Veller: > net-analyzer/nagios-check_logfiles > net-analyzer/nagircbot > net-analyzer/pnp4nagios I'll take this packages. - Tobias -- Praxisbuch Nagios http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pbnagiosger/ https://www.xing.com/profile/Tobias_Scherba

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

2010-06-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Freitag, den 04.06.2010, 00:49 +0200 schrieb Ben de Groot: > From what I understand it is still being worked on, > but it moves forward very slowly. Maybe someone from the wiki project > could add some more up to date info? Initially I was one of those who offered to help with the wiki project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 14/7 introductory meeting

2010-07-13 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.07.2010, 13:06 -0400 schrieb Richard Freeman: > I've seen this at work quite a bit. I've also seen an elegant solution > that works moderately well. The minutes of the meeting are taken in > realtime during the meeting by whoever will take it, and this is shared > with

Re: [gentoo-dev] New dev Killerfox (René NussBaumer)

2005-05-18 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> BTW: are you guys coming to "What the Hack" this summer? Would be nice > to do something for the Austria-Swiss friendship again... ;) Who else will attend "What the Hack"? Regards, Tobias signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil