Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due to developer inactivity

On 2/17/24 21:39, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2024-02-14 10:49, Michał Górny wrote: net-dns/dnsdist I can proxymaint this since I occasionally report bugs/contribute to upstream. Will open a maintainer PR and version bump soon-ish. Thanks Holger, but I'm not retired and will retake

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs: sys-apps/bat, app-misc/physlock, dev-lang/crystal, dev-util/shards

dev-lang/crystal dev-util/shards Added myself as maint to both of those (and bumped them). On 2/11/23 22:48, Maciej Barć wrote: These packages are only used in ::guru, so they could be moved there. I think regular mask-remove process should apply. I am interested in crystal and might pick

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs: sys-apps/bat, app-misc/physlock, dev-lang/crystal, dev-util/shards

These packages are only used in ::guru, so they could be moved there. I think regular mask-remove process should apply. I am interested in crystal and might pick it up. Co-maints welcome! :^) On 2/11/23 20:01, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote: dev-lang/crystal dev-util/shards These

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:33:15 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > > so it is paused for a licensed > > download, as necessary, is not a show stopper > > The problem is that download requires a Browser with JavaScript > support, because it requires JavaScript to set a cookie, and

Re: Easy Installs / Stage 4 ( Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs )

On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 02:57:14PM -0500, james wrote: You should take a look at Blueness' Gentoo Reference stuff https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2015/07/31/the-gentoo-reference-system-suite-a-new-release-engineering-tool/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:26:01 -0500 james wrote: > so it is paused for a licensed > download, as necessary, is not a show stopper The problem is that download requires a Browser with JavaScript support, because it requires JavaScript to set a cookie, and that cookie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 16:49:01 -0500 james wrote: > After that feat is accomplished, then a similar deployment of a > gentoo cluster on a those just installed gentoo minimal images, via a > few keystrokes (I am flexible on the cluster codes that comprise the > cluster). Then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 03:48 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Java works pretty well on Gentoo, I'm not quite sure what needs to be fixed ... I mean, apart from our insane idea to "build from source" which doesn't fit with the existing structures in the java ecosystem Wow!. Patrick, you are my hero. I have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 10:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/08/2016 19:36, james wrote: >>> The interesting apps out there are mostly running python, go and >>> (sometimes) lua. And that's what I observe in my day job - >>> business/mobile ISP. >> >> >> Look at the job listing on stackoverflow and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 07/08/2016 19:36, james wrote: >> The interesting apps out there are mostly running python, go and >> (sometimes) lua. And that's what I observe in my day job - >> business/mobile ISP. > > > Look at the job listing on stackoverflow and elsewhere (java) is very > popular when they list several

Re: Easy Installs / Stage 4 ( Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs )

On 08/07/2016 11:55 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: Moving this to a higher visibility thread because I don't know how many people think such an intense discussion is happening in the tail of a package assignment . :P Most of my negativity/limitations are more about making sure we define where we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 12:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:47 PM, james wrote: On 08/07/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Sounds great. What's stopping you? Why Rich, thanks for the triple compliments; is that a vote that the basic idea(s) have merit, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:47 PM, james wrote: > On 08/07/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Sounds great. What's stopping you? >> > > Why Rich, thanks for the triple compliments; is that a vote that the basic > idea(s) have merit, or sarcasm? > I'm just expressing that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 11:21 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:24:37 -0500 james wrote: Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are teaching and promoting. I agree with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-proper, but that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:24 AM, james wrote: As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 months, to get a gentoo system up, quickly.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 09:09 AM, Consus wrote: On 08:24 Sun 07 Aug, james wrote: On 08/07/2016 02:38 AM, Consus wrote: On 08:48 Sun 07 Aug, Michał Górny wrote: Sure we do. In the meantime, nobody uses gentoo anymore because it still can't deal with accepting contributions and in the meantime the few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 09:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/08/2016 15:32, Kent Fredric wrote: Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are teaching and promoting. I agree with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-proper, but that sort of thing is killing gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:24:37 -0500 james wrote: > >> Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are > >> teaching and promoting. I agree > >> with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on > >> gentoo-proper, but that sort of thing is killing gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 08:32 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 08:24:51 -0500 james wrote: As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 months, to get a gentoo system up,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:24 AM, james wrote: > > As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default > disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 > months, to get a gentoo system up, quickly. Not an anything you want it to > be,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 8/7/2016 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I have no idea where James gets his information from, but I suspect it's a niche market where uni students do "clustering" - whatever that is. Many of the new frameworks/servers that are developed for running or managing clusters are written in Java,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08:24 Sun 07 Aug, james wrote: > On 08/07/2016 02:38 AM, Consus wrote: > > On 08:48 Sun 07 Aug, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Sure we do. In the meantime, nobody uses gentoo anymore because it > > > still can't deal with accepting contributions and in the meantime the > > > few last developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 07/08/2016 15:32, Kent Fredric wrote: >> Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are >> > teaching and promoting. I agree >> > with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-proper, >> > but that sort of thing is killing gentoo and just appears to the open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 08:24:51 -0500 james wrote: > > As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default > disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 > months, to get a gentoo system up, quickly. Not an anything you want > it to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08/07/2016 02:38 AM, Consus wrote: On 08:48 Sun 07 Aug, Michał Górny wrote: Sure we do. In the meantime, nobody uses gentoo anymore because it still can't deal with accepting contributions and in the meantime the few last developers retired, and users long ago switched to the comparatively

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 08:48 Sun 07 Aug, Michał Górny wrote: > Sure we do. In the meantime, nobody uses gentoo anymore because it > still can't deal with accepting contributions and in the meantime the > few last developers retired, and users long ago switched to the > comparatively recent distribution of Debian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

Dnia 6 sierpnia 2016 23:12:55 CEST, Peter Stuge napisał(a): >Peter Stuge wrote: >> How can I help improve ..? > >Michał Górny wrote: >> people focused on preaching and/or implementing random crap-based >> solutions without even stopping for a few minutes to consider what >> we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 19:28:19 + Peter Stuge wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: > > Or file a pull request @ https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls. > > That's the most convenient solution for most of proxy-maint team > > members. > > How can I help improve that problematic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > GitHub works for us. GitHub works for our contributors. GitHub boosts > our productivity, unlike those vain discussions. We don't have time for > all this tin foil hat nonsense. > Then just ignore it. If somebody wants

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

Peter Stuge wrote: > How can I help improve ..? Michał Górny wrote: > people focused on preaching and/or implementing random crap-based > solutions without even stopping for a few minutes to consider what > we exactly need. You could interpret my question as "what exactly do we need" ? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 16:47:09 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Michał Górny wrote: > >> Or file a pull request @ https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls. > >> That's the most convenient solution for most of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: >> Or file a pull request @ https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls. >> That's the most convenient solution for most of proxy-maint team members. > > How can I help improve that problematic situation? > > It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

Michał Górny wrote: > Or file a pull request @ https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls. > That's the most convenient solution for most of proxy-maint team members. How can I help improve that problematic situation? It's not cool to gravitate the project towards GitHub Inc. //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 16:04:08 + Peter Stuge wrote: > Felix Janda wrote: > > I'd like become a proxy-maintainer for app-editors/nvi. > > Sweet! If there are some open bugs then please upload patched ebuilds > and other neccessary files to the bugtracker, ideally as output by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

Felix Janda wrote: > I'd like become a proxy-maintainer for app-editors/nvi. Sweet! If there are some open bugs then please upload patched ebuilds and other neccessary files to the bugtracker, ideally as output by git format-patch, and then talk e.g. to #gentoo-proxy-maint on freenode to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 06/03/2016 12:02 PM, Justin Bronder wrote: On 02/06/16 10:42 -0500, james wrote: On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote: > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these packages > anymore, they are all up for grabs. > > - media-gfx/openmesh [no project] >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 12/03/2014 10:34 AM, Harvey wrote: If your going to take on spacefm, it would be great if you also handled udevil since they are both from the same upstream repo and work tightly together.. I'm an avid user of both, and since upstream is no longer maintained on either of these their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:27:19 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I have one; it's great to help make my boot short, but it isn't really a great improvement for the Portage tree. Better I/O isn't a solution to computational complexity; it doesn't deal with the CPU bottleneck.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 21:33:53 schrieb Duncan: Tom Wijsman posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:23:24 +0200 as excerpted: On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:21:38 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 16-06-2013 a las 10:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec escribió: [...] Thank you for considering

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:33:53 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: TL;DR: SSDs help. =:^) TL;DR: SSDs help, but they don't solve the underlying problem. =:-( I have one; it's great to help make my boot short, but it isn't really a great improvement for the Portage tree. Better I/O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:24:27 +0200 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: I have one; it's great to help make my boot short, but it isn't really a great improvement for the Portage tree. Better I/O isn't a solution to computational complexity; it doesn't deal with the CPU bottleneck. If the CPU

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:38:56 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:24:27 +0200 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: I have one; it's great to help make my boot short, but it isn't really a great improvement for the Portage tree. Better I/O isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:07:57 +0200 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: That's assuming you would go threaded, but you can also aim for lower algorithmic complexities; the complexity makes the CPU the bottleneck. Dependency solving is NP-hard in theory and better than quadratic in practice. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you don't know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. I have posted a snippet previously — you basically search for firmware=... in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

Ryan Hill schrieb: He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you don't know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you actually need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

Le dimanche 17 février 2013 à 22:47 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you actually need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wifi, but linux-firmware contains: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:41:35 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a policy, get council approval, and write it down. Don't make up silly half-solutions.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:20:07 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time, then what do we do if we actually need to mask them for removal or security.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/12/12 03:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:20:07 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: And if we force some types of packages to be masked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time, then what do we do if we actually need to mask them for removal or security. Users won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a policy, get council approval, and write it down. Don't make up silly half-solutions. Sure, but I'm not aware of any policy at all concerning packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a policy, get council approval, and write it down. Don't make up silly half-solutions.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

On 01/07/11 09:49, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Besides the bump to 1.7.10... - in tree is 1.7.8-r2. Where did you find 1.7.10? http://ftp.davidashen.net/PreTI/RNV/ does not contain that. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rnv/ sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

Has anyone volunteered to take net-misc/ntp? I know there are alternatives (like OpenNTPD), but this one is the official one, so I'd hate to see it slip into substandard quality. Also, e.g. OpenNTPD is a subset and is less accurate, so it is not a complete replacement. I will take it on if no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

Joe Peterson wrote: Has anyone volunteered to take net-misc/ntp? I know there are alternatives (like OpenNTPD), but this one is the official one, so I'd hate to see it slip into substandard quality. Also, e.g. OpenNTPD is a subset and is less accurate, so it is not a complete replacement. I