Konstantin Gizdov is now a developer

2022-08-28 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Hey everyone, I internally proposed Konstantin Gizdov to become a developer for his sustained good work on Arch Linux and the need to touch some [extra] packages sometimes. I'm pleased to announce that he has now become a full developer. All the relevant steps have been completed and he should

Re: Orphan keenerd packages

2023-02-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
I took armagetronad and the cataclysms. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposal to increase the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-03-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 25.03.24 09:10, Robin Candau wrote: Hi everyone, I'm writing this mail as proposal to increase the default `vm.max_map_count` [1] value in Arch Linux. The default `vm.max_map_count` 65530 value is making some Windows games crash (or even prevent them to start at all) while being played

Re: Resignation

2024-07-15 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 14.07.24 21:14, Florian Pritz wrote: Hi, Sadly I have no longer had the time necessary to properly handle master key holder and packager duties for a while now. I don't feel like it's fair to you guys and our users to keep this up any longer so I'm officially resigning now. Most pressing top

RFC: License Package Sources

2024-08-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/40 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Our package sources currently do not have explicit licenses. This RFC proposes to license all Arch Linux package sources und

RFC Final Comment Period: License Package Sources

2024-09-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/40 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Our package sources currently do

Re: RFC Final Comment Period: License Package Sources

2024-09-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 03.09.24 13:30, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/40 Please visit the above link for

Let's drop ollama-gemma2-2b and forbid GenAI models

2024-11-12 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Hey all, There's been some discussion about this via chat but no action has been taken. Some time ago, ollama-gemma2-2b was uploaded to [extra] which has caused some discussion for various reasons. I'm not writing this mail to address or open up the discussion for ethical or political concer

Re: RFC Final Comment Period: License Package Sources

2024-09-21 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 03.09.24 13:42, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 03.09.24 13:30, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs

Re: Let's drop ollama-gemma2-2b and forbid GenAI models

2024-11-13 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 13.11.24 05:53, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey all, There's been some discussion about this via chat but no action has been taken. Some time ago, ollama-gemma2-2b was uploaded to [extra] which has caused some discussion for various reasons. I'm not writing this mail to address

Re: Amending RFC40 to remove custom 0BSD license

2025-01-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 03.01.25 21:07, Morten Linderud wrote: Yo, Today I noticed that the "License package sources" RFC contained an amended 0BSD license that added a two paragraph exception for patch files and other auxiliary files. The purpose of this change is to ensure the license is not covering other files i

Cleaning up old [community*] repos

2025-02-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Hey, The git/community-to-extra migration was almost two years ago. Back then, we left the [community] repository and friends ([community-staging], [community-testing]) in place (though empty) so that users would have an easier time migrating. They've sat there unused for a long time now and

Re: Cleaning up old [community*] repos

2025-02-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07.02.25 16:11, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey, The git/community-to-extra migration was almost two years ago. Back then, we left the [community] repository and friends ([community- staging], [community-testing]) in place (though empty) so that users would have an easier time migrating

Re: News draft: Cleaning up old repositories

2025-02-16 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 14.02.25 19:11, Robin Candau wrote: On 2/14/25 6:49 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey all, Yo Sven, in an earlier thread [0], I proposed cleaning up the unused repos from repos.archlinux.org. They've become unused and stagnant after the git migration almost two years ago. We kept

News draft: Cleaning up old repositories

2025-02-14 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Hey all, in an earlier thread [0], I proposed cleaning up the unused repos from repos.archlinux.org. They've become unused and stagnant after the git migration almost two years ago. We kept them around so it wouldn't break setups of users that tried to get the repository sync databases with an

Re: Cleaning up old [community*] repos

2025-03-01 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07.02.25 16:23, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 07.02.25 16:11, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey, The git/community-to-extra migration was almost two years ago. Back then, we left the [community] repository and friends ([community- staging], [community-testing]) in place (though empty) so that

[arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service

2021-01-12 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
Hey all, lahwaacz made a service for collecting and displaying manpages from our packages that we now operate at man.archlinux.org. I believe this is news-post worthy. --- Title: man.archlinux.org is live We are happy to announce our newest public service: A manual pages indexing site at [m

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service

2021-01-12 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 13.01.21 00:12, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey all, lahwaacz made a service for collecting and displaying manpages from our packages that we now operate at man.archlinux.org. I believe this is news-post worthy. --- Title: man.archlinux.org is live We are happy to announce our newest

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service

2021-01-12 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 13.01.21 00:16, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:12:05AM +0100, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public wrote: While there are other man page indexing sites out there, it is our hope that publishing man pages that match the version of our released

[arch-dev-public] Decommissioning dragon and upgrading to new box

2021-01-14 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
Hey everyone, A new sponsorship term for dragon (our build server for those who weirdly enough don't know) was coming up and as the box was getting pretty slow for 2021 I felt perhaps we should also try for an upgrade. Anyway so Hetzner kindly agreed to give us a sponsorship deal for a bigge

Re: [arch-dev-public] Decommissioning dragon and upgrading to new box

2021-01-17 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 14.01.21 20:40, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey everyone, A new sponsorship term for dragon (our build server for those who weirdly enough don't know) was coming up and as the box was getting pretty slow for 2021 I felt perhaps we should also try for an upgrade. Anyway so Hetzner k

[arch-dev-public] build.archlinux.org now available

2021-01-26 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
Hello all, A new bigger and badder build box is now available to all packagers at build.archlinux.org. home dirs (but not .cache) have been transferred to the new box from dragon and all users should have access. The new box, as previously mentioned, is roughly twice as fast as dragon and ha

Re: [arch-dev-public] Decommissioning dragon and upgrading to new box

2021-01-30 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 18.01.21 01:40, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 14.01.21 20:40, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey everyone, A new sponsorship term for dragon (our build server for those who weirdly enough don't know) was coming up and as the box was getting pretty slow for 2021 I felt perhaps we should als

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 23:13, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 23:34, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > Options realistically are: > > > > 1) bump the baseline > > 2) provide a second more optimized port. > > 3) defer this until better tooling is av

Re: [arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

2021-03-15 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 15:17, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On 3/14/21 3:07 PM, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I just updated the server to also accept x86_64 feature levels, ARM > > and even i686. There is a new version of pkgstats (>= 3.1.0; currently > > in [testi

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-devops] deprecating git.archlinux.org

2021-06-24 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 22:05 Daniel M. Capella via arch-devops < arch-dev...@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > On June 23, 2021 4:01:06 PM EDT, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public < > arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Today mailman was moved to a dedicated vps, making gi

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC Final Comment Period: Adoption of a distribution-wide Code of Conduct

2021-10-06 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 06.10.21 12:47, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: On 27/9/21 4:33 am, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote: An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlin

Re: [arch-dev-public] Starting x86_64_v3 port

2022-01-29 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 15:17, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Allan McRae via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > Assuming we need people to help the x86_64_v3 port, I would post a news > > item and have people apply. We

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

2022-02-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 31.01.22 21:25, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s solve this centralized by integrating nvchecker into archweb. nvchecker is a program whic

Re: [arch-dev-public] Scope of arch-projects mailing list

2022-02-03 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On 03.02.22 12:53, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi all, while trying to use the arch-projects mailing list for an announcement I realized, that it is (probably?) not really supposed to be used for that at the moment. It explicitly states to be used for development discussion and pro