Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?

2005-06-08 Thread Aron Griffis
Nathan L. Adams wrote: [Wed Jun 08 2005, 05:44:58PM EDT] > Using your list there would be two types of enterprise 'requirements': > process requirements and support requirements. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm not good at seeing distinctions like that. > What developers seem to forget, is th

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Lance Albertson
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:45 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > I was up late on a friday evening hacking up a nifty addition to my > > system and in my excitement and exuberance jumped on IRC to the dev > > channel to get pointers to the best "official" references to ebuild > > crafting and submis

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-06-08 Thread Lance Albertson
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:59 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 06:20 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want > > > to get new baselayout stable asap', w

[gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: testers requested

2005-06-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to remove the latest xorg revision from package.mask by the end of the week, so I'd appreciate testing on any ebuild regressions or relatively simple fixups from anyone who has a chance to try it out. If you've got a problem, file a bug. Don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:59 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 06:20 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want > > to get new baselayout stable asap', we're serious > > last chance ! and it's done -mike -- gentoo-de

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen P. Becker
> I was up late on a friday evening hacking up a nifty addition to my > system and in my excitement and exuberance jumped on IRC to the dev > channel to get pointers to the best "official" references to ebuild > crafting and submission. > > As it was absolutely silent, I waited a few minutes and r

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
Joshua Baergen wrote: >>2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of >>interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning >>with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer. So >>for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogu

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:23 pm, Jim Northrup wrote: > so if it makes a difference, I approached a dev on #gentoo-dev, and met > with condescending and belittling treatment when i asked for voice. generally when someone asks for voice and i dont recognize them i ask why they want it voice ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Joshua Baergen
> 2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of > interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning > with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer. So > for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogues by filing a > bug, t

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Jim Northrup wrote: > 1) There is nowhere specified on gentoo.org or gentoo maintained sites > I've rtfm'd specifying any hint of conduct guidelines for being a > developer interfacing with the outside world, representing the > organization. Common social ettiquette does not always reside with >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Huebel
Jim Northrup wrote: might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? That's not a metastructure change, so it's OT for this thread. However, to help you understand the purpose of voicing someone in #g

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Corey Shields
Sorry you had a bad experience. Please do not let the words and actions of one developer reflect on the hundreds of others. On Wednesday 08 June 2005 04:23 pm, Jim Northrup wrote: > 1) There is nowhere specified on gentoo.org or gentoo maintained sites > I've rtfm'd specifying any hint of con

[gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
to address Luca, Erin, and Patrick as well, and cease the thread hijack implications Rob Holland wrote: >On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:59:34AM -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: > > >>might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to >>speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?

2005-06-08 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aron Griffis wrote: > In my humble opinion, Gentoo is missing too many points to be an > enterprise Linux. We commit to a live tree. We don't have true QA, > testing or tinderbox. We don't have paid staff, alpha/beta/rc cycles. > We don't really hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: mail-filter/amavis

2005-06-08 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:06:41 +0200 Andrej Kacian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:39:41 +0200 > Andrej Kacian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As this package doesn't seem to be actively maintained upstream (and people > > on amavis-user mailinglist suggest everyone upgrading to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Chris Hotchkiss (chotchki)

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Tom Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > Chris has just become a developer, in order to help with the Gentoo > Installer project. He's living in Tampa, Florida, where he's taking a > MIS Major at the University of South Florida. He enjoys reading (Jordan, > Asimov, Eddings, Goodkind), as well as more activ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Jan Brinkmann wrote: > It's actually installed on toucan. You have to ssh into > dev.gentoo.org to be able to vote. Ah, makes sense. Sorry for bothering, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:12, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > We are using dev.gentoo.org to collect ballots this year. The > > procedure is as follows: > > > > $ votify --new metastructure2005 > > Where do I get votify from? > >wopr-mobile ~ # votify >zsh: comm

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:39, Joseph Jezak wrote: > > Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable > > whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does. > > This is not usually our policy. However, because we moved GCC-3.4 to > stable before many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
Log into dev and type it :P On Wednesday 08 June 2005 12:12 pm, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > We are using dev.gentoo.org to collect ballots this year. The > > procedure is as follows: > > > > $ votify --new metastructure2005 > > Where do I get votify from? > >wopr-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Jan Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:12:59PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Where do I get votify from? > >wopr-mobile ~ # votify >zsh: command not found: votify >wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -s votify >Searching... >[ Results for search key : votify ] >[ Applications found : 0 ] It'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Daniel Drake wrote: > We are using dev.gentoo.org to collect ballots this year. The > procedure is as follows: > > $ votify --new metastructure2005 Where do I get votify from? wopr-mobile ~ # votify zsh: command not found: votify wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -s votify Searching...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:59 -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: > might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to > speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? I hope this was only a misunderstanding / miscommunication. #g-dev is already quite crowded and not

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Joseph Jezak wrote: Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does. This is not usually our policy. However, because we moved GCC-3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 18:12 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > We are using dev.gentoo.org to collect ballots this year. The > > procedure is as follows: > > > > $ votify --new metastructure2005 > > Where do I get votify from? ssh dev.gentoo.org :-) -- Stand still,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Aron Griffis
Jim Northrup wrote: [Wed Jun 08 2005, 11:59:34AM EDT] > might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to > speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? Making vague statements like this doesn't help anything. If you have a complaint, make it spec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Luca Barbato
Jim Northrup wrote: > might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to > speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? Sorry? Usually if the request for voice is polite enough won't be a problem. Voiced/avoiced people usually are known by developers for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:12:59 +0200 Sebastian Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do I get votify from? > >wopr-mobile ~ # votify >zsh: command not found: votify >wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -s votify >Searching... >[ Results for search key : votify ] >[ Applications fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Rob Holland
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:59:34AM -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: > might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to > speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? Sorry, I've missed how that's relevant to Gentoo metastructure..? -- rob holland - [ [EMA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 09 June 2005 00:00, Daniel Drake wrote: > - Form a task force for additional study ("Task-Force") > -core mail (7 June 2005) from jstubbs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (will be available on gentoo-dev as a response to this message) Not very patient, were we? ;) http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstub

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
Paul Waring wrote: [Wed Jun 08 2005, 10:22:12AM CDT] > On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers > > are > > eligible to vote. > > Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? Feel fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Thierry Carrez
Paul Waring wrote: > On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers are >>eligible to vote. > > Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? This is about how we organize the work between

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:22 +0100, Paul Waring wrote: > On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers > > are > > eligible to vote. > > Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? Because

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable > whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does. This is not usually our policy. However, because we moved GCC-3.4 to stable before many arches, there w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:05 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > That's simple. > > Give it the same functionality when called with any of build, bootstrap, > or minimal USE flags. heh...yeah, that would do it. Thanks, Mike -- -o()o- Michael Cumming

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Waring
On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers are > eligible to vote. Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: > - Form a task force for additional study ("Task-Force") > -core mail (7 June 2005) from jstubbs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (will be available on gentoo-dev as a response to this message) Jason Stubbs' proposal: I'm past this deadline, but I'd like to propose a modified "keepin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:41 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 03:21 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > Now that we've established however that openssl could compile with only > > a perl interpreter and none of the modules, we shouldn't have any > > dependancies in the other di

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Please keep future information regarding this poll public on gentoo-dev or similar. [publicising on gentoo-dev with permission from Grant Goodyear] Dear all, Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers are eligible to vote. The proposals up for vote: - The "FOSDEM

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Aron Griffis wrote: Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:[Tue Jun 07 2005, 05:32:31PM EDT] I also vote for alpha. I would like to see some indication of maintainer arch in metadata too, but in general agree with the policy of if one arch sta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 03:21 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Now that we've established however that openssl could compile with only > a perl interpreter and none of the modules, we shouldn't have any > dependancies in the other direction either? Once I find a general consensus on whether we need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:21 pm, Aron Griffis wrote: > Only if the ebuild is called something other than perl, right? > I mean, wouldn't it need to be called something like "miniperl" so > that openssl could dep on miniperl, and perl could dep on openssl? Actually, that's debatable, as it could

[gentoo-dev] your devaway needs you

2005-06-08 Thread Torsten Veller
Please keep your devaway information uptodate. Thanks and thanks for using devaway. BTW i would appreciate we either give an estimation when we will return or at least the date we add the away message. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
Not yet, still hashing :) On Tuesday 07 June 2005 06:22 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 06:39 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > > bugs would dissipate rapidly I think. It would save space (with his use > > flags/architecture, perl went from 12,300K to 930K) on livecd's. I have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:14 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 19:55 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > > > > > >>Also I find it amusing when people say that Gentoo exists for the > >>users. I think that is wrong. Gentoo exists for the *developers*. > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:07 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > I also like alpha, but that is not what I am responding to. And I have to > admit that I haven't followed this too closely. But the "if one arch > stabalises..." assumption can be misleading. For example, xorg-x11 > maintainer arch

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Chris Hotchkiss (chotchki)

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Martin
Hi all, Chris has just become a developer, in order to help with the Gentoo Installer project. He's living in Tampa, Florida, where he's taking a MIS Major at the University of South Florida. He enjoys reading (Jordan, Asimov, Eddings, Goodkind), as well as more active hobbies: swimming, volunteer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:45:46PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > This isn't always an option... but how hard would it be to rewrite > that stuff in awk or sed? For some of the scripts, it might be possible, but it's definetly well beyond my skills. It's 21073 lines of perl in total. I definetly do

Re: [gentoo-dev] unofficial gentoo development guide

2005-06-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:19:17 +0800 "Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Where I can find unofficial gentoo development guide? It isn't > present where it was week ago. I need it as soon as possible. see this link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344544-highlight