[gentoo-dev] GLEP 27 - API Specs

2006-07-29 Thread Mike Kelly
Hi, Attached is a draft of my API spec for my GLEP 27 implementation (user/group management for package managers). Any feedback would be appreciated. The latest version of this document can also be found in my subversion repository[1]. Thanks! [1] http://soc.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/glep0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-29 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Hill wrote: > > So far the only difference between this and doing a query on b.g.o for > maintainer-wanted is that it's on mailing list. Which (as a side note), increase the flow of communication between developers and users, giving an alternati

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-29 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno wrote: > > Through proxy-dev I may contribute ebuild for a few packages and maintain > them > over the time period I have use for them. E.g. drivers as long as I have > given hardware (in use). That is great! > > What would be useful is to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 22:20 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: > no reply, opened a bug (#140242) some two weeks ago---still nothing. Everything prior to this was unlikely to get a response. As for the bug, two weeks is barely infancy for some bugs. > Seems I'm not following some arcane protocol. I m

[gentoo-dev] Re: proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: The 'modus-operandi' would go like this: 1 - We setup a mailing list (yes, yet another one, but this one is gonna be useful!) , call it , [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 - Developers interested to serve as a proxy , subscribe to the list. 3 - Users ask

[gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/27/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "majority" of packages are also the ones that need more extensive testing. Sure, we could probably stabilize a bunch of the fringe packages that hardly anyone uses and it wouldn't affect anything. The majority

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-29 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:09 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really > > the majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected, > > and just sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable > > becaus

[gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > (stuff) "Me too!" Seriously, you nailed it on the head. How many times have you had this conversation: u: "Why is it taking so *!#$!@ long to get KDE/Gnome/XFCE stabilized?! Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu got it a whole week ago! OMG!!1!" d: "It'll be stabilized once it's a

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

2006-07-29 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 15:07 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > We're nearing the end of the nomination period. > > So far (if we are to trust > http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/council-2006-nominees.xml) the following > developers accepted their nomination : > > > (Those developers should accept their

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

2006-07-29 Thread Thierry Carrez
Errata for candidates list : robbat2 self-nominated (so he probably also accepted) UberLord accepted his nomination -K -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-29 Thread Thierry Carrez
We're nearing the end of the nomination period. So far (if we are to trust http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/council-2006-nominees.xml) the following developers accepted their nomination : dostrow Flameeyes KingTaco kloeri Kugelfang lu_zero nattfodd patrick pauldv Pylon spb vapier wolf31o2 Those wer

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-29 Thread Bruno
On Saturday 29 July 2006 02:19, Alastair Tse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:51 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Robert Cernansky wrote: > > > If I have some application that is not included in portage why > > > I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be > > > accepted and i