Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Mike Bonar
Caleb Tennis wrote: Hi all, Right now both the KDE and Ruby herds (which, informally, I am the *lead* on both) are hurting for people. I don't have the time to work on general Thanks, Caleb I was looking for an excuse to learn Ruby. I'll help all I can. Mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
Caleb Tennis wrote: > Hi all, > > Right now both the KDE and Ruby herds (which, informally, I am the *lead* > on both) are hurting for people. I don't have the time to work on general > maintenance and bugs at the moment, so we need some help. I've sent out a > request for help in the GWN a few

[gentoo-dev] Interactive Portage Development

2006-08-22 Thread Alec Warner
I only see the same 10 or 12 people commenting on gentoo-portage-dev, so if you are even remotely interested in portage development or interested in a sane API, or interested in seeing new features I would suggest you do two things. One is look on archives.gentoo.org and see what we have been talk

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Aaron Kulbe
On 8/22/06, Ioannis Aslanidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Meh, this wasn't supposed to get to the list :/I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one today, that has this problem. :)Cheers,Aaron Kulbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Meh, this wasn't supposed to get to the list :/ Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: Do you have any instructions for me Caleb? Shall I continue by picking up bugs and doing the usual stuff or do you have something else in mind? Caleb Tennis wrote: Hi all, [...] Thanks, Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul

2006-08-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:17, Duncan wrote: > FWIW, eradicator active once again sorry, but not really active when it comes to something core like toolchain does not describe eradicator's behavior > After all, there'd have > never been a need for eselect-compiler if gcc-config wasn't broken

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Do you have any instructions for me Caleb? Shall I continue by picking up bugs and doing the usual stuff or do you have something else in mind? Caleb Tennis wrote: Hi all, [...] Thanks, Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Aaron Kulbe
I'm going to add myself to the Ruby herd, if I can ever get infra- to get off their asses and put my keys back up on the servers.  I had a total data loss in the last couple weeks, and had to rebuild. Okay. I have to apologize gentlemen.  I will take my lumps.  I said this out of frustration.  Ther

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Aaron Kulbe
On 8/22/06, Caleb Tennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,Right now both the KDE and Ruby herds (which, informally, I am the *lead*on both) are hurting for people.  I don't have the time to work on generalmaintenance and bugs at the moment, so we need some help.  I've sent out a request for help i

[gentoo-dev] KDE and Ruby herd call for help

2006-08-22 Thread Caleb Tennis
Hi all, Right now both the KDE and Ruby herds (which, informally, I am the *lead* on both) are hurting for people. I don't have the time to work on general maintenance and bugs at the moment, so we need some help. I've sent out a request for help in the GWN a few weeks ago and got a lot of good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Dominique Michel
BTW, alsaplayer is in the proaudio overlay now. http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page It is 2 versions, a -r5 with the last Debian fixes, and a broken gtk2 cvs version. Dominique On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:26:56 + (UTC) "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abhay Kedia <[E

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Developer with need for urgent IT assistance

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
Cory Visi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:02:35 +: > I have an urgent need for IT assistance with a client of mine in Manhattan > (New York, NY, USA.) [snip] > Please respond with only serious inquiries. I am prepared to refer you >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 21 August 2006 14:59, Abhay Kedia wrote: > I use alsaplayer to play KDE sounds as it works well with dmix and I > can keep aRts disabled. All KDE sounds are ogg files and when I play > them with mpg321, it just exits without producing any sound. I guess > the only thing left for me to use

[gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:53:38 +0530: > On Monday 21 August 2006 19:53, Olivier Crête wrote: >> >> You can use ogg123 >> > Some of the files are wav files as well, so I can't play them using > ogg123 and KDE doesn't allow us

[gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:30:22 -0700: > Herbie Hopkins wrote: >> I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've >> just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. I've always >> viewed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Lance Albertson
Simon Stelling wrote: > Lance Albertson wrote: >> I generally try to do that, but after the 10th time the person doesn't >> respect you and demands things from you, its kind of hard to keep that >> mentality. > > Well, one out of >300. Simply do it for someone else then ;) > And that's what I do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Lance Albertson wrote: > I generally try to do that, but after the 10th time the person doesn't > respect you and demands things from you, its kind of hard to keep that > mentality. Well, one out of >300. Simply do it for someone else then ;) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Develop

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Developer with need for urgent IT assistance

2006-08-22 Thread Cory Visi
Gentoo developers and community: I have an urgent need for IT assistance with a client of mine in Manhattan (New York, NY, USA.) They have a single Gentoo Linux server, custom built, performing everything from file servering to Groupware solutions (Lotus Domino). This is a 32 person operation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:45:45 + Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:40:31PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:33:17 +0200 Simon Stelling | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Respect is something that should be applied unconditionally,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:40:31PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:33:17 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Respect is something that should be applied unconditionally, in my > | opinion. The "you don't so I won't" attitude gets us nowhere. > > But i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Lance Albertson
Simon Stelling wrote: > Lance Albertson wrote: >> Frankly, the attitude of a lot devs lately towards infra >> have made many of us not want to communicate what we're doing. If we're > > I can understand that, partly. But that won't help anyone. Assuming > you're not thinking *nobody* outside infra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:33:17 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Respect is something that should be applied unconditionally, in my | opinion. The "you don't so I won't" attitude gets us nowhere. But if respect is unearned and undeserved, it's meaningless. What's the point of being r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Lance Albertson wrote: > Frankly, the attitude of a lot devs lately towards infra > have made many of us not want to communicate what we're doing. If we're I can understand that, partly. But that won't help anyone. Assuming you're not thinking *nobody* outside infra does respect you, try to write

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Lance Albertson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:56:11 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I request that these teams present status reports bi-weekly (thats one > | every two weeks). You don't even have to write the reports, I will > | volunteer to bug you every two weeks about what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Alec Warner
Marius Mauch wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:56:11 -0400 > Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It has been noted that certain projects do not communicate their >> activities well. >> >> Many projects provide documentation for things(java), provide status >> updates on things(ppc), have bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] java and start-stop-daemon [repost]

2006-08-22 Thread paul kölle
Roy Marples wrote: > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:42, paul kölle wrote: [ snipp ] >> Starting /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java... >> Detatching to start /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java...done. >> [ ok ] >> >> -> app not running >> >> I'm mostly interested in changing the user at startup and pid file

Re: [gentoo-dev] java and start-stop-daemon [repost]

2006-08-22 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:42, paul kölle wrote: > works from command prompt: > gentoo ~ # start-stop-daemon -v --start --chuid helma --background > --pidfile /var/run/helma-default.pid --make-pidfile --startas > /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java -- -Djava.headless=True -Xmx64m -Xms64m > -jar /opt/h

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 21 August 2006 22:20, Elias Probst wrote: > Try "media-sound/picoxine". I think, that's what you're looking for. > Thans for the reply. I tried it but it doesn't play a few files. I don't know why but some sounds from k3b and kde_beep file don't play at all. I guess I will stick to mpla

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 21 August 2006 19:53, Olivier Crête wrote: > > You can use ogg123 > Some of the files are wav files as well, so I can't play them using ogg123 and KDE doesn't allow use to use multiple alternate players for playing its files. -- Regards, Abhay pgpYW5aFJwJFm.pgp Description: PGP sign

[gentoo-dev] java and start-stop-daemon [repost]

2006-08-22 Thread paul kölle
[posted on gentoo-java without luck, I hope those rc-stuff questions are not too off topic here...] Hi all, I'm trying to write a startup script for helma (http://helma.org) but start-stop-daemon gives me trouble here (I briefly looked at the jboss and jetty scripts but they don't use start-stop-