Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Tim Yamin wrote: > Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there > for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and > I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally > come for me. > > I would like to wish all of you the very best, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Are you proposing just adding the support or creating the new profiles > as well? If it's just the support, adding it into portage now certainly > won't hurt anything (unless someone really fscks up the current > single-parent c

[gentoo-dev] Leave of Absence

2006-10-07 Thread Alec Warner
I killed my dev box somehow and due to recent meandering thoughts in my head I've decided not to buy replacement parts. This in turn affects my ability to do Gentoo work; so I have decided to take a leave of absence. It's kind of been in my mind for while. Treecleaners, I will talk to you a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Zac Medico wrote: Some of you may recall that I proposed the addition of multiple inheritance to profiles a couple of months ago [1]. The idea is to extend the "parent" file in profiles so that it supports any number of parents (one per line). Parents listed closer to the bottom of the file wil

[gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Some of you may recall that I proposed the addition of multiple inheritance to profiles a couple of months ago [1]. The idea is to extend the "parent" file in profiles so that it supports any number of parents (one per line). Parents li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-07 Thread Kumba
Thomas Cort wrote: There have been a number of developers leaving Gentoo in the past 6 months as well as a number of news stories on DistroWatch, Slashdot, LWN, and others about Gentoo's internal problems. No one seems to have pin pointed the problem, but it seems glaringly obvious to me. We simp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proxy maintainers (was: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide)

2006-10-07 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:06:39 +0200 Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of gentoo devs always seems to fight? Don't get confused by all the flames. It's only 10-20 devs out of ~150 who are always fighting - and that's usually only on mailinglists, they work together quite well outsi

[gentoo-dev] Another resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Gregorio Guidi
Hi, I think it's time for me to resign as a Gentoo developer. No bad blood or anything like that, I just realized that after being very active during 2005, in the last months I couldn't find time anymore for Gentoo development. Also, a month ago I moved from Italy to Los Angeles to work at UCLA (

[gentoo-dev] reminder: invalid usage of USE=static

2006-10-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
please remember that using USE=static to control whether static libraries are installed is wrong packages that can install static and shared libraries should always be installing them -mike pgpHHzEifWBaO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:19:14PM +, Tim Yamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer > tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months > Sorry to see you leave. Good luck. tomaw. > pgpsUI71BNcK3.pgp D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi Tim, Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 23:19 schrieb Tim Yamin: > I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer > tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months > the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been > eroded and hindered at pra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Peter Weller
Tim Yamin wrote: So long, and thanks for all the fish... Tim. Well, I've already given you my best wishes for the future, but it can't hurt to do it twice :P Have fun doing whatever it is you'll be doing with yourself Take care, Peter Weller -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.07 22:19, Tim Yamin wrote: All, [snip] So long, and thanks for all the fish... Tim. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list Tim, I'm sorry to see you depart. Good luck for the future, see you around on irc. Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Tim Yamin wrote: I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable. So long, and thanks for all the fish... I can't say this was unexpected, but I'm sorry to see you go. Are you going to continue to contribu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Tim, On 10/7/06, Tim Yamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable. All the very best with whatever you do next. It's been a real pleasure working with you on Gentoo,

[gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Yamin
All, I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been eroded and hindered at practically every opportunity by bad decisions, staff, and in some

[gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl)

2006-10-07 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, it has been a pleasure to work with you through bugzilla. I am really glad you are a developer now - I will not have to commit anything for you anymore now ;) Best regards, - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 09:58 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > I replied in your part of the thread because Release Engineering are > the obvious users of the mooted plans and reports. That was kinda my point. We aren't. We really don't care what version of Gnome/KDE/kernel get in the release. We ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 22:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 19:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > So we'll need to update the no-nptl profiles to be ~sys-libs/glibc-2.4 > > instead of >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4, obviously, but will there be any other > > changes necessary? > > i do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-07 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.07 00:26, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 10:24 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > Before you can have useful reports, you need a plan to report against. > Like a target date for 2007.0 and its contents. Such a plan depends on > other projects delivering the contents in accor