Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know that real standards aren't a free for all, right? They're usually written by a small group, and then commented on by interested parties when they're already well into being written. Which is exactly what we're doing... You forgot t

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Alexander Færøy
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:10:51PM -0800, Mike Doty wrote: > I was never offered this offer. If you read the emails by Ciaran you will see that he already offered the council members access to read the draft. -- Alexander Færøy Bugday Lead Alpha/IA64/MIPS Architecture Teams User Relations, Quali

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Luca Barbato
Stephen Bennett wrote: > At this stage, individuals can ask for a copy, or for read access to This stage is usually called early draft, the editor puts every input he deems useful in the first document and then he sends it for discussion once he is happy with it. So, no problems on this practice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread George Prowse
Bryan Østergaard wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. Clearly, something needs to be done

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:58:48 -0800 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Brian Harring wrote: | [snip] | > In light of that, don't really see any reason for the council to | > *not* get a status update on it. | | We get "status" updates on it. it's pretty much "it's not

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:58:48 -0800 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Brian Harring wrote: | [snip] | > In light of that, don't really see any reason for the council to | > *not* get a status update on it. | | We get "status" updates on it. it's pretty much "it's not done, we | don't want to

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Mike Doty
Brian Harring wrote: [snip] In light of that, don't really see any reason for the council to *not* get a status update on it. We get "status" updates on it. it's pretty much "it's not done, we don't want to show you" every month. It's one of the things I intend to bring up at the march meet

Re: [gentoo-dev] removal of winex/winex-cvs ?

2007-02-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Hanno Böck wrote: > Today I saw that we still have the fake-ebuilds of winex/winex-cvs (just > basically telling the user they've been removed). I think they can die? done -mike pgpmJFNYVSv0H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:22:07 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way that the public can view the PMS spec that you have > created so far? > > I am not totally familiar with how you are going about developing PMS, > but based on some of your comments in this thread I'

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:22:07 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is there any way that the public can view the PMS spec that you have | created so far? They can ask spb. If spb is convinced that they have something useful to contribute at this stage, and that they won't do somethin

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
Ciaran, Is there any way that the public can view the PMS spec that you have created so far? I am not totally familiar with how you are going about developing PMS, but based on some of your comments in this thread I'm a little bit concerned. -Daniel On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-dev] removal of winex/winex-cvs ?

2007-02-20 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Today I saw that we still have the fake-ebuilds of winex/winex-cvs (just basically telling the user they've been removed). I think they can die? Treecleaers? -- Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpxaLxHSoUrv.pgp Descr

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:47:04 +0100 "Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the | | Now you talk about this, a standard is, in standard practice, the | result of a collabora

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the Now you talk about this, a standard is, in standard practice, the result of a collaborative effort of representing members of the organization(s) that is (are) supposed to adh

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:57:50 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:29 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | The question was specifically in regards to timelines; completion | > | so that ongoing paludis vs pkgcore vs portage crap can be put to | > | rest. | >

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:29 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | The question was specifically in regards to timelines; completion so > | that ongoing paludis vs pkgcore vs portage crap can be put to rest. > > *shrug* I don't see PMS as being viable until there's a fully > conformant independent imp

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:12:12 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 1) ebuilds and *especially* eclasses do way too many weird things and | can often depend on idiosyncrasies of portage. The eclass bash scripts | can be quite complex and probably 9 out of 10 (99 out of 100?) times | I'

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
OK, my initial impression of this is: 1) ebuilds and *especially* eclasses do way too many weird things and can often depend on idiosyncrasies of portage. The eclass bash scripts can be quite complex and probably 9 out of 10 (99 out of 100?) times I'd put the burden of compatibility on the eclass

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:19:12 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I think that standardization is a good thing and interoperability | between paludis, portage, pkgcore and others is something we should | strive for. If at all possible, I think that this standardization | effort shoul

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/mozilla[-bin]

2007-02-20 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel (20 Feb 2007) # Masked for removal 19 Mar 2007, bug 135257, security issues # Replaced by www-client/seamonkey[-bin] www-client/mozilla www-client/mozilla-bin So, amd64 finally stabilized the mono ebuild which doesn't need mozilla, this can be punted. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mail

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
Ciaran, Admittedly, I'm new to this PMS thing so in many cases I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, but I guess I need to jump in somewhere I think that standardization is a good thing and interoperability between paludis, portage, pkgcore and others is something we should strive for.

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:22:14 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Perhaps not all of the council; distinctly recall diego pushing about | it though. Quick look through council logs, robbat2 was asking about | timeline also (jan. meeting specifically). You've gotta ask *why* certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
First, by directing this email at you, I am not in any way suggesting that others are justified in attacking you or that you are at fault in a technical sense. That being said, it's generally futile to bitterly demand that people treat you with respect. It doesn't work. So, that means that if yo

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:08:14PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 18:33 schrieb Brian Harring: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 > > > > > > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Poss

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 18:33 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 > > > > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Possible they've gone and shifted the name (or disabled > > > notification); ei

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Possible they've gone and shifted the name (or disabled > > notification); either way, think it's probably worth getting a status > > update on it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:12:26 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Can you please refrain from making inflammatory accusations in your | posts? This is not a forum for airing personal grievances, and they do | not serve any purpose besides encouraging others to do the same to you | -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
Hi Ciaran, Can you please refrain from making inflammatory accusations in your posts? This is not a forum for airing personal grievances, and they do not serve any purpose besides encouraging others to do the same to you - as you have discovered. -Daniel On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROT

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possible they've gone and shifted the name (or disabled > notification); either way, think it's probably worth getting a status > update on it in council this coming month. Right now I'm placing a higher priority on get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:29:32PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: > >On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > >>Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: > >>>On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > >>> > Ciaran McCreesh ha s

Re: [gentoo-dev] let's clear things up (was Slacker archs)

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 08:11 -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:35:32 + > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker > > archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. > > Clearly,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Roy Marples
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:22:46 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:09:27 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Regardless, data was presented as "see, mips isn't behind"; > which... | isn't the case as your own data shows. > > As my own data show

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:46:32 +0100 Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Better protect gentoo and it's developer, especially the more active | ones from the gravitational waves of those few, very annoying | satellites. Then it will be possible to actually work to the rest. You mean the d

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:13:54 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So... how far a long are they? Better to say what we don't have: * descriptions of all those pesky little helper programs. * clarity and detail for certain sections. | Further, since this *is* something gentoo needs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:09:27 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Regardless, data was presented as "see, mips isn't behind"; which... | isn't the case as your own data shows. As my own data shows, mips is not behind in absolute terms. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:49:56PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:11:20PM +, Steve Long wrote: > | > Before you go- were you working on EAPI? I've been waiting ages on > | > that.. > |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:52:07PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:21:49 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:35:32AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker > | > archs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:21:49 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:35:32AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker | > archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. | > Clearly, so

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:24:54 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:11:20PM +, Steve Long wrote: | > Before you go- were you working on EAPI? I've been waiting ages on | > that.. | | No, that's spb's project (with apparent help from ciaranm). | http://cia.n

EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:11:20PM +, Steve Long wrote: > Before you go- were you working on EAPI? I've been waiting ages on that.. No, that's spb's project (with apparent help from ciaranm). http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/PMS Possible they've gone and shifted the name (or disabled notifica

[gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs)

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Long
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > All of that said, how about we clear up all of the misinformation about > how arch keywording really works, how deps get wrongly dropped, and then > explain why mips has generally fallen behind. This isn't an excuse, > but is merely a statement of facts which describe th

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/gkrellm + x11-plugins/gkrell* stuff needs a maintainer

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Ramsay
Jakub Moc wrote: > The maintainer has been MIA for quite some time and has a retirement > bug open, so the bugs are piling up. > > Please, have a look at the tracker Bug 165185 if you are interested in > taking over this. > > Basically, gkrellm-1* and ebuilds that depend on it need to be removed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:21:49 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please Brian, make this a monthly. :) Kind regards, JeR -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Francesco Riosa
Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs clu

[gentoo-dev] let's clear things up (was Slacker archs)

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen P. Becker
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:35:32 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker > archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. > Clearly, something needs to be done about this. Wow, I almost don't know where

[gentoo-dev] CVS/SVN Migration, downtime Friday 23 Feb, 07h00-09h00 UTC

2007-02-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, We'll be migrating to some new hardware for cvs.gentoo.org later this week. I am making a worst-case estimate that the migration will take two hours, but if everything goes right, it should take much less. CVS and SVN on the old machine (lark) will stop accepting commits at Friday morni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: > >On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > > >>Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: > >>>It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker > >>>archs cluttering up th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Francesco Riosa
Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. Clearly, something needs to be done abo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: > >It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker > >archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. > >Clearly, something needs to be done about this. > > It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Francesco Riosa
As other have pointed out these statistics are not rappresentative of how mips is stopping developers to do work on their packages. Also as stated in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163795 Stephen Becker alias "geoman" has promised us all to retire soon, so the situation can only become w

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: reduce conflicts, separate keywording from ebuilds

2007-02-20 Thread Luca Barbato
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > comments? > just find a scriptable system to manage server side mass keywording... as in $EDITOR tokeywordfile (same syntax as package.keywords) repoman tokeywords tokeywordfile (repoman first checks it is applicable locally and then push it over the server whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

2007-02-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 19-02-2007 20:21:49 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > Granted, ppc-macos has more, but mips has 7x the number of packages... > plus ppc-macos is effectively a dead arch, they've gone on to prefix > land for the most part. I just want to apologise to everyone that somehow gets messed up because of