Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Peter Weller
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:43:49 -0600 (MDT) Jason Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..snip..] But who are people going to accidentally hilight now?! :'( signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fact Injection (was: Living in a bubble)

2007-06-05 Thread Kumba
Benjamin Judas wrote: --8< 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported package manager on alpha 21:36 <@eroyf> yes 21:36 <@eroyf> like it is on mips 21:36 * eroyf giggles 21:36 <@eroyf> all the mips devs are using it anyways 21:37 <@spb> and of course the ultim

[gentoo-dev] www-servers/boa wants YOU...

2007-06-05 Thread Ryan Hill
...to maintain it. Boa is "a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike traditional Web servers, it does not fork for each incoming connection, nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple connections. It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP connections, and forks

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Freeman
Tobias Klausmann wrote: I'm not pulling the "leave in a huff" card. Gentoo can survive without me just fine. But I think it might be illustrative that I, as a user seek alternatives due to this completely irrational, childish and downright stupid behaviour. An excellent former manager of min

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Jan Kundrát
Tobias Klausmann wrote: > But seeing how things have been deteriorating in the last few > months, I begin to doubt that that's a good idea. > > I'm not pulling the "leave in a huff" card. Gentoo can survive > without me just fine. But I think it might be illustrative that > I, as a user seek alte

[gentoo-dev] Conflict Resolution Project Member Changes

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, I've had three new people join the conflict resolution sub project of devrel over the last couple of weeks. Chrissy Fulham aka musikc Deedra Waters aka dmwaters Michael Marineau aka marineam I'm glad to have them onboard and they've already convinced me that adding them to the team wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 03:35 +0200, Bryan Østergaard wrote: > It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally > retiring from > Gentoo. > > I've been a Gentoo developer for nearly 4 years now and I like to at least > pretend that I've made some important contributions to Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread expose
Mike Auty wrote: > The number of Gentoo developers, I believe, is in the range of 400, > but I've never counted them all. FYI, Off-Topic: According to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml 336 active developers, 50 of them marked away. According to http://www.gent

Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:43 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: > > > So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account > > from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially sugges

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 00:33 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! Tobias, I just wanted to say that I feel you raised some very valid points and your e-mail was pretty good! Thanks for taking the time to write it. Christel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tobias, As a mostly under-spoken developer, I'd like to say that there are many other developers in Gentoo than just those seen regularly on -dev. We also add ebuilds to the tree, but tend to be content minding our own little corner of Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Freeman
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:00:25PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I really have to agree with you. The proctors have completely lost their way. They are ineffective. They tend to compound the problems they were created to stop. They are slow. They have not prevented an

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Matti Bickel
Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [lots of good stuff] You rock. It's that simple. Your analysis of the problem hits the nail on the head and i call on all participating devs and users alike to step the hell back and take a deep breath before posting again. It's helps your bloodpressur

[gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! First, a few words on where I'm coming from, so you can maybe see why I see things the way I do. I've been using Gentoo since some time before 1.2. I've always liked its flexibility, its excellent docs and that one could always find out how things work. I'm also a Gentoo rsync mirror admin. T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:00:28PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > As much as I dislike many of the posts from geoman/ciaranm, they really > had not done anything worthy of being banned. 1) Someone posts a thread which is about to go up in flames. 2) After a short period of time, the proctors pos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:00:25PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I really have to agree with you. The proctors have completely lost > their way. They are ineffective. They tend to compound the problems > they were created to stop. They are slow. They have not prevented > anything, which was

Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Jason, If you leave, the plants win. That has just made my day. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Perhaps it would be a good time to try another approach to the problem? How about proctors that are responsible for ensuring any arguments stay within bounds of technical discussion and formal logic rules? Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I really have to agree with you. The proctors have completely los

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > Proctors: please let me know when my ban expires. You're not even banned? -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org http://forums.gentoo.org || http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/proctors/ forum-mods (at) gentoo.org || proctors

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
On 05/06/07, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a member of the Council, I find it personally offensive that the Proctors have taken this action on what wasn't even a "problem" thread. I'm sick of this. I call for the immediate disbanding of the Proctors. As much as I dislike many o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 21:52 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:44:23 +0100 > Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For that reason alone, it should normally be avoided in international > > forums such as are provided by Gentoo. > > Why yes! Gentoo needs to be one hundred

Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:43 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: > > > So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account > > from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially sugges

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:13 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:44:23PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > > Please step back, take a deep breath and avoid posting to this thread > > for 24 hours. > > Folks, while we're cutting some slack to the people replying > somewhere else in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Tuesday 05 of June 2007 23:45:22 Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > as you have, because apparently, neither of us can follow a simple > instruction. I couldn't care less about proctors' instructions after their latest decision. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:13:25PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:44:23PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > > Please step back, take a deep breath and avoid posting to this thread > > for 24 hours. > > Folks, while we're cutting some slack to the people replying > somewhere e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > On Tuesday 05 of June 2007 23:13:48 Wernfried Haas wrote: >> So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account >> from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially suggested. > > Haven't roy ju

Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially suggested. Regardless of whether their postings are viewed as useful or no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Tuesday 05 of June 2007 23:13:48 Wernfried Haas wrote: > So far we have temporarily suspended both ciaran's and geoman's account > from posting and encourage everyone to do as Roy initially suggested. Haven't roy just said that jokes "should normally be avoided in international forums such as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:08:38 +0100 George Prowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was your behaviour wrong? Not particularly. Was it in bad taste? > Definitely. Could his email to the list stop others from making the > same mistakes? Hopefully. Bad taste depends entirely upon context and upon the pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:22:04 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Common sense? Where the hell are you? Common sense abandoned Gentoo months ago. Maybe years. Unless it was the other way around, which seems more likely. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Way to go Proctors! I think you just tipped few more people over the edge. Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:44:23PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > >> Please step back, take a deep breath and avoid posting to this thread >> for 24 hours. >> > > Folks, while we're cutting som

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:44:23PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > Please step back, take a deep breath and avoid posting to this thread > for 24 hours. Folks, while we're cutting some slack to the people replying somewhere else in the thread because they may not have gotten the mail by Roy yet (and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread George Prowse
Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:29:02 +0200 Benjamin Judas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am sick of hearing such jokes. Then ignore them, and don't blow them out of proportion so that everyone else who didn't see them in its original context, and probably doesn't particularly wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Raúl Porcel
Peter Weller wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:09:52 +0200 > Benjamin Judas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..snip..] > > Is it just me or did you send the same mail to the ML twice? > > *sigh* /me blames welp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen P. Becker
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:44:23 +0100 Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007.06.05 21:09, Benjamin Judas wrote: > > This is problably going to start a flamewar, but I am sick of such > > (insert appropriate term for animal excrements here) on mailing > > lists, > [snip] > > Ladies and Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Christian Hartmann
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 22:37:25 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > > I am sick of hearing such jokes. > > Then don't listen. Nono. It's not that easy. New users will have to listen as they have to take things seriously being said on official channels by developers. I'm just telling you what new users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:44:23 +0100 Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For that reason alone, it should normally be avoided in international > forums such as are provided by Gentoo. Why yes! Gentoo needs to be one hundred percent serious and entirely not fun. Anyone saying anything remotely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Gustavo Zacarias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Weller wrote: > Is it just me or did you send the same mail to the ML twice? It's just you, there's no dupe. It's just you, there's no dupe. - -- - -- Gustavo Zacarias Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey Gentoo/SPARC monkey -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning

2007-06-05 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2007.06.05 21:09, Benjamin Judas wrote: > This is problably going to start a flamewar, but I am sick of such > (insert appropriate term for animal excrements here) on mailing > lists, [snip] Ladies and Gentlemen, Please step back, take a deep breath and avoid posting to this thread for 24 ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:29:02 +0200 Benjamin Judas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sick of hearing such jokes. Then ignore them, and don't blow them out of proportion so that everyone else who didn't see them in its original context, and probably doesn't particularly want to, has to see them in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Christian Hartmann kirjoitti: >> --8< >> 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported >> package manager on alpha >> 21:36 <@eroyf> yes >> 21:36 <@eroyf> like it is on mips >> 21:36 * eroyf giggles >> 21:36 <@eroyf> all the mips devs are using it anyways >> 21:37 <

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:29:02 +0200 Benjamin Judas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported > > > package manager on alpha > > > > This is what is known as a joke. Most people can recognise it as > > such. > > As is the whole discussion abo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Peter Weller
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:09:52 +0200 Benjamin Judas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..snip..] Is it just me or did you send the same mail to the ML twice? *sigh* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Christian Hartmann
> --8< > 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported > package manager on alpha > 21:36 <@eroyf> yes > 21:36 <@eroyf> like it is on mips > 21:36 * eroyf giggles > 21:36 <@eroyf> all the mips devs are using it anyways > 21:37 <@spb> and of course the ultimate aim i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Benjamin Judas
> > 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported > > package manager on alpha > > This is what is known as a joke. Most people can recognise it as such. As is the whole discussion about this 'project'. Addionally, for this topic the borderlines between "joke" and "serious" se

[gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Benjamin Judas
This is problably going to start a flamewar, but I am sick of such (insert appropriate term for animal excrements here) on mailing lists, forums and even websites. It's okay to have dreams, they keep us working on the things we like. But trying to force your dreams to come true annoys other people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen P. Becker
*snip* > --8< > 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported > package manager on alpha > 21:36 <@eroyf> yes > 21:36 <@eroyf> like it is on mips > 21:36 * eroyf giggles > 21:36 <@eroyf> all the mips devs are using it anyways > 21:37 <@spb> and of course the ultimat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
> 21:36 <@spb> next step is making paludis the officially supported > package manager on alpha This is what is known as a joke. Most people can recognise it as such. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble

2007-06-05 Thread Benjamin Judas
This is problably going to start a flamewar, but I am sick of such (insert appropriate term for animal excrements here) on mailing lists, forums and even websites. It's okay to have dreams, they keep us working on the things we like. But trying to force your dreams to come true annoys other people

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It can also, Be used by kismet, but it's not clear whether there are strong bindings there, or if espeak could easily be substituted using kismet.conf. Dunno if that's useful or not, but there you go... Mike 5:) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new bugzilla resolution: NEEDPATCH

2007-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:44:08 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:32:22AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows a number of (enhancement) > > bugs that are fixable, but the assignee doesn't have the motivation > > to come

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello William, On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 06:25:07 AM William Hubbs wrote: > app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some > time. I don't really *need* festival from an accessibility point of view but I'm using it from time to time and find it quite useful. > Once emacspeak

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Deedra Waters (dmwaters)

2007-06-05 Thread Alin Năstac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrej Kacian wrote: > Hah, yet another proof that Gentoo is addictive. I wonder when we will be forced to put stickers like "Gentoo may affect your social life" on our media :-) Welcome back, Deedra! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Deedra Waters (dmwaters)

2007-06-05 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Nice to have you back with us Deedra!!! On 6/5/07, Andrej Kacian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:08:48 +0200 Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's my pleasure to welcome back Deedra Waters (also known as dmwaters on > IRC). > > Deedra is joining us from Pensacola, FL

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Deedra Waters (dmwaters)

2007-06-05 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:08:48 +0200 Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's my pleasure to welcome back Deedra Waters (also known as dmwaters on > IRC). > > Deedra is joining us from Pensacola, FL. She is going to work on the > accessibility stuff (she is blind), will be re-joining Develo