Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-06 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kumba wrote: > > So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the > flames burn bright enough to have earned a star designation from the > IAU. Given what's been going on lately, and with calls from myself and > others (i.e., mcum

[gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-06 Thread Kumba
So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the flames burn bright enough to have earned a star designation from the IAU. Given what's been going on lately, and with calls from myself and others (i.e., mcummings) to get back on track and actually like, you know, develop s

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Dawid Węgliński wrote: > Dnia 06-06-2007, śro o godzinie 18:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > napisał(a): > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Just stop claiming others are insane, abusive power-trippers just > > > > because you did not abide by a rule and got your punish

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 01:08 +0100, George Prowse wrote: > from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/coc.xml Look at the Council logs from the CoC being approved and the ones since. We asked for real guidelines so we could specifically avoid this sort of problem from happening. -- Chris Gianello

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wulf C. Krueger wrote: I'm sure they have the best intentions but I've never seen any clear guidelines for them. They use their best judgement what to handle and what not to but due to language barriers, cultura

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

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:14 -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > Great job Chris, way to stick it to them. Yes. It absolutely *is* a great job that I voiced my opinion in a manner that I thought was most beneficial for Gentoo. Shame on me for ever thinking about what might be best for Gentoo. Sha

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

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:08 -0300, Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote: > Good luck for the remaining proctors, they will need as they aparently can't > even expect any support from council members. There's a *BIG* difference between support and blind support. Nobody ever promised the proctors blind supp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > I'm sure they have the best intentions but I've never seen any clear > > guidelines for them. They use their best judgement what to handle and > > what not to but due to language barriers, cultural differences

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:10 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 05:29:47 PM Grant Goodyear wrote: > [Proctor system] > > a way to fix the current system, or should it be chucked entirely, as > > has been suggested? > > Personally, I think we simply don't need the proctors.

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

2007-06-06 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anders Hellgren wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:49 -0500 >> Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Or... perhaps when asked not to respond to a thread for 24 hours, you >>> could keep your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Freeman
Galevsky wrote: But I do not understand why 7 devs -even elected by the others- could make decisions on other projects and are described as the group in charge of the 'global issues and policies'. The logic is that most organizations are overseen by a board of directors. This system is used

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

2007-06-06 Thread Dawid Węgliński
Dnia 06-06-2007, śro o godzinie 18:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just stop claiming others are insane, abusive power-trippers just > > > because you did not abide by a rule and got your punishment for it. > > > > I'm claiming it

[gentoo-dev] Book recommendation: "producing open source software" (Chapter 6: "Communications")

2007-06-06 Thread Tiziano Müller
Hi everyone I received a book yesterday with the title "producing open source software", written by Karl Fogel. It's also available online for free: http://producingoss.com/ While reading through the latest messages here I thought that I should recommend that book (especially chapter 6) to you.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread George Prowse
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 05:29:47 PM Grant Goodyear wrote: [Proctor system] a way to fix the current system, or should it be chucked entirely, as has been suggested? Personally, I think we simply don't need the proctors. Nor do I. Every thread that has gone bad in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raúl Porcel wrote: > Agreed from mozilla. > > firefox and seamonkey already have the global use-flag Is there any guideline from mozilla team about what to do when there are more than one of these flags (firefox/seamonkey/xulrunner) supported by pack

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

2007-06-06 Thread Jeffrey Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Goodyear wrote: > > So, how about using this incident as an opportunity for a calm > discussion about the mandate and role of the proctors? > > Well reasoned thoughts and opinions welcome. > > -g2boojum- Benjamin Judas has probably been walk

Re: [gentoo-dev] To all the contributors of the current flame thread

2007-06-06 Thread Samuli Suominen
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:15:45 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No can do, its recess time in a few minutes, and then after that, its > naptime! Naptime doesn't sound that bad idea. Or a long good sleep. - Samuli Suominen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
> drawn in flames. drown, please excuse my spelling. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Josh Sled wrote: > I find it disappointing (maybe "telling", if one is less charitable) that > the Proctors never censured the original poster for either the tone of the > message, nor the personal invective it contained, and still haven't. I'd > imagine clear violations of the CoC to result in at

Re: [gentoo-dev] gnupg2 only vs gnupg-1 & gnupg-2

2007-06-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 21:02 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would also strongly favor if both gnupg-1 and gnupg-2 could be kept > > in different slots. > > And maybe an eselect (or similar) to select whether external programs > which call use gpg-1

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

2007-06-06 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Sled wrote: > Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> got out of hand. Perhaps the goal was laudable, but the methods were >> not? (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to >> be a proctor directive.) Or are peop

[gentoo-dev] To all the contributors of the current flame thread

2007-06-06 Thread Doug Goldstein
Hello and welcome to my e-mail, At this time I would like to encourage you to point your web browser to http://bugs.gentoo.org and start fixing some bugs. If you have the time and energy to argue, you have the time and energy to fix some bugs. Stop acting like you're in kindergarten and start acti

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

2007-06-06 Thread Anders Hellgren
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:49 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or... perhaps when asked not to respond to a thread for 24 hours, you could keep your fucking trap shut? If I'm asked by someone with a good reason, sure. If I'm told to

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

2007-06-06 Thread Josh Sled
Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > got out of hand. Perhaps the goal was laudable, but the methods were > not? (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to > be a proctor directive.) Or are people really looking for the proctors > to get involved only when behavior

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 07:20:18 PM Josh Saddler wrote: > Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > IRC is more or less self-moderated. > I'd have to disagree, given the pure insanity and horsepiss the last 48 > hours have been. Clearly, we can't keep ourselves in line. Well, yes, there are exceptions from th

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

2007-06-06 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Doty wrote: > Perhaps you should go take a long walk off a short pier. > [snip] > Oh, I'm so hurt. You think I'm a hypocrite. Man, what will I ever do? > Newsflash, I know I'm a hypocrite, which is a lot better than the > childish passive-aggres

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

2007-06-06 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:29:47AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > So, how about using this incident as an opportunity for a calm > > discussion about the mandate and role of the proctors? The proctors > > clearly felt that they should shut down this thread _before_ things > > got out of hand.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Galevsky
Hi all, I am not a dev but a Gentoo-addicted user that would be interested in getting involved. So I have no more situation awareness than the website and this ML brought to me. But I have 2 cents I want to share peacefully. First, I am wondering about the exact role of what is known to be: "Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag change: wxwindows to wxwidgets?

2007-06-06 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:02 -0700, Nathan Smith wrote: > I noticed that use.desc includes an entry for "wxwindows." The > wxWindows project changed its name to "wxWidgets" around three years > ago. [1] Perhaps the USE flag should be changed to "wxwidgets" or > simply "wx" to reflect the change.

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

2007-06-06 Thread Mauricio Lima Pilla
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:48:53 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > That wasn't what I said. What I said was that the forums staff have no > accountability, and that the proctors were suffering as a result of > containing too many of said forums staff. That's bullshit. We are subject to the same rules as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > I'm sure they have the best intentions but I've never seen any clear > guidelines for them. They use their best judgement what to handle and > what not to but due to language barriers, cultural differences etc. it's > difficult to judge. The guideline, as far as I understoo

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

2007-06-06 Thread Bastiaan Visser
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 06:10, Ryan Hill wrote: > ...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 internall

[gentoo-dev] Global USE flag change: wxwindows to wxwidgets?

2007-06-06 Thread Nathan Smith
I noticed that use.desc includes an entry for "wxwindows." The wxWindows project changed its name to "wxWidgets" around three years ago. [1] Perhaps the USE flag should be changed to "wxwidgets" or simply "wx" to reflect the change. Beside use.desc and affected ebuilds, there is also a wxwindow

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

2007-06-06 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Mike Doty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:29:47 -0500 >> Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to >>> be a proctor directive.) >> He changed the subject and signed "on behalf of gentoo-proctors". >> >>> I

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

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:33:29 -0700 > Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The problem is not so much the system as a small number of the >>> proctors. Perhaps it should be restaffed with people who aren't so >>> used to wielding god-like powers on the forums, where anyo

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

2007-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:33:29 -0700 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is not so much the system as a small number of the > > proctors. Perhaps it should be restaffed with people who aren't so > > used to wielding god-like powers on the forums, where anyone who > > dares say anythi

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just stop claiming others are insane, abusive power-trippers just > > because you did not abide by a rule and got your punishment for it. > > I'm claiming it because plenty of other people agree. You *did* see the > response that the proctors go

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

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:29:47 -0500 > Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to >> be a proctor directive.) > > He changed the subject and signed "on behalf of gentoo-proctors". > >> Is there a way to fix t

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

2007-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:08:30 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just stop claiming others are insane, abusive power-trippers just > because you did not abide by a rule and got your punishment for it. I'm claiming it because plenty of other people agree. You *did* see the response that the proctors go

[gentoo-dev] Proctors - improve the concept or discard it?

2007-06-06 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 05:29:47 PM Grant Goodyear wrote: [Proctor system] > a way to fix the current system, or should it be chucked entirely, as > has been suggested? Personally, I think we simply don't need the proctors. I'm sure they have the best intentions but I've never seen any clear

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Am Mittwoch 06 Juni 2007 17:53 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:49 -0500 > > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or... perhaps when asked not to respond to a thread for 24 hours, you > > could keep your fucking trap shut? > > If I'm asked by someone with a good rea

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

2007-06-06 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:49 -0500 > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Or... perhaps when asked not to respond to a thread for 24 hours, you >> could keep your fucking trap shut? > > If I'm asked by someone with a good reason, sure. If I'm told to by > someo

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

2007-06-06 Thread Marien Zwart
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:29:47AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Jun 05 2007, 05:00:28PM CDT] > > 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 ca

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

2007-06-06 Thread expose
Am Mittwoch 06 Juni 2007 17:42 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > > Is there a way to fix the current system, or should it be chucked > > entirely, as has been suggested? > > The problem is not so much the system as a small number of the > proctors. I feel like _anyone_* who willingly acts against a dont

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

2007-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:49 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or... perhaps when asked not to respond to a thread for 24 hours, you > could keep your fucking trap shut? If I'm asked by someone with a good reason, sure. If I'm told to by someone on a power trip with a history o

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

2007-06-06 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:29:47 -0500 > Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to >> be a proctor directive.) > > He changed the subject and signed "on behalf of

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-06 Thread Raúl Porcel
Agreed from mozilla. firefox and seamonkey already have the global use-flag -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:29:47 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to > be a proctor directive.) He changed the subject and signed "on behalf of gentoo-proctors". > Is there a way to fix the current system, or should it be c

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

2007-06-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Jun 05 2007, 05:00:28PM CDT] > 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 disli

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-06 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:44 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > use.local.desc:dev-java/swt:xulrunner - Build native browser integration > against xulrunner > use.local.desc:dev-python/gnome-python-extras:xulrunner - Enable support for > xulrunner instead of firefox > use.local.desc:dev-util/devhelp:

[gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-06 Thread Samuli Suominen
use.local.desc:dev-java/swt:xulrunner - Build native browser integration against xulrunner use.local.desc:dev-python/gnome-python-extras:xulrunner - Enable support for xulrunner instead of firefox use.local.desc:dev-util/devhelp:xulrunner - Enable support for xulrunner instead of firefox use.loc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] new dep list (useful just for cross stuff)

2007-06-06 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:24:00 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PMS overlords what's your take? > > You need to start by identifying use cases. Are you discussing handling > cross compiling, Yes multilib, Ok C++ / python ABIs Aargh, ehm, should we

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: gsl

2007-06-06 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I protest on the grounds that I help maintain PDL, and I'm a > non-conformist, which means no keywords or use flags that might be in > line with conforming to others. On some occasions I think you sometimes smoke that Gentoo Fungus. V-Li signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsl

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > I propose to create a new global USE flag: > > $ euse -i gsl > > [-] gsl (dev-perl/PDL): > Use the GNU scientific library for calculations > I p

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsl

2007-06-06 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, I propose to create a new global USE flag: $ euse -i gsl global use flags (searching: gsl) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: gsl) [-] gsl (dev-per

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fact Injection

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Kumba wrote: Anyways, we're off the crab guys. Really. We're pulling in blank pots, the crew is getting restless, and we're almost out of coffee and nicotine. Let's get our heads on straight, our asses in gear, fill our tanks and get back to port so we can get paid and go home. I wonder ho

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

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Krelin
> An excellent former manager of mine once gave me very good advice - > everybody is replaceable. I for one have been a bit annoyed by the "An excellent former manager" of yours either was Joseph Stalin or he just plagiarized this "very good advice". Love, H -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] new dep list (useful just for cross stuff)

2007-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:24:00 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PMS overlords what's your take? You need to start by identifying use cases. Are you discussing handling cross compiling, multilib, C++ / python ABIs or all of them? Then you need to identify what packages would need to do

[gentoo-dev] [PMS] new dep list (useful just for cross stuff)

2007-06-06 Thread Luca Barbato
yesterday we discussed about cross development and why the gentoo support for it works just to a point (and then has something missing) There are already some convoluted ideas about multiabi/multilib support with patches being discussed and there are some handy scripts that let you cross emerge st

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

2007-06-06 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! As I feel it's necessary to clarify: I've *not* made the decision to quite or anything, I didn't wnat to get that notion across in my mail. My point was that it had gotten so bad that I seriously started considering it - which is bad enough and made me think. If that has made half a person

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

2007-06-06 Thread Duncan
Kumba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:18:23 -0400: > Ya'll don't hear from me very often, usually because for the last 9 > months or so, I've been pretty apathetic to things that have been going > on. But I keep on truckin' because I have thi