Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > > Yey, we're allowed to sometimes do revert games, if we're asking nicely > > ... and the only way to stop the revert game is for QA to stand down. > > We're allowed to send strongl

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/20/2014 10:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 01/20/14 15:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >>> #gentoo-qa | @hwoarang: pretty sure diego had the powerzz to > suspend > >>> peop

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Yey, we're allowed to sometimes do revert games, if we're asking nicely > ... and the only way to stop the revert game is for QA to stand down. > We're allowed to send strongly-worded emails, but getting things baked > into policy is too ra

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 01/20/2014 10:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 01/20/14 15:59, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> #gentoo-qa | @hwoarang: pretty sure diego had the powerzz to suspend >>> people >>> >>> Whether this has actually happened is something that is q

Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy

2014-01-20 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/20/2014 06:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch

2014-01-20 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 10:46 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Now what problem are we trying to solve? As I see it, it is mainly > one of manpower, namely that some arch teams cannot keep up with > stable requests, and I doubt that any technical solution will help > to solve this. Introducing a "noarc

Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy

2014-01-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it

Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy

2014-01-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in >> the one place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc. > If it is policy, s

Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy

2014-01-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in the one place > that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc. > -mike If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in this file? Given that, I have questio

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword written in python from scratch

2014-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 January 2014 04:16:23 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Sorting order is different from the present ekeyword. The part after > the hyphen (or the empty string if there is no hyphen) should be used > as primary key and the part before the hyphen as secondary key. hmm, was unaware of that. shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 15:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> #gentoo-qa | @hwoarang: pretty sure diego had the powerzz to suspend >> people >> >> Whether this has actually happened is something that is questionable; > > Not that this necessarily needs to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > #gentoo-qa | @hwoarang: pretty sure diego had the powerzz to suspend > people > > Whether this has actually happened is something that is questionable; Not that this necessarily needs to make it into the GLEP, and I'm still on the fenc

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword written in python from scratch

2014-01-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i finally got annoyed with the perl version (and its output and bugs > and limitations) and wrote a new version. it's fairly modular (and > has pretty good unittest coverage!?), so if we wanted to look at > integrating it into portage or other too