Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > one do you assign it to? The fastest gun in the west. > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about a > separate project that handles this, or

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:18:32 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Many objected to removal since old with minor issues is better than > new that doesn't work at all on some archs, or so the argument goes. TL;DR: The opposite exists, I think we should draw a bar in the middle. So goes the counter-argumen

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:30:21 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. > > s|so|to| > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > > maintenance of the ebuild to t

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:37:03AM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > > one do you assign it to? > > Oh the fun we had in the past when bugs got assigned to one ar

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > one do you assign it to? Oh the fun we had in the past when bugs got assigned to one arch team with a few others CC'd and no maintainer in sight (because maybe the m

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 02:30:21PM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. > > s|so|to| > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > > maintenance of the ebuild

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:41:57AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:28:55 +0100 > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > > And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism > > > > in place to relieve maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/go

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:48:44AM +0100, yac wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:02:49 -0500 > Emery Hemingway wrote: > > The default GOROOT that go looks at for base libraries seems to be > > compiled in so this should be pretty easy, like python but simplier. > > I'm not sure what you are trying t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree?

2014-02-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/02/14 16:12, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file? Rather than having a hard rule for allowing or disallowing image files, we should evaluate the intention of a file. If it make sense to edit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree?

2014-02-15 Thread James Cloos
> "JAD" == Jason A Donenfeld writes: UM>> Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file? JAD> I think we should not. Even if you can open it in a text editor, JAD> you can't "read" it or interact with it in the same way that you JAD> can a text-based patch. That's not tru

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emacs/mell

2014-02-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
# Ulrich Müller (15 Feb 2014) # Support library for app-emacs/prime-el, which is masked # for removal itself. No other reverse dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug 501426. app-emacs/mell pgpndeMHQ9ejG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/go

2014-02-15 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:13:27 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Emery Hemingway wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:30:10 +0100 > > Jan Matejka wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:59:16 -0600 > > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > >

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emacs/{alt-font-menu,cperl-mode,u-vm-color}

2014-02-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
# Ulrich Müller (15 Feb 2014) # Doesn't appear to work with Emacs 24. # Last upstream release in 2002. # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug 501412. app-emacs/alt-font-menu # Ulrich Müller (15 Feb 2014) # Included with Emacs since version 23. # cperl-mode-6.2 does not work with Emacs 24. # Masked

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > >> While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual >> maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it becomes the >> arch team's responsibility to deal wi

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 15-02-2014 a las 14:30 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: [...] > The only reasonable course of action is to start dropping stable > keywords for $ARCH, after a reasonable timeout. It gets tricky if this > involves removing many keywords on dependencies, but if that's what you > have to do to

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. s|so|to| > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it becomes the > arch team's responsibility to deal w

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:28:55 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism > > > in place to relieve maintainers of those bugs. > > > > Such mechanism could be to assign those bug to the