Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 22/03/18 07:31, Benda Xu wrote: > We might be able to require GPG signed email to make a post. Almost definitely. But before bikeshedding that, it would be advisable to find out whether it would be a good idea in the first place. Unless you want only prospective developers to be able to contrib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 20/03/18 13:17, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Could someone please explain how this doesn't directly contradict the > core tenets of an open and inclusive community? It's fairly simple to produce a justification of the decision. I can think of several ways of doing so. One is through an appeal to so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 10/01/18 08:55, Lars Wendler wrote: > Seems we're turning into an elitist club or something... Gentoo has already had the reputation of being an elitist club for years. As such I'd like to see steps to remedy this status, rather than taking steps like this, which just exacerbates the unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

2017-12-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 17/12/17 20:35, Lars Wendler wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gilbert >> wrote: >>> I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this >>> policy is a royal pain in the ass. >>> >>> I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at >>> least 100 KiB, prefer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 14/12/17 17:09, David Seifert wrote: >> So I can add tons of broken packages, sprinkled over different >> days, hidden between other valid bumps, and can then tell people >> they need to lastrite this stuff first and do the 30-day rain >> dance? Come on, even for Gentoo standards, that's absolut

Re: That's all folks. (Re: OT Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists)

2017-12-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 08/12/17 21:22, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Independent of whether William now unsubscribed or not, he's now enjoying a > lengthy (1 year until review) vacation from all Gentoo communication channels. > This seems like a meaningless thing to post at this point. And you might want to conside

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: app-arch/unrar-gpl

2017-08-31 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 31/08/17 09:49, Vladimir Romanov wrote: > I've attached "old" rar_v3.rar and "new" rar_v4.rar. Works fine. :) -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: app-arch/unrar-gpl

2017-08-31 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 31/08/17 09:37, Vladimir Romanov wrote: > But does it work for RAR5? Give me a RAR5, and I can test it for you. -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: app-arch/unrar-gpl

2017-08-31 Thread Alexander Berntsen
Just a note in case anyone is relying on this package for RAR files; check out unar. It's LGPL, and works for e.g. RARv3. -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing PMS to Portage Manager Specification

2017-08-12 Thread Alexander Berntsen
While the PMS perhaps hasn't been an unequivocal success, it's still a good effort with some success. I would be disappointed to see the proposed change, and view it as a bad sign for Gentoo. -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander signature.asc Description: OpenPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-29 Thread Alexander Berntsen
On 27/05/17 18:17, Patrick Lauer wrote: > But you do gentoo wrong, so as a user I'd like you to reconsider what > you wrote there and maybe take a long vacation. I too do not hate our users (in which I include myself). Treating users as a worthless nuisance, unless they're writing ebuilds or mana

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED

2016-06-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/06/16 15:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > That could actually be generalized. I could see many types of > bugs where the issue is with upstream, and we might want to track > the progress as upstream implements a fix, releases it, and then it > is sta

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED

2016-06-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I *seriously* object to a RFC that affects so many people lasting *less than 24h*. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXY77iAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BCKIP/3ZG

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED

2016-06-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/06/16 09:50, Michał Górny wrote: > However, isn't the URL field sufficient for this? This is useful in many cases for describing the bug and similar things when the bug is being reported. Is it possible to have multiple URLs sensibly in this fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I would like to keep CONFIRMED as I use it and find it useful. I also think that renaming UNCONFIRMED to OPEN is silly and misleading, since any non-RESOLVED bug is indeed an open bug. I don't have anything against renaming it to NEW, although I thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED

2016-06-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 What we have been doing in Portage so far is that when we fix it in git, we put IN_PROGRESS + InVCS, and write a comment that links to the commit on gitweb. Then when we actually release Portage, we consider it to be fixed, and make it RESOLVED. I w

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/06/16 09:39, Daniel Campbell wrote: > I guess what I mean is these outside developers could continue > hacking and/or breaking things, or whatever else, without worrying > about their "official" branch. We could have a standard that > assumes

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/06/16 09:34, Daniel Campbell wrote: > There is overhead in choosing which repositories you want to > include in your 'upstream'. Even with an automated tool like > layman, there's maintenance overhead. We'd need another tool to > assist in disc

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/06/16 09:24, Daniel Campbell wrote: > To touch on the user repo part.. can't it be as simple as adding > one requirement to user repos that wish to be considered as > curated? > > Create a "gentoo-ci" branch or something else, and the maintain

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 You've got most things right, Rich. But a couple of comments follow. On 15/06/16 02:25, Rich Freeman wrote: > 1. Developers wouldn't have access to all the ebuilds in the > curated repositories. They would only have access to the ones they > con

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 14/06/16 08:48, Daniel Campbell wrote: > What sort of modularization are you talking about? The cheap answer is "as much as possible. > Would we suggest something like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon, > et al getting their own overlays? dev-lang

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 In addition to what Peter Stuge (correctly) identifies as needing to change, there also needs to be a modularisation of Gentoo-curated package repositories. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13/06/16 10:09, M. J. Everitt wrote: > Excuse me .. and this thread emerged from deprecating the EXACT > thing you are suggesting!? I don't know what you are talking about. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13/06/16 09:54, M. J. Everitt wrote: > I really think someone needs to do a bit of portageq and see what > the Tree *actually* contains > > Likewise .. a trek through bugzilla would also be enlightening for > those not familiar ... > > On

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/06/16 09:00, Michał Górny wrote: > If you are not going to maintain your contribution, we can't > guarantee it will be accepted. I'm certainly not interested in > having to worry about 20 more maintainer-needed packages next month > because som

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 18:18, Rich Freeman wrote: > And my understanding again for Exherbo And it is wrong again, according to an Exherbo user I talked to. Please get your Exherbo developer to participate directly, because I think you are having some trouble co

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 17:32, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 10/06/16 03:53 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >> ... Their repositories would likely be amalgamations of our >> curated and reviewed repositories ... > Could you elaborate on wha

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 12:38, Rich Freeman wrote: > So, I was chatting with an Exherbo dev. Their model isn't quite > what your earlier emails seemed to suggest (at least as I read > it). You should get them to reply to this thread, because... > As I underst

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 11:33, Consus wrote: > That's great, but how are you gonna prevent nodejs-like > clusterfuck[?] By not being nodejs. The core repos are curated and reviewed. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/06/16 22:37, Pacho Ramos wrote: > sys-apps/razercfg I'm not an ebuild person, but if someone could maintain this I would be grateful. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 09:39, M. J. Everitt wrote: > So forgive me for being blind .. but we were talking about going > -away- from central, curated repositories, and now we've come full > circle to the situation we have now with overlays, mostly > controlled

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 22:15, Michał Górny wrote: > Didn't you just contradict yourself? First you tell that everyone > should have their own public repo... then you tell that we should > merge stuff from those repos. So are you targeting split-repo > model,

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 12:28, Igor Savlook wrote: > Ok how coordinate? Example: I install packageA in exherbo from > repository1 and packageA denend on packageB on repository2. Now > packageB removed from repository2 and exherbo crash on install > package or

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 12:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > Perhaps you could explain how they actually prevent the issues I > brought up? You should probably ask the Exherbo developers, not me. > > Suppose you have 10 packages, and they each depend on zlib from a >

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 12:14, Johannes Huber wrote: > This statement is not feeded with numbers. Distrowatch tells > something else. I don't know what "feeded" means. Distrowatch is useless for anything but figuring out what distros are popular among people wh

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 11:55, Daniel Campbell wrote: > According to Enigmail, it expired April 19th. I suggest you refresh your keys. My signing subkey was signed April 20th and expires in 2017. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~al

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 11:45, M. J. Everitt wrote: > Btw, your key is showing up as expired, Alex. It doesn't expire until next year. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIc

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/06/16 01:08, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Sigh. Every 2 years somebody else comes up with the same silly > idea. I stopped reading your email after this sentence. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGI

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/16 18:15, Peter Stuge wrote: > Do NOT - I repeat NOT - tie "user repos" to GitHub Inc. If I were in charge or to be involved, I would not even dream about tying users to a proprietary SaaS. That would be highly unethical in my view. - -- A

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/16 17:53, james wrote: >> DEAL? No thanks. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXWTpTAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BPAsQAM1vjeh7AzBx8yVGHcZ0U+vJ RNoIDrF05PL

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/16 16:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > Do you propose that you can have cross-repo dependencies? Sure. This works well in Exherbo using Paludis. We could do it right now if we wanted to. > If so that creates a lot of potential issues, even if you

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/16 16:53, Consus wrote: > How all those people are expected to coordinate their work? I don't want to control this. That's up to them. It works well in Exherbo and NixOS. But I agree that tooling to support it would be useful. - -- Alexand

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-09 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/16 16:39, Zac Medico wrote: > The first obstacle that comes to my mind is how to discover the > packages. There needs to be a central index of repositories which > includes searchable metadata for all of the packages provided by > those re

Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Friends, It would be wise of us to create a novel way of involving users from the ashes of Sunrise. Here is my suggestion: It would be fruitful to encourage every single Gentoo user to have their own repository. And this repository should be public

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/16 13:27, James Le Cuirot wrote: > What does that mean? It means that it is made explicit in some way clearly visible to the end-user. > Take www-client/otter, for example. It's a qt5-based browser. It > doesn't have the qt5 flag. How can

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/16 11:27, James Le Cuirot wrote: > I don't think that's unreasonable given that it only does that > when qt4 and gtk3 are disabled. It is horribly counter-intuitive. -qt5 should never result in qt5. > Some packages require qt5 unconditional

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] change how the tmp file for the commit msg is made

2016-04-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 There's only superficial changes required to the commit message required -- capitalise the message, s/This changes/change/ in the description -- it looks good otherwise. However, I don't know whether this patch is *desired*. Doug, do you have a bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: games.eclass policy

2016-02-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 FWIW, I tried contacting the games team members via IRC and email a few times over a few years, but never got even a simple "hello" out of them. So I gave up. And I've heard several similar tales confirmed by established developers. So maybe they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC

2015-12-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/12/15 13:39, Rich Freeman wrote: > I don't see how this is dishonest. You answered this yourself, > They'll just be credited side-by-side with everybody else in once > place. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~ale

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC

2015-12-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I agree with Mike that this isn't kosher. It just isn't honest. On 15/12/15 20:37, William Hubbs wrote: > Multiple entries are what I want to get away from; it is a > nightmare to maintain, and the vcs shows far better than you or I > ever could whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 13:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > People who run ~arch are not really end-users - they're > contributors who have volunteered to test packages. We are talking about people who run Gentoo stable who need to keyword several specific packages be

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > Actually, what is less clear to me is how portage versioning > actually works, or if we attach any meaning to the version numbers > at all. The higher number is the newer version. - -- Alexander berna...@gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > That sort of QA should take place before making a new Portage > relaese. I was talking about marking it stable, though. The problem we are talking about isn't making sure Portage's EAPI 6 support is bug fre

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:05, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Only that there is no real difference to the existing situation > when mixing stable and unstable. It is not guaranteed that all > dependencies of an unstable package are stable, so already now > users may h

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 08:25, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > - If you mix stable and unstable then you are by definition an > advanced user, who will be able to cope with the situation. :) This attitude is shitty, and I am willing to wager a really big bunch of users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-hosted code review

2015-11-02 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/15 14:24, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Which workflow do you mean? Most features seem optional, allowing > people to work as they wish. It's been a while since I looked at it outside of GHC, so please bear in mind these things might have chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-hosted code review

2015-11-02 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 phabricator is very problematic in that it is a huge piece of PHP software that is very difficult to change, and it's virtually impossible to upstream your changes, unless they are simple bug fixes. It is tailored to Facebook's workflow. Their workf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Team leader(s) election meeting

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22/09/15 15:56, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > This is the Portage team i assume? It seems implied but i see > nothing explicit so i just wanted to confirm. Yes. I merely CC-ed dev FYI. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~

[gentoo-dev] Team leader(s) election meeting

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Friends, please set your availability[0] for our next meeting, where we will elect team leader(s). We should probably also clear up the memberships as most of the members haven't been active in months (some have actually never been active at all).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Github PR commenting policy

2015-09-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/09/15 11:26, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > My personal policy is to completely ignore anything Gentoo related > that gets posted on Github. +1. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Allow to configure base patch location for epatch_user

2015-09-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/09/15 15:14, Rich Freeman wrote: > If you ask and there is no answer I wouldn't hold things up. Michał was working on implementing EAPI6 in Portage, perhaps you should ping him somewhere. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plai

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Allow to configure base patch location for epatch_user

2015-09-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/09/15 14:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > I was suggesting that somebody talk to the portage developers about > how they intend to implement EAPI6 We don't know. But our tardiness should not retard the development of other package managers. - -- Ale

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

2015-08-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/08/15 12:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > Somebody made the argument that sometimes having consistency > within domains matters more than global consistency. I can buy > that argument, but I don't think this is one of those cases. As an old-school ga

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

2015-08-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - -1. The way "dedicated" is used in games ebuilds is a very established term that all gamers know and expect to behave in a specific way. This will mess with our users. \ Also, this is retarded micro-management bullshit. QA doesn't need to police e

Re: rsync mirror security (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] .gitignore)

2015-08-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/08/15 22:59, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > Users can fetch/pull from Github. Users should not have to interface with or rely on proprietary software to use Gentoo. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/15 21:38, Sergey Popov wrote: > > > In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended > USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5") > > Strong -1. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/04/15 16:33, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > The problem is double effort: previously one developer effort was > needed, now effort is doubled at least You have correctly identified the problem; in order to do things properly one must do things prop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/04/15 15:02, Peter Stuge wrote: > the threshold to become a developer with write access to the > gentoo repo is very high LOL. No. It's way too low, given our review-less workflow in which any dev can do essentially whatever they want. - -- Al

Re: [gentoo-dev] CI services for Gentoo & Social Contract meanings of "dependant" notifications on depgraph breakages

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/04/15 11:56, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > frankly it looks like to me that we are just selling our freedom, > slowly, bit by bit. Sadly, I think most Gentoo devs are way past the point of caring. But, for what it's worth, I agree with you comple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Gentoo do https by default?

2015-03-28 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1 for everything. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlUWwDgACgkQRtClrXBQc7XyRQEAh2fJrr9aW9kLLa+a4hmwOT80 2ucx01RUq2IGmm9P7kMA/2o/rh46QX8xrAn5lbHtjqc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/03/15 11:09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 16/03/15 11:58, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >>> Does smplayer work with mpv? > Version 14.9.0.6690 and up supports mpv. Then I would encourage that we stabilise this before re

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/03/15 10:15, Ben de Groot wrote: > # These projects have been abandoned upstream. Most mplayer2 devs have moved > # on to media-video/mpv, and users are suggested to do the same. We have > # media-video/baka-mplayer and media-video/smplayer ava

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/02/15 14:02, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > FWIW: I'm in the "warnings are pointless, either we care about > something (so make it an error), or we don't (so get rid of it)". s/\./ camp./ (I accidentally a word

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 FWIW: I'm in the "warnings are pointless, either we care about something (so make it an error), or we don't (so get rid of it)". - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding my final year thesis

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/02/15 19:01, hasufell wrote: > Jan Matejka: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:00:24 +0100 Luca Barbato >> wrote: >>> Anything written in haskell tend to be impractical to deploy. >> >> http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/dons-google-2015-01-27.pdf >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] New portage-9999 plugin-sync system

2014-12-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'd just like to take a few seconds to say "thank you, Brian"! - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2014-11-28 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/11/14 10:51, Daniel Campbell wrote: > I have a lot of IRL things going on Gentoo is a strange place. But let me assure you, this is real life too. Happy hacking. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage dependency solving algorithm

2014-11-23 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/11/14 02:50, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:16:09 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: >>> I forgot, we have a --verbose-conflicts option already. > Yeah, that's exactly what I need. Somehow I missed this option, > sorry. That's OK. I for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item regarding c++98 vs c++11

2014-10-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/10/14 08:36, Luca Barbato wrote: > Since gcc-4.7 there is a -std=c++11 option, do not use it since it > breaks the ABI, resulting in a non-functional system. Since gcc-4.7 there is a -std=c++11 option, do not use it {+yet+} since it breaks the

Re: [gentoo-dev] tox

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Check out Linphone. Works well to Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows in my experience. The interface is not great, but several non-technical users have been able to use it to talk to me, so it can't be that bad while we're waiting for Tox to mature. Usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, the repoman patch is reverted. And that is the end of this. I do not have gx86 access, so if someone wants me to revert 3K commits there, I'll need a proxy... - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BE

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-25 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/14 17:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The reason everything is such a mess at the moment is precisely > because we've accumulated so much "good enough" and "not thinking > your cunning plan all the way through" that nothing is actually > corre

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 20:44, Kent Fredric wrote: > So we'll probably need a repoman check that is smart enough to know > "X is modified" and compare the DEPEND fields with the previous > incarnation prior to commit, and then at very least, warn people > doi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 20:40, Martin Vaeth wrote: > If there is interest, I can post my patches so far. Where? If you think these patches are useful for Portage, please send them to dev-port...@gentoo.org. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 09:39, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Pacho Ramos wrote: >> >> Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: - >> One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) - The >> other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't cha

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 02:36, hasufell wrote: > William Hubbs: >> My concern about doing a revbump just because the deps change is >> that the new revision has to be committed in ~arch, so we then >> have to hit the arch teams, which we know are overworked anyw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website

2014-07-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1. Nice idea Manuel! On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ? It is not very informative. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, Michał has documented the shortcomings of dynamic deps in our wiki[0]. (Thank you!) This documentation also includes two of our possible solutions. 1. Improve dynamic-deps. This is, as Michał pointed out earlier in this thread a pipe dream

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Please stop spamming this thread now. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlPHiMcACgkQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/07/14 21:19, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice of word > from my part and not what I wanted to say. I didn't mean we should > distribute distfiles without consent, but back them up to a hidden >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have anything to do with this. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-07-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/07/14 13:36, Pacho Ramos wrote: > It's: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462118 Thank you for the info. > The problem is that it's not clear to us how to make it > automatically without needing to call it manually from every > ebuild i

[gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-07-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 # emerge postgresql-server ... # emerge --config dev-db/postgresql-server:9.3 ... # systemctl start postgresql-server-9.3 Job for postgresql-9.3.service failed. See 'systemctl status postgresql-9.3.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/06/14 18:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Why are you saying that git is inefficient with large projects? Because it is. > It was developed with efficiency in mind in the first place. Not for big projects. > And kernel guys will likely disagree

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/06/14 17:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > I don't know why CVS is still used for Gentoo main repository, > probably some infrastructure elements depends deeply on its > internals, because I see of no other reason why Git is still not > used des

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For what it's worth, I strongly oppose using GitHub or any other SaaSS that is not licensed using AGPL or under similar terms. My suggestion is Phabricator, which additionally beats GitHub on functionality by having proper code review support. I wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/06/14 18:38, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: >> Perhaps we could consider GitLab? > > Yep. Its better to have gitlab || gerrit || ReviewBoard Personaly > i have only expirience with gerrit > > However this will depend on migration of gentoo-x86 to git

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/06/14 23:08, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > You can start fixing bugs immediately. You can check out the > sources, write patches and attach the patches to the bug reports. > Then all it takes is someone else to review/commit the patches. Hacking an i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/14 19:18, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Well, this thread's problem is not severe at all; thus, no need to > mask. I disagree. I'm with ssuominen. Do with that information what you will... - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/14 19:11, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Well, let's just mask the whole tree; there are wrong lines > everywhere. It is not a matter of quantity but severity. $ echo "Dnoe" $ rm -rf / --no-preserve-root Same quantity, somewhat different severity.

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