Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-10 Thread Ferris McCormick
this now. You may consider this to be a final warning. > > Andrew D Kirch > Funtoo.org > > > PS: Ciaran, Thank you for comparing me to Rush Limbaugh, I consider it a > compliment. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
not to let you down. Unless you were one of > the ones who wanted to me lose. Then sorry, but I'm going to have fun > disappointing you, by doing what is best for Gentoo. > > If you have any ideas on how you think the council should function or > reform itself. Please start a new thread or email those who think will > listen to those ideas. I'm open for some real change as long as it's > for the the positive. > Thank you. > So lets have some damn fun again !...@#$ > Thanks. > > Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Ferris McCormick
l, never count on common sense. Elected people rarely have any. > If they do during the election, it disappears after taking their > position. I think the vast majority of people here have seen that over > the years. > > My $0.02 worth. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:53 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2009.06.28 23:14, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0100

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-28 Thread Ferris McCormick
session. Although under your 'what if' scenario, we have a council which does not take its responsibilities very seriously.) > Note: Other trustees may have a different view of the world > I'm sure we all have different views of the world. But I generally agree with wha

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Ferris McCormick
ble to, but only developers should have commit access (actually, the trustees can request limited commit access to any Foundation trustee or officer, I believe). > > Cheers, > Ben Flames not required, Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re:[gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 Version 2

2009-06-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
e intent here is the latter, but it speaks of them interchangeably it seems. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
dev-z...@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30 Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
I knew I wasn't done. I also nominate: arfrever calchan -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
I nominate: ssuominen armin76 Perhaps others later. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 12:46 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:57 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Ferris McCormick
for the pm > support a certain eapi before requesting stable keywords for ebuilds > using the new eapi, Collect problems of EAPI development like > feature-freeze, late feature removals (due to implementation problems). > Eventually develop a lightweight EAPI development model. > > > Cheers, > Tiziano Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-23 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Sat, 23 May 2009 20:12:17 -0500 Dale wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > > > If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two > > versions of the "minimal CD". Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is > > discriminating against pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-23 Thread Ferris McCormick
for download over dialup. If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time, and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer). So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
enough info in the post as- > is to do so. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-762914.html > It's there for me if I should see Gentoo subforum in LinuxQuestions.org and a poll. > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree prog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries - SPARC team summary

2009-05-10 Thread Ferris McCormick
short term, we are in reasonable shape. Longer term, we need to recruit. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
you could always do it over the phone. :) > It's good to know the requirements, including this one. Which is what I > was asking in the original post, is it or isn't it. Apparently, it is, > and anyone intending to become a developer can now deal with it as such. > -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

2009-05-04 Thread Ferris McCormick
es. I am pretty sure that you are not the only > one > who's having those thoughts. I've been a developer a bit over 5 years. We know the problems and are working to fix them. > -- > Markos Chandras (hwoarang) > Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retiring

2009-05-04 Thread Ferris McCormick
and that's > of course a decision you must make (recognizing that people do sometimes > need a time away, ideally to return refreshed and revitalized, ready to > take on new challenges), you did say you may be back if you see that some > of these issues have been addressed. Based on that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages

2009-04-04 Thread Ferris McCormick
it and install it (when we require the user to fetch the source). At one time, at least, the sun java distribution was like this, and as I said, I think there are others. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-03-31 Thread Ferris McCormick
this information available where I can find it in case I need it. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] truecrypt licensing - bug #241650

2009-02-27 Thread Ferris McCormick
ng. > > Daniel Black > I'll look at it for the trustees in a bit. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives

2009-02-24 Thread Ferris McCormick
s is better than the glep 55 proposal??? > b) new subdirectory like ebuilds/ Yuch. > - we could drop extension all together so don't have to argue about > it any more > - more directory reads to get the list of ebuilds in a repository > c) .ebuild in current d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-24 Thread Ferris McCormick
package manager > perspective people have done it in the past and possibly still do do > it, and the spec doesn't forbid it. > For what it's worth, no eclass in the gentoo-x86/eclass tree sets EAPI. I don't know about anyplace else. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick

[gentoo-dev] Fw: Invitación a Congreso de Software Libre y Tecnología Libre Republica Dominicana

2009-01-26 Thread Ferris McCormick
De js. Piña Calderón Abogado - Notario Telfs: (809)532-5479 (809)481-4912 -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) SeñoresFundacion Gentoo La comunidad seguidora de la filosofia del software libre, en Republica Dominicana,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of cp -i to prevent overwriting upstream files

2009-01-20 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:50:47 +0100 Jan Kundrát wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > 'cp -i' will at least ask a question, and I find that marginally better > > --- it's confusing, but at least it says something. But it seems to me > > that if we hit this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of cp -i to prevent overwriting upstream files

2009-01-20 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:37 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > >> Many times upstream Java projects don't include build.xml files or > >> proper build systems so we include build

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of cp -i to prevent overwriting upstream files

2009-01-20 Thread Ferris McCormick
s" [[ -e ${2} ]] && die "die target exists" How does the user recover from that? I would become irate if a build died without giving some useful indication the problem. > c) keep it restricted to java eclasses > d) something else > > Regards, > Petteri Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help

2008-12-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
no management/ > > it turns out this is a problem in a number of other organizations; > hopefully Gentoo will get better at addressing them. > > -Alec > Interesting (and valid) point. Perhaps this argues for more (or more active) mamagement. > > > > Best regards, Wulf > Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
nity section, but I do find Wikipedia very useful even though I know it might be wrong. :) > -- > Mark Loeser > email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org > email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com > web - http://www.halcy0n.com Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
useful > to the user and that he doesn't want broken, and we should behave > accordingly, but the triple emphasis of important, production, critical, > seemed a bit undue for the lengths to which an ordinary user goes or the > priority he reveals by his own actions. And i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
thing should not go stable on sparc (more QA issues than functional ones). How, I wonder, would the variations here handle such a situation? I don't think this situation is unique because arch developers are sometimes going to have a different concept of "stable" than the package developers do. If this does not make sense, is off topic, or irrelevant feel free to ignore it. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remove global USE flag tetex

2008-09-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
ammer, Gentoo Lisp project > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode > > http://www.faulhammer.org/> Hooray! Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Resignation

2008-08-31 Thread Ferris McCormick
No, not from Gentoo. After some thought, for personal reasons I resign from devrel. It's been enjoyable, and all my best to the devrel team. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] best way to use profiles and package.use.mask?

2008-08-12 Thread Ferris McCormick
I guess, do what seems right and let us know what you did. The best way to do that is through a bug usually. You might not find us on IRC when you need us, and we probably won't read your mail. :) Sorry for not helping, Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Re: Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-07 Thread Ferris McCormick
Robin, Please for #gentoo-sparc Thanks and regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
nd maintain it, we in fact already have > something like this pointing at Freenode, it would be just a question > of updating that alias and updating our docs with it. It would > increase our independence from Freenode and make future network > switching much easier should we ever decide it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
he CoC or a major change to the CoC from last February, then all the more reason for someone to put it in the form of a GLEP just like any other consequential change. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
#x27;s not really meant as a joke. > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEY

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-09 Thread Ferris McCormick
nearly so traumatic to the system. I note that this is a minority view among those who have discussed this. Donnie, I don't know if that clarifies anything or just makes things more confusing. It's the best I can come up with. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Ferris McCormick
ge's maintainers) and > perhaps pasting ChangeLog or advisory info in a comment. > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > I doubt that this addresses what you are asking, but in case it is useful, Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) &l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
list must be > notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. > > For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (De

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-06-20 Thread Ferris McCormick
gt; I'm sure you could ask Freenode and the developer in question for on > > the record statements, if you're interested. > > > I'd be careful, that is potentially libellous. No, for two reasons. No one is named, and you can't libel anonymous. Also if it's tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
These people are posionous [1]. > > Slightly ironic for me to suggest this, but... > > It is the gentoo-dev mailing list, restrict posting to gentoo devs > (i.e. only people with a @gentoo.org email address) would make a lot of > sense. > Not really. It's there for g

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:38:17 + Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:12:27 +0200 > "Piotr Jaroszyński" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
m a councilor, I really don't care what that is. I'll listen to what you want for future EAPIs, but I don't think it's council's job to decide. Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-07 Thread Ferris McCormick
that it describes council+policy. The actual policy was established in 2005 in a vote by the developer community. Thus, changes to the GLEP should be only to clarify actual policy (and I don't know where it is written down. I remember the vote, but don't know who controls the actual pol

[gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Ferris McCormick
I also nominate: NeddySeagoon Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:28 +, Duncan wrote: > Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 06 > Jun 2008 01:37:21 +: > > >> 2. As one of the first priorities will be setting policy for pending > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Ferris McCormick
008- > > nominees.xml > > > > > I'll provide a link in the next week or so. Most likely to a link to a > text file in d.g.o/~fmccor/ > > - -- > > Regards, > > > > Roy Bamford > > (NeddySeagoon) a member of > > gentoo-ops > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
t I may be a member of. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhIMYQACgkQTE4/y7nJvasByACg24Z2Qw4OPMbLPAGwoRAG/8hG > rswAn3E/B28l95e2rHTbnHX8SKgWfVM1 > =yVuz > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.o

[gentoo-dev] Spam to see if signature is OK now

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhIL8AACgkQQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
ain): > > I nominate: > > dertobi123 > fmccor > > OK, I'll accept, if only because I think generally people who are nominated should accept. > -- > Fabian Groffen > Gentoo on a different level > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > Rega

[gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll try again. :) I nominate rane welp zlin Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9

[gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think nominations are open. I nominate rane welp zlin I think I've spelt all of them correctly and that all three are are qualified. Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug wrangling

2008-05-12 Thread Ferris McCormick
> bug-wrangler anymore. Was anyone successful to contact him, yet? > > V-Li I am told he should be back sometime soon, like today. Apparently someone is in contact with him. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (De

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2008-05-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
ing. Simply put, the gentoo-dev mailing list must be > notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. > > For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) &

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Ferris McCormick
Exeunt, fighting. > Nice. I wish I'd thought of that. :) -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise 10000 support and developer access

2008-03-24 Thread Ferris McCormick
sparc project, I invite you to read about the Architecture Testing program at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/at/index.xml and consider if you are interested in that. Thangs again, and Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Keywords policy

2008-03-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
ause I've been using it and it works fine" in response to which we do add the keyword if it does work. No maintainer action involved, because the maintainer apparently doesn't know if the package works on sparc or not anyway. A STABLEREQ is a different matter, masked packag

[gentoo-dev] Operations lead --- armin76

2008-02-28 Thread Ferris McCormick
#x27;s doing for us. Thanks and regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] rgb file specification

2008-01-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
date so that it will take mine so that I can see it. Perhaps no one cares but me. Well, so be it, but it slows down xorg-server testing (or upgrading) for me because I have to keep changing that file by hand. I'm really tired of fixing this trivial thing by hand. Regards, - -- Fer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and subproject status

2008-01-10 Thread Ferris McCormick
's on path leading to developer status. - Otherwise, pretty much what we are doing. As an architecture project, our primary goal is to keep sparc as current and stable as possible, and I believe we are working to do just that. Regards, Ferris (sparc lead) -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) &l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-09 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:51 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:00 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > they get to devrel because you ensured there would be no one to catch > > them --- you are the one who wanted to kill off the proctors, after > > all. &

[gentoo-dev] Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-09 Thread Ferris McCormick
e at Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:03:25 -0800 On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 19:59 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > 3) Most devrel requests seem really to relate to CoC violations. Would > you like us to bounce those to the CoC people,

[gentoo-dev] Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-08 Thread Ferris McCormick
merit a warning or brief suspension if anything.) Thanks, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)

2007-11-16 Thread Ferris McCormick
ians always welcome. :) > PS. Uncle Seemant told me he was mentoring him so that he could himself > retire at some point so now it's time to start persuading him to stay > again :) Regards and welcome, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: emul-linux-x86.eclass

2007-11-14 Thread Ferris McCormick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat test.sh > #!/bin/bash > TEXT="A B" > Q=${TEXT} > echo ${TEXT} > FAIL=DONT TRYTHISATHOME > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ./test.sh > A B > ./test.sh: line 5: TRYTHISATHOME: command not found -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex

2007-11-07 Thread Ferris McCormick
;m > wrong there. > I don't think documentation using texinfo.tex (the documentation that comes in .texi files) uses latex --- I believe that texinfo.tex uses just plain tex. > > Alexis. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] jmbsvicetto is now Sparc AT Subproject Lead

2007-10-18 Thread Ferris McCormick
gged him to do so. Please give him the usual Gentoo words of encouragement for which we are so well known. My thanks to Jorge, and to all, Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for October

2007-10-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
cil, feel free to browse our homepage: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ Flames to someplace else, please. Otherwise, as always, comments, corrections, additions, etc. welcome. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Additions to the Gentoo Sparc architecture project.

2007-09-30 Thread Ferris McCormick
Tester); 3. ezod (Aaron Mavrinac) has joined sparc as an AT. Congratulations and thanks to all of you. Everyone else, please help welcome these three new members to our project. Thanks and regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-portage/genlop: ChangeLog genlop-0.30.8.ebuild

2007-09-26 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:42:01 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:42:08 -0700 > > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-portage/genlop: ChangeLog genlop-0.30.8.ebuild

2007-09-26 Thread Ferris McCormick
> Donnie No. They might contain useful information. Just the line number of the failure is just frustrating: You don't really necessarily know what went wrong, and you have to go read the ebuild to find out. Users might not appreciate that. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

[gentoo-dev] New sparc Arch Tester --- tcunha

2007-09-14 Thread Ferris McCormick
t yet. We will be doing one in the next 2 or 3 days. It will look familiar, because we plan to plagiarize amd64's subproject web pages with minimal editing: Change amd64 to sparc and provide correct names for sparc. Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Develop

[gentoo-dev] trustee nomination

2007-07-31 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I understand there are problems getting enough people to run just to fill the required slots. If that's the case, in order to get enough candidates, I'll nominate myself (and accept). Hope this helps, Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormi

Re: [gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-16 Thread Ferris McCormick
with. Council, I guess. > > cheers, > Wernfried > > -- > Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org > Gentoo Forums - http://forums.gentoo.org > forum-mods (at) gentoo.org > #gentoo-forums (freenode) Wernfried, regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-14 Thread Ferris McCormick
tors were doing, killed COC, and punted.. - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGmXFmQa6M3+I///cRAvbLAJ9aV327q7fteXaN0iVXJ1EXgV+ISgCfZPrw FhIdcA3a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Ferris McCormick
Obama and Hillary. > > This is a little worrisome, you know. Perhaps you didn't mean this set > of statements to sound as all-encompassing as all that. Isn't dissent > and disagreement the result of differing points of view, which could > actually benefit Gentoo? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

2007-06-22 Thread Ferris McCormick
ing toward decisions. If you have an > > announcement relevant to development, post it to both -dev > > and -dev-announce. Replies will go only to -dev. > > Can I get an 'AMEN'! > Sure --- AMEN I like it. > ++ ++ ++ some more ... oh and ++ > > --Dan --

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

2007-06-12 Thread Ferris McCormick
t think that that would be appropriate on #gentoo-, and I suggest taking some care before going further down this particular path. Thanks, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation

2007-05-09 Thread Ferris McCormick
l > And I. I like the idea. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQmKwQa6M3+I///cRAqJsAJ4nuKxbqQ7tPhxQQM76BtK6V0a/NACfVfC/ MHSud02EDyJEscbu9HIsDC4= =QB+Z -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread Ferris McCormick
re, but is there any chance you could take your conversation to IRC (or to whatever)? It would go faster, and if you can reach some common level of agreement, then you can usefully post that to this list. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Regards. - -- Ferris McCormick (P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2007-05-03 Thread Ferris McCormick
me. > > > DISCLAIMER: I've not read the bug mentioned as I've lost the email > > with it's number so I may just be talking out of my ass. > > no, in fact you are the first one that comes up with a valid argument, > why games sometimes should go to stable almos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Resignation

2007-04-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
This thread is not going anywhere useful, and does not belong on -dev. There was a request to move it to gentoo-devrel if there was any need to continue it. Please do that. Me, I don't see that there's much new ground to cover at this point. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2007-04-17 Thread Ferris McCormick
; > iD8DBQFGJNP3iR2KxEpdjyMRAuDcAKCYrMSWKW3vejLMGZzzQXcPVF2K4gCfcu8r > 9F5Ub7g+aWGm1fD2riE5nwM= > =bOk8 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2007-04-17 Thread Ferris McCormick
anything you like. > lu > > -- > > Luca Barbato > > Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC > http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero > Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ferris McCormick
l topic at hand. For src_test I see things this way. > Welcome back to the real (Gentoo, that is) world. :) Good summary of the situation, I think (although I've snipped it since everyone's read it once.) --- snip --- > Just my 2 cents... > > --Dan Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

2007-04-13 Thread Ferris McCormick
nage to maintain this spirit > in the years to come. > > AfC > Bangalore > Thanks for the kind words; positive posts are always welcome. :) I believe it is very much our intent to "maintain this spirit [of co-operation]". Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Ferris McCormick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGF54eQa6M3+I///cRAnnyAJoCc6GDKmT1OzOf/qdEIBIoKCpzQgCgtl2Y qCFW0a7Qw2ye+Mp0h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:44 +, George Prowse wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > > >>>> > >>> As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called > >>> it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +, George Prowse wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500 > > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-14 Thread Ferris McCormick
d kloeri called it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an ultimatum is one of the quickest ways to become unemployed. > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list Regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages for grabs

2007-01-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
> -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list I can also help with sqlite if no one else can (i.e., I can help Seemant with it). - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (

[gentoo-dev] xelatex --- Can't load fontspec (no [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2006-11-03 Thread Ferris McCormick
double "" because otherwise, xelatex stops scanning at the space and tries to load Charis (not "Charis SIL").) Hope this is of interest, Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) --- texmf/tex/xelate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

2006-10-31 Thread Ferris McCormick
the problem on the bug, but obviously will not keyword the "fixed" version, and we need the old version until the package maintainer corrects the problem. Thus, we have no control over any 5 month, 6 month, forever rule. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

2006-10-30 Thread Ferris McCormick
here are nobody even > using these specific ebuilds that are proposed for removal. > Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I spelled my name wrong. Bad keyboard, but that's tacky. Apologies, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5-ecc0.1.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Ferris McCormick
or raining on your parade; I have some sort of flu and am passing it on. Regards, Feerris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5-ecc0.1.6 (

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-21 Thread Ferris McCormick
encouraging people to commit broken stuff. How exactly does it do that? Thanks, Donnie I thought I responded to rour mail, but it seems not to have gottten through. I like youru idea. Let's try it. Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer

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