Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

2025-03-22 Thread Richard Freeman
On 3/22/2025 11:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 08:20 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote: In the OpenStack community, we will put a final commit on HEAD of the primary branch removing all the content and putting an EOL notice in the readme (e.g. https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-lib )

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/sleepyhead

2020-02-16 Thread Richard Freeman
# Rich Freeman (2020-02-16) # Dead upstream, obsolete deps. app-misc/sleepyhead

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/03/2010 07:05 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:35:14 +0100 > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: > > The first question that comes into my mind is -- why do we need > to communicate that? I think that USE_PYTHON is a pretty specific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/01/2010 01:16 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno mer, 01/12/2010 alle 19.05 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: >> >> >> I agree, comments within the ebuild are practically invisible to >> archteams (at least to me for x86). But also running repoman is >> usually >> the final step, right

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who > only want a minimum > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of > that), but on the > other side dont want to do the additional work/ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/30/2010 05:09 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:05:17AM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote: >> В Птн, 29/10/2010 в 09:11 -0700, Alec Warner пишет: >>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Markos Chandras >>> wrote: >>> Can I install a machine with the server profile and USE=-ldap,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/03/2010 09:26 PM, Duncan wrote: > The problem is that "in-tree" is a reasonably bounded set of builds, while > "out-of-tree" is unlimited. Practically speaking, I simply don't see how > Gentoo can be concerned with "out-of-tree" in general. If any other distro had that attitude Gentoo (an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/04/2010 03:50 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > So - would it make sense to split repoman into its own ebuild? ++ I always did wonder why the two have been part of the same project. Repoman updates could probably be stabilized more quickly with so much worry about impact on users at large.

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/03/2010 07:53 AM, David Leverton wrote: > Would it be too much trouble to have a standardised variable that > means .la files should be kept? It maybe /shouldn't/ be exposed as a > USE flag because very few people will need it, but if it's easy to > implement (maybe by having an eutils funct

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
On 09/20/2010 07:06 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > I guess quite a good solution for now might be enabling newnet through > an USE flag, being masked in the profile by default. That would satisfy > the oldnet compatibility requirement for users, while the small group > preferring newnet could still bene

Re: [gentoo-dev] Closing bugs

2010-09-11 Thread Richard Freeman
On 09/11/2010 03:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Or does the problem only occur if you mix keywords and ignore dependencies? I think that if a package doesn't work in a mixed environment, that points to a likely dependency problem. Sooner or later there is a good chance it will bite somebody.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/25/2010 08:29 PM, Duncan wrote: But that was pretty much decided some time ago, based on my following of the relevant discussions here and elsewhere, so why are you arguing a point that's not being argued any more? I believe that's what Mike's WTFing about. It's not that you're wrong, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/25/2010 03:06 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:37:34 Richard Freeman wrote: On 08/24/2010 11:57 PM, Nathan Zachary wrote: If we are going to endorse using OpenRC, the more relevant issues are the ones regarding its future development. Is the future development

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/24/2010 11:57 PM, Nathan Zachary wrote: If we are going to endorse using OpenRC, the more relevant issues are the ones regarding its future development. Is the future development of OpenRC more problematic than the future development of baselayout-1? As far as I can tell, baselayout-1 n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/24/2010 08:57 AM, Thilo Bangert wrote: given how long, so far, it has taken openrc to reach stable, it is no wonder people start lobbying for systemd today. ;-) Perhaps, but if we want to move in that direction perhaps we should consider at least getting openrc stable first. That doesn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/14/2010 02:35 PM, Duncan wrote: User perspective here... For LDFLAGS, given the new --as-needed default, I'd prefer the rev-bump. Yes, it requires a rebuild, but the rebuilds will occur as the bugs are fixed so it's a few at a time for people who keep reasonably updated (every month or mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 08/14/2010 10:29 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: So do I. Fixing your package and you don't even bother to send a *ready to go* patch upstream seems like a bit rude to me as well. Perhaps, we do have a complete different point of view in this one. Recent example is Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn who

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git Commit Procedures

2010-07-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 07/26/2010 12:32 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On 07/24/2010 10:10 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: I'm trying to make a correction to the devmanual (assuming this is supposed to be general access) for bug 293629. However, I can't seem to find where to clone the repository from. See "G

[gentoo-dev] Git Commit Procedures

2010-07-24 Thread Richard Freeman
Are the procedures for using git with anything but an overlay on gentoo documented anywhere? I'm trying to make a correction to the devmanual (assuming this is supposed to be general access) for bug 293629. However, I can't seem to find where to clone the repository from. If this isn't supp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updated handbooks for autobuilds

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Freeman
On 07/20/2010 04:34 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: x86 and AMD64 have not had new stages or LiveCDs in months. jmbsvicetto just started working on 'em, but we need LOTS of eyes and fixers for our two biggest arches. Right now there's no one else. Most of the breakages seem to come from toolchain and P

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: amateur radio applications should not be in media-radio

2010-07-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 07/14/2010 03:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: I am an amateur radio operator as well, and that is why putting the ham radio apps in"media-radio" bothers me. Ham radio is not part of the media. Most of the stuff in the media-* doesn't have anything to do with "the media" - whatever that is. M

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 14/7 introductory meeting

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Freeman
On 07/12/2010 10:18 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: Rationale: Meeting summary for 20091012 is "to be completed". Meeting summary for 20100419 is also "to be completed", and all following council meetings lack summaries. This makes it hard to follow the council's work. I've seen this at work qui

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-07-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 07/04/2010 04:09 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote: For those of you not on the #gentoo-dev channel, I just announced I am gonna be looking at the openrc code and fixing the bugs and working to continue the development. Anyone that is interested in helping please feel free to contact me off list to disc

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/27/2010 06:52 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: remark #981: operands are evaluated in unspecified order (tons of them) return strcmp( left.c_str(), right.c_str() )> 0; I'm not sure if this really qualifies an warning, since - AFAIK - C spec never said, that there is an evaluation order f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/19/2010 03:10 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I can assure you that if someone goes to #gentoo-forums and tries to tell the forums team what tone should be used in that channel, we'll kindly ask the person to stop or to leave. This is one of the "public" and exposed channels and thus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/19/2010 06:54 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) many people are not getting more involved and volunteering to become developers is the level of in-fighting and the ineffective way that bullies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/19/2010 01:06 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: On 19-06-2010 16:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: #gentoo-infra is a channel on infra matters. The fact that it's developers only doesn't make it a private channel in a sense of "tone doesn't matter". you've failed to notice an important po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposing fundamental changes to DevRel

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/16/2010 08:33 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: On 17-06-2010 00:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: 3) Let Gentoo developers vote on who's in the conflict resolution team just like we do with the council. AFAIK this never happened before and in my opinion choosing conflict resolutio

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo embedded "reference accounts"?

2010-05-29 Thread Richard Freeman
On 05/29/2010 01:54 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: D-Link routers, for example, run (or used to run) Gentoo. SRI's solar probe, RAISE, ran Gentoo. The Misa Digital Guitar, just entering mass production, runs Gentoo. There are many more places where Gentoo's been used in various devices and production

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 05/25/2010 02:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010 02:02:01 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: could you please help the poor bug wranglers a bit?! The queue has reached 170 unassigned bugs... people dont seem to realize that bug-wranglers isnt just for re-assigning to the proper main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] (infra) rsync updates and distfile fetching offline for next 12-18 hours.

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Freeman
On 05/20/2010 01:46 PM, Arun Raghavan wrote: Why is gentoo-core is not enough? I thought all devs were expected to follow -core, no exceptions made. Well, unless something is sensitive it probably doesn't belong on -core. In the spirit of openness we really should have very little traffic on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone use the VERIFIED status in bugzilla?

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 05/14/2010 09:34 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: I'd like to see the whole thing go away. It's this one user I've pretty much ever seen using it. And he's using it to change "RESOLVED" status to "VERIFIED" on e.g. removal bugs, stabilization bugs, keywording bugs... I think that VERIFIED could ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Requiring two sets of eyes for all eclass commits

2010-04-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/25/2010 07:36 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: People make mistakes. Agreed - at work I've often found a quality mindset that is 100% focused on preventing mistakes, and I've found that these kinds of systems are almost equally as focused on preventing them from being fixed (three minutes to fix a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-13 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/13/2010 12:33 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: Alec Warner wrote: Its not possible in perforce once your change has been submitted. Oh, missed that one. Maybe that makes perforce more "auditble" or whatnot. I suspect that is the gist of it. I work with numerous systems that have audit trails

Re: [gentoo-dev] Who is willing to be lead?

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/10/2010 07:44 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 11 April 2010 00:54, Denis Dupeyron wrote: I know it hurts the eyes a bit, but calling problems by their name is part of fixing them. Except when someone else does it, then calling the problem of lack of leadership suddenly becomes "immature poli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting 19 April 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/07/2010 11:00 AM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: 5. centralize developer documentation = This is an interesting idea which I believe I have seen discussed on irc at some point. Feel free to work on a GLEP to address that. To be honest, this doesn't even need

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/07/2010 05:58 AM, Angelo Arrifano wrote: 3*) With git, one would just branch (lets call it embedded branch) the package. Apply the patches there and let people using embedded profiles to emerge from that branch instead of master. Benefits? I think they are pretty obvious - people can start

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/05/2010 10:13 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: * Proposed is to generate ChangeLogs from git commits on the rsync server side when metadata generation is done - Scripts to do this already exist[1] I haven't seen this discussed, so I'm going to toss this out there and duck: Why not just get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-05 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/04/2010 02:09 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: All ideas regarding improving recruitment are welcome, thanks. However if, during your review, you were not given the impression that your maturity and other social skills were being assessed then you were being blissfully naive. :o) That actually

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-05 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/05/2010 03:48 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:52 +0200 Tobias Heinlein wrote: 3) Questions that aren't that important at all and would just be "nice to know". [snip] Examples for these: 5. What is wrong with using $(somecommand) or `somecommand` or $ARCH insi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/03/2010 06:19 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: And still, when someone tries to fix things in such an understaffed herd people go all territorial and are like "omg u touched my package". Right now I'm quite confused what our project strategy seems to be, as far as I can tell there's one group ai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/28/2010 10:27 AM, Duncan wrote: The point being, perhaps I'm wrong and openrc does have a broader distribution basis than I'm aware of, but in practice, it seems all of these tend to be used /almost/ exclusively with Gentoo and Gentoo based distributions. If openrc's usage is rather wider

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/28/2010 06:04 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Basically you are saying that NONE tested that package on the arch until the stablerequest. That's quite wrong and it should mean that the arch should be ~ only, since they are stabling packages that they first tested the day they stable them. Well

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/24/2010 11:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: Even then, it'll likely get installed first, as users will probably learn about p.masking it only *after* they install it. I don't have strong feelings on whether having v3 installed by default is a big problem, but the last bit here probably shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence should be included in the news item.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: Proxy-maintainer project

2010-03-19 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/18/2010 04:34 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: Recruitment being the bottleneck that it is (with candidates waiting many months), it is good to have another option for people who want to contribute. If we do have a list of people waiting to get in, could we maybe publish this list somewhere, or i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/11/2010 03:53 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > however if it becomes some kind of integral part of Gentoo (which I doubt it will) we will have to look at switching to something else (which is easy given the many export formats of Google Calendar :)) I think you hit the nail on the head. Right no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, Duncan wrote: So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at least if they want calendar access? What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them with search and the web crawling and database correlation Google does, and whatever ad

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/05/2010 08:06 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 5 March 2010 04:18, Graham Murray wrote: 3. Include one or both of the packages in the stage tarball. None of the packages involved (gtk+, cups and poppler) is in any shape or form essential, so you will have a very hard time convincing people th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/04/2010 08:57 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: Obviously, users who "re-install" Gentoo the way you do will have less difficulties resolving a circular dependency than those who are just following the guide and getting their first Gentoo experience. I think that the cups issue is probably worth m

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/03/2010 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: So in the situation above, removing cups doesn't help any? The user would still have to work around the dependency problem. Is there not a better way to handle this? Agreed that there should be better ways of handling things. However, at the very least if so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/01/2010 09:24 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: The 72 hours have passed, so I take it we are ready to officially publish this. Richard, are you going to commit this? I will do so today.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 02/26/2010 07:06 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: Is there a simple way for users to determine what client versions they may have? Forwarding my reply: Well, they can always just ask the package manager what version is installed. The news item is targeted only at users who do not already have my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

2010-02-24 Thread Richard Freeman
d stabilization I need to be accountable for the results. I suspect the other arch teams feel similarly - nobody wants to just commit something like this without testing and good documentation. How about this revised news item: Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption Author: Richard Free

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

2010-02-22 Thread Richard Freeman
for a news item (I can commit if there are no objections - and be gentle as I just parsed the GLEP - also posted to the bug 299222): Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption Author: Richard Freeman Content-Type: text/plain Posted: Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed:

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Freeman
On 02/20/2010 09:23 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The MySQL 5.1 news item with all updates is now commited, and 5.1.x have been unblocked in package.mask. It looks like that news item is visible to users running stable as well. When 5.1 eventually goes stable we might want to re-announce it si

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster

2010-01-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/24/2010 07:02 PM, Dale wrote: Is there something that I am missing here? For me, system should include the things needed for booting and for the package manager to work. It should include the programs directly involved in booting, and the package manager. I'm not sure that it should con

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster

2010-01-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/24/2010 01:20 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: 2010/1/24 Petteri Räty: On 01/24/2010 03:02 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: Why should we keep redundant information in the list? How is that redundant? Well, I doubt we'll get away from python in the system set anytime soon, but imagine the results of ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-17 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/17/2010 08:23 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: What about something like: if a bug has been open for 2 months without any apparent maintainer activity, anyone can step in and commit a fix? How about - anybody at any time can at their discretion post a comment in a bug asking if there are objecti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-17 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/17/2010 03:20 PM, Thilo Bangert wrote: Ben de Groot said: I think we have a bigger problem with packages that have a maintainer, at least nominally, but said maintainer does not actually maintain the package anymore. full ack. i was thinking that maybe we need an 'easy-fix' team, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-13 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/13/2010 10:06 AM, Arnaud Launay wrote: which kind of explain what is a proxy maintainer (more or less), but does not explain how to become one... We don't really have any official process around this. Things like sunrise and proxy-maintainers are good ways to get new blood into the co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-13 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/13/2010 09:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 12 January 2010 15:51:28 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: And since WE want to enable as-needed as default at some time we need to work on the bugs which isnt going to happen This isn't really intended to point fingers at anybody in particular - I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/12/2010 01:30 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: IMHO ( this is not a treecleaners@ opinion, i m just talking for my self ), announcing and masking a package is a good way to inform and wake up everybody to take care of this package if they really really want to stay on portage. I agree with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/11/2010 10:43 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: (A general reply, not targeted towards you, Rich) No prob - my post wasn't really directed personally at anybody. Speaking on behalf of the treecleaners: The fact is, some of us have never heard of "inn" and until Gentoo has some sort of "popularit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-11 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this. Yeah, inn seems like a really high-profile package to mask for removal. It would be conspicuous in its absence. Would it make sense to post on -dev BEFORE masking packages like this? I'm sure there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2010-01-08 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/08/2010 12:26 AM, Greg KH wrote: If the kernel loads a firmware file that is not free, or if the device itself has a firmware in it that you can not change so easily, has _nothing_ to do with the license of the kernel, I don't think anybody is concerned about the license of "the kernel",

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/07/2010 05:46 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. ++ Difference between OSI and FSF approved: ... I think the definitions of FSF and OSI are pretty much the same, ... So I'd like it much more to have one big "This is free and open source software"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2010-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/07/2010 01:19 AM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: All I'm asking for is that users who care about this will be shown an accurate license, I think that this really sums this whole thing up. Can you run a computer with ONLY FOSS on it (firmware to ROMs to hard drive controlers) - probably not,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Documentation licenses and license_groups

2010-01-06 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/05/2010 01:07 PM, Duncan wrote: Periodically there's talk of adding "+" versions of at least the FSF licenses, but while it would probably be quite a good thing, it'd be a LOT of VERY boring work poring thru all those packages and either updating to the + version, or leaving comments in eac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/31/2009 07:51 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: "Stable" MythTV has more issues than just Qt3, as the current stable doesn't compile anymore, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280303 which is about to get masked tomorrow with kdelibs-3... Those of us who run it wouldn't mind seeing a STABL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/31/2009 08:24 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 12/31/2009 03:13 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Samuli Suominen: Just saying... Please track progress somehow. I know it is a lot of work, but makes understanding the process easier. V-Li It's been done in, http://bugs.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 12:14 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: 2010-01-21: * Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining pkgs that use qt:3 2010-02-21: * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal 30 days isn't a long time. How about filing bugs against anything that currently uses

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 11:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: Heh, no, it does not, unless your BIOS, and your keyboard firmware, and your mouse firmware are all under a "free" license. The only thing close to this type of machine is the OLPC, and even then, I don't think all the microcode for the box was ever releas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why do packages which will not build remain in the distribution list?

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 05:18 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: You need to understand what the world set means. The world set is the packages in /var/lib/portage/world and the sets from /var/lib/portage/world_sets . From this follows that we can't change the content of the world set as it's a user specific configur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/29/2009 07:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: No, the readme/copying is correct, it covers all of the code that runs on the processor as one body of work. Firmware blobs are different in that they do not run in the same processor, and can be of a different license. Yes, but they don't cover everythi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/28/2009 05:53 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: You're wrong there. The kernel does contain additional licenses, and EXPLICITLY mentions them. Go and read 'firmware/WHENCE'. The licenses listed therein range from use-permitted only no-modification, to GPL-compliant and BSD-like. I stand corre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/28/2009 01:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Actually, this is a case where the license on the ebuild is wrong, not the license group. The kernel ebuilds should have GPL-2 and something else, and by definition should not pass @FSF-APPROVED alone. Is this appropriate? The kernel sources indi

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Documentation

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/28/2009 06:23 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: we should ENFORCE it, not just fill bugs about it, because mostly people tend to ignore that things. Agreed, although some presumption of innocence should be assumed. If a dev is ignoring repoman output that is a fairly big violation, but if a de

[gentoo-dev] QA Documentation

2009-12-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Started new subject since this is only tangentially related to the election. On 12/27/2009 06:16 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Anyway, i wont write huge manifesto but these things i would like spent my time: QA propagation (motivating people, explaining why we are doing stuff and so on) Could thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/23/2009 01:36 PM, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Perhaps we should create a schema to validate the file. XMLSchema (or any of the other standards) allows for much more flexibility in specifying these things. Btw. I did not design the metadata DTD for order to be significant. The only priority is th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/21/2009 06:33 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: On 12/20/2009 01:04 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Flattered, but I decline. I don't agree with the way the Council works and don't have motivation to attempt to change it. Out of curiosity, would you care to elaborate? I don't have much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/20/2009 01:04 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Flattered, but I decline. I don't agree with the way the Council works and don't have motivation to attempt to change it. Out of curiosity, would you care to elaborate? I don't have much of a political axe to grind so I guess I tend to stay out of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] January 2010 meeting date

2009-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/21/2009 02:54 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: If all mail that would go to -dev-announce would guaranteed be sent to -dev as well, I didn't have to check -dev-announce, and archives.g.o would also have the original "January 2010 meeting date" mail in the thread on -dev. Or you could just subs

Re: [gentoo-dev] CAcert certificate distribution license to third parties (i.e. distributors like gentoo)

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/15/2009 01:46 AM, Daniel Black wrote: I did email the debian maintainer too. no response yet. They have interactive builds though and I guess we do too now. Will be a royal pain if every CA/software did the same thing. The last thing gentoo needs is interactive builds. XFree86 was forke

Re: [gentoo-dev] CAcert certificate distribution license to third parties (i.e. distributors like gentoo)

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/14/2009 03:10 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: 1.4 Vendor's Agreement with End-User Vendor agrees 1. to distribute both the NRP-DaL and this present agreement to end-user, Ah, this was my mistake. I read that as "to distribute both the NRP-DaL and present this agreement to [the] end-use

Re: [gentoo-dev] CAcert certificate distribution license to third parties (i.e. distributors like gentoo)

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/13/2009 02:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:44:05PM +1100, Daniel Black wrote: Recently this got produced as a draft license for parties distributing CAcert's root certificate(s) (like us). https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/Agreements/3PVDisclaimerAndLicence.h

[gentoo-dev] GPG Infrastructure for Gentoo (Was Council Meeting)

2009-11-30 Thread Richard Freeman
Antoni Grzymala wrote: How about getting back to GLEP-57 [1]? Robin Hugh Johnson made an effort a year ago to summarize the then-current state of things regarding tree and package signing, however the matter seems to have lain idle and untouched for more than a year since. One concern I have w

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA is unimportant?

2009-11-09 Thread Richard Freeman
Peter Volkov wrote: 1. Our good non-formal policy "if developer touched anything he becames responsible for that ebuild and should fix issues noticed" is sometimes ignored. We see people reacting: you've noticed - you fix. I think such attitude is unacceptable. Keep in mind the downside to such

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-forensics/foremost: ChangeLog foremost-1.5.6.ebuild

2009-11-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Petteri Räty wrote: #SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" # starting to hate sf.net ... SRC_URI="http://foremost.sourceforge.net/pkg/foremost-1.5.6.tar.gz"; The filename that violates our policies hasn't changed between the new and old SRC_URI. Is this policy actually written dow

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-01 Thread Richard Freeman
Mart Raudsepp wrote: Is it stated in any documentation that 30 days is a policy? Not that I'm aware of - it is a guideline as you indicate. However, don't expect anybody to actually take action on a STABLEREQ if there isn't some kind of rationale for going stable so quickly. The whole po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 26/10/2009 22:58, Richard Freeman a écrit : Gentoo is about choice. No it isn't. Gentoo is about empowering users, giving them the ability and tools to _change_ the distro to _their_ needs. Gentoo does _not_ cater to all the possible needs. This is somewha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Actually, yes. Gentoo has never been a hand-holding distribution. We try to provide documentation and reasonable defaults for any apps the user chooses to install, and let the user configure what they will. Gentoo is about choice. Well, except for the choice to not have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Init systems portage category

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Freeman
Jesús Guerrero wrote: In my opinion, if we really want to speak about a way to implement that kind of snapshoting, we should start thinking about providing a better integration with lvm, from the root. lvm can take care of the snapshots on a non-expensive way, and it would be relatively easy to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks?

2009-10-04 Thread Richard Freeman
Joshua Saddler wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:45:21 +0300 Markos Chandras wrote: This is actually true. Maybe all devs should have access on docs since the docs teams are dead. I would suggest to let all developers contribute to documentation whether they belong to docs team or not No. Many (m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Xorg 1.6/libxcb 1.4 stabilization news item

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Rémi Cardona wrote: May I request a faster commit time since I didn't expect Samuli to stabilize everything so quickly? Yup - I wouldn't be surprised if within a few hours 80% of the concerned users will have already installed it. Even if you send out the news now anybody who synced overni

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Ryan Hill wrote: So, should we always keep a working EAPI 0 version around? If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. You might want to define what you mean by dropping support for old EAPIs? Do you mean: 1. No longer ensuring that users who have pre-EAPI ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Olivier Crête wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package I'm pretty sure this isn't the case - at least not as cleanly as you suggest. Certainly testing the ebuilds themselves is part of the reason for having ~arch, but upstream readiness is part of it as well. If a pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Jesús Guerrero wrote: Yeah, devs for that as well. Yup - I think we're actually on the same page. Ultimately quality matters more than quantity and everybody does what they can given the resources we have. Right now it is at least a little painful to get set up with an overlay. No, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Jesús Guerrero wrote: Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages, as simple as that. I actually tend to agree with this position, however to use overlays as a valid solution for end-users we need to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level portage tree is irrelevant.

2009-08-24 Thread Richard Freeman
Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Dmitry Grigoriev : Jeremy Olexa already answered me in bugzilla that this is not new idea, but I'll submit my suggestion here anyway as a "voice of crowd". :) I'm just home user with about 2 years linux experience, do like gentoo, but with exception of this incon

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