[gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Yamin
All, I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been eroded and hindered at practically every opportunity by bad decisions, staff, and in some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-05 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:26:16AM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the > > default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too > > many packages fail their test phase. > > Sure everyone likes t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-30 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:07:03PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Those were nominated but did not (yet) confirm their participation : > > plasmaroo I'll decline, maybe next year... :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2

2006-05-22 Thread Tim Yamin
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:47:22AM +, Thomas Cort wrote: > So what I suggest is the following: > > "While it is desirable that the primary package manager be maintained > on official gentoo infrastructure, under the control of gentoo > developers, it is not required. During the path to becomin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Yamin
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:30:10PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:56:14 + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Yamin) wrote: > > > Well, if you're going to have a package manager that delivers the > > same result as Portage it must therefore work with Ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Yamin
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:49:16PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Tim Yamin wrote: > >So if it can give the same end result, it can be a replacement. So hence > >paludis should be able to do what Portage + Catalyst now do. Which you've > >not-so-clearly said is not the ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Yamin
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:22:45PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:12:09 -0400 Daniel Ostrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Unfortunately in this case there is only one cat, he has only one skin > | and there is only one knife with which to skin him. Chris asked if > | palu

Re: [gentoo-dev] staffing needs expirations?

2006-05-04 Thread Tim Yamin
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:20:04AM +0100, Benjamin Smee (strerror) wrote: > I'd say ldap is fine right now. I think we've got most of the big issues > out of the way and I'm happy to update whatever documentation people > think needs updating if someone would point me at the current versions. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union + suggestion for global dev conference (at bottom, if you want to skip)

2006-04-29 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:33:11PM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > __Problem: Developer Growth__ > > > > Why do people have to take a test? > > There are certain skills we need a developer to demonstrate before we > can give them commit access. There is currently no opportunity for a > would-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Tim Yamin
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > CVS doesn't do branching nor tags very well... > > > > __Problem: CVS__ > > > > CVS is one of the worst application ever created. The portage tree > > needs to move to subversion. A lot of the problems within the project > > w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Tim Yamin
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:57:30AM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > Bypass the council. The council should be there only for when we get > sued, and manage the money we make. > > Does anyone agree that having a council is too political? I strongly > believe it stifles gentoo. You're confusing Coun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-laptop/ibm-acpi

2006-04-22 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:36:53PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The kernel module found in app-laptop/ibm-acpi has been included in > > the vanilla kernel since linux-2.6.10. There has been no releases of > > the stand-alone module since March 2005.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 'Images' without gcc/portage?

2006-04-14 Thread Tim Yamin
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:31:31PM -0500, Allen Rohner wrote: > I have been a Gentoo user for several years, but this is my first step into > gentoo development. I'm looking at the feasability of using gentoo for a > product at work. Is it possible to use a Gentoo host machine to create a > linux '

Re: [gentoo-dev] seeing a new trend of laziness developing.

2006-02-26 Thread Tim Yamin
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:40:44AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > When people go out of their way to file a bug for you or a team you are > on. Please _please_ don't be lazy and just close/reassign/other it > with a '.' > > A period is the most useless way to respond to a bug. If you can't take > 2 sec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst{,2} and 2006.0

2006-01-03 Thread Tim Yamin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:33:13PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > But what about helping by "working on an official Gentoo release"? Having somebody around to help test LiveCDs and stages is always a good thing. We need both developers and users to do this as the architecture coordinator can a

[gentoo-dev] uclinux/usermode/win4lin Removal Warning

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Yamin
These packages currently have no active maintainer to keep the sources updated and the kernel team is not able keep them updated with all the security bumps that are required due to manpower shortages. If nobody steps up to maintain them (meaning, solve incoming bugs and update the sources as need