Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:37:33 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Putting in a wait for 4 or 8 weeks or whatever doesn't cost us > anything but does simplify things and gives us a clear deployment > process. It loses us reasonably wide testing of Portage's implementation in ~arch. I'd rather not see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Roy Bamford wrote: > What about the case where the new EAPI breaks backwards compatibility > with existing package managers, as would be the case with glep 55? > > Its quite true that such changes can be introduced after a wait and > only upset late adoptors. By implementing the key feature of g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Oh please no wiki. Whatever. My requirements are quite simple: public accessible, no accounts needed on 3rd party systems (like Google) to add feature requests or comments and changes must be traceable. Using bugzilla fits those criteria as well. > The problem for EAPI 3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.06.10 22:21, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: [snip] > The main "problem" is that there is no deployment process for newer > EAPIs specified right now. In the past we had something like "there > must be two releases (stage sets) including a Portage ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:49 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > And for EAPI development: I did dislike the google spreadsheet which > has been used for EAPI-3 and don't think this has proved to be > useful. If we do opt for any public collaboration development process > (instead of say some file in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Tiziano Müller wrote: > EAPI 3: Short discussion of the progress > > > zmedico will provide an update on the progress of the implementation. Short > discussion of problems and implementation decisions if needed. Guess that's a rather short topic. Nothing t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > Bash-4 in EAPI-3 > > > > Goal: A request has been made to allow bash-4.0 features in > > EAPI-3. Decide first whether or not to open the EAPI-3 feature > > list at all. > No. bash-4 has seen some regressions and some oddities. 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:00:22 -0500 Doug Goldstein wrote: > > zmedico will provide an update on the progress of the > > implementation. Short discussion of problems and implementation > > decisions if needed. > > I'd say let's involve all the package manager maintainer groups. Each > packager manag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-10 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 21:00 -0500 schrieb Doug Goldstein: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:26 PM, 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 @ > > irc.freenode.net) ! > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-09 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:26 PM, 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 @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-05 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote: > My plan is to go over each package as time permits, check the license and > then make the x-modular eclass set the default license to MIT instead of > ${PN}. > > I could definitely use a hand to check all those packages :) > Here's a list of pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit : The x11 team[1] came to the conclusion that following RedHat's lead and just using MIT as license for Xorg packages should suffice since they are quite careful about these things. This should definitely be better than the current practice anyway. That's indeed my plan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-05 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Default ACCEPT_LICENSE > -- > Goal: A possible default value for ACCEPT_LICENSE has been proposed. Decide > whether that's ok. What happens to the X11 license files (one for each app)? > The x11 team[1] came to the conclus