Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Knowing what the problem is is part of making the solution. The problem > is not that users can't push arbitrary content into a centralised > official repository with no oversight from the herds appropriate for > said content

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Jan Kundrát
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > Gentoo is a team effort. There's no place in Gentoo for developers who > can't function within a team environment where members must be capable > of rational deliberation and, from time to time, compromise. OTOH this "team collaboration" doesn't mean that we have to agree w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Good intentions and trying to be helpful don't keep users or > developers. Screwups lose users and developers. It's really funny to hear such a statement from a person who made several great developers leave the project. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:10:45 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Good intentions and trying to be helpful don't keep users or | > developers. Screwups lose users and developers. | | It's really funny to hear such a statement from a person who made | several

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:13:45 -0700 Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That is the issue at hand at the core of this. Its called choice. Choice is not an end in itself. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 03:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | we take a risk with this project (like every single other > > | project) ... if sun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Jakub Moc
Bryan A~stergaard wrote: > Left in a huff? I'm sorry but I don't think you fully understand the > reasons for Brix leaving. After Sunrise was suspended by the council > there was a meeting [1] between brix, the sunrise leads (genstef and > jokey), christel (representing user relations), myself and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:21:17AM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Bryan A~stergaard wrote: > Well, huh??? Looks like you've missed the -dev ML thread altogether, as > did brix (despite it was himself who started it, as Mike has already > pointed out). Brix didn't write any proposal and didn't raise any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Jakub Moc
Bryan A~stergaard wrote: > That's my opinion anyway and from talking to brix about all this I > believe his biggest reason for leaving have been the way Sunrise have > been forced through despite the many complaints raised (and still not > fixed). > > Regards, > Bryan ?stergaard Well, such as? T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Giacomo Cariello
Mike Frysinger wrote: > people need to bring up their outstanding issues now and get them > addressed Hello all, I'm currently a Gentoo "power user" and I'm being mentored by kloeri to become a developer. During this time, I've had the chance to study accurately the Gentoo developer's handbook and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-31 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.07.31 03:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:19:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | we take a risk with this project (like every single other | project) ... if sunrise turns out to suck and cause problems, then we | kill it, no big deal How many more users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.07.31 03:00, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: On 7/30/06, Stephen P. Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make me think otherwise, You won't listen, yet you expect to be listened to. Speaking as a user and lover of Gentoo I believe you should r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 31/07/2006-09:21:51(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types > > No, what's funny is watching people do nothing when Sunrise really is > making developers leave. Did I miss someone's resignation, or was the plural "developers" an exaggeration. -- \Georgi Georgiev \ Amy: "What about Umbriel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Giacomo Cariello
Roy Bamford wrote: > Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system down. A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is going to run a Gentoo School with courses for developers, that sounds cool (an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Christian Andreetta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:50 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> My concern is beyond me. As I stated I know enough about what to expect IF >> I >> use sunrise. But many do not and with it becoming official people figure >>

AW: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Noack, Sebastian
A patch for your signature to increase your life expectancy. ;) @@ -1 +1 @@ -cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth +cd /local/pub && more beer | sed -e "s/beer/water/g" > /dev/mouth Best Regards Sebastian Noack -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jan Kundrát [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ges

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 11:16 schrieb ext Noack, Sebastian: > A patch for your signature to increase your life expectancy. ;) > > @@ -1 +1 @@ > -cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth > +cd /local/pub && more beer | sed -e "s/beer/water/g" > /dev/mouth Luckily, this doesn't even work :-) Beer wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.07.31 12:01, Giacomo Cariello wrote: Roy Bamford wrote: > Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system down. A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is going to run a Gentoo School

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

2006-07-31 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:21:38 +0200 Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napísal: > I'd like to nominate Andrej Kacian (ticho). He's quite a silent dev > (speaking about -dev and -core flamefests :) ), so chances are that he > won't go bananas. He also wrote nice articles about his hiking > activities

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: > > Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for > Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't > have other choices* but > > 1) an endless wait for an open bug > 2) becoming de

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

2006-07-31 Thread John N. Laliberte
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:07:03PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > We're nearing the end of the nomination period. > > So far (if we are to trust > http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/council-2006-nominees.xml) the following > developers accepted their nomination : > > dostrow > Flameeyes > KingTaco > k

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/31/06, Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thirdly, I know one of the issues with one of the leaders of the project, is the fact that they are not a ebuild developer. I'd like to have them take the second quiz simply to prove that they have the knowledge to be trusted to review the ebu

Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Jan Kundrát
Noack, Sebastian wrote: > A patch for your signature to increase your life expectancy. ;) > > @@ -1 +1 @@ > -cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth > +cd /local/pub && more beer | sed -e "s/beer/water/g" > /dev/mouth BTTTDW (Been There, Tried That, Didn't Work :) ) Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/p

[gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
Sorry to start yet another thread on this but all the others seem to have just turned into a shouting match among developers... and sorry if this has already been covered. It seems that the most logical solution to the Sunrise "problem" is to separate it from Gentoo... I know that there are other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Kelly
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:13:45 -0700 Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a lot of irony in this entire discussion. We are actually > talking about going against what the heck part of the reason this > project was started. Are we seriously that *can't find the word I'm > looking for*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread Simon Stelling
Michael Crute wrote: > Thoughts anyone? That's all been done. That's why the last thread's title has the word 'resumed' in it, after all :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread FieldySnuts
On Monday 31 July 2006 09:54, Michael Crute wrote: > Thoughts anyone? As a non-dev, that sounds like a good idea. Or at LEAST a seperate mailing list for sunrise stuff, the number of sunrise related mails here is so much that I can't be arsed to follow all of them -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:54 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > Sorry to start yet another thread on this but all the others seem to > have just turned into a shouting match among developers... and sorry > if this has already been covered. > > It seems that the most logical solution to the Sunrise "prob

[gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal

2006-07-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any other client out there. I'll remove it in 30 days, or whenever I remember it's still there. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-31 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:56:47 -0600: > Most major archs have at least some version of 3.3 and 3.4 available in > stable. Sometimes even 2.95, and some lucky winners have 4.1 in ~arch. > amd64 has 3.3 masked for some reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/31/06, Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That has been discussed, it would not be a technical problem. One reason this should be avoided is control - as soon as sunrise runs on non-official hardware (like, say ... hmmm ... sunrise.gentooexperimental.org) gentoo has no control at all o

[gentoo-dev] Sunrise contemplations

2006-07-31 Thread foser
Hello, since I've not really been involved in the whole Sunrise discussion I'd like to give my view in a condensed form, instead of spreading it out over 20 replies in the ongoing discussion. Also I hope to summarize the main points a bit, but I know this mail is far from objective and as such not

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: > i guess i'll start off some mass nominations of random people off the top of > my head who i think would do a good job ... there's a bunch more people i > think would do a good job, but i'm going to cut my list short as it's already > ridiculously long ... > some other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:08:12 +0200 "Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What if a well respected ebuild developper that supports the project | volunteered to join it ? Get a half dozen and I suspect a lot of the concern will be reduced substantially... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Thanks for the nomination SpanKY :) I'll decline this time around, to make room for fresh minds. Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Foundation / Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] The gnome king is dead, long live the gnome king

2006-07-31 Thread foser
Hello dear followers, tonight after a some deliberation I have decided to step down as gnome lead in favor of AllanonJL. As far as I am concerned AllanonJL has been the acting lead for quite a while now, while I was too busy to devote much time to Gentoo and as such it was the only logical next st

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Ned Ludd
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:04 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 02:46, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > well it's about that time of the year ... time for nominating > > people for the next Gentoo Council > > i guess i'll start off some mass nominations of random people off th

Re: [gentoo-dev] The gnome king is dead, long live the gnome king

2006-07-31 Thread Joshua Nichols
foser wrote: > tonight after a some deliberation I have decided to step down as gnome > lead in favor of AllanonJL. As far as I am concerned AllanonJL has been > the acting lead for quite a while now, while I was too busy to devote > much time to Gentoo and as such it was the only logical next step

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Daniel Ostrow
> Some notes on some of the other people from my POV.. > > -- Busy/Next Year/Other -- > dostrow (not around enough) I'd agree that my availability over the past 6 months has been spotty at best. I was ramping up for a cross country move and all that that entails as well as dealing with a new po

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Lars Weiler
* Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/07/31 16:48 -0400]: > Pylon (maybe.. not around enough however) I don't know the basis for your statement, but I'm quite good around. Is it that you don't see that many emails from me here at this list? Or is it that you don't see me hanging out in #gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:00 -0700, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > > > Some notes on some of the other people from my POV.. > > > > -- Busy/Next Year/Other -- > > dostrow (not around enough) > > > I'd agree that my availability over the past 6 months has been spotty at > best. I was ramping up for a cro

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:48:42PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > kloeri (nice guy but dunno if the council is a proper match) Guess I could do a lot worse than "nice guy" :) I haven't been part of the council before so it's a bit difficult saying if it's a good fit or not. But I'd certainly do my best t

Re: [gentoo-dev] The gnome king is dead, long live the gnome king

2006-07-31 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 7/31/06, foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello dear followers, tonight after a some deliberation I have decided to step down as gnome lead in favor of AllanonJL. As far as I am concerned AllanonJL has been the acting lead for quite a while now, while I was too busy to devote much time to Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 23:30 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: > * Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/07/31 16:48 -0400]: > > Pylon (maybe.. not around enough however) > > I don't know the basis for your statement, but I'm quite > good around. > > Is it that you don't see that many emails from me here at >

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 21:39 +, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:48:42PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > > kloeri (nice guy but dunno if the council is a proper match) > Guess I could do a lot worse than "nice guy" :) I haven't been part of > the council before so it's a bit difficu

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 16:48 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: [snip] > patrick (nope) I'm the alternative. Vote well or you'll have to live with me :-) I hope that this motivates _everyone_ to vote ... On a more serious note, I hope this mailinglist doesn't degenerate into a political campaign. To paraphra

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 23:14:56 +0200, Ned Ludd wrote: > -- No -- > nattfodd (nfc) Is that "no fucking chance" or "no fucking clue"? I might agree to both :) I'm quite a young dev (joined last fall) and though I hang quite a bit on #gentoo-dev and try to follow -dev, I don't speak that much. I a

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Ned Ludd
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 00:29 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 23:14:56 +0200, Ned Ludd wrote: > > -- No -- > > nattfodd (nfc) ... > clue"? I might agree to both :) Meaning only that we have not really worked together. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Doug Goldstein
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > To my former fellow Gentoo developers and users, > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:58:09PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: >> To my fellow Gentoo developers and users, >> >> In last weeks council meeting [1] it was decided that the Sunrise project is >> no longer suspende

[gentoo-dev] Re: SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
I appreciate the nomination but I already see enough people on the ballot that I'd like to see fill the positions. So, this year, I'll decline the nomination. Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Frysinger wrote: i guess i'll start off some mass nominations of random peopl

[gentoo-dev] logwatch needs love

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'm tired of looking at this package, anyone care about this thing enough to be its maintainer ? -mike pgpKcazDf3HyB.pgp Description: PGP signature