Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/21/2015 04:21 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:00:45 -0800 > Brian Dolbec wrote: > > >> But, one of the biggest things keeping me from doing more work on it >> when I do have some time, is the fact that barely any of the devs seem >> to care (other than the OP, who just seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Wiki says: > > "In this guide we are going to show you how to create a GLEP 63 > based OpenPGP Key using > app-crypt/gkeys-gen > tool which is >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Or just point people at a random email, because that's about as good as >> documentation. > Thank you for writing up a guide/outline. > > You appear to hate mediawiki, but you do realize that you could > probably copy/paste that email into the box an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > I'd replace gkeys-gen with a ~10-line shell script ... if I had some > motivation to dig through some old experiments of mine where I managed > to set all parameters for pgp from CLI. Which is all that gkeys-gen > would do! Sounds great. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 02:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> I'd replace gkeys-gen with a ~10-line shell script ... if I had some >> motivation to dig through some old experiments of mine where I managed >> to set all parameters for pgp from CLI. Which i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> Do you want to see this fixed? >> Are you willing to do the fixing yourself? > I don't have infinite time, and wasting a day documenting things that > should have been documented a year ago is not a good way of spending time. So, it soun

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-doc/ebookmerge

2015-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2015) # No longer works. Dead upstream. Masked for removal in 30 days. # Bug 507914 app-doc/ebookmerge

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/vmaid

2015-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2015) # Fails to build. Dead upstream. Masked for removal in 30 days. # Bug 566446 media-video/vmaid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 03:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> Do you want to see this fixed? >>> Are you willing to do the fixing yourself? >> I don't have infinite time, and wasting a day documenting things that >> should have been documented a year ago

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Peter Stuge
Patrick Lauer wrote: > my time, spent to work around deficiencies I shouldn't even see - > if other people had done their job. Ah but that's the thing - it *isn't* their job. They are volunteering. That's a very different construct. And yes, you do have to work around deficiencies created by oth