Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaners Recruiting

2006-08-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 04/08/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:48:01 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To briefly go over requirements you need to be able to: > > Speak English; Why? Surely read & write is enough. Probably for the kinky teleconferences Alec was pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Elfyn McBratney
o is be disrespectful? If you can't say anything constructive, why not just keep it zipped? Just my two pence... Regards, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAIL PROTECTED] gentoo [.] org | +-- o.0 ---+ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Ciao, On 03/09/06, Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, as requested by multiple devrel members I have written a GLEP to standardize bugzilla access for contributors. It has already been discussed on the devrel mailing list before but I am looking for a wider opinion now. This is al

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 04/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: General SMTP/ESMTP error. [... crap received after posting to -dev ...] Whoever has bodged their fetchmail configuration, please fix it ASAP! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flags bite the dust...

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Ciao, On 06/09/06, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/6/06, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > dba > > dio > > ingres > > msession > > mcve > > > > are all used by 1 ebuild... and that's dev-lang/php... they should be > > moved to local's. > > > > > Co

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flags bite the dust...

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Ciao, On 06/09/06, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug Goldstein wrote: > dba > dio > ingres > msession > mcve > > are all used by 1 ebuild... and that's dev-lang/php... they should be > moved to local's. > Consequence: php eclasses code should be moved in dev-lang/php ebuild. Erm, and

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flags bite the dust...

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 06/09/06, Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ciao, On 06/09/06, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > dba > > dio > > ingres > > msession > > mcve > > > > are all used by 1 ebuild... and t

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flags bite the dust...

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Bah... this is really the last time I shall reply to myself! [...] On 06/09/06, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > dba > > dio > > ingres > > msession > > mcve > > > > are all used by 1 ebuild... and that's dev-lang/php... they should be > > moved to local's. > >

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
ags; - Limiting the amount of times we need to call "die" in ebuilds. Yes, that's a small list... which is why I'm sending this mail to solicit even more ideas. :) Comments, flames ("read the archives", "go jump in a pond", etc) and whatever else is c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages formerly maintained by myself

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
d I'm not going to get burnt-out over 'em. ;P Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, Freenode and Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAIL PROTECTED] freenode [

Re: [gentoo-dev] (Not so) New Developer - The Paya

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
o :) > > I'm sure I'm not the only one to throw thank-you's and welcome him on > board! Here's to a long and enjoyable involvement with Gentoo! Welcome aboard, Javier! Another insider pushing gentoo from the, uh, inside when it comes to work, eh? Good Show! :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] What would Freud say? New developer; Mike Kelly!

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> > but he does speak bash, C, C++, Java, Perl and some sml. > > > > So yeah, buy him a pint and welcome him onboard! Welcome aboard, Mike! :) I hear you're working on paludis, so we might have to have some sort of fun competition to see who can add features first. :P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
the new > members. Congratulations, trustees - new and old! :D Now where's my Free iPod? ;P Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, Freenode and Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, > > you can put "community" or something if that's all you want. All responses > > off list please. Thanks. > [...] Note the "off list" bit, please. 8) No need to repl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-09 Thread Elfyn McBratney
gzilla mail goes into the "priority lowest" queue for a lot of > people.. Considering that the maintainer is seldom around (not meant in a bad way, things^Wlife happens), it's pretty much a moot point. Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, Freenode and Gentoo Developer, Nutty between th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Devrel Subproject: Gentoo Devmatch

2006-10-23 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 23/10/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:55:15 +0100 "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 10/23/06, Caleb Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > | > > Weapons allowed? | > | > melee weapons only, maybe? | | Guns for show; knives for a pro. Who

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-30 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 29/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/28/06, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. It also gives users the impression that there is an entire "team" of people maintaining a package,when in fact it might be just on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 07/11/06, Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wernfried Haas wrote: [Tue Nov 07 2006, 02:34:46PM CST] > While we're at the whole email stuff, it seems you still sign your > emails with [EMAIL PROTECTED], which i personally find at least as > annoying as you find klie^WSPF. Out of date

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-09 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 08/11/06, Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Mr windmill man! ^_^ PPS: Windmills, anyone? Yes, I'll take two, please. --beu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New devel oper: R?mi Cardona

2006-11-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
also presided over for two years). He > enjoys playing tennis, working out at the gym and running off SpanKY, > err, running a few miles. Eek, Gnome? Poor Fellow! ;P *books remi some extra SpanKY* > Please welcome R?mi as a new fellow developer among us ! Welcome aboard, mate! :D B

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-antivirus/vlnx

2006-11-19 Thread Elfyn McBratney
ember 19th 2006). Best, Elfyn [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/117650 -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAIL PROTECTED] gentoo [.] org | +-

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Charlie Shepherd (masterdriverz)

2006-11-22 Thread Elfyn McBratney
ed in London all my life, currently learning the bass (guitar)." Another developer for the, er, London conspiracy! Welcome abord, Charlie! :D Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

2006-11-24 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 25/11/06, Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:59:32 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrej Kacian napsal(a): > > Why? If someone does this, they need to be spanked > > Meh, even you got it right on the first try - no need to name > anyone *g*

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/php-5.2 status?

2006-12-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
sets with the new MySQL charset patches. So, it is available in the PHP team's experimental overlay (which can be fetched with layman if you really can't wait) and will likely enter portage sometime soon in the future. -- Elfyn McBratney, G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/cidr

2006-12-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Ciao, On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:52 +1100, Andrew Ross wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > > Upstream for net-misc/cidr has disappeared (their homepage has been dead > > for a long long time according to archive.org), and a cursory check on > > the Internets doesn&

[gentoo-dev] Treecleaner meeting summary

2006-12-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
n the package getting package.mask-ed and/or removed from the tree. That about sums it up; see the attached log if anything is unclear, or reply to this mail. :) Best, Treecleaner team -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and

[gentoo-dev] Re: Treecleaner meeting summary

2006-12-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Typically, I failed at something: meeting log *really* attached this time... -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAIL PROTECTED] gentoo [.] org

[gentoo-dev] dev-lang/bigwig needs a maintainer or it'll be removed

2005-04-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi folks, dev-lang/bigwig is broken with the 2.x versions of Apache 2.x we have in the tree, and upstream appears to be dead and not responding to emails. If no one picks this package up by April 30th, it will be removed from the tree. Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney

[gentoo-dev] Moving the updated apache and associated ebuilds back into package.mask

2005-04-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
est, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +O.o- http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/pubkey.asc PGP Key ID: 0x69DF17AD PGP Key Fingerprint: DBD3 B756 ED58

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category rename

2005-04-18 Thread Elfyn McBratney
ocks > > I also think now is the time for creating another category containing > all types of tunnels found in net-misc > > Thoughts? Leave as is. Read the metadata.xml for www-proxy: The www-proxy category contains network proxy software. Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category rename

2005-04-19 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 07:54, Alin Nastac wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 06:34, Alin Nastac wrote: > >>IMO, www-proxy should be renamed to net-proxy, for allowing me to move > >>various SOCKS packages into it. > >>The packages quali

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving the updated apache and associated ebuilds back into package.mask

2005-04-19 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 20:31, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Saturday 16 April 2005 14:38, Paul Varner wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 06:56 +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > The way I see it, we have three options: > > > - package.mask (downgrades for those early adopt

[gentoo-dev] New apache stuff in testing -> please package.mask it

2005-04-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
g. I may have missed packages in the bug, hence this mail - you know best if your using new stuff. :) Please package.mask said ebuilds ASAP so we can get apache itself into package.mask. Thanks, Elfyn [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89885 --

Re: [gentoo-dev] New apache stuff in testing -> please package.mask it

2005-04-21 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thursday 21 Apr 2005 12:37, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 05:48 +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > I've filed a bug[1] requesting that ebuilds with updated apache stuff > > (anything using the new apache-module or depend.apache eclass/the new > > install

[gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses

2005-04-25 Thread Elfyn McBratney
ss, but hopefully you get the idea. Thoughts ? Anything I've missed ciaranm ? :) Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +O.o- http://

Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses

2005-04-25 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Monday 25 Apr 2005 15:20, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2005 08:43 am, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category > > and per-package eclasses > > you mean Bug 69714 i filed ~6 months ago ? ;) Ah, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] current state of PHP5 and Apache

2005-04-26 Thread Elfyn McBratney
omment along with the mask and make up your own mind. Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +O.o- http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/pubkey.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/bigwig needs a maintainer or it'll be removed

2005-04-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Saturday 16 Apr 2005 00:06, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Hi folks, > > dev-lang/bigwig is broken with the 2.x versions of Apache 2.x we have in > the tree, and upstream appears to be dead and not responding to emails. > > If no one picks this package up by April 30th, it will b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft

2005-04-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
visible output on the screen, or > is that an entirely different problem? Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :) Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft

2005-04-30 Thread Elfyn McBratney
if it takes a long while to do > anything. > > Just my to 0.02รข Sounds good to me, if possible. Could we maybe be more noisy here when people run with --verbose ? You know, so your not left staring at nothingness while portage does it's imports, scans, whatever .. $emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction to myself

2005-05-01 Thread Elfyn McBratney
h of my > experience as maintainer and upstream to make things going on well-done > and having fun with the rest developers. > > Thanks in advance, cheers. Hehe, welcome to the whirlwind that is -dev ! :) Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

2005-05-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 01:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:36 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > Starts to smell of a cvs problem... > > actually i'd bet money on crappy editors eating the files Like nano ? :P /me ducks Best, Elfyn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl Recruiting

2005-09-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
rl, and working on perl supported ebuilds. > Perl supported ebuild devs should have a perl development background, while > core perl devs should have a background in the actual inner perl workings. > > That said, if you're interested, please contact Elfyn McBratney > <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Edgar Hucek (gimli)

2005-09-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
around with his friends, and being, in his own words, a "couch > potato." He's interested in multimedia on Linux, and is also a bit of an > Open Source advocate. > > Please give me a hand in giving Edgar a very warm welcome. *passes Tom a severed lim* Edgar, welcome aboard !

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-16 Thread Elfyn McBratney
it's unstable, and many users (including myself) stay away from packages therein. So, the question is: when did ~arch and packake.mask become synonymous ? Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +O.o-

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developers / polish invasion :)

2005-09-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
o listen to a music (all > kinds of Rock), watching movies (preferably in cinema) and going to > pubs with friends (i'm definitly outgoing kind of person)" Welcome aboard, fellas ! :D Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New infra dev: markm

2005-09-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
:D > Talk about website promotion! Hah ;) Best, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney beu/irc.freenode.nethttp://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +O.o- http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/pubkey.asc PGP Key ID: 0x69DF17AD PGP Key Fingerprint: DBD3 B756 ED5