[gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-23 Thread Grant
Hello, is anyone interested in writing a Perl ebuild for this payment module: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Braintree/ Thanks, Grant P.S. Braintree is a stellar payment company: https://www.braintreepayments.com/developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-23 Thread Grant
b/layman/moonrise/perl-gcpan Is that the right place for them? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-24 Thread Grant
d luck with g-cpan. I thought there were a lot of dev-perl ebuilds in portage for CPAN modules and that g-cpan was for those that hadn't been added to portage yet? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-24 Thread Grant
Time-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5 nofetch * QA Notice: ECLASS 'user' inherited illegally in dev-perl/DateTime-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5 nofetch * QA Notice: ECLASS 'base' inherited illegally in dev-perl/DateTime-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5 nofetch * The following are listed in SRC_URI for DateTime-Format-RFC3339: *mirror://cpan/authors/id/I/IK/IKEGAMI/DateTime-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5.tar.gz !!! Fetch failed for DateTime-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5.tar.gz, can't update Manifest Unable to generate manifest. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-24 Thread Grant
ux ppc-macos x86-macos x64-macos m68k-mint x86-netbsd ppc-openbsd x86-openbsd x64-openbsd sparc-solaris sparc64-solaris x64-solaris x86-solaris x86-winnt x86-cygwin" IUSE="" DEPEND="dev-perl/DateTime dev-lang/perl" - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-24 Thread Grant
: P - Path as passed to function FORMAT: A - Absolute Path (not canonical) FORMAT: R - Canonical Path FORMAT: C - Command Line F: open_wr S: deny P: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.4/CPAN/Config.pm A: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.4/CPAN/Config.pm R: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.4/CPAN/Config.pm C: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/local-lib-1.008004/image/ >>> Failed to emerge dev-perl/local-lib-1.008004 - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-25 Thread Grant
or sticking with me on this guys. May I ask why you force the g-cpan category to dev-perl? To what extent is running ebuilds from perl-experimental a safe endeavor? Should Net-Braintree or any of the ebuilds I had g-cpan trouble with be eligible for inclusion in the main tree or perl-experimental? Thanks again, Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-25 Thread Grant
n, but now that I think about it I suppose it doesn't really matter. Thanks a lot for your help! - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Grant
all, thanks Duncan. I'll set that up if I ever feel like I need to know which perl ebuilds came from g-cpan. Right now all of my local dev-perl stuff comes g-cpan. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Grant
it generated ebuilds in /usr/local/portage/dev-perl for a whole lot of different perl modules that I've never installed. Has anyone seen this before? Is 'g-cpan -u' the best way to update your g-cpan ebuilds? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-04-30 Thread Grant
OME-2.32). >> >> And the real solution is to finally stabilize some release of GNOME-3.x > > Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that stable was that far > behind. Now to see how much I have to keyword. Hi Walter, please let us know how much stuff you end up keywording. - Grant

[gentoo-dev] In need of a good dev

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
Hello, are any Gentoo devs interested in building an ebuild for a fee and possibly other stuff including ongoing system administration? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-dev] In need of a good dev

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
>> Hello, are any Gentoo devs interested in building an ebuild for a fee >> and possibly other stuff including ongoing system administration? >> >> - Grant >> > > Some more details would be useful :) Sure, I work for a company which uses Gentoo exclusively on

Re: [gentoo-dev] In need of a good dev

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
>>>> Hello, are any Gentoo devs interested in building an ebuild for a fee >>>> and possibly other stuff including ongoing system administration? >>>> >>>> - Grant >>>> >>> Some more details would be useful :) >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
r having an errata page, it wouldn't be difficult to write a program to automatically convert news items to guidexml. I suspect that ciaranm could even be talked into writing it, if such a page were to become reality. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgppllN4FWKVp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

2005-11-07 Thread Grant Goodyear
of portage just doing a little bit of maintenance work for > external tools and nothing else. I'm not sure exactly what you're arguing here. Is it just that you think that the news stuff should be a post-sync hook instead of being triggered explicitly by "emerge"?

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
l. I was going to say that the only way new news items could appear is during an emerge --sync, but of course that's not true for people who either add an overlay or use CVS. I'd be comfortable with making it run only at --sync time, or if it were triggered explicitly (--check-news, or so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting Tuesday, November 15th, 20:00 UTC

2005-11-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
e. > > No, 43. Not 34. Bleh. Whoops, 43 just requires local approval, since it isn't really cross-project, so I've approved it (as the lead GLEP editor). -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting Tuesday, November 15th, 20:00 UTC

2005-11-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
ogs/20051013.txt According to CVS, the GLEP hasn't been updated since the last meeting, so I'm assuming that the GLEP's authors aren't ready yet. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda for Council meeting, Tuesday, November 15th, 20:00 UTC

2005-11-14 Thread Grant Goodyear
evised. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpoataSnjjIE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda for Council meeting, Tuesday, November 15th, 20:00 UTC

2005-11-14 Thread Grant Goodyear
Marius Mauch wrote: [Mon Nov 14 2005, 08:05:44AM CST] > > Discussion > > - Portage Tree signing status (requested by Marius Mauch) > > Ehm, I didn't request anything. Grant did ;) Yep, I did make the request, but it is genone who did all of the hard work. I'm ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda for Council meeting, Tuesday, November 15th, 20:00 UTC

2005-11-14 Thread Grant Goodyear
one, but clearly I did. Did it get sent out to -dev for comments? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp0Yd5GWcsZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
ference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect the role that arch testers serve. My personal preference would be to choose something like "aide", "helper", "assistant", or something similar. (Indeed, I'd have preferred "volunteer"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Jakub Moc wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 06:07:48PM CST] > > 19.11.2005, 0:58:29, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > > My preference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect > > the role that arch testers serve. My personal preference would be > > to choose som

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
It's just not clear to me that it applies here. *Shrug* -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpadGGTi2D8u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
l, and I don't think it was wholly unreasonable. The Council did go out of their way to emphasize that there should not be a repeat of this event. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpJlpqHg65zD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
nd cluttering them? Use CVS > commit messages to track such things if you think you need it. I generally suggest that devs follow agriffis' lead and use a tool that generates the CVS commit message from the ChangeLog message. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
you have my apology for not doing a very good job with this one. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpcXgkhwTCvY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
server than a CVS pull does. In any event, do we need a new server anyway? We actually do have some money that could be spent on such things, and the CVS server is really high on the list of for which I, personally, would be more than willing to spend it. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
problem is currently being fixed. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgprUeUgZpxhD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

2005-11-21 Thread Grant Goodyear
nurt when he left. You're welcome to ask his permission to use it on the new site, as he might have changed his mind since then. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B

Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

2005-11-21 Thread Grant Goodyear
t;Community" panels with limited scrolling. As an aside, I would prefer to see something fairly soon, even if it's more a face lift than a redesign, than wait another year before we update the site. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
can choose to do so from a stage 1 or 2, but would have to remove packages after the fact if starting from a stage 3? I wouldn't have a problem with that, as long as we document it, but it just seems that the claim that the old and new methods produce _exactly_ the same results seems to be stret

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Tue Nov 22 2005, 12:17:47PM CST] > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:03:49 -0600 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I keep hearing this, isn't there a real difference between a stage 1 > | and a stage 3 install inasmuch as somebody who needs (or wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
how to do that would be nice. If that were done, then I would have no complaints about the stage 1 and stage 2 tarballs going away altogether. *Shrug* -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-11-24 Thread Grant Goodyear
d be easier for people to create and maintain, and its presence would quickly alert devs to potential quirks with a possibly unfamiliar package. Of course, the drawback would be the additional tree bloat. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

2005-11-24 Thread Grant Goodyear
much rather see the nascent support go in, even at the cost of expanding the tree a tad, rather than push it off into the fairly distant future. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152

Re: [gentoo-dev] Misquoted in the GWN

2005-11-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
suboptimal decisions in the past is a > fact, but why aren't there more contributors to the GWN so that we two > aren't single points of failure? I suspect that the devs most likely to write an article for the GWN are also those most likely to have a blog on planet.g.o. Given

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Grant Goodyear
Philip Webb wrote: [Wed Nov 30 2005, 04:34:56PM CST] > As one of the "masses", I am certainly disturbed at that implication. > I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 -> 3.x (now 3.3.6). http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/new-upgrade-to-gentoo-1.4.xml -g2bo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format

2005-12-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
d even have a fix-portage.sh script in /usr/portage/scripts that would do the downloading and unpacking, if we wanted to be particularly nice.) Backwards compatibility is nice, but I'd really rather not see good ideas take a year to fully be implemented unless absolutely required. -g2b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five)

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Danny van Dyk wrote: [Tue Dec 13 2005, 02:35:44PM CST] > | I'll accept that change if you get Grant to accept a mini-GLEP > | switching the GLEPs over to use that format too. > > I don't think that we need a GLEP for it, no matter how 'mini' it > would be.. Just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five)

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
x27;ll be the one approving it, but I can agree that having the change documented would be useful. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpwHiBPFT5Es.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP XX: Fix the GLEP process

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
t that I have no problem with people doing hard work for little gain, if that's what people want to do. *Shrug* -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgp0pldxoayh2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
hing a robust API between the readers and portage such that > > | future changes won't cause breakage. Wouldn't it suffice for the GLEP to simply have a statement that it will query portage for a list of repositories, once there's a way to do that, but until then the default r

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP XX - GLEP date and time format

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: [Tue Dec 13 2005, 03:41:55PM CST] > Since I have no idea on how to use docutils, I'd be grateful if > someone familiar with the process (Grant?) could commit this to CVS. Committed to CVS. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

2005-12-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
> Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until after > several readers are written and force all of them become broken? Okay, so what is the portage team proposing to use for a repo query API? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
t. The GLEP Last-Modified string is autogenerated from CVS, so it's not in the -mm-dd format that the GLEP requires. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpZWN8eS1mJq.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
ce.) *Shrug* My feeling is that Gentoo is not advancing all that quickly right now, but that it's being maintained fairly well. More importantly, we still ensure that people _can_ make sweeping changes, if they want to put in the work to do so. I'm actually fairly confident about Gentoo

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
lack of sufficiently exciting goals, and a concomitant lack of people sufficiently motivated to shepherd those goals to a successful conclusion. I think I'll stop here, since I'm not expressing my thoughts all that well. *Sigh* -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpSSwFcVV2nQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
lity and individual ideas. [remainder snipped] Well, that was said much better than I managed. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpmJcDuGxEXn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
e to anything that might add additional work to already-overwhelmed package maintainers, however, and I believe that the lack of an acceptable solution there is what stalled things the last time around. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boo

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

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
dent of arch/os/whatever and (b) sent upstream. Consequently, work on non-Linux actually does a fair bit to improve the entire community. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Fri Jan 06 2006, 10:46:55AM CST] > Addressing your point about Enterprise Gentoo, I think you're probably > right about it needing focus, direction, and a leader, but that's quite > different from needing Gentoo as a whole to have any of those. The >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
thing, it might also be useful to put > something about "how to solve parallel make issues" and similar things > that are tricky but usually just requires little knowledge of tricks. Again, I like devspace for these things. Of course, particularly useful docs would likely be adopted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
it's ciarnanm has already put work in on developing an RST to guidexml converter, so I wouldn't worry too much about RST not scaling. -g2boojum-. -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
h means it's useless on most GLEPs unless someone goes through and > does some serious whitespace cleanups... I'm actually willing to do that, albeit not until after my brief vacation. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum G

Re: [gentoo-dev] NFP lack of progress

2006-01-29 Thread Grant Goodyear
ng anything. > 5) What actual progress/work has been done thus far (no, don't need to > document something publically viewable like "wrote bylaws") > 6) A rough schedule of when things are going to be accomplished. Not > asking for hard figures, but if you're held

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-editors/gnotepad+

2006-02-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
ss you were suggesting that you were going to remove the package yourself? Does that make sense? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgptZM3WL4wlQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: > * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, > the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. My suspicion is that the more common problem is going to be inaccessible developers, rather than uncooperative ones. Certainly, if a maintaine

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from > Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go > around filing more similar "breaks non-interactively" bugs because the > discussion will just get repeated over and over. Huh?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Grant Goodyear wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from >>> Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go >>> around filing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Renat Lumpau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> today's lesson: proactive QA is frowned upon, it's only a bug when a user >> files a report at bugs.gentoo.org > > I don't think that's the lesson. It oughtta be: we need a way to figure out > which QA issues

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 0042 (news) final draft

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 19:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Unless there are any huge flaws found, I'd like this to be voted on by >> the council -- looks like it'll have to wait until April's meeting to >> fit in with the two weeks rule. > > may push council meeting back t

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Sending this from the right address this time -g2boojum- Grant Goodyear wrote: > Jakub Moc wrote: >> Please, until something is clarified/some consent reached, avoid changing >> the docs w/ funny stuff like "just flip a coin"... > > I don't believe the te

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Jakub Moc wrote: > Erm, how exactly will you find out that you need to recompile that package > after such extensive build? You'll spend a couple of hours debugging when > your server app stops working? Yay! :P I had assumed that in such a case the ebuild would output a scary-looking ewarn that no

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Stuart Herbert wrote: > I agree. Adopting a policy like this is a low quality solution for > servers. I've no opinion on how this affects desktops, but packages > for servers need to be precise.A policy that says "if two USE > flags deliver the same benefits, but conflict, pick one" is fine.

[gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-24 Thread Grant Goodyear
After reading through that fairly lengthy thread, I'm afraid that I can no longer tell exactly what is being proposed. Who has read access? Who has write access? Bugs are handled where, and by whom? Are we considering a fairly tightly controlled system, or a wild free-for-all? Exactly which pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
urgency that required infra to do so? Wasn't that the outcome of the recent discussions? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpAe8DaHp2iP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
ed from the action. WHO will view these behaviors as > a security and stability threat to Gentoo? Is this a statement the > existing developers are making? The foundation? Infra? Here I'll certainly agree. In fact, I agree with the rest of your statements, so I can stop here. -

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
fect, start. > I agree some of the wording should be altered, but I do think it's > sensible for infra to cover when devrel falls on its rear. Of course, it is possible that rational people might disagree that such an event has happened here. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
f the doubt; ask what is meant instead of merely assuming that your interpretation is correct If nothing else, it helps limit escalation.") -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
wer to "How do I print from within vim?" than actual detailed instructions would be. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgphq4eQMaXfj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
ks who made the ultimate decision. (Of course, if there's general consensus, then that's not really necessary.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpOol9Fy0RYG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-04 Thread Grant Goodyear
Vapier wrote: [Tue Apr 04 2006, 12:12:28AM CDT] > On Monday 03 April 2006 22:57, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > Oh, one more probably useless comment: I would argue that the decision > > to enforce an etiquette guide that devs never really got to vote on has > > lead to a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Grant Goodyear
ould spend time tracking Gentoo development (through bugs and the mailing lists) and submit status reports to the GWN. Care to volunteer? I'd be happy to provide pointers on how to get started. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Curtis Napier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 09:53:04AM CDT] > I'm willing to theme *.gentoo.org to match [...]. Speaking of which, what is the current status of the web redesign? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
us, one thing that he kept was the flying saucer guy. I believe that he was allowing us to use it while we got the redesign put together, but since that's dead it seems unfair to hold on to that flying saucer guy indefinitely. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Vapier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 05:25:23PM CDT] > On Monday 10 April 2006 15:37, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > In any event, I think we need to remove the flying saucer guy. When > > drobbins left and turned over the Gentoo IP to us, one thing that he > > kept was the flying s

[gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-core] Council meeting log]

2006-04-20 Thread Grant Goodyear
Whoops --- Begin Message --- I've attached a log of today's meeting. The agenda included Gentoo's participation in Google's Summer of Code and an update on portage gpg signing. In the former case, Gentoo has applied to participate, and assuming we get one of the handful of remaining slots then ge

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

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
hat the proposed changes would actually improve things. There's a lot here, but perhaps we can streamline things a tad. What's the major problem that you're looking to solve? Is it the shortage of developers, or the lack of progress in a certain area, or the (perceived?) difficulty in getting "foo" accomplished? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpJ8lPd6LqVq.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Fri Apr 28 2006, 01:55:01PM CDT] > It's not quite true that the Council votes on GLEPs, but that's not > really germane to your overall point. Oh, that was your point. Mea culpa. Okay, to address that point, the way that the current system works is tha

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

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
what the Gentoo Foundation is for. > Does anyone agree that having a council is too political? I strongly > believe it stifles gentoo. Do you have some specific examples of how you've seen the Council stifle Gentoo, or is it mainly just a general impression? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goody

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

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
an't think of right now? (Please feel free to add.) (As an aside, it's perfectly possible to set up git so that anybody in the appropriate group can make changes.) You seem to have an obvious preference for svn; care to to the benchmarking for that case? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goody

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCESS DENIED during emerge

2006-04-28 Thread Grant Goodyear
A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> A. Khattri wrote: >>> Does this sound right or is there a better (preferred?) way? >> Try to fix --enable-conf-install to respect DESTDIR or whatever other >> install method you're using, or look to see what flag it will take at

[gentoo-dev] staffing needs expirations?

2006-05-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
ybody know if we do still need people to help w/ LDAP? -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpYpfv7VBNGY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
xplain why we have a cow's face on a 404 page or trying to > explain why we like Larry is like trying to explain a love story: You > just can't without everybody looking strange at you afterwards. True! -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Goodyear
evidence to the contrary, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do to obtain any necessary rights. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpNDUDbMRug5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Wed May 10 2006, 08:32:01AM CDT] > I have a copy of the font. > > It is ©2000 Ethan Dunham ‐ Fonthead Design ‐ http://www.fonthead.com Thanks! Okay, it's part of their freeware font "font heads". -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Develope

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
ad was if it wouldn't be simpler to add the paludis-specific stuff to the existing files, and have portage ignore it.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpAQhR879eWT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
paludis installed-package database and can generate the equivalent portage db)? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpCeUn97oRES.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-17 Thread Grant Goodyear
that sort of discussion is certainly not something that I would want to discourage! -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpNAVhQZhJFm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | 4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? > > Pretty unlikely, past events considered. Personally I kind of like > having commit access to my own code... I thought we (Gentoo) already had SVN repositories with non-Gentoo-dev committers? I'm pretty sure that was one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Paul de Vrieze wrote: >> At present I ask not for support, but for a minor addition for >> convenience purposes. > > One that has more disadvantages than advantages as already pointed out. Many of your comments have been quite valuable, but I've noticed that your recent posts fail to distinguish

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Incidentally, in reading this thread it seems to me that a tendency to > offer opinions (or predictions) as though they were facts has been a > common theme. Please try to separate the two, whenever possible. Just to clarify, I was not limiting that comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > Stop making such odd and wrong comparisons. The package manager is part of > what defines a distribution, choosing a shell is the users choice. If you > want to make the package manager matter of choice, start your own > distribution. Just because it has historically bee

Re: [gentoo-dev] 259 paludis-profile messages. ENOUGH!

2006-05-18 Thread Grant Goodyear
king things harder > for the people who do real work around here. If you don't have anything > useful to contribute, shut up and go away. *Sigh* Be nice, please. Incidentally, he did have a point that this thread is now darn hard to follow. Perhaps it's time to split of

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

2006-05-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
ouldn't Gentoo then just fork the package manager? Am I missing something obvious? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 pgpRDW94TT7bg.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-05-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
rating release media" being on obvious example). Perhaps something like the following would suffice: GLEP: xx Title: Supporting alternative package managers Version: $Revision: 1.3 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/11/13 17:16:50 $ Author: Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: Dr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-24 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: > At long last the devmanual is official. You can find it at > http://devmanual.gentoo.org. I would like to thank plasmaroo for helping > me with converting it to XML (since he did all of the XSL work to add in > the features we needed to make it easy to write and expand upon).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-25 Thread Grant Goodyear
that my name was not listed in the section titled "Authors".) Finally, the whole issue goes away by either changing the heading on that first page from "Authors" to "Maintainers" or "Editors", or by adding the list of contributors back to this page. It'

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