Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-05-16 Thread Roy Bamford
entoo.org >>> Sven, Your link gives me a 404 error Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-18 Thread Roy Bamford
oo. Looking into the distant future, we can expect Package Managers to be replaced like other packages. 3) I'm ambivalent - I'm a user not a dev. 4) Only time will tell. Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : NeddySeagoon

2006-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.05.28 20:09, Shyam Mani wrote: Hi everyone, Please take a moment to welcome our latest addition to the Forums gang, Roy Bamford aka NeddySeagoon. NeddySeagoon (by day) is an Avionics Systems Engeineer with over 40 years experiance of playing with computers, something he started in 1963

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

2008-04-08 Thread Roy Bamford
r/cvsroot/CVSROOT/history [snip] > 1 neddyseagoon [snip] That's worrying, I'm not supposed to have commit access to the tree. trustees docs, yes but that's the limit. To my knowledge, I've never made a commit there either. We should exclude forums mods who are not ebuild de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Roy Bamford
ting-logs/council-2008- nominees.xml - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees For the avoidance of doubt, I write as an individual developer and not on behalf of any project I may be a member of. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-08 Thread Roy Bamford
nt, not a long debate that tried to fix the issues there and then. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhLuG8ACgkQTE4/y7nJvasbtACgj8GgFrcFzQ3yY0QD6liq/Mar na4Ao

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-15 Thread Roy Bamford
can be turned to Gentoos advantage by re-electing the current council. Such a result will provide both continuity and stability which can only be good for Gentoo. If you were thinking of voting for me, please vote for the outgoing council members instead. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-06 Thread Roy Bamford
Willikins be joined to:- #gentoo-uk(I am owner) #gentoo-chat (I'm not owner but will be point of contact for issues) #gentoo-trustees (I'm not owner but maybe I should be) Thanks to everyone who made it all happen. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-09 Thread Roy Bamford
gt; > halcy0n: > Gentoo-specific stuff > > tango_, jsn-: > (rbot upstream developers) For fixing the bugs as I found them :-). > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Roy Bamford
it but I'm against having two wikis for the same purpose. I don't see a wiki of any sort adding to the developer burden. We would recruit to staff it just as we recruit to staff any other project. There is nothing wrong with having two standards of documentation. - -- Regards, Roy Ba

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-24 Thread Roy Bamford
o repeat. e.g. the MSDOS Partition Table, the Extended Partition, the High Memory Area. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkZAsACgkQTE4/y7nJvatrUwCgpEKpHA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-24 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.02.24 21:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:57 + > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > PN and PV are metadata, same as EAPI. > > > > So we made a mistake with PN and PV and may compound it with EAPI. &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 7

2009-05-03 Thread Roy Bamford
ip] Tiziano, The 7th is the first Thursday this month. Has there been a change to the meeting dates ? - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 7

2009-05-04 Thread Roy Bamford
tings every two weeks? The two are not quite the same. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn/BEcACgkQTE4/y7nJvatKZwCdHz916Uh2Tz0IRPMkQ0fQ2NvL z3cAoJKf1daMoriN09IXFMOHkin1vXfu =0Njd -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-05 Thread Roy Bamford
the uptake rate compared to last time too but as you infer, new developers need the right skill set. At best, the publicity George suggests would raise awareness, which is the first step to getting more help of the right sort. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

2009-05-06 Thread Roy Bamford
be delegated upwards to the council and either scrapped offically, or some recruitment process started to breath new life into them. Maybe dead projects are cleaned like treecleaners ? - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

2009-05-14 Thread Roy Bamford
sers and developers). Its probably a bad idea to send all the bugspam at the same time, Sunrise might be overwhelmed, which would be bad for Sunrise and user contributors who would feel let down - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods tre

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Roy Bamford
entoo subforum on LQ would help to collect the posts in one place. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoTIiUACgkQTE4/y7nJvauSuACdFscRbbPZ2fsrONtChhTiEajg QZUAnA1T3AWKB2/gHWvMI5Lb7wdVEIzu =xe0/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-20 Thread Roy Bamford
only if we want to. The PR is valuable. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoUbM0ACgkQTE4/y7nJvavWmgCg72Zxw91tDlBOqdp7xMIeJALJ 78AAoLEuY7ZBQ52Q8TWdeS/QME0oj/Ec =OPlK -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-24 Thread Roy Bamford
ll media and help our users to help themselves. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoZIjgACgkQTE4/y7nJvat3RACfQXcsh5oFKrbijkJr6aajfY99 2ToAoKZEUo8Utfq3kYgE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Roy Bamford
which from the figures bandied about on the list may take marginaly longer but its a price worth paying for a sound system design. Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution that won the standa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.27 21:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:33 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > That means the EAPI needs to be extracted before the ebuild is > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
suggested approaches to extracting the EAPI from the ebuild are the best and remain unchanged. Thats unlikely, as not a lot of work has been done it yet. > > > -- > Tiziano Müller > Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member > Areas of responsibility: > Samba, PostgreSQL

Re: [gentoo-dev] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
nd the various solutions it touches on. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoe3vkACgkQTE4/y7nJvatqXQCfR70cUj06JN4bOFuccihREE6x J18Ani/YQ5jSLql6X3uff27FHfk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
LEP that details these benchmarks ? Its possible I'm looking at an old version. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoe6SsACgkQTE4/y7nJvastiACdGB9T5Axlone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.28 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:30 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > I don't see any objective measurements of performace in GLEP

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 Version 2

2009-06-06 Thread Roy Bamford
having read the GLEP. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoq7l8ACgkQTE4/y7nJvatqjQCeNe/mqS8goPZ5+H4yftn19mYJ 5i0AoLwsAmKcc6Ux4zjG3dExgRbcltwl =edR+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 Version 2

2009-06-07 Thread Roy Bamford
ing applies to any other package manager and there are at least three. This begs the question of how friendly do we want to be to derivitive distros that use our tree but their own package manager? Upgrade path issues need to be addressed in the GLEP. I will add something like the above in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Enough about GLEP5{4,5}

2009-06-07 Thread Roy Bamford
d asteriods game. If we get a solution, Gentoo can be first into the future again, if not, we will always be last out of the past. Gentoo needs a way to introduce new features without waiting over a year to provide backwards compatibility. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Enough about GLEP5{4,5}

2009-06-08 Thread Roy Bamford
ep as it develops, not be presented with a done deal. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkotcqcACgkQTE4/y7nJvatl/Q

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 Version 2

2009-06-08 Thread Roy Bamford
out "EAPI in the file name", not "EAPI in the file name extension". dev-zero got to me first on that and I need to update the glep. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Improvements to the GLEP workflow

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Bamford
] Mark, Sounds good to me. There are signs the council is already moving this way. e.g. the feature freeze on EAPI 3 and the acknowledgement of the problem described by GLEP55 are two examples of the stepwise approach to problem solving. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of

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

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Bamford
y upset late adoptors. By implementing the key feature of glep 55, which is making the EAPI known to the PM without sourcing the ebuild, we would only need one last wait to introduce new features in this way in later EAPIs.PMs would then know the EAPI in advance and ignore ebuilds using

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-28 Thread Roy Bamford
ch rarer than you may think. Lastly, as a trustee and partly legally responsible for decisions made on behalf of Gentoo, I am uneasy with the concept of non developers making those decisions. Now reread my 'what if' above with that liability in mind. Note: Other trustees may have a differ

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.06.28 23:14, Ferris McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > [snip] > > What if an entire meeting and therefore any votes were

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2009/2010

2009-07-01 Thread Roy Bamford
, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees - confirmation 2743 - betelgeuse calchan gentoofan23 patrick dertobi123 scarabeus dev-zero lu_zero _reopen_nominations peper leio ssuominen ulm solar - confirmation 2854 - solar leio

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Roy Bamford
ferent arches. Sharing /usr/portage/packages is a really bad idea in that set up. As they all run ~arch, they all build packages so I can downgrade quickly. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Roy Bamford
binary packages, which you were keeping in case of a broken ~arch upgrade that needs to be reverted in a hurry. e.g. one of the nice big shiny packages that emerge -e world just updated for you. [snip] > > Rich > > > -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-28 Thread Roy Bamford
them to be used. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Roy Bamford
in the BIOS/firmware/nvram on the board, such > > that you couldn't boot anything else but that kernel? > > That is correct. > [snip] So when you build a dud kernel and flash your BIOS with it, and we all build the odd dud, your motherboard is bricked. Now what? Get out you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Roy Bamford
program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > Duncan, You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real life examples. Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for Gentoo? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) Gentoo Foundation Inc. (President)

Re: [gentoo-dev] fixing LICENSE issues without reporting bugs

2012-11-25 Thread Roy Bamford
the licence is just as important as the code, so there are no trivial licence issues. As a trustee, I am unhappy with losing the traceability at all. Other trustees may have different opinions. What seems trivial today, may not be trivial tomorrow if a licencor gets upset. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpnkQh05fT1u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] fixing LICENSE issues without reporting bugs

2012-11-25 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.11.25 14:42, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Roy Bamford > > wrote: > > From the point of view of the licencor, the licence is just as > > important as the code, so there are no trivial licence issues. > > As a trustee, I am unhappy with

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Pre-GLEP: Security Project

2017-03-12 Thread Roy Bamford
o does what when there is no pulse from the Security Project? This isn't really a Security Project issue. If its ever needed, the Security Project isn't active. It affects other projects too, like comrel, QA and others. Perhaps there is a common solution to taking a proqcts pul

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-29 Thread Roy Bamford
t; https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander > > ... and some of those lost users might have gone on to become devs. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgpLoBjumJszq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream

2017-06-23 Thread Roy Bamford
Leader > Mail: Alice Ferrazzi > PGP: 2E4E 0856 461C 0585 1336 F496 5621 A6B2 8638 781A > > Alice, Forking with what aim? Keeping the existing functionality alive in line with kernel developments or that and adding new features. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74: Full-tree verification using Manifest files

2017-10-26 Thread Roy Bamford
the repository at rsync time will therefore remove the manifents and the files that they cover. Is that understanding correct? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgp6HmH_FLlOR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-18 Thread Roy Bamford
e gcj use flag. That will bootstrap icedtea:7 icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 Tested on arm64. With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future, building icedtea for a new arch will be painful. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgpgyRdsSikdz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem of unmaintained packages in Gentoo

2017-12-21 Thread Roy Bamford
uild and test packages offline before pushing the binaries to production. Then they can run whatever they want. Every Gentoo install is different and very few possible combinations are actually tested. By all means lower the bar for ~arch. Say, to "builds and works for me, needs more testing". The down side is that it will create more bug reports and more work, so it may only exchange one problem for another. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgp1acaAGrvTc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-10 Thread Roy Bamford
> Gentoo Linux developer > (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel) Andreas, Being somwhat old and cynical, I'm seeing signs of history repeating itself. Does being 'struck off' the list in this way apply to devs, including Council and comrel members? -- Regards, Roy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-11 Thread Roy Bamford
Does removing non @gentoo.org email address from the ML not require that process too? Gentoo does not have any other disiplinary process than the action by comrel that you describe. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgp0aZ8m0b6IP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Split distfile mirror directory structure

2018-01-27 Thread Roy Bamford
l something like: > > edistadd foo.tar.gz bar.tar.gz > > ...and it will place the files in the right subdirectories. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > > > Michał, How does this work for fetch restricted files and finding other files no longer o

Re: [gentoo-dev] SAT-based dependency solver: request for test cases

2018-02-06 Thread Roy Bamford
EYWORDS="/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords" but thats a recent name change. PACKAGE_KEYWORDS="/etc/portage/package.keywords" is the old name and my older systems still use that. You probably need to harvest both and process both as portage does. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgpjZkguBNLdT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-24 Thread Roy Bamford
folder? (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_ORDER) > It seems to me that portage's current effort is to have all > configuration files in /etc/portage or in the profile. > > Best, > Michael Lienhardt > > > Michael, 'Support' can be as simple as n

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-23 Thread Roy Bamford
d it gets masked too. Its not a problem to me as I know how to manage it. Its just untidy. With apologies to Pacho for citing his name in the worked example. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgpTpwKGF0FbM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestions for simplifying VIDEO_CARDS situation

2018-06-17 Thread Roy Bamford
ons in a > dictionary and can set the USE and VIDEO_CARDS flags according to the > video card(s) you have. > > This would be along the same lines as the > app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags pkg. Then the pkg is updated as new > drivers > and combinations are changed. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs

2018-06-23 Thread Roy Bamford
the entire Linux community, a point already made by others. In volunteer groups things get done by those who want to do them. Others join later. I think the quote I'm looking for is "Build it and they will come". -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods pgpVfuXnGRrnH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-27 Thread Roy Bamford
ay from these paths to general > education of system setup, since they technically are valid, just not > ideal. > > +1 Add udev-settle now. Have an advisory news item that says why its been done and what users can do if they don't like it or don't need it, and what will ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages touching files in /dev

2022-05-24 Thread Roy Bamford
only filesystem and test it > out.) > > If you do find a random package touching /dev I think most here would > be pretty interested, as that seems rather bizarre. > > -- > Rich > > Team, As a long time static /dev user the only thing I've noticed updates maki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Registering media types for Gentoo files

2022-09-06 Thread Roy Bamford
.html > [2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > > Michał, > However, the process is non-trivial ... That's a down side. What are the benefits to Gentoo? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods arm64 pgpBgVE0I6H9p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Roy Bamford
r advantages would be > a good thing — but we need to have policies in place, to make sure > shit > doesn't flow in. > > Compare with the shitstorm at: > https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358 > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > Michał, An excellent piece of prose setting out the rationale. I fully support it. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods arm64 pgp0BJ299ipp6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-06 Thread Roy Bamford
cal in the guide or script are > > welcome, apart from flames about how this is ridiculous and > unnecessary :-). > > Best wishes, > Eddie > >[snip method] "Because I can" is a good enough reason to do anything with Gentoo. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseago

[gentoo-dev] Call for Election Offciials - 2024-25 Election Season

2024-05-04 Thread Roy Bamford
nd to questions from the electorate. 6. Update topic in -dev with the turnout, post reminders to the electorate. Once we have a team, we can arrange a practice election. On behalf of the elections project. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods

[gentoo-dev] Second Call for Election Officials - 2024-25 Election Season

2024-05-16 Thread Roy Bamford
9 UTC Candidates cannot be officials. So far we have two volunteers, kangie and andrewammerlaan. Thank you both. We need two more and an infra contact as there are a few odds and ends that only infra can do. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods arm64

[gentoo-dev] Call for Election Officials - 2024-25 Election Season

2024-05-25 Thread Roy Bamford
election for both and an infra contact for the council election. If you will be around during June and the first few days of July (for the count), as long as you will not be candidates, elections would be pleased to hear from you. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] eudev project announcement

2012-12-15 Thread Roy Bamford
h eudev both good luck and success. Success comes in many forms, so I won't try to predict exactly what that means. Suffice to say, we will all recognise it when we see it. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpXmthqMgHAa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Roy Bamford
ntoo > > Development [snip] > Can I take this course online? Will the lectures be recorded? > > -ZC > I would be interested in an online version too. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpNo4gexStsn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Roy Bamford
cation for a website it probably as much work as actually building the site. It could easily be as much work as the PMS. Anyway, I'm rambling a little. In summary, if we decide to outsource the website project, it needs to be carefully controlled. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpTJWDmoCdNZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Soliciting Feedback: Gentoo Copyright Assignments / Licensing

2012-12-22 Thread Roy Bamford
e work, depending on what it was done on/for (who > > > provided the equipment, tasks, etc.) > > [snip] This is typical for the UK too. My present employer regards my role in the Gentoo Foundation as 'employment'. I had to show that there was no conflict of interests

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript & --libdir=/lib

2012-12-28 Thread Roy Bamford
nux > because gentoo *bsd doesn't do it. I don't see that as relevant > because ebuilds can be smart enough to test whether they are being > emerged on Linux or *BSD. > > William > > I don't think the 'luddites' have quite so black and white a vi

Re: [gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

2012-12-31 Thread Roy Bamford
ting more devs on board so existing things can move faster. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpZ5eIcZFAXC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Roy Bamford
; Donnie > > Donnie Berkholz > Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> > Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/> > Donnie. We make our own website framework for the same reason that everything else happens in Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-22 Thread Roy Bamford
elf, but I can't imagine the other > Trustees would be opposed)! > > Rich > > Works for me too, so thats a majority vote of Trustees. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpJWmB3h542p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Roy Bamford
your feedback. > > [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday > [2] http://blog.dastergon.gr/gentoo-bugday/ > > Thanks, > Pavlos > > Pavlos, I used to do a forums announce for the old bugday. That can be revived too if you want. The old bugday ran to a calender, so the anno

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-28 Thread Roy Bamford
and I'll do the forums announce. Eventually, it will be a habit. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgppEk_DtZefo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item -- baselayout-1.x deprecation final warning

2013-04-07 Thread Roy Bamford
-2 with baselayout-1 net files. This news item will bypass them. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpUphhQvpZpg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Temporary DevRel actions for CoC violations

2013-06-20 Thread Roy Bamford
publically too, as thats one of the reasons proctors failed. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) an member of gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Hangouts

2013-06-25 Thread Roy Bamford
/26 I have a South West England accent ... can you understand me? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpbYloqrAwkT.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council constituent meeting 30 July 2013 at 19:00 UTC

2013-07-21 Thread Roy Bamford
tidy off one unresolved mailing list > discussion > each > month) Ok, so what colour should it be? [with apologies to Douglas Adams] [snip] > > Best, > Andreas > > -- > Andreas K. Huettel > Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) > dilfri...@gentoo.org > h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council constituent meeting 30 July 2013 at 19:00 UTC

2013-07-23 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.07.22 22:51, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Roy Bamford > [snip] > > > > Please keep voting in public. Its good for accountability. > > If not in IRC, find a way to publish who voted and now. > > Council do not get a secret ballot. &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council constituent meeting 30 July 2013 at 19:00 UTC

2013-07-23 Thread Roy Bamford
without maintainer approval well, you see how > stupid that sounds? > > -Zero > [snip] Rick, The council should not be denied the ability to reach decisions between meetings for the few times it will actually be needed. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of electi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-03 Thread Roy Bamford
7;t supposed to be. I do like Williams approach to posting a warning about the upcoming change so I cam manage it for myself, if I'm feeling nervous. Any notification of key packages changing like this is appreciated. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Roy Bamford
oper > web: https://xmw.de/ > mailto: Michael Weber > > The Gnome team has made their choice. I'm the light of that, users can now make their own choices. That's what Gentoo is about after all ... choice. I fully support the Gnome teams choice ... now I have to make o

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-13 Thread Roy Bamford
liges us to keep such patches around for three years, iirc. Don't we do that ? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpWUwOIhL2tc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses

2013-11-21 Thread Roy Bamford
rily technical, > then Licenses (which is largely non-technical) doesn't fit so well. > > Ulrich > ... or maybe a sub committee of the Gentoo Foundation Inc? because of the non technical and legal implications of the work. Trustees get involved with licence corner cases anyway, s

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses

2013-11-29 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.11.22 09:38, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Roy Bamford wrote: > > >> Indeed, that's one of the two TLPs that were suggested. The past > QA > >> disliked having Licenses as their subproject, though. It depends > on &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Question, Portage QOS

2014-01-11 Thread Roy Bamford
you win. Mahatma Gandhi Good luck. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpE_PYpv0WRt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?

2014-03-02 Thread Roy Bamford
you can't override it unless you also remove the symlink. INSTALL_MASK means I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING_AND_AM_PREPARED_TO_KEEP_THE_PIECES systemd and the components it has sucked in has become the centre of a religious war with Zelots on both sides. All an INSTALL_MASK_OVERRIDE would do is escalate the war. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpLFfXk4wQ0s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression

2014-05-14 Thread Roy Bamford
ssion is just a waste of resource for files <=4k. I'm not suggesting dynamically determining the output filesystem block size (unless you really want to), choose a static limit below which compression will not be applied. That eliminates the discussion about small files. -- Regards, Roy

Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch

2014-06-30 Thread Roy Bamford
were inconvenient. As overlays have become more widespread and used as a way to lower the barrier to contributing directly to Gentoo, there are fewer packages "masked for testing". I like the old way, it avoids installing yet another overlay but clearly others feel differently or there

Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch

2014-06-30 Thread Roy Bamford
fter you spend 10 hours building *office and find out its a dud, you can back it out in a few minutes. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees pgpjfKriB3eLY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] PowerPC status

2014-09-20 Thread Roy Bamford
gt; know your current status. > > Mark Loeser (halcy0n) > Gysbert Wassenaar (nixnut) > Michael Weber (xmw) > >[snip] > > Thanks, > -- > Jack Morgan > Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan > > Fingerprint = DD42 EA48 D701 D520 C2CD 55BE BF53 C69B 761D 8E0A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-07 Thread Roy Bamford
on) [snip] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux Chris, Its east to make worse too. There's mmxext and 3dnowext too. Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Roy Bamford
Gentoo Foundation : Trustee Lars, app-cdr/dvdrtools provides the format utility to format DVD+RW media prior to mkudffs on them. Where has that functionality gone ? Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.07.08 13:59, Lars Weiler wrote: * Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/07/08 12:46 +0100]: > app-cdr/dvdrtools provides the format utility to format DVD+RW media prior to > mkudffs on them. Where has that functionality gone ? I can't find any 'format' option

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Roy Bamford
Welcome yuval. Regards, Roy bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-27 Thread Roy Bamford
27;ll get flamed for even thinking that. Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-31 Thread Roy Bamford
es of your concerns. Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Roy Bamford
you should resign as a developer. [snip] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list Gentoo is a microcosm of the real world, there are closed minds and predudices everywhere - why should the Gentoo dev community be any different? Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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 Gen

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