Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
would go there as opposed to 'fresh > install' stuff (which belongs in the normal docs area). I disagree. Upgrading documentation can be part of the normal docs area as well. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org G

[gentoo-dev] Departure of Broeman and Aaby

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
thank them for that. Time is no-one's friend, you'll always find that you can't find any spare hours in your back pocket. I wish them the best and they're of course always welcome for a quick chat. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee

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

2005-11-19 Thread Sven Vermeulen
and > all sorts of other automated emails, that's not an accurate representation > of whether an email alias is actively used or not. Isn't this an issue that also exists for the Gentoo developers in general? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | htt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-19 Thread Sven Vermeulen
he sentiment of the arch testers in this case (if they are still reading this thread)? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen PS I would be quite surprised if there is *one* arch tester who feels good with this entire thread; it doesn't show of much appreciation between people. There is a huge diffe

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

2005-11-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
's get the second most points, yada yada * content get third most points Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project Lead | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp Gentoo Council Member The Gentoo P

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
nserts-${lang}.xml method Xavier implemented. Pages at /{main,doc,proj}/en can be translated and placed at /{main,doc,proj}/${lang}. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project Lead | http://www.gentoo.org/pro

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

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Vermeulen
eir /etc/fstab. For a documentation writer, this is unacceptable. Any failed installation is seen by me as either a (1.) very stupid user, or (2.) failure on my part to document the instructions well. This is my motivation, and this motivation is mine. Sincerely, Sven Vermeulen --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Vermeulen
inity sign. The trustees have had a discussion on this part too. Their decision was that we need a "strong, compelling case for not using it since it is something the community has voted on". Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gent

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

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ple/ of references to the Gentoo FAQ - Update the Gentoo FAQ - Update the Gentoo Handbook FAQ Perhaps I should use the ... tags more often. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project Lead | http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: Marien Zwart (marienz)

2005-11-24 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:51:25AM -0600, Brian Harring wrote: > Please welcome Marien Zwart, aka marienz to the crew. He's joining up > as a python monkey, working on twisted (2.x stable ebuilds anyone? > ^.^), portage 3 hacking, and pretty much anything python wise. > Finally, he's been helpin

Re: [gentoo-dev] December Council Meeting

2005-12-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:56:37AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > current agenda: > decision on multi-hash for Manifest1 You mean the Manifest2 GLEP, or did I miss something? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] December Council Meeting

2005-12-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:15:15AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > No, I mean the mail I sent to council@ a few weeks ago (relating to an > earier -dev thread). Oh, the tree signing stuff. Got it. Sorry. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee |

[gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Sven Vermeulen
than my person. If there is a (large) demand for it, I have no problems in attempting to get re-elected for those positions (or stepping down if I am not). With kind regards (yes, that's what "Wkr" stands for), Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundat

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

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ideas on the Gentoo Forums that aren't situated in any of the current projects, such as "Top-100 Feature Requests" [1], "Gentoo Binary profile" [2], "Gentoo Knowledge Base" [3], "USE-flag triggered software installation" [4], etc. Wkr, Sven Ver

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

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:21:39PM +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > There are some interesting ideas on the Gentoo Forums that aren't situated > in any of the current projects, such as "Top-100 Feature Requests" [1], > "Gentoo > Binary profile" [2], "Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
and not that many wikis have decent versioning tools (or they have them but they're really awkward to use). The Java team already uses the gentoo-wiki.com infrastructure, indeed an unofficial wiki for official documentation. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
the documentation team. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-11 Thread Sven Vermeulen
/and/ be less strict on the above items. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-26 Thread Sven Vermeulen
e due to an "emerge -uDN world" can hopefully be fixed by restoring the backup portage tree and run "emerge -uDN world" again). If you then put your configuration files under versioning control, you should be set. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting logs for 2006-05-11

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Vermeulen
xecution by 5 votes and 1 abstained. """ Like I said on the meeting, I need coffee, so please forgive any spelling and grammar mistakes made. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Council Member The Ge

[gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Vermeulen
this topic. The mailinglist is [EMAIL PROTECTED] afaik. Once we have a nice idea about where we want to go (sic), a GLEP will probably follow for those who don't want to follow the mailinglist but do want to know what we will be/are doing. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://kb.redh

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

2006-05-17 Thread Sven Vermeulen
rch technology than on the writing. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] This is actually what I had in mind for the Gentoo KB -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Council Member The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpWF5fj80AZY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] License Interpretation

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Vermeulen
d upon the Software. The rest of the paragraph is about obtaining (or trying to obtain) its source code or application behavior, i.e. learn the program, not modify it. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-12 Thread Sven Vermeulen
9 > Also, the handbook still endorses having a separate partition for /usr and > includes it in the example setup. This should be changed now, not when > stabilization time comes. It's an example, and we still endorse it. Only will we now tell users to use an initramfs with it. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers herd is empty

2012-03-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
helping out here, I use nginx, privoxy, squid and apache on a daily basis (albeit not to their full potential). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
to take into consideration what is needed (must) for a Gentoo installation, what is seriously recommended (should), what is nice to have (could), etc. And for me, having a separate /usr/portage is a nice-to-have imo. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
rg/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/handbook.xml) but I've since moved away from that. Perhaps I should work again on it... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
rchitecture. After a while, people start asking more information for "just the necessary bits", making the guides longer and longer, after which they'll eventually need to be made multi-page. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ment) for alternative / better partitioning layouts, and when that has stabilized then we can talk about Handbook integration, not? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Do you really want to be advertising an awful hack that doesn't really > work, is conceptually unsound and that breaks all kinds of things in > subtle ways? Isn't that something all major distributions do? ;-) Sven

[gentoo-dev] Cleanup of @link attribute in guides

2012-04-05 Thread Sven Vermeulen
from the DTD so that new commits won't bring it in again. Yours faithfully, your local doc monkey Sven Vermeulen PS Sending to gentoo-dev because it also includes changes on the xml/htdocs/proj/* documents.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: some sec-policy/selinux-* packages

2012-05-13 Thread Sven Vermeulen
pd selinux-tftpd selinux-ucspi-tcp selinux-courier-imap selinux-gnupg selinux-haveged selinux-openldap Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a (temporary) proxy docdev for french documentation

2012-07-12 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hus an /ad interim/ proxy docdev to help us to merge the > patches for the documentation. > Meanwhile, I could follow the procedure to become a docdev. Hi Xavier, You might want to take this to the gentoo-doc mailinglist. That being said, I don't mind proxying commits for you guys. I&#

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ed to describe both of the locations for a while anyhow). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
need to know that a switch took place. > > 1) To a first approximation, nobody reads the documentation. There sure are a lot of nobody's then... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Nov 29, 2012 10:24 AM, "Markos Chandras" wrote: > > We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we > > told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. What > > do people think? > > > > Seems a good improvement to me. I'm ok with it as well. I'll draft up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for dangerous USE flags

2017-08-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
a way we could somehow ensure that a USE flag is never set globally, but only on a per-package basis? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dev retirement - Farewell message

2016-05-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ke free and open source > software available to everyone. > Hi José, Although it's sad to see you leave, I feel it's more like a mutation than a farewell. I'm glad you continue to contribute to the open source/free software community, and wish you all the best within the Fedora community. With kind regards, Sven Vermeulen aka SwifT

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
m standard that says > how to do these things? Yes, wouldn't the Docker project be happy to take on a patch that uses gethostname() or so? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-12-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/30/2012 06:46 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2012 10:24 AM, "Markos Chandras" wrote: > > > > We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we > > > > told

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-12-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ve that down into the chroot section, and mkdir /usr/portage > if that is needed? Crap. Indeed, section moved towards the place where we optionally recommend "emerge --sync", and put in an mkdir /usr/portage. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] DNSSEC (w/ DLV) live on *.dev.gentoo.org

2013-01-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ned, > I'll summarize below. Feels like I'm on reddit now... Upvote for you for the explanation, and an upvote to Robin for implementing it for us! Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] alsaconf removal?

2013-04-11 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:10:45AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > alsaconf should die as it's useful only for ISA/PCMCIA and currently broken > > see, http://bugs.gentoo.org/456214 > > does anyone have problems with dropping alsaconf and patching the > gentoo's alsa-guide.xml to tell users to e

Re: [gentoo-dev] extending metadata.xml to support CPE information

2013-05-07 Thread Sven Vermeulen
#x27;m not proposing this be required or > anything (since not all packages will have one). I'm all for it. We can then easily map CVEs against packages, especially if the version structure we use in the ebuilds is the same one as used upstream (so the remainder of the CPE with version can be easily obtained). http://blog.siphos.be/2013/04/matching-packages-with-cves/ Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] extending metadata.xml to support CPE information

2013-05-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
mit that change for me ? :) > > just add "cpe" between "cpan-module" and "cran" in the remote-id field. Done Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving project pages to wiki.gentoo.org

2013-06-11 Thread Sven Vermeulen
"Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: >On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Alex Legler wrote: >> - Projects: Use a GuideXML-to-Wikisyntax conversion tool to create an >> initial wiki version of the document > > >What is the current status of such a tool? It is a script (xslt) that can be used with xsltpr

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving project pages to wiki.gentoo.org

2013-06-13 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:15:29PM +0200, Alex Legler wrote: > On 11.06.2013 13:05, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:20:20 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > >> "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Alex Legler wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Hangouts

2013-06-24 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:04:04PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > I like the idea. It might help bring developers and users closer. Me too, if I can ever contribute to it, or help users with their Gentoo (Hardened/SELinux/IMA/EVM/...) through it, I'll be happy to work with it. Wkr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [1/3] Automatic *XML->Wiki wiki.gentoo.org

2013-07-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
can help ;) btw, the tool actually converts GuideXML, so I'll be updating it later on to support better moves of our documentation as well. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [1/3] Automatic *XML->Wiki wiki.gentoo.org

2013-07-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
e time of conversion the project sites themselves are still available to consult). I'll update the stylesheet with the suggested style improvements this evening. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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

2013-08-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
r at minimum, I have a > very good idea where it is once I hit it, because I have a good idea what > changed and why. Care to elaborate a small bit on this? Is this a hook through bashrc that you use? I'm running a few - myself (not openrc though) and am interested in doing something similar... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-11 Thread Sven Vermeulen
on upstream was died while cronie forked it > fixing some bugs :/ > > What do you think? I'm ok with it. At least cronie's main website is quick to find, and I remember a bug I sent in to the cronie maintainers and got a fast reply, so positive experience as well. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

[gentoo-dev] New package "eid-viewer", is app-misc ok?

2014-03-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
er doesn't seem to perform anything cryptographic-related. So - is app-misc ok? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Namespace for users created for packages

2014-03-26 Thread Sven Vermeulen
; So the question is, what would you think about such a policy in Gentoo? I'm in favor. It shouldn't be used as *the* check to make sure that an account is a functional (non-interactive/daemon) account (for that there is also the user id range and so on) but for visibility it's definitely worth persuing. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
;s still goes well. The last Dracut generated initramfs also failed on SELinux systems, but that isn't something that cannot be worked around... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multilib dependencies need to have >= on least version having EAPI=5 or multilib support

2014-06-19 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, developers and users. [...] > Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please do > not hesitate to ask. Hi Michał Thank you for your endless effort to get Gentoo to this stage (and further). Wkr,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On July 22, 2014 11:25:05 AM CEST, Pacho Ramos wrote: >El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 10:32 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió: >[...] >> I find it somewhat curious that the difference between ~arch and >> stable hasn't been brought up in this discussion yet. IMHO a user on >> ~arch should expect a

[gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-08-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
themselves (for functional and other reasons) and the bugs (with tracker) allow developers to not forget this. Is this a good approach to take? Happy to hear your thoughts on this, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-11-01 Thread Sven Vermeulen
s is to remove the USE="selinux" specific dependency to a sec-policy/selinux-* package from the DEPEND variable. So something like: DEPEND=" foo - bar - selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bez )" + bar" If I am allowed to do this change without revbumping, I can just stop making massive bug reports and do the change(s) myself... Someone? Pretty-please? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-11-01 Thread Sven Vermeulen
myself... > > You should have emphasized that the dependency will still be > in RDEPEND. As I said with QA hat on, such a change is fine since it > affects build-time dependencies only. People who installed the package > already are not affected. Thanks. I'll do the necessary updates tomorrow then (without revbump) and invalidate the bug reports I already made. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

[gentoo-dev] GLEP ?? - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-06-21 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hnologies that we can use for the KB (we're all lazy). Each time a good candidate is found, we can put the topics in it and test it. For more discussion on this, please use the gentoo-kbase mailinglist. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen PS I've tried to get it on the gmane lists but apparently

[gentoo-dev] I'm "frilled" to present to you, a new Gentoo developer

2006-07-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sed, he mentioned his first computer (TRS-80) in his introduction, but I wasn't impressed. The older their computer, the older their mind. Look paps, no hands! Anyway, he loves books and movies too - as well as a good beer. If you ever find the time, come over to Belgium and I'll show y

[gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Project proudly presents *drums* anigel *applaud*

2006-09-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ife administers Unix systems. At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as he doesn't think he sees Larry fly. Sven Vermeulen -- The Gentoo Project <<< h

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Project proudly presents *drums* anigel *applaud*

2006-09-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:43:23AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl > > language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as > > he doesn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linking to Gentoo-wiki from www.gentoo.org

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
n guides" and states "There is an unofficial Gentoo Wiki filled with guides written by several hundreds of users." I'm sure this can't be wrong... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Dimitry Brad (diox)

2007-07-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
But for the rest: always welcome Dimitry ! ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staff Developer: Maarten Bressers (mbres)

2007-08-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
stinguish between K and C). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] jmbsvicetto is now Sparc AT Subproject Lead

2007-10-18 Thread Sven Vermeulen
subproject from its beginning, and he was willing to > become its lead when I begged him to do so. Please give him the usual > Gentoo words of encouragement for which we are so well known. My condolences to Jorge... Or isn't that the encouragement you were looking for? *g* Hit the bug(

Re: [gentoo-dev] Good-bye

2007-11-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
getic new developers ;-) Anyway, have fun and we'll sure see you around! Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
g features from the package manager." Most of the time, the user is happy with the answer ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
dated view that has been superseded by newer methods). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpICJ5jJ7KWy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
articles. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpBll241KmyQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ut a note on top stating This article was originally published at the IBM DeveloperWorks website. and we get the agreement of the authors we should be all right. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<&

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:57AM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > I know from Daniel that DW takes the exclusive rights to publish the > articles for the first X months (I believe it was 6 months, but don't take > my word on it). We are allowed to republish those articles later (a

[gentoo-dev] GDP: Mid-year status update

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or SwifT on irc.freenode.net. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050307.xml [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-policy.xml#doc_chap4 [4] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)

2005-06-18 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Benjamin Judas wrote: > I'd like to welcome another potential member of the German Conspiracy, > especially since he shares the same general taste for music as me. We're doomed -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:22:09PM -0700, Michael Curtis Napier wrote: > I have already taken the quiz in conjunction with another non-forum > project. You are correct, it was easy. /me checks his archives "... after a couple of tries." =) -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
t; replies from gentoo staff and not official from other moderators, > giving the idea of valid technical support from the gentoo staff > moderators. There is no such thing as an official Gentoo reply. You can have replies from Gentoo developers, but no Gentoo reply. Wkr, Sven Ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE 3.4.1 keyworded stable on x86, amd64

2005-06-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
lps you a bit on choosing interesting KDE ebuilds: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpk6vONkXn81.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Michael Curtis Napier

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Vermeulen
After a long marathon of requests and quizzes, runner 972 has just crossed the finish. We had an exclusive interview with Michael Curtis Napier who likes to call himself curtis119 because his first 118 egos all failed miserably. Michael is an old rot in the ICT business (yo! guys! we have a nerd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic Modularization

2005-08-02 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sible though, sometimes packages have the required support code in their own code; trying to separate that from the "core" is a difficult and time-consuming job. If upstream doesn't do this, it would be a pain for Gentoo to perform and maintain. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Food For Thought: Bugzilla Localization?

2005-08-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sources to put in it; I'd rather use translation teams to continuously keep translating interesting stuff, like documentation but also help with the localisation of Portage if that ever comes this far. Translating bugs is such a waist of resources... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devconference archives

2005-08-15 Thread Sven Vermeulen
e distribution is guaranteed. But Gentoo can surely use propriatary products. Whether or not we want to is a different question. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgp5Ev8262LeA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Vermeulen
anted) inputs: stability and maintenance architecture. And it keeps backwards compatibility. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpT9m5nSrswk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Lukasz Damentko

2005-09-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:21:30AM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: > > Is staking, poking out of the eyes and burning of hands considered a > warm welcome? :-) > Must have missed a few memo's. I thought only YoswinK was allowed to do this. Welcome on board, rane. Sven Vermeu

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Vermeulen
elopment is possible and the resource is shared on multiple web nodes. Not to mention that GuideXML URLs don't suck and are a lot easier to remember. You just need to know the name of the document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ whereas with dev.g.o URLs, you have http://dev.gentoo.org/~//

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
I'm not on the I'net right now, but if you annotate the [gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-tools.xml file you'll see a bunch of reasons over the past few changes. Afaik, most architectures prefer syslog-ng. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Application server deployment eclass?

2005-10-02 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hich uses a single brand of J2EE servers anyway) 2. automate the upgrading of archives to a new version Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project Lead | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp Gentoo Counci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
documented that well. What we really need is to find what topics people > are interested in learning more about. ... and document those. Welcome to the Gentoo Documentation Project. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee | http://foundation.gentoo.org Gentoo Do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th

2005-10-11 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ocumentation"? Or "installed as dependency of virtual/logger"? If the former: hump the GDP. If the latter: hump the baselayout team. If both, try humping one of them at a time. Doing both just makes funny pictures, but doesn't give much results. Wkr, Sven Vermeule

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th

2005-10-12 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If the latter: hump the baselayout team. > > What does baselayout have to do with this? They're to blame for about everything. Nah, my bad. Of course I meant those responsible for the profiles. Wkr,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
bably make them more open (with a moderation system to check > message), then they will be used more. But there is no such system available yet. It is a single commit that gets transferred to the web site, no moderation possible. Doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done though. Wkr,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
tramfs and work from there? I personally have /usr on a separate partition too (using LVM) without an initramfs or initrd. Works just fine. And I'd like to keep it that way, since it is simple and very manageable. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-05 Thread Sven Vermeulen
in other locations, like /usr and /var. How does the tool that creates an initramfs know which files to copy from /usr and /var anyhow? Also, how well does this play with all our profiles (so not only the popular architectures)? What about SELinux and/or grSecurity's RBAC model? Are these

Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-05 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:42:29PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > That said, I'm a bit hesitant to describing that we "recommend" it > > regardless of the situation. What is wrong with describing when?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ed recently (last few days) so they should be okay now. However, some good reviews never hurt. If you do still find issues, don't hesitate to create a bugreport for it. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sec-policy/selinux-mta (SELinux profiles)

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Vermeulen
Hi all, For those using one of the SELinux profiles, sec-policy/selinux-mta will be masked/removed as its policy is already part of selinux-base-policy (and as such gives conflicts, cfr bug #384851). Other people won't notice this as the package is already masked by default. Wkr,

[gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
of the FUD once and for all ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/gcc-upgrading.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Vermeulen
t need to reappear again ;-) If you think it is still unclear or needs improvements left or right, don't hesitate to mail me or, even better, file a bugreport (I act better on bug reports than on e-mails). Oh, and I use a separate /usr with no initramfs (yet), with software raid and lvm2. /me quickly hides Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

[gentoo-dev] We need *you* for a USE="selinux" dependency

2011-12-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
fficient due to binary package support requirements. Since there are quite a few packages that would need updates, I thought about first mailing gentoo-dev for feedback and perhaps a first chunk of work done. I also wouldn't mind creating bugreports for each of them, but that would still be be

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