Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

María Leandro wrote:

something like this?

http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-science-pe.png


I like this one better but maybe with *less* bright colors.


http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-education-pe.png

(just draws)



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Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

María Leandro wrote:

just another idea

http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-edu-wp2-wide.png


Sorry, but I not think this one is a good idea, it is disturbingly 
similar to http://images.google.com/images?q=vista+boxbtnG=Search+Images



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Re: FedoraQA Art Request

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

María Leandro wrote:


I was reading the Artwork Design Service and some ideas came up on the 
FedoraQA open request. I was talking a little with jlaska at the IRC 
channel and this are two propositions. (draws).


Hope some like it :D

http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA.png

http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA2.png


Here the requester has the final word, but I like better the first one. 
Maybe with the graphic (magnifier and window) a little to the left. And 
with the window title bar bright blue, as in default Nodoka, so it looks 
like Fedora.


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Re: Game graphics needed - Project: Starfighter

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Erick Henrique wrote:

Hi Hans and Nicu

See the 2 ships that I drew for the Starfighter game. Later sending the 
other conceptual images and avatars.


This is interesting, I would like to see how they look inside the game.

When to conclude the other ships I will generate one pixel art to see as 
they are the sprites in the compiled game.


I can publish in wiki of the project to starfighter my progress?


Sure, please do.

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Klaatu wrote:
I am not clear, is this to be the final katana or is it still being 
swapped out with a newly photographed one?  I recall there being an 
issue with licensing, and thought we would be seeing a different 
sword...but maybe I missed the thread in which all of this was solved.


Honestly, I have some doubts about hat: sstorari *claimed* he remade the 
image using his own (Free) photo as a base and he posted the reference 
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2826852493/
While it looks pretty much like a katana (just like the photos used 
previously), the sword in the photo is not at the same angle as the 
sword in the wallpaper (so the hilt looks different), which make me have 
some doubts. But I am known to be paranoid.


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Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner - Italian version

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I have done a translation of the banner to Spanish, following your 
banners as template. However, I don't seem to have the fonts you guys 
used to create the banner (on F9)... At any rate, I have used URW Gothic 
L in substitution, this is work in progress as I'll most likely use 
another font, just a quick prototype to see how it looks in Spanish.


yum install -y mgopen-fonts

Read more about this font and why we are using it 
here:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Complementary_Font


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R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the photo.
If u take a look in the source before write something u can see that the 
problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0.
I think it's clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created.
Just take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece was 
totally fake.
Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's totally the same in every 
part.
It was created by taken a first part from the photo and than manipuleted.
As for other parts.
The Hilt was totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of 
photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.

So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it can't be 
done?
Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til the 
last day to make a new question?

Cheers
Samuele

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Oggetto: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

Klaatu wrote:
 I am not clear, is this to be the final katana or is it still being 
 swapped out with a newly photographed one?  I recall there being an 
 issue with licensing, and thought we would be seeing a different 
 sword...but maybe I missed the thread in which all of this was solved.

Honestly, I have some doubts about hat: sstorari *claimed* he remade the 
image using his own (Free) photo as a base and he posted the reference 
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2826852493/
While it looks pretty much like a katana (just like the photos used 
previously), the sword in the photo is not at the same angle as the 
sword in the wallpaper (so the hilt looks different), which make me have 
some doubts. But I am known to be paranoid.

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R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the photo.
If u take a look in the source before write something u can see that the 
problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0.
I think it's clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created.
Just take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece was 
totally fake.
Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's totally the same in every 
part.
It was created by taken a first part from the photo and than manipuleted.
As for other parts.
The Hilt was totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of 
photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.

So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it can't be 
done?
Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til the 
last day to make a new question?

Cheers
Samuele


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Oggetto: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

Klaatu wrote:
 I am not clear, is this to be the final katana or is it still being 
 swapped out with a newly photographed one?  I recall there being an 
 issue with licensing, and thought we would be seeing a different 
 sword...but maybe I missed the thread in which all of this was solved.

Honestly, I have some doubts about hat: sstorari *claimed* he remade the 
image using his own (Free) photo as a base and he posted the reference 
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2826852493/
While it looks pretty much like a katana (just like the photos used 
previously), the sword in the photo is not at the same angle as the 
sword in the wallpaper (so the hilt looks different), which make me have 
some doubts. But I am known to be paranoid.

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Luca Foppiano
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:50 +0200, Samuele Storari wrote:
 sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the
  photo. If u take a look in the source before write something u can see
  that the problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0. I think it's
  clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created. Just
  take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece
  was totally fake. Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's
  totally the same in every part. It was created by taken a first part
  from the photo and than manipuleted. As for other parts. The Hilt was
  totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of
  photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.
 
 So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it
  can't be done? Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work
  everyday and u wait til the last day to make a new question?

I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
others?

This is the point. And *is related to some issues and questions* about
Samuele work.

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Samuele Storari wrote:


Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til the last day 
to make a new question?


Well, Klaatu asked and I answered to the best of my knowledge.
I have not waited until the last day, this is something I said all 
along, see [1], but didn't make much fuss about it as the most likely 
scenario is that *Solar* will be used in F10 and the license of 
InvinXible will not matter that much.



[1] - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1081998postcount=67


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R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari



- Messaggio originale -
Da: Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, 
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Samuele Storari wrote:
 
 Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til 
 the last day to make a new question?

Well, Klaatu asked and I answered to the best of my knowledge.

Yes, but the leave out the sarcasm. we don't need it :D We don't need too to 
continue in this useless argument. I think both have understand.

I have not waited until the last day, this is something I said all 
along, see [1], but didn't make much fuss about it as the most likely 
scenario is that *Solar* will be used in F10 and the license of 
InvinXible will not matter that much.


[1] - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1081998postcount=67


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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Luca Foppiano wrote:


I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
others?


The real goal is to create a Free theme, using as much as possible Free 
tools, by a team working in an open and collaborative process.


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Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:53 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
 On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 12:13 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote:
 
   
  I like this overall,  but  the text on the banner sounds like we're
  closing shop. If we could somehow add and many more or something
  similar to it, it'd be better in my opinion
 
 Maybe Thank you, Fedora Community, for five great years and counting!
 
 ...or ...five great years so far!
 
 Hmm, that's a lot of text, but hopefully you design types -- with a
 better eye than mine -- can figure out a way to make it work properly.

I tried doing this myself this morning, without any luck or success.  If
anyone can get this banner working this morning, I'll talk to the admins
about putting it up tonight.

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Re: FedoraQA Art Request

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:36 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
 María Leandro wrote:
  
  I was reading the Artwork Design Service and some ideas came up on the 
  FedoraQA open request. I was talking a little with jlaska at the IRC 
  channel and this are two propositions. (draws).
  
  Hope some like it :D
  
  http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA.png
  
  http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA2.png
 
 Here the requester has the final word, but I like better the first one. 
 Maybe with the graphic (magnifier and window) a little to the left. And 
 with the window title bar bright blue, as in default Nodoka, so it looks 
 like Fedora.

It's probably also good to get the fedora and QA text aligned on the
same baseline -- the former seems a bit higher off the reflection than
the latter.

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:50 +0200, Samuele Storari wrote:
 sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the photo.
 If u take a look in the source before write something u can see that the 
 problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0.
 I think it's clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created.
 Just take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece was 
 totally fake.
 Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's totally the same in every 
 part.
 It was created by taken a first part from the photo and than manipuleted.
 As for other parts.
 The Hilt was totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of 
 photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.
 
 So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it can't be 
 done?
 Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til 
 the last day to make a new question?

Samuele, I'm a big fan of Quentin Tarantino, and collected some desktop
backgrounds when Kill Bill Vol. 1 was going to be released.  One of the
backgrounds features a katana sword which looks to me to be identical to
the one in your source .XCF file:

http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/hattorihanzo_1280.jpg 

When we talk about having an entirely free desktop theme, it means that
*all* the elements must be created from free sources.  Is this sword
graphic -- the one used in the Kill Bill poster and apparently your
source -- available for free use, modification, and distribution?  If it
is, there's absolutely no problem with the InvinXble theme.  If it's not
then we can't use this theme for Fedora 10.

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Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:06 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
 Paul W. Frields wrote:
  
  I tried doing this myself this morning, without any luck or success.  If
  anyone can get this banner working this morning, I'll talk to the admins
  about putting it up tonight.
 
 I think this should do it...

Superb!  We just spoke with Ricky in IRC so I *think* this is on its way
to the web site, but just in case, let me make that request here... if
anyone wants me to file a ticket, I'm happy to do so!

Personally I would love to have this up on the site for about 15 days.
A couple weeks is not too long a time to celebrate 5 years of one
awesome community. :-)

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R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
But the desktop was created by USING free source and this is the last time I 
will say it.

The Hattory Hanzo katana is a katana u know a katana.

Katana is for most similar:

I link for u some photo so u can see what I mean:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scumfrog/222867694/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scumfrog/134196791/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2826852493/

Take a look to the Hilt of every singol katana, it looks like the same cos it's 
basically the same for the most katanas u see.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2851011556/in/set-72157607053787890/

the Blade wasn't the same cos the blade was totally recreated.
Take a look to the source file and please post something similar.

Taking about particulars: the grain under the ribbon on the grip is similar for 
all katana in the world and not a trademark.

The Hilt AGAIN is not the hattory hanzo hilt cos as u can see is for most 
similar to other thousand katana's hilt.

Ok, if u don't wont to use InvinXble don't use it, but don't try to find some 
excuses to do it. Just do it and stop.

Samuele

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Oggetto: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:50 +0200, Samuele Storari wrote:
 sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the photo.
 If u take a look in the source before write something u can see that the 
 problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0.
 I think it's clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created.
 Just take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece was 
 totally fake.
 Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's totally the same in every 
 part.
 It was created by taken a first part from the photo and than manipuleted.
 As for other parts.
 The Hilt was totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of 
 photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.
 
 So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it can't be 
 done?
 Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work everyday and u wait til 
 the last day to make a new question?

Samuele, I'm a big fan of Quentin Tarantino, and collected some desktop
backgrounds when Kill Bill Vol. 1 was going to be released.  One of the
backgrounds features a katana sword which looks to me to be identical to
the one in your source .XCF file:

http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/hattorihanzo_1280.jpg 

When we talk about having an entirely free desktop theme, it means that
*all* the elements must be created from free sources.  Is this sword
graphic -- the one used in the Kill Bill poster and apparently your
source -- available for free use, modification, and distribution?  If it
is, there's absolutely no problem with the InvinXble theme.  If it's not
then we can't use this theme for Fedora 10.

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Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Samuele Storari wrote:

Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
But the desktop was created by USING free source and this is the last time I 
will say it.

The Hattory Hanzo katana is a katana u know a katana.

Katana is for most similar:


Trying to hod myself from exclaiming no shit?


The Hilt AGAIN is not the hattory hanzo hilt cos as u can see is for most 
similar to other thousand katana's hilt.


What can I say? rotate the image 180 degrees and the resemblance is, 
uh..., uncanny: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/invinxible.ogv


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Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread David Nielsen
2008/9/23 Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Samuele Storari wrote:

 Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
 But the desktop was created by USING free source and this is the last time
 I will say it.

 The Hattory Hanzo katana is a katana u know a katana.

 Katana is for most similar:


 Trying to hod myself from exclaiming no shit?


And yet..


  The Hilt AGAIN is not the hattory hanzo hilt cos as u can see is for most
 similar to other thousand katana's hilt.


 What can I say? rotate the image 180 degrees and the resemblance is, uh...,
 uncanny: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/invinxible.ogv


...it surprises you that an iconic image of a katana which he already
admitted to using as inspiration contains a katana of a similar design..
when katanas are pretty much the same, I mean it looks exactly like the
replica my friend has hanging on his wall as well, will you accuse him of
stealing that as well?
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R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
U can exclaim exactly what do u want.

Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
U use the round 1 image.

Other?
U know what's the problem?
Since the first round u try to push my works down.
InvinXble, Solar as same, everyday every single day since some months ago but I 
made all u request to continue work.
Where's the problem? U talk about work togheter?
Yes! U work togheter to don't let me work.
Nobody except for the great guy using my work for the plymouth screen try to 
collaborate, I do my best really, really my best.
Collaboration is a great word.
Nothing nobody do nothing for my proposals, a banner, a test, a little test, 
nothing.
I have only criticisms on my works strange kind of collaboration.
We have to create something in 3 round to partecipate to the final voting, but 
where's the 3rd round of gears?
Where're something new?
I keep my mouth shut up to don't exclaim: no shit. :D
The problem isn't my work, the problem is that never been a contest, it is only 
a fake contest.
U wanna Win?
I don't care a damn to Win, wanna see Gears everywhere? Use ur work no prob.
We are here Again and again argumenting on my work.
With this last mail I close up.
Do wath u wanna do but don't try to make it real.

Samuele



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Samuele Storari wrote:
 Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
 But the desktop was created by USING free source and this is the last time I 
 will say it.
 
 The Hattory Hanzo katana is a katana u know a katana.
 
 Katana is for most similar:

Trying to hod myself from exclaiming no shit?

 The Hilt AGAIN is not the hattory hanzo hilt cos as u can see is for most 
 similar to other thousand katana's hilt.

What can I say? rotate the image 180 degrees and the resemblance is, 
uh..., uncanny: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/invinxible.ogv

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R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
David... Yes I admit... I stoled it.
Say to your friend that now he can come to me to get back his own katana. :D

Thanks
Samuele

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2008/9/23 Nicu Buculei  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  



Samuele Storari wrote: 


Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES 
But the desktop was created by USING free source and this is the last time I 
will say it. 

The Hattory Hanzo katana is a katana u know a katana. 

Katana is for most similar: 

Trying to hod myself from exclaiming no shit? 


And yet.. 






The Hilt AGAIN is not the hattory hanzo hilt cos as u can see is for most 
similar to other thousand katana's hilt. 

What can I say? rotate the image 180 degrees and the resemblance is, uh..., 
uncanny: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/invinxible.ogv 

...it surprises you that an iconic image of a katana which he already admitted 
to using as inspiration contains a katana of a similar design.. when katanas 
are pretty much the same, I mean it looks exactly like the replica my friend 
has hanging on his wall as well, will you accuse him of stealing that as well? 


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request to join art team

2008-09-23 Thread Andy Fitzsimon
Hi guys..  I'd like to (finally) join the Fedora Art team.. -[Proper]-

I've helped out on DVD artwork stuff, contributed a few samples, built
visual remixes on your ideas and a shot a few fedora inspired photos too .
(most mentioned on this list or peer to peer with other art team members)

I'd also like to mention my vote for solar (pending acceptance to the team)
My backup vote is for neon (should  solar get disqualified for copyright
concerns over the underlying moon photograph)

Anyway, goodnight (there's a typhoon on here)
Zzzz

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Samuele Storari wrote:

So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it can't be 
done?


I find this presumption extremely offensive.

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Mornati
Honestly I can't see the problem.

In round 1, as Samuele said, there was a question about the origin of
katana (all sword look like a peace of iron with an handle) and there
was a discussion about it... Samuele posted a photo to shown the start
point of his image... and you (I don't know who... but someone) have
decided to go ahead also with Invixble!

In this moment there is again the same question about Katana in the
photo... I think you if you are not sure (also with all probations
about katana) you have to STOP the vote over that theme.
I'm not in agreement with this decision... but I think this is a stupid
discussion during the FINAL vote after all themes was selected for
final round!

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Luca Foppiano wrote:

I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
others?


We have had egregious violations of copyright and image licensing in the 
past, due to a misunderstanding of licensing and copyright law.


A big reason for the Fedora art team producing its own work is that we 
can be confident that the artwork in Fedora is openly licensed and 
freely distributable. When artwork that is not properly licensed is 
thrown into Fedora, it not only goes against the guidelines of Fedora 
but it entirely defeats the purpose of us creating our own artwork. Part 
of the stated purpose of the art team is to create artwork that can be 
freely re-usable. Artwork that incorporates other works that have a 
restrictive license cannot meet this goal.


We are as strict on this license policy as any other team is strict on 
code licensing. There is no special treatment here.


I certainly hope a theme with questionably-licensed imagery does not win 
the vote. If it does, I will be up all night every night this week 
re-making the artwork to make sure our artwork can be Free. I am sick 
this week so a series of late nights will not be good for my health.


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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Samuele Storari wrote:

U can exclaim exactly what do u want.

Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
U use the round 1 image.

Other?
U know what's the problem?


Yes, I do know what the problem is: you appear to be taking Fedora's 
license policies personally.


Please don't.


Since the first round u try to push my works down.
InvinXble, Solar as same, everyday every single day since some months ago but I 
made all u request to continue work.
Where's the problem? U talk about work togheter?
Yes! U work togheter to don't let me work.


What are you talking about?


Nobody except for the great guy using my work for the plymouth screen try to 
collaborate, I do my best really, really my best.
Collaboration is a great word.
Nothing nobody do nothing for my proposals, a banner, a test, a little test, 
nothing.


And you did NOTHING on anyone else's proposals either. Collaboration is 
two-way.


I actually did do some work on Solar because I liked it, but you seemed 
to get extremely offended when I asked how you created part of the image 
when I was working with it so I backed off and never posted my work.



I have only criticisms on my works strange kind of collaboration.


Wow, this mailing list and all the forums are filled with praise for 
your themes, yet you are unsatisfied?!!



We have to create something in 3 round to partecipate to the final voting, but 
where's the 3rd round of gears?
Where're something new?


I worked on gears. I decided to stop working on it because I liked Solar 
and wanted it to win.



I keep my mouth shut up to don't exclaim: no shit. :D
The problem isn't my work, the problem is that never been a contest, it is only 
a fake contest.


I'm sorry, I find this extremely offensive as well. You are full of 
vinegar today aren't you?


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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Marco Mornati wrote:

In this moment there is again the same question about Katana in the
photo... I think you if you are not sure (also with all probations
about katana) you have to STOP the vote over that theme.


If invixble wins, and there is still a question over the licensing of 
the katana image, I will re-make the artwork if necessary.


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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Mornati
Yes... I'm in agreement with you Máirín... we can't have a NO.Licenses
Image inside Fedora... that it's completely free!

My question is... why now? There are user voting also Invinxible
theme... and are all lost. There were a licensing doubt over that
theme... why it's in the final round?

Anyway... in my opinion there are many photo creative commons that
shown us the invinxible theme origin...

Bye
Marco


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:26 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Luca Foppiano wrote:
  I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
  find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
  others?
 
 We have had egregious violations of copyright and image licensing in the 
 past, due to a misunderstanding of licensing and copyright law.
 
 A big reason for the Fedora art team producing its own work is that we 
 can be confident that the artwork in Fedora is openly licensed and 
 freely distributable. When artwork that is not properly licensed is 
 thrown into Fedora, it not only goes against the guidelines of Fedora 
 but it entirely defeats the purpose of us creating our own artwork. Part 
 of the stated purpose of the art team is to create artwork that can be 
 freely re-usable. Artwork that incorporates other works that have a 
 restrictive license cannot meet this goal.
 
 We are as strict on this license policy as any other team is strict on 
 code licensing. There is no special treatment here.
 
 I certainly hope a theme with questionably-licensed imagery does not win 
 the vote. If it does, I will be up all night every night this week 
 re-making the artwork to make sure our artwork can be Free. I am sick 
 this week so a series of late nights will not be good for my health.
 
 ~m
 
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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:04 +0200, Luca Foppiano wrote:
 On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:50 +0200, Samuele Storari wrote:
  sstorari *claimed* that he had remade the photo cos he had remade the
   photo. If u take a look in the source before write something u can see
   that the problem was solved creatin' the blade from 0. I think it's
   clear this sword is totally a patchwork of various level created. Just
   take a look to the level Blade_White Copy as u can see this piece
   was totally fake. Created by using the clone tool, in fact u see it's
   totally the same in every part. It was created by taken a first part
   from the photo and than manipuleted. As for other parts. The Hilt was
   totally reworked using dodge/burn tool and other effect of
   photomanipulation but u know they don't create new layer.
  
  So just a little question: If u can't do something, it means that it
   can't be done? Sorry, but I'm a lil sick to try to defend my work
   everyday and u wait til the last day to make a new question?
 
 I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
 find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
 others?
 
 This is the point. And *is related to some issues and questions* about
 Samuele work.

The Artwork team treats art in Fedora just like the developers and
packagers treat code.  There is a simple solution to any problems with
the artwork in question -- Samuele, just replace any image that is not
freedom-licensed with one that is! :-)

It's absolutely OK to be inspired by something that's non-free.  Using
non-free elements for examples for the first round (or two) is probably
even OK.  But at this point in the cycle, you should have replaced any
non-free elements with free ones.  If you do that, there is no reason
the theme can't be in Fedora.  The only thing standing in the way is the
non-free element you're using.

Fedora is all about giving our users and contributors freedom -- freedom
to use, modify and redistribute, now and always.  If we were to give
them artwork that doesn't have that level of freedom, we would be
putting a legal burden on them.  That's not the right thing to do, and
it's not in the letter or spirit of how Fedora works.  All we're asking
is that the contributors to our themes live by the same rules as
everyone else who contributes to Fedora.

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Mornati
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:33 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:

 
 I worked on gears. I decided to stop working on it because I liked Solar 
 and wanted it to win.

Me too... I can't vote but I'm happy to read this! :)

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Mornati
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:35 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Marco Mornati wrote:
  In this moment there is again the same question about Katana in the
  photo... I think you if you are not sure (also with all probations
  about katana) you have to STOP the vote over that theme.
 
 If invixble wins, and there is still a question over the licensing of 
 the katana image, I will re-make the artwork if necessary.
 
 ~m

Ok thanks for the answer Máirín... For me was so strange the decision to
have an image not creative commons in the final round!

As I said yesterday... maybe what many people said over fedora forum
(specially in french one): I don't want an arm on my desktop shown
that there is also another problem around that theme...

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Re: request to join art team

2008-09-23 Thread Nicu Buculei

Andy Fitzsimon wrote:

Hi guys..  I'd like to (finally) join the Fedora Art team.. -[Proper]-

I've helped out on DVD artwork stuff, contributed a few samples, built 
visual remixes on your ideas and a shot a few fedora inspired photos too 
.  (most mentioned on this list or peer to peer with other art team members)


... and many more.

Andy, I just added you to the group, but your account andyfitz is 
marked as inactive in the Fedora Account System (you have to change 
the password after the recent intrusion)



I'd also like to mention my vote for solar (pending acceptance to the team)
My backup vote is for neon (should  solar get disqualified for copyright 
concerns over the underlying moon photograph)


As soon as you reactivate your account, you should be allowed to vote by 
the voting app.


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Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

David Nielsen wrote:
...it surprises you that an iconic image of a katana which he already 
admitted to using as inspiration contains a katana of a similar design.. 
when katanas are pretty much the same, I mean it looks exactly like the 
replica my friend has hanging on his wall as well, will you accuse him 
of stealing that as well?


Um, did you watch the ogv Nicu posted?

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R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Samuele Storari
I'm little sad about our discussion.
I think everyone loud his voice more than necessary, the only problem with my 
image is the hilt?
Ok, but why waitin the last day to say it?
I understand your position, and believe me I've got nothing with u don't take 
me bad.
I worked a lot for adv agency and I know the prob with copyR, I really do my 
best to create something usable and free, I'm new to the concept of FREE in the 
open source and I think (maybe wrong) that my work will work right (sorry for 
bad grammar).
Sorry if I same like vinegar today but i fell under attack and i try to defend 
my self.
I'm glad u like Solar.
I think we (all) have to take this discussion as a new start.
Maybe I wrong, maybe U (not U u...) are wrong, I work alone and maybe I do some 
error. Next time I will be glad if someone help me.

Cheers and sorry
Samuele

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Luca Foppiano wrote:
 I completely agree! Sometime I don't understand which is the real goal:
 find *the best* fedora theme or do whatever to try to denigrate the
 others?

We have had egregious violations of copyright and image licensing in the 
past, due to a misunderstanding of licensing and copyright law.

A big reason for the Fedora art team producing its own work is that we 
can be confident that the artwork in Fedora is openly licensed and 
freely distributable. When artwork that is not properly licensed is 
thrown into Fedora, it not only goes against the guidelines of Fedora 
but it entirely defeats the purpose of us creating our own artwork. Part 
of the stated purpose of the art team is to create artwork that can be 
freely re-usable. Artwork that incorporates other works that have a 
restrictive license cannot meet this goal.

We are as strict on this license policy as any other team is strict on 
code licensing. There is no special treatment here.

I certainly hope a theme with questionably-licensed imagery does not win 
the vote. If it does, I will be up all night every night this week 
re-making the artwork to make sure our artwork can be Free. I am sick 
this week so a series of late nights will not be good for my health.

~m

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Paul W. Frields wrote:

Using
non-free elements for examples for the first round (or two) is probably
even OK. 


I don't think it should be, absolutely not if the artwork is going to be 
uploaded to our wiki.


We have always said, if you are using artwork you did not create to make 
a proposal, that's fine, but you need to get permission from the creators.


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Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi Samuele,

Samuele Storari wrote:

I'm little sad about our discussion.
I think everyone loud his voice more than necessary, the only problem with my 
image is the hilt?
Ok, but why waitin the last day to say it?


Nicu and I brought up our concerns with the licensing of this imagery 
weeks ago, so please do not pose this as your artwork being questioned 
at the last minute. This is clearly evidenced in the mailing list archives.


I *TRUSTED* you when you assured me weeks ago that you had changed the 
photos to a properly-licensed photo. It appears that you did not. I am 
very disappointed and angry right now.



I worked a lot for adv agency and I know the prob with copyR, I really do my 
best to create something usable and free, I'm new to the concept of FREE in the 
open source and I think (maybe wrong) that my work will work right (sorry for 
bad grammar).


This is irresponsible and unacceptable in any venue, not just one where 
Free artwork is to be produced. This is no more acceptable when creating 
closed-license artwork. While I have never worked for a professional 
design agency, as a former teaching assistant I know that students in 
design programs who violate licensing like this can be giving a failing 
grade for their class, if not expelled from school entirely.



Sorry if I same like vinegar today but i fell under attack and i try to defend 
my self.


We are not attacking you personally. You are attacking us personally.


I'm glad u like Solar.
I think we (all) have to take this discussion as a new start.
Maybe I wrong, maybe U (not U u...) are wrong, I work alone and maybe I do some 
error. Next time I will be glad if someone help me.


I would find it a lot easier to work with you if you didn't get offended 
when I asked how you did something so I can work on your artwork. I 
would also find it a lot easier to work with you if you didn't make all 
of the offensive statements you've made here and if you had not 
completely violated my trust.


It will definitely take quite some time for me to feel less hurt over this.

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi Marco,

Marco Mornati wrote:

Yes... I'm in agreement with you Máirín... we can't have a NO.Licenses
Image inside Fedora... that it's completely free!

My question is... why now? There are user voting also Invinxible
theme... and are all lost. There were a licensing doubt over that
theme... why it's in the final round?


This is absolutely not last-minute. I brought up licensing concerns to 
Samuele weeks ago on this very list and he assured me he was switching 
any photos with bad licenses to other ones with good licenses. I am 
really angry that I was misled.


Here is the thread from the archives:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00326.html

That message was posted four weeks ago. It would have given Samuele 
plenty of time to replace the imagery, which he said he was doing:


http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00334.html

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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi Marco,

Marco Mornati wrote:

Ok thanks for the answer Máirín... For me was so strange the decision to
have an image not creative commons in the final round!


I was unaware the image wasn't properly licensed as again, it had been 
brought up earlier and Samuele assured us he would replace it.


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Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:33 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Samuele Storari wrote:
  U can exclaim exactly what do u want.
  
  Part of my idea come from part of that image. YES
  U use the round 1 image.
  
  Other?
  U know what's the problem?
 
 Yes, I do know what the problem is: you appear to be taking Fedora's 
 license policies personally.
 
 Please don't.

Yes, remember that the Fedora stance on freedom is there to make sure
that anyone who receives Fedora can also modify and redistribute it to
others.  If our content violates that precept, it means we've failed our
users.  I'm sure that Samuele doesn't want that to happen.  If he can
use his actual photo or some other free element to replace the katana in
the image, there's not a problem.

(There is the question of the images hosted on the Fedora wiki that
include this non-free stuff, but we can handle that separately.)

  Since the first round u try to push my works down.
  InvinXble, Solar as same, everyday every single day since some months ago 
  but I made all u request to continue work.
  Where's the problem? U talk about work togheter?
  Yes! U work togheter to don't let me work.
 
 What are you talking about?

Yeah, I don't get this at all.  I *love* Solar and have been saying that
since it was first introduced!

  Nobody except for the great guy using my work for the plymouth screen try 
  to collaborate, I do my best really, really my best.
  Collaboration is a great word.
  Nothing nobody do nothing for my proposals, a banner, a test, a little 
  test, nothing.
 
 And you did NOTHING on anyone else's proposals either. Collaboration is 
 two-way.
 
 I actually did do some work on Solar because I liked it, but you seemed 
 to get extremely offended when I asked how you created part of the image 
 when I was working with it so I backed off and never posted my work.
 
  I have only criticisms on my works strange kind of collaboration.
 
 Wow, this mailing list and all the forums are filled with praise for 
 your themes, yet you are unsatisfied?!!
 
  We have to create something in 3 round to partecipate to the final voting, 
  but where's the 3rd round of gears?
  Where're something new?
 
 I worked on gears. I decided to stop working on it because I liked Solar 
 and wanted it to win.
 
  I keep my mouth shut up to don't exclaim: no shit. :D
  The problem isn't my work, the problem is that never been a contest, it is 
  only a fake contest.
 
 I'm sorry, I find this extremely offensive as well. You are full of 
 vinegar today aren't you?

Let's all take a moment to cool down a bit.  Samuele, maybe we haven't
done a good job explaining all the requirements for free art in Fedora,
or why we have those requirements.  I'd be happy to help explain that
further if it doesn't make sense to you.  Or if there's something you
disagree on, let's talk about it.

Honestly, there's only a few things that need to happen:

* Replace any non-free elements with free ones.  Really, the original
artist should take the opportunity to do this rather than have the task
fall on others.  But there's no reason it can't be a team effort if
Samuele asks for help.

* Fix the wiki to remove any non-free stuff, with an appropriate note of
explanation.

* It would be nice if we knew the actual source of the image instead of
guessing.  What if it's actually free, and we just don't know it because
we don't know the source?  Until then, we have to assume it's not, of
course.

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Re: request to join art team

2008-09-23 Thread Andy Fitzsimon
Thanks Nicu

Here are the links for anyone else having to do the reactivation:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg9.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_signing_key
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key

Andy


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Andy Fitzsimon wrote:

 Hi guys..  I'd like to (finally) join the Fedora Art team.. -[Proper]-

 I've helped out on DVD artwork stuff, contributed a few samples, built
 visual remixes on your ideas and a shot a few fedora inspired photos too .
  (most mentioned on this list or peer to peer with other art team members)


 ... and many more.

 Andy, I just added you to the group, but your account andyfitz is marked
 as inactive in the Fedora Account System (you have to change the password
 after the recent intrusion)

  I'd also like to mention my vote for solar (pending acceptance to the
 team)
 My backup vote is for neon (should  solar get disqualified for copyright
 concerns over the underlying moon photograph)


 As soon as you reactivate your account, you should be allowed to vote by
 the voting app.

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Re: request to join art team

2008-09-23 Thread Andy Fitzsimon
wait,  those links are in regards to signed packages.  not fedora account
membership
(man im a top poster... sorry :-/ )

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork#Final_Steps   is the correct link/.

/me wipes mud off face


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Andy Fitzsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Thanks Nicu

 Here are the links for anyone else having to do the reactivation:


 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg9.html
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_signing_key
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key

 Andy


 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Andy Fitzsimon wrote:

 Hi guys..  I'd like to (finally) join the Fedora Art team.. -[Proper]-

 I've helped out on DVD artwork stuff, contributed a few samples, built
 visual remixes on your ideas and a shot a few fedora inspired photos too .
  (most mentioned on this list or peer to peer with other art team members)


 ... and many more.

 Andy, I just added you to the group, but your account andyfitz is marked
 as inactive in the Fedora Account System (you have to change the password
 after the recent intrusion)

  I'd also like to mention my vote for solar (pending acceptance to the
 team)
 My backup vote is for neon (should  solar get disqualified for copyright
 concerns over the underlying moon photograph)


 As soon as you reactivate your account, you should be allowed to vote by
 the voting app.

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Re: request to join art team

2008-09-23 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2008-09-23 10:31:36 PM, Andy Fitzsimon wrote:
 wait,  those links are in regards to signed packages.  not fedora account
 membership
You should be able to just request a password reset at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/resetpass.  

Thanks,
Ricky


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Policy on works using unacceptable licenses?

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi folks,

Since it is now clear we have some licensing issues with at least one of 
the candidates for the theme, I would like to hear your thoughts on what 
we should do. Since the vote is in art team members' hands I think it's 
our call to decide what to do next.


Here are the options as I see them and/or as have been suggested to me:

1 - disqualify invinXble as a theme, even if invinXble wins, the 
2nd-place winner will win


2 - if invinXble (or any theme that has photos we aren't able to source) 
wins, replace any sourced photographs in it with properly-licensed ones


3 - disqualify any themes that use images we cannot find 
properly-licensed photo source references for.


For what it's worth, anyway, here are my thoughts:

I've considered option 1 because I think it would make it quite clear 
that as a team we can not and will not tolerate risks to Fedora's 
freedom. While I can understand an accidental slip-up or 
misunderstanding, I cannot understand deception taken to this degree 
over time (posting multiple fake sources, 'cover ups' in the source 
files, repeated denials, broken promises) and I don't want us to look as 
if we endorse that kind of behavior in any way. If invinXble ends up 
being the default for Fedora, at least for myself, it would be a 
continual reminder of this deception even if it was repaired.


As for option 2, I have offered to do the work needed but I also 
understand this may be quite some work and we *cannot* slip and miss the 
preview release. It's may need to involve me going to Boston Museum of 
Fine Arts for a katana shoot... Consider this the 'making lemonade out 
of lemons' option.


I don't know if 3 is really a viable option; it will be a lot of work to 
replace source photos we aren't sure of, but it will also be a lot of 
work to expand the other two themes to a final state. (both Neon and 
Grub need grub and syslinux designs and overall refinement.)


I do think that in their current state, inviXble and potentially Solar 
are not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora. I think Solar will be easier 
to repair than invinXble. The moon photo in Solar is not as visible and 
central as the katana photo in invinXble.


~m

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Neon#Round_2

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Education on image licensing and freedom

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi folks,

Did any of you joining the art team have doubts/questions/confusion over 
copyright law and licensing as it pertains to the usage of

externally-sourced images used in artwork? Were you unsure of what
licenses were acceptable to use in Fedora artwork?

What kinds of questions / uncertainties did you have, if any?

I think we may need to get better at making clear our expectations with 
respect to sourced image licensing. For some time now, we have had the 
following statement on the main artwork wiki page [1]:



# All contributions must be covered by the Contributor License
Agreement . We cannot accept contributions from individuals who have
not signed the CLA in the Fedora Account System . The CLA allows us
to properly license artwork submissions for distribution with Fedora
and other Fedora projects. 



# Submissions must respect artwork
licensing. If your submissions consist of artwork created by other
people, please make sure the license of the original work you
incorporate is compatible with Fedora and that you are not violating
any of the provisions of its license. Just because a work is licensed
with a Creative Commons license does not mean it is free to use (make
sure you provide attribution to artists that license their work with
a CC Attribution clause.)


Are there any issues with this text? Does it need to be modified or 
expanded to be made more clear? Should it be copied to every main theme 
process page (eg /Artwork/F10Themes)?


Here are some of my proposals at making our licensing policies more clear:

1) Have a written statement our wiki's upload form [2] that you agree 
that you are uploading content that belongs to you and you are licensing 
to Fedora under the CLA or that belongs to someone else and you have 
permission to upload it under a Fedora-appropriate license;


2) Maybe we could do some kind of comic strip on image licensing and 
link to it from our front Artwork wiki page and also post it to planet 
Fedora. We could use Nicu's templates :) If there are common questions / 
confusions that you have about licenses, let me know and we can come up 
with a list of topics for the comic to address.


3) We should require references to any source images used in proposed 
themes, including author, URL of where the image
was acquired, and its license. I know it can be hard to keep track and 
get in the way of the creative process, but I also think it's really 
important to avoid this situation in the future and have some insurance 
in case some questions come up later.


I like how Michael posted the texture source photo on his Neon proposal 
page [3]. Maybe we should require a source mediawiki gallery page for 
each theme proposal? It might be cool after each theme process is over 
to then aggregate all the source images used in one area of the wik. 
We'll then have a built-in stock gallery of properly-licensed images for 
future projects.


I think making this a base requirement for a theme submission to proceed 
through the rounds process will ensure that submitters fill it out. As 
part of the submission promotion process, maybe one or two of us could 
volunteer to be theme 'nannies' and verify the source references in 
order for it to proceed forward. I also think making it a part of the 
process will perhaps come off as less confrontational as it has been 
interpreted here.




What do you think? Is there anything else you can think of to make our 
licensing policies more clear and easier-to-follow?


~m



[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork#Fedora_Artwork_Guidelines
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Upload
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Neon#Round_2

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Re: Education on image licensing and freedom

2008-09-23 Thread Klaatu
The rules and licensing issues were clear to me when I joined a few months
ago.

I think a quick reference guide on what is ok to use and what is not ok to
use might be a good idea, though, just because i think everyone must get a
little confused from time to time about what combination of magic letters
(CC-SA-BY, CC-SA-ND, CC-BY-ND-WTF etc) = free.

All in all, the third option makes sense to me.  Whether one agrees with it
or not, we have to deal with licensing and ownership of images.  And
whether you're doing graphic design, or filmmaking, or music with
sampling...you have to keep track of what your sources are, and you have to
be responsible for them.

-klaatu



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Hi folks,

 Did any of you joining the art team have doubts/questions/confusion over
 copyright law and licensing as it pertains to the usage of
 externally-sourced images used in artwork? Were you unsure of what
 licenses were acceptable to use in Fedora artwork?

 What kinds of questions / uncertainties did you have, if any?

 I think we may need to get better at making clear our expectations with
 respect to sourced image licensing. For some time now, we have had the
 following statement on the main artwork wiki page [1]:

  # All contributions must be covered by the Contributor License
 Agreement . We cannot accept contributions from individuals who have
 not signed the CLA in the Fedora Account System . The CLA allows us
 to properly license artwork submissions for distribution with Fedora
 and other Fedora projects.

 

 # Submissions must respect artwork
 licensing. If your submissions consist of artwork created by other
 people, please make sure the license of the original work you
 incorporate is compatible with Fedora and that you are not violating
 any of the provisions of its license. Just because a work is licensed
 with a Creative Commons license does not mean it is free to use (make
 sure you provide attribution to artists that license their work with
 a CC Attribution clause.)


 Are there any issues with this text? Does it need to be modified or
 expanded to be made more clear? Should it be copied to every main theme
 process page (eg /Artwork/F10Themes)?

 Here are some of my proposals at making our licensing policies more clear:

 1) Have a written statement our wiki's upload form [2] that you agree that
 you are uploading content that belongs to you and you are licensing to
 Fedora under the CLA or that belongs to someone else and you have permission
 to upload it under a Fedora-appropriate license;

 2) Maybe we could do some kind of comic strip on image licensing and link
 to it from our front Artwork wiki page and also post it to planet Fedora. We
 could use Nicu's templates :) If there are common questions / confusions
 that you have about licenses, let me know and we can come up with a list of
 topics for the comic to address.

 3) We should require references to any source images used in proposed
 themes, including author, URL of where the image
 was acquired, and its license. I know it can be hard to keep track and get
 in the way of the creative process, but I also think it's really important
 to avoid this situation in the future and have some insurance in case some
 questions come up later.

 I like how Michael posted the texture source photo on his Neon proposal
 page [3]. Maybe we should require a source mediawiki gallery page for each
 theme proposal? It might be cool after each theme process is over to then
 aggregate all the source images used in one area of the wik. We'll then have
 a built-in stock gallery of properly-licensed images for future projects.

 I think making this a base requirement for a theme submission to proceed
 through the rounds process will ensure that submitters fill it out. As part
 of the submission promotion process, maybe one or two of us could volunteer
 to be theme 'nannies' and verify the source references in order for it to
 proceed forward. I also think making it a part of the process will perhaps
 come off as less confrontational as it has been interpreted here.



 What do you think? Is there anything else you can think of to make our
 licensing policies more clear and easier-to-follow?

 ~m



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 [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Neon#Round_2

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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Klaatu
I was frankly confused on what I was voting on, which is why I asked for
clarification on this in the first place.  I did not want to vote on
InvinXible as it was only to have a different sword in the final product.  I
didn't mean to wait til the last minute, I jsut didn't understand why in the
last moments, the final version of the art -- with the new sword -- had not
yet been developed.

It wasn't an effort to pick on Samuele, it was just an effort to vote on
something I felt comfortable and safe on voting for.

- klaatu



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Hi Marco,

 Marco Mornati wrote:

 Yes... I'm in agreement with you Máirín... we can't have a NO.Licenses
 Image inside Fedora... that it's completely free!

 My question is... why now? There are user voting also Invinxible
 theme... and are all lost. There were a licensing doubt over that
 theme... why it's in the final round?


 This is absolutely not last-minute. I brought up licensing concerns to
 Samuele weeks ago on this very list and he assured me he was switching any
 photos with bad licenses to other ones with good licenses. I am really angry
 that I was misled.

 Here is the thread from the archives:

 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00326.html

 That message was posted four weeks ago. It would have given Samuele plenty
 of time to replace the imagery, which he said he was doing:

 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00334.html


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Re: Education on image licensing and freedom

2008-09-23 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Klaatu a écrit :
 The rules and licensing issues were clear to me when I joined a few
 months ago.

 I think a quick reference guide on what is ok to use and what is not
 ok to use might be a good idea, though, just because i think everyone
 must get a little confused from time to time about what combination of
 magic letters (CC-SA-BY, CC-SA-ND, CC-BY-ND-WTF etc) = free.

 All in all, the third option makes sense to me.  Whether one agrees
 with it or not, we have to deal with licensing and ownership of
 images.  And whether you're doing graphic design, or filmmaking, or
 music with sampling...you have to keep track of what your sources are,
 and you have to be responsible for them.

+1 speaking as graphic designer in training.


Luya



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Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Mornati
Yes... maybe you are right. But I think that anyway theme could have
some mods also after vote. But it's true that, for example with
Invixible theme, if you decide to change the katana, maybe the result
couldn't be beautiful like current version.

Marco


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:06 -0700, Klaatu wrote:
 I was frankly confused on what I was voting on, which is why I asked
 for clarification on this in the first place.  I did not want to vote
 on InvinXible as it was only to have a different sword in the final
 product.  I didn't mean to wait til the last minute, I jsut didn't
 understand why in the last moments, the final version of the art --
 with the new sword -- had not yet been developed.
 
 It wasn't an effort to pick on Samuele, it was just an effort to vote
 on something I felt comfortable and safe on voting for.
 
 - klaatu
 
 
 
 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Máirín Duffy
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Marco,
 
 
 Marco Mornati wrote:
 Yes... I'm in agreement with you Máirín... we can't
 have a NO.Licenses
 Image inside Fedora... that it's completely free!
 
 My question is... why now? There are user voting also
 Invinxible
 theme... and are all lost. There were a licensing
 doubt over that
 theme... why it's in the final round?
 
 
 This is absolutely not last-minute. I brought up licensing
 concerns to Samuele weeks ago on this very list and he assured
 me he was switching any photos with bad licenses to other ones
 with good licenses. I am really angry that I was misled.
 
 Here is the thread from the archives:
 
 
 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00326.html
 
 That message was posted four weeks ago. It would have given
 Samuele plenty of time to replace the imagery, which he said
 he was doing:
 
 
 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00334.html
 
 
 
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Re: Policy on works using unacceptable licenses?

2008-09-23 Thread David Nielsen
2008/9/23 Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Hi folks,

 Since it is now clear we have some licensing issues with at least one of
 the candidates for the theme, I would like to hear your thoughts on what we
 should do. Since the vote is in art team members' hands I think it's our
 call to decide what to do next.

 Here are the options as I see them and/or as have been suggested to me:

 1 - disqualify invinXble as a theme, even if invinXble wins, the 2nd-place
 winner will win

 2 - if invinXble (or any theme that has photos we aren't able to source)
 wins, replace any sourced photographs in it with properly-licensed ones

 3 - disqualify any themes that use images we cannot find properly-licensed
 photo source references for.

 For what it's worth, anyway, here are my thoughts:

 I've considered option 1 because I think it would make it quite clear that
 as a team we can not and will not tolerate risks to Fedora's freedom. While
 I can understand an accidental slip-up or misunderstanding, I cannot
 understand deception taken to this degree over time (posting multiple fake
 sources, 'cover ups' in the source files, repeated denials, broken promises)
 and I don't want us to look as if we endorse that kind of behavior in any
 way. If invinXble ends up being the default for Fedora, at least for myself,
 it would be a continual reminder of this deception even if it was repaired.

 As for option 2, I have offered to do the work needed but I also understand
 this may be quite some work and we *cannot* slip and miss the preview
 release. It's may need to involve me going to Boston Museum of Fine Arts for
 a katana shoot... Consider this the 'making lemonade out of lemons' option.

 I don't know if 3 is really a viable option; it will be a lot of work to
 replace source photos we aren't sure of, but it will also be a lot of work
 to expand the other two themes to a final state. (both Neon and Grub need
 grub and syslinux designs and overall refinement.)

 I do think that in their current state, inviXble and potentially Solar are
 not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora. I think Solar will be easier to
 repair than invinXble. The moon photo in Solar is not as visible and central
 as the katana photo in invinXble.


I would favor option 2 with the understanding that a proper policy be
written and must be agreed upon when submitting artwork for Fedora in the
future. This way we do not lose the two most developed themes this late in
the game and we still get to correct the problem. This at least would be
similar to what we have done in other parts of the distro when such
unfortunate issues have arisen.

- David
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Re: Policy on works using unacceptable licenses?

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

David Nielsen wrote:


I would favor option 2 with the understanding that a proper policy be 
written and must be agreed upon when submitting artwork for Fedora in 
the future.


I don't understand. This is the case today. We've had a clearly written 
policy on our wiki page for at least a year now, and anyone submitting 
anything to the wiki has agreed to the CLA.


What next steps would you suggest here?

~m

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Re: Education on image licensing and freedom

2008-09-23 Thread David Nielsen
2008/9/23 Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Hi folks,

 Did any of you joining the art team have doubts/questions/confusion over
 copyright law and licensing as it pertains to the usage of
 externally-sourced images used in artwork? Were you unsure of what
 licenses were acceptable to use in Fedora artwork?

 What kinds of questions / uncertainties did you have, if any?

 I think we may need to get better at making clear our expectations with
 respect to sourced image licensing. For some time now, we have had the
 following statement on the main artwork wiki page [1]:

  # All contributions must be covered by the Contributor License
 Agreement . We cannot accept contributions from individuals who have
 not signed the CLA in the Fedora Account System . The CLA allows us
 to properly license artwork submissions for distribution with Fedora
 and other Fedora projects.

 

 # Submissions must respect artwork
 licensing. If your submissions consist of artwork created by other
 people, please make sure the license of the original work you
 incorporate is compatible with Fedora and that you are not violating
 any of the provisions of its license. Just because a work is licensed
 with a Creative Commons license does not mean it is free to use (make
 sure you provide attribution to artists that license their work with
 a CC Attribution clause.)


 Are there any issues with this text? Does it need to be modified or
 expanded to be made more clear? Should it be copied to every main theme
 process page (eg /Artwork/F10Themes)?


Overall I think it's fine, maybe the wiki could supplement with a few simple
examples of do and don'ts, such as:

* Unsure about source licensing terms, don't use it.
* Unable to document source licensing terms, don't use it.

It's my experience that humans often respond better to such guidelines, the
above is great from a legal stance but it does not always mean the human
mind thinks through all the possible scenerios.
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Legal issues with InvinXble? (I doubt so)

2008-09-23 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi,

I haven't read the whole discussion yet, but I feel greatly disappointed
with what I read so far. First, I have an impression that Mo and Nicu
are somehow biased against Samuele's work. First, some weeks ago, Mo
kept asking Samuele about Moon brushes in the Solar theme, when the
Moons were already removed from the artwork, next there is the problem
in katana. As nicu pointed out, the original design indeed resembles the
Kill Bill poster, but even though I saw the .ogv file he provided, I am
not 100% convinced Samuele used that katana. But that's beyond the point
- we all know, the original katana had some licensing issues and Samuele
just wasn't educated enough in that area to discover them himself.

What I'd like to point out is that Nicu is greatly wrong there - the
image that is packaged in Fedora and the Round 3 designs in wiki have
definitely different katana. It's obvious that the blade is based on the
image Samuele provided, and it's also obvious that the hilt is different
from the original image (look at it more closely, it has slightly
different design and also slightly different lighting), I cannot say
though, which image it is based on and if it's OK, but I think I can
trust Samuele, when he says: I've taken this image and done these
editions, and if the source image is OK, then I would not follow the
issue further.

Samuele, don't get hindered by those concerns, I believe both Mo and
Nicu are just trying to prevent any legal issues that might arose in the
future otherwise, and be patient with them - you have my full support!
Just link to the very images you work with (and talk about) to support
your claims, it might be just some misunderstanding somewhere. Just try
to not get angry in your e-mails because it only adds fuel to the fire.
Calm yourself before you post anything ;-)

And BTW., please, please, please, set-up your mail client to use Re:
instead of R: in the subject when replying - sometimes it breaks the
threading feature in Evolution and also it's not very pleasing to read
subjects like: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr
community.

Thanks,
Martin


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Re: Legal issues with InvinXble? (I doubt so)

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Hi,

Martin Sourada wrote:

I haven't read the whole discussion yet, but I feel greatly disappointed
with what I read so far. First, I have an impression that Mo and Nicu
are somehow biased against Samuele's work. First, some weeks ago, Mo
kept asking Samuele about Moon brushes in the Solar theme, when the
Moons were already removed from the artwork


There is still a moon in the latest artwork. Check the XCF and see.

, next there is the problem

in katana. As nicu pointed out, the original design indeed resembles the
Kill Bill poster, but even though I saw the .ogv file he provided, I am
not 100% convinced Samuele used that katana.


Open up the XCF and see and be 100% sure.


But that's beyond the point
- we all know, the original katana had some licensing issues and Samuele
just wasn't educated enough in that area to discover them himself.


I think we were pretty clear in explaining the issues at the time.


What I'd like to point out is that Nicu is greatly wrong there - the
image that is packaged in Fedora and the Round 3 designs in wiki have
definitely different katana. It's obvious that the blade is based on the
image Samuele provided, and it's also obvious that the hilt is different
from the original image (look at it more closely, it has slightly
different design and also slightly different lighting),


It is very obvious if you download the round 3 XCF from here:

http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/0/06/Invinxible_2054x1536.xcf.bz2

And open as layer this Kill Bill wallpaper:

http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/hattorihanzo_1280.jpg

flip the kill bill wallpaper vertically. hide all layers but the 'da 
sword' layer and the kill bill layer in the xcf. Nudge the images to go 
on top of each other. You don't even need to resize them. It's 
undeniable that the hilts of the swords are exactly the same.




Samuele, don't get hindered by those concerns, I believe both Mo and
Nicu are just trying to prevent any legal issues that might arose in the
future otherwise, and be patient with them - you have my full support!
Just link to the very images you work with (and talk about) to support
your claims, it might be just some misunderstanding somewhere. 


This image was listed as being the source image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstorari/2826852493/

Are you kidding me?

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Re: Legal issues with InvinXble? (I doubt so)

2008-09-23 Thread Charlie Brej

Martin Sourada wrote:

Hi,

I haven't read the whole discussion yet, but I feel greatly disappointed
with what I read so far. First, I have an impression that Mo and Nicu
are somehow biased against Samuele's work. First, some weeks ago, Mo
kept asking Samuele about Moon brushes in the Solar theme, when the
Moons were already removed from the artwork, next there is the problem
in katana. As nicu pointed out, the original design indeed resembles the
Kill Bill poster, but even though I saw the .ogv file he provided, I am
not 100% convinced Samuele used that katana. But that's beyond the point
- we all know, the original katana had some licensing issues and Samuele
just wasn't educated enough in that area to discover them himself.


(read to the end)
I didn't believe it either but when you look at the layers of the image you can 
see it. Attached is (on the left) the image of the Da Sword layer of the 
invinXible theme and on the right  section of the image from 
http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/hattorihanzo_1280.jpg (fair use). Along with 
the stones used to cover up the second and third holes.


I think sstorari was rather naive thinking he can get away with something like 
this and the implications would have been very embarrassing if it wasn't picked 
up before release (I could see the geek media headlines now). I don't think he 
realised these implications at the time.


*But* I do respect the ability of learning based on mistakes and judging by the 
fact that he, apparently, is staying up all night to try and correct his errors, 
he is now probably much wiser about the repercussions of this than than the 
average person.


He has less broken the CLA and should at this stage come fully clean, sign it 
again and I think people will find it in their hart to forgive him. I think that 
 the reworked designs will probably be just as good (if not better) than the 
submitted ones.


I really do hope he does not get turned off from the community as his work is 
really excellent and I don't think he should let this bitter his experience. The 
biggest thing I learned from personally contributing or watching others 
contribute to open source projects and have their work discussed publicly is 
that people (especially me) take this stuff more personally that necessary.
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Re: Legal issues with InvinXble? (there are some)

2008-09-23 Thread Martin Sourada
Ok, ok, I am sorry, you proved me partly wrong, my bad. I still feel
awkward about the whole discussion, but Mo is right there (I am sorry
for my accusations). I looked into the sources and while the blade has
been changed I believe it is directly based on Samuele's own photo, the
tilt is from same photo as is used in kill bill.

Samuele, I've got some questions, if you answer straight (without any
personal offends taken) I believe all the issues could be fixed
promptly:

 1. What is the source image for the katana's tilt? (layer Da Sword
copy) We just need link to the source image, if it is appropriately
licensed than it's OK, if not, than we just need to find another image
that is OK to use for source.

 2. You haven't said where the petals are from. Did you make them
yourself, or are they from another image? Could you provide link to it
if that's the case?

 3. It has been pointed out, the moons are still present in the Solar
source, but I don't see them in the final images. I think the best
solution would be to just remove them from the XFC.

Sorry, if I was too hasty and you are already working on fixing these :)

Mo and Nicu, I'd like to apologize for accusing you from being biased
and pointing out outdated issues. It was me who was wrong and I should
have checked the sources first. While part of the sword was replaced,
the tilt was indeed from the same source image and I was wrong in
arguing otherwise. I am sorry if I sounded in the mail as accusing you
from being the *cause* for this problem. There has indeed been some
social misunderstandings on both sides, but your points stand correct.

Thanks,
Martin


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Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner - Italian version

2008-09-23 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Nicu Buculei escribió:

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I have done a translation of the banner to Spanish, following your 
banners as template. However, I don't seem to have the fonts you guys 
used to create the banner (on F9)... At any rate, I have used URW 
Gothic L in substitution, this is work in progress as I'll most 
likely use another font, just a quick prototype to see how it looks 
in Spanish.


yum install -y mgopen-fonts

Read more about this font and why we are using it 
here:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Complementary_Font 



Later today I'll be uploading the updated version... Strange, though 
that in PackageKit the description for the mgopen-fonts package is that 
of TrueType Greek fonts (no wonder why I did not have them installed 
when I installed additional fonts on this laptop)


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Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
When we approved Echo as the default icon theme for F10, I was under the
assumption that this was already more or less known as a feature to the
Desktop group, and they were OK with the coverage provided and the
experience given. Is that the case?

Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:

- at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
  (echo, 'stock', bluecurve)
- nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons
- an immediate disconnect between the perspective of the stock
  icons and the perspective of the main menu logo

It also appears to me that the Echo icons scale to menu size I'm
using (24) much worse than the prior icons.

Are we planning to address these issues, either by increasing the
Echo icon coverage, or changing various apps to point to system
icons provided by Echo?

Bill

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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Bill,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 When we approved Echo as the default icon theme for F10, I was under the
 assumption that this was already more or less known as a feature to the
 Desktop group, and they were OK with the coverage provided and the
 experience given. Is that the case?

No.

 Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:

 - at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
  (echo, 'stock', bluecurve)
 - nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons
 - an immediate disconnect between the perspective of the stock
  icons and the perspective of the main menu logo

 It also appears to me that the Echo icons scale to menu size I'm
 using (24) much worse than the prior icons.

 Are we planning to address these issues, either by increasing the
 Echo icon coverage, or changing various apps to point to system
 icons provided by Echo?

I strongly disagree with the decision to use the Echo icon theme.  For
one, there is simply not enough time before Fedora 10 to fix the
problems that you point out.  There is also the fact that the quality
of the artwork is noticeably lower than the upstream GNOME and Tango
icon themes.

In my opinion, we should:
1. Not use the Echo icons for Fedora 10
2. Encourage Fedora artists to become involved with the upstream GNOME
and Tango artist communities

Thanks,
Jon

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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

William Jon McCann wrote:

Hi Bill,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

When we approved Echo as the default icon theme for F10, I was under the
assumption that this was already more or less known as a feature to the
Desktop group, and they were OK with the coverage provided and the
experience given. Is that the case?


No.


I had thought Matthias volunteered to serve as the Desktop team 
representative. He had outlined a plan here which is what the Echo folks 
have been following:


https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00044.html

I also was under the understanding that Echo was set as the default in 
rawhide to enable the folks working on it a chance to get fuller 
coverage, and that if it was deemed to not have appropriate coverage, it 
would be pulled. But I'm not directly involved in any of that, I think 
these were things brought up in the FESCO meeting about the Echo feature.



Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:

- at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
 (echo, 'stock', bluecurve)
- nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons
- an immediate disconnect between the perspective of the stock
 icons and the perspective of the main menu logo

It also appears to me that the Echo icons scale to menu size I'm
using (24) much worse than the prior icons.

Are we planning to address these issues, either by increasing the
Echo icon coverage, or changing various apps to point to system
icons provided by Echo?


I strongly disagree with the decision to use the Echo icon theme.  For
one, there is simply not enough time before Fedora 10 to fix the
problems that you point out.  There is also the fact that the quality
of the artwork is noticeably lower than the upstream GNOME and Tango
icon themes.


The Echo artists have been working hard at improving the coverage. If it 
is not there in time for the preview release, I presume they would try 
again for F11. Martin and Luya and perhaps FESCO can probably speak more 
and better to this.


~m

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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:

 I had thought Matthias volunteered to serve as the Desktop team 
 representative. He had outlined a plan here which is what the Echo folks 
 have been following:
 
 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00044.html

I'm the last desktop team member on fedora-art-list, but I'm not a
representative, and I have no way to reconcile the wildly varying
opinions inside the desktop team when it comes to style and quality of
the default icon theme. 



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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy



Matthias Clasen wrote:

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:

I had thought Matthias volunteered to serve as the Desktop team 
representative. He had outlined a plan here which is what the Echo folks 
have been following:


https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00044.html


I'm the last desktop team member on fedora-art-list, but I'm not a
representative, and I have no way to reconcile the wildly varying
opinions inside the desktop team when it comes to style and quality of
the default icon theme. 


Oh okay, sorry for misunderstanding.

~m

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Re: Spectrum?

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy



William Jon McCann wrote:

Hi,

Is there a reason why Mike Langlie's Spectrum wallpaper is no longer
being considered for Fedora 10?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/spectrum

I've looked at the wiki and I'm still not sure exactly how this
selection process works.


It was not completed. From 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes#How_to_Play:


Round 2: Visually refine the concepts gathered in round 1. For this 
round a theme must contain at least a wallpaper draft, and 3 supporting 
artwork: one vertically long, one horizontally long and a square one. 
Deadline: Mon Sep 01 2008


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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
William Jon McCann a écrit :
 Hi Bill,

 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 When we approved Echo as the default icon theme for F10, I was under the
 assumption that this was already more or less known as a feature to the
 Desktop group, and they were OK with the coverage provided and the
 experience given. Is that the case?
 

 No.

   

 I strongly disagree with the decision to use the Echo icon theme.  For
 one, there is simply not enough time before Fedora 10 to fix the
 problems that you point out.  There is also the fact that the quality
 of the artwork is noticeably lower than the upstream GNOME and Tango
 icon themes.

   
See the baseset[1]. Also there are issue on system-Administration that
neither gnome nor
tango addressed that were done on Echo theme.
 In my opinion, we should:
 1. Not use the Echo icons for Fedora 10
 2. Encourage Fedora artists to become involved with the upstream GNOME
 and Tango artist communities
   
The aim was to get ready before the preview release version will be out.
With the given time, we (particulary Martin and I) work hard despite the
lack of manpower and the calling for assistance Fesco asks to fix
essential icons
which are currently addressed on fedorahosted.org. Latest snapshot are
available on git repostory. Need to remind  Gnome/Tango artists are
keeping eyes on on Echo.

Luya

References:

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/ToDo/BaseSet



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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Bill Nottingham a écrit :
 Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:

 - at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
   (echo, 'stock', bluecurve)
   
I think Bluecurve mix are desktop bug. Current Fedora default theme used
Bluecurve from some applications, same issue occurs on all icons theme.
 - nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons
   
On Todo list.
 - an immediate disconnect between the perspective of the stock
   icons and the perspective of the main menu logo
   
Problem is Fedora logo cannot be modified according to guideline thus
perspective cannot be used.
 It also appears to me that the Echo icons scale to menu size I'm
 using (24) much worse than the prior icons.
   
They were derived the old method before new techniques[1](echo-artist
scripts derived from jimmac one canvas template[2]) were applied recently.
 Are we planning to address these issues, either by increasing the
 Echo icon coverage, or changing various apps to point to system
 icons provided by Echo?
   
For the former, it can be possible as long more people participate. For
the latter, upstream gnome can be echofied following the guideline[3].

Luya

References:

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/AddingNewIconSet
[2] http://pastebin.ca/1071599
[3] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/Guidelines




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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:

For the former, it can be possible as long more people participate. For
the latter, upstream gnome can be echofied following the guideline[3].


Is it realistic to expect this to happen?

~m

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Re: Spectrum?

2008-09-23 Thread Ian Weller
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 07:28:06PM -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
 Is there a reason why Mike Langlie's Spectrum wallpaper is no longer
 being considered for Fedora 10?
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/spectrum

I was gonna complete this for Mike but I unfortunately ran out of time.
:(

I might repropose it for him (or make it from scratch in inkscape,
hopefully) for a later version of Fedora. Or, of course, he can
repropose it for then.

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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:22 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
 Bill Nottingham a écrit :
  Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:
 
  - at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
(echo, 'stock', bluecurve)

 I think Bluecurve mix are desktop bug. Current Fedora default theme used
 Bluecurve from some applications, same issue occurs on all icons theme.
  - nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons

Please point out where we still have bluecurve icons in the default
install. I don't see how that would happen. The inheritance of the
Fedora icon theme in rawhide is:

Fedora - Echo - Mist - gnome (- hicolor)

Bluecurve doesn't come into play. Unfortunately, we still have to
install Bluecurve by default, for the cursor theme. Longer-term, it
might be worthwhile to find a newer, separately packaged cursor theme to
use instead of the aging Bluecurve cursors.


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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Matthias Clasen wrote:

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:22 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:

Bill Nottingham a écrit :

Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:

- at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
  (echo, 'stock', bluecurve)
  

I think Bluecurve mix are desktop bug. Current Fedora default theme used
Bluecurve from some applications, same issue occurs on all icons theme.

- nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons


Please point out where we still have bluecurve icons in the default
install. I don't see how that would happen. The inheritance of the
Fedora icon theme in rawhide is:

Fedora - Echo - Mist - gnome (- hicolor)


I have seen bluecurve icons in rawhide's applications menu, but I think 
they are there because the 'upstream' apps use bluecurve style icons. 
For example, the SELinux Troubleshooter and the SELinux Management Tool. 
I think those should either be replaced with Echo icons or overrided 
with Echo icons when Echo is installed, right?


~m

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Re: Echo vs the destkop

2008-09-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:09 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Matthias Clasen wrote:
  On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:22 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
  Bill Nottingham a écrit :
  Looking at the desktop now (beta), I see:
 
  - at least three different icon perspectives in the stock menus
(echo, 'stock', bluecurve)

  I think Bluecurve mix are desktop bug. Current Fedora default theme used
  Bluecurve from some applications, same issue occurs on all icons theme.
  - nearly all 'upstream' gnome apps using non-echo style icons
  
  Please point out where we still have bluecurve icons in the default
  install. I don't see how that would happen. The inheritance of the
  Fedora icon theme in rawhide is:
  
  Fedora - Echo - Mist - gnome (- hicolor)
 
 I have seen bluecurve icons in rawhide's applications menu, but I think 
 they are there because the 'upstream' apps use bluecurve style icons. 
 For example, the SELinux Troubleshooter and the SELinux Management Tool. 
 I think those should either be replaced with Echo icons or overrided 
 with Echo icons when Echo is installed, right?
 

Oh, yeah. Good point.

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Fedora 10's official Default theme

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Beckwith
On an operating system, far far away,, we were deep. We were busy 
slaving away in front of our lovely Fedora 9-run computer, hacking away 
at graphics for our theme proposals. Three rounds in, and we were down 
to four options. When it came down to it, we decided that we were no 
longer content with staying on this planet. The voices in our heads had 
spoken, and we decided to blast off into space and go Solar.


We weren't feeling completely InvinXble. However, being the FOSS 
advocates we are, and with our support of Fedora, we were not afraid of 
of the unknown frontier.  The Gears of time shown bright with a healthy 
Neon glow, but neither of these had very much effect on the course of 
destiny. Come join us as we sail into the Solar future for Fedora 10 
later this year.



Official winning order:
Solar
InvinXble
Gears
Neon

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Re: Fedora 10's official Default theme

2008-09-23 Thread Max Spevack

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Michael Beckwith wrote:


Solar
InvinXble
Gears
Neon


They are all beautifully done pieces of artwork, and I really hope that 
everyone in the Art Team is proud of what the group has collectively 
achieved.  I say congrats to everyone on the Art Team.


--Max

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[Bug 449356] Refactor gfxPangoFontGroup for user fonts

2008-09-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Some doubts for creation of new projects in fedorahosted

2008-09-23 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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Hi All,
I was doing a ticket on creating new projects on fedorahosted today and
found certain anomalies in the documentation [1].
Since this is my first ticket on creating new projects on fedorahosted,
I am not sure if my methods are correct, hence this email.
The ticket in question is [2]


1. When a create a new git repo and do a git clone, exactly following
the instructions on the wiki, i get a headers does not exist message
I resolved it by doing
cd /git/libaio.git; sudo git init
This worked dont know if it is correct though

2. When running the script to create a new project, It seems that the
trac enviroment was correctly created however adding a user to
TRAC_ADMIN group gave the following error:

Command failed: columns username, action are not unique
However the user does get added to TRAC_ADMIN Group.

Also the script already has step 6 [1] incorporated so i dont think that
is needed.

I would really appreciate if someone with a more experience can help me
out a bit. Thanks a lot in advance. :)


[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ProjectHosting/RepositorySetup
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ProjectHosting/CreateNewProject

[2]
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/837

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Re: Some doubts for creation of new projects in fedorahosted

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1

 Hi All,
 I was doing a ticket on creating new projects on fedorahosted today and
 found certain anomalies in the documentation [1].
 Since this is my first ticket on creating new projects on fedorahosted,
 I am not sure if my methods are correct, hence this email.
 The ticket in question is [2]


 1. When a create a new git repo and do a git clone, exactly following
 the instructions on the wiki, i get a headers does not exist message
 I resolved it by doing
 cd /git/libaio.git; sudo git init
 This worked dont know if it is correct though


This looks correct.  There's an 'a' file in there, not sure where that
came from :)

 2. When running the script to create a new project, It seems that the
 trac enviroment was correctly created however adding a user to
 TRAC_ADMIN group gave the following error:

 Command failed: columns username, action are not unique
 However the user does get added to TRAC_ADMIN Group.

 Also the script already has step 6 [1] incorporated so i dont think that
 is needed.

 I would really appreciate if someone with a more experience can help me
 out a bit. Thanks a lot in advance. :)

I have a hunch our script had a section in it to fix a bug in a previous
version of trac that has now been fixed.  Its probably safe to ignore but
I'll take a closer look.

-Mike

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Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath

Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
ownership or the owner cannot be found?

-Mike

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen

Mike McGrath wrote:

Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
ownership or the owner cannot be found?



Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered?

-Jeroen

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

 Mike McGrath wrote:
  Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
  ownership or the owner cannot be found?
 

 Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered?


Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about.  People didn't like the
6 month rule so I'm fine getting rid of that.  But someone needs to be
accountable for the code itself at all times and I'm hoping to have some
policy in place that clearly states it.

-Mike

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Brett Lentz
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
 On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
 
  Mike McGrath wrote:
   Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
   ownership or the owner cannot be found?
  
 
  Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered?
 
 
 Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about.  People didn't like the
 6 month rule so I'm fine getting rid of that.  But someone needs to be
 accountable for the code itself at all times and I'm hoping to have some
 policy in place that clearly states it.
 
   -Mike


I'd prefer to not see orphaned projects go away completely, if there is
some way to keep them around in a stripped down, minimalist format.

The process I'd like to see would be:

1. Do the usual 6 month project no-activity process.
2. If there is no response in N days, or mail to the project admin
bounces in a fatal way (i.e. no such user vs. mailbox full), we call
out to the general fedora-devel community to see if anyone wants to
adopt the project and become its new maintainer.
3. If no new maintainer is found, we would then migrate the project to a
central repository for orphaned projects.

The central repository would contain a bare minimum of the project's
files:

* a tar.bz2 of the last revision of all files, with no revision history.
* an archive of any documentation, such as the trac wiki pages. (again,
just the text, with no need to preserve revision history)

This way, we can preserve a stripped down version of the project's files
for a (hopefully) lower infrastructure cost.

Would something like this be possible/desired?

---Brett.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote:

 On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
  On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
 
   Mike McGrath wrote:
Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one 
claims
ownership or the owner cannot be found?
   
  
   Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered?
  
 
  Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about.  People didn't like the
  6 month rule so I'm fine getting rid of that.  But someone needs to be
  accountable for the code itself at all times and I'm hoping to have some
  policy in place that clearly states it.
 
  -Mike


 I'd prefer to not see orphaned projects go away completely, if there is
 some way to keep them around in a stripped down, minimalist format.

 The process I'd like to see would be:

 1. Do the usual 6 month project no-activity process.
 2. If there is no response in N days, or mail to the project admin
 bounces in a fatal way (i.e. no such user vs. mailbox full), we call
 out to the general fedora-devel community to see if anyone wants to
 adopt the project and become its new maintainer.
 3. If no new maintainer is found, we would then migrate the project to a
 central repository for orphaned projects.


For how long would 3) happen?

-Mike

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:58 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
 Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
 ownership or the owner cannot be found?
* Make Trac Read Only (maybe static content too, in
old.fedorahosted.org/projectname/)
* Disable commit group in FAS (in particular to get rid of cla+1
entitlements if the commit group is their only group)
* Chown SCM dir to remove write access

- Nigel

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Brett Lentz
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:14 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
 On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote:
 
  On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
   On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
  
Mike McGrath wrote:
 Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one 
 claims
 ownership or the owner cannot be found?

   
Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered?
   
  
   Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about.  People didn't like the
   6 month rule so I'm fine getting rid of that.  But someone needs to be
   accountable for the code itself at all times and I'm hoping to have some
   policy in place that clearly states it.
  
 -Mike
 
 
  I'd prefer to not see orphaned projects go away completely, if there is
  some way to keep them around in a stripped down, minimalist format.
 
  The process I'd like to see would be:
 
  1. Do the usual 6 month project no-activity process.
  2. If there is no response in N days, or mail to the project admin
  bounces in a fatal way (i.e. no such user vs. mailbox full), we call
  out to the general fedora-devel community to see if anyone wants to
  adopt the project and become its new maintainer.
  3. If no new maintainer is found, we would then migrate the project to a
  central repository for orphaned projects.
 
 
 For how long would 3) happen?
 
   -Mike


I think that it depends on our constraints. Perhaps we could measure our rate 
of 
growth, and strike a balance between maintaining an orphaned projects archive 
and 
our available resources?

As this is one of those nice to have type of deals, I would expect these 
archived 
files to be first on the chopping block if we need to free up infrastructure 
resources for something that's more actively maintained.

If you want to set a more firm SLA, how does 2 years (one RHEL release cycle) 
sound?

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:43 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
 On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Nigel Jones wrote:
 
  On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:58 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
   Getting back to this.  What should we do with code to which no one claims
   ownership or the owner cannot be found?
  * Make Trac Read Only (maybe static content too, in
  old.fedorahosted.org/projectname/)
  * Disable commit group in FAS (in particular to get rid of cla+1
  entitlements if the commit group is their only group)
  * Chown SCM dir to remove write access
 
 
 For how long?  Here's the concern.  At some point between now and the end
 of time decisions are going to have to be made about these projects.  I'm
 trying to have us learn a lesson from the elvis move as well trying to
 make sure other's lack of planning doesn't become Infrastructures problem.
 Something has to happen with bits that belong to no one, so far no one has
 put a time limit on any of these things.
IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence
why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory).

We could do this a variety of ways, tarball a SCM dump and throw it on
archives.fp.o for instance.

- Nigel

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen

Nigel Jones wrote:

IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence
why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory).



AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the 
upstream SCM, but then again I'm not sure and it may be worthwhile 
looking into the requirements of the Licenses of the software in these SCMs.


-Jeroen

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen

Mike McGrath wrote:

For how long?  Here's the concern.  At some point between now and the end
of time decisions are going to have to be made about these projects.  I'm
trying to have us learn a lesson from the elvis move as well trying to
make sure other's lack of planning doesn't become Infrastructures problem.
Something has to happen with bits that belong to no one, so far no one has
put a time limit on any of these things.



So what I was thinking is we have several processes in place in case 
this happens with a package, right? One can orphan a package in which 
case it get's removed almost instantaneously, or start AWOL for 
unresponsive maintainers, and (...), so maybe what we're looking for has 
already been thought of -it has just not been mixed up and stirred and 
applied to the specific case of an upstream SCM yet.


-Jeroen

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Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 01:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
 Nigel Jones wrote:
  IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence
  why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory).
  
 
 AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the 
 upstream SCM, but then again I'm not sure and it may be worthwhile 
 looking into the requirements of the Licenses of the software in these SCMs.
Distribution is very loose in my terms.

Technically by distributing the source code, we are errr acting as a
distribution point.  IANAL but that's my view.
 
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Re: A new member...

2008-09-23 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Kevin Cadieux wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
 My name is Kevin, and I just recently created my account to be a member of the
 Fedora Project. I was interested in getting involved, so I looked at the
 different sub-projects on the wiki. I found that the Infrastructure 
 sub-project
 was the one that suited best my experience and interests. So here I am now,
 writing to you all to introduce myself :)
 
 I am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec,
 Canada. I am very organized with my school work so I can easily manage to get
 10 to 20 hours of Fedora time per week. I am still in the process of reading
 the different documents on the wiki in order to get up to speed with Fedora 
 and
 the Infrastructure group. So, if you have any advice as to what would be the
 best thing to start with, feel free to let me know. It would be greatly
 appreciated. In the meantime, I'll continue my reading and let you all know
 when I feel ready to roll.
 
Welcome!

It really depends on what your interests and skills are.  The first
question to ask is do you want to start off with programming or system
administration?  Many of us cross the boundaries into both sides of that
but in terms of getting started on a first project and finding a mentor
to show you the ropes, it's good to have some focus on one or the other
at first.

-Toshio



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My first mail

2008-09-23 Thread liang yu
Hi all:
I am a new member of the Fedora Infrastructure team.My name is Yuliang
from China.I have plenty of spare time to contribute and wish to involve the
team.
I like programming Any suggestion or mentorship from the team is
important to me.I want to work with you qucikly.

Best Regards
Yuliang
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Re: A new member...

2008-09-23 Thread Kevin Cadieux
Quoting Toshio Kuratomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Kevin Cadieux wrote:
  Hello everyone,
 
  My name is Kevin, and I just recently created my account to be a member of
 the
  Fedora Project. I was interested in getting involved, so I looked at the
  different sub-projects on the wiki. I found that the Infrastructure
 sub-project
  was the one that suited best my experience and interests. So here I am now,
  writing to you all to introduce myself :)
 
  I am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Sherbrooke in
 Quebec,
  Canada. I am very organized with my school work so I can easily manage to
 get
  10 to 20 hours of Fedora time per week. I am still in the process of
 reading
  the different documents on the wiki in order to get up to speed with Fedora
 and
  the Infrastructure group. So, if you have any advice as to what would be
 the
  best thing to start with, feel free to let me know. It would be greatly
  appreciated. In the meantime, I'll continue my reading and let you all know
  when I feel ready to roll.
 
 Welcome!

 It really depends on what your interests and skills are.  The first
 question to ask is do you want to start off with programming or system
 administration?  Many of us cross the boundaries into both sides of that
 but in terms of getting started on a first project and finding a mentor
 to show you the ropes, it's good to have some focus on one or the other
 at first.

 -Toshio




Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

To answer your question, I would feel more comfortable with programming for now
since most of my experience is tied to that field.

I have completed a 3 year Computer Science program at CEGEP (a kind of college
in Quebec). I then started a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, for
which I am at my second year now. In between my education, I have accumulated
about 2 years of hands-on experience by working at various companies in
Montreal. I have been doing Web development for 1 year, using technologies such
as XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, JSP, MySQL, and MSSQL. Then, for 6
months, I filled a programmer position doing mostly VB.NET, Java, and MSSQL. I
passed the last four months at Electronic Arts working on the new Skate game
coming out for the Wii. In this project, I worked on adapting the various audio
technologies for the Wii, wrote the music system for the game and contributed
in the development of the speech playback system. The technologies used there
were mostly C++, Visual Studio.NET, Perforce, and Nant.

I don't have that much experience with Fedora or Linux, but that's one of the
reasons I want to get involve: to learn.

Given my background, I assume sysadmin-devel would be the most appropriate? Or
do you have any suggestions? I already applied to sysadmin, for a start :)

Cheers,

Kevin

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Re: Newbie Help With Fedora 9 installation

2008-09-23 Thread E.H
Thanks Kam Leo,

I have already downloaded the DVD ISO again and verified the file with the
SHA1 checksum calculator mentioned in the Read ME file.

The CheckSum matches...But had to go leave for work..

once i get back...let me see how the installation goes.

Thanks for the links.

@ Armin,

   Thanks...that is almost the same procedure i followed when i did
the Fedora 7 installation. I wanted to upgrade it to fedora 9. This is the
first time i am facing problems with installing fedora.



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Armin Moradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, E.H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks for replying Aldo and Armin.

 Yes i am downloading from a windows system. I was downloading to a logical
 drive with a FAT32 file system... I went through the documentation again..
 So i guess that must be the problem.
 Apparently downloading to an NTFS filesystem doesn't seem to have that
 problem.
 Will try that.

  I just need a back up copy of the entire dvd anyway.
  so i would have to download the file again.
 I 've burnt that corrupted file on 2 DVDs already :)

 Thanks for the help, guys.

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 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, E.H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  Hello,
 
I downloaded a Fedora 9 i386 DVD ISO file using utorrent ,
 so i
  hear downloading through utorrent ensures the integrity of the file.
 
  I burnt the image on a DVD at 4x speed and did the media check.
 
  All is fine.
 
  But there is another screen saying test for additional media or
 something
  like that  which has two options
  TEST and CONTINUE
 
  Continue gives an error
  and clicking on TEST gives a message saying checksum not found.
 
  what is wrong?
  The Documentation says the ISO is supposed to work...

 Are you using bittorrent from a Windows PC?
 There may be issues downloading ISO images larger than 2GB.

 Try the instructions here and see whether you can install directly from
 a fedora web site.
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/fedora-netinstall
 First download the Rescue CD, which smaller size that a full DVD ISO.

 Alternatively, download the CD ISO images directly from here:
   http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/

 HTH, and enjoy using Fedora.
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 Or you can just download the livecd and install from there, it will give
 you essentially the same thing, and you don't have to take your time to
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 What I would do for installing Fedora on my computer:
 I would partition my HD and delete the partition so it leaves a free space
 (not formatted).
 The I would get a copy of the livecd and burn it (or put it on a USB disk)
 and boot from it.
 In the installation, I would choose guided partitioning.

 the guided partitioning makes it quite painless :)

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Re: Flash plugin - no sound

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 00:59 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:

 I have a similar problem (F8 completely updated) - no sound on flash
 videos (like youtube). I used to have audio on flash videos but at some
 point it stopped. I can play and hear the sound in the sound card
 detection and I can hear the audio from realplayer (playing Internet
 radio, for example) just fine but it doesn't work using vlc (used to).

Don't know if this was mentioned before, so don't shoot me if so, but
have you all checked to make sure libflashsupport rpm is installed?

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Re: Evolution and Gmail

2008-09-23 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno lun, 22/09/2008 alle 23.49 +, Paul W. Frields ha scritto:

 I think, given the error message, you may need to change your username
 to xxx.xxx and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] in both the Receiving Email and
 Sending Email tabs for your Gmail account.
Alredy done, but same response.

  Are you using imap.gmail.com:993 with SSL for receiving and
  smtp.gmail.com:465 with SSL for sending? That's what works for me (Evo
  version 2.22.3 on F9). The Gmail Help page has full information.
Removed also the port number, I use my sendmail to send email (that is
also authenticated) so I don't need the send part of the configuration.

I read the gmail documentation, that don't support evolution :-)
I read also some other web page in wich is stated that IMAP from gmail
is a little buggy, so not all software can work with it.
I don't know if it is true, but I will install thunderbird and I will
try to configure it on gmail IMAP to understand where is the problem.

Tnx to all
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Re: Evolution and Gmail

2008-09-23 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno lun, 22/09/2008 alle 23.49 +, Paul W. Frields ha scritto:
 On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:44 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
  On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:14 +0200, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:
   Hi all,
   
   I'm trying to use Evolution to fetch mail from gmail account.
   I configured Evo 2.12.3 (from Fedora 8) to use IMAP or POP but the
   result is the same:
   
   It seems SSL is not used (or similar issue on auth fase).
   I receive an error from evo
   
   for POP the error is: -ERR [AUTH] Username and password not accepted.
   Insert the password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] on pop.gmail.com
   
   for IMPA the error is: [ALERT] Web login required (Failure)
   Insert password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com
hmmm so strange,
I receive the same error (Web login required) also with thunderbird

So, I don't know if problem is on gmail or in some library for SSL auth.

Bye
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Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread bob smith



Ed Greshko wrote:

bob smith wrote:
  

trying to update F9, on a 386/686 box. Failing. Thanks in advance for
any help

quick description - can't run yum. Think I have the repositories files
from (addresses don't resolve)
yes, I probably hosed them up trying to fix them. Got not response to
yum update. time out error or address did not resolve

removed files from yum.repos.d
put a set of repos in yum.conf  = seem to be wrong.
this is what I get

yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8arch=i386
error was
[Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
resolution')
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
resolution')
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: fedora9-source. Please verify its path and try again


Seems like your system can't resolve the host names into an IP address. 
Network/DNS problems


What does

host mirrors.fedoraproject.org 


return?


  

Thanks but DNS works -
ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 
time=6.58 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 
time=8.78 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 
time=6.32 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=251 
time=8.34 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=251 
time=7.42 ms
^C64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=251 
time=7.57 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=7 ttl=251 
time=5.28 ms


--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 5997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.288/7.189/8.788/1.124 ms

ping mirrors.fedoraproject.org
PING wildcard.fedoraproject.org (209.132.176.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=1 
ttl=251 time=102 ms
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=2 
ttl=251 time=105 ms
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=3 
ttl=251 time=107 ms


--- wildcard.fedoraproject.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 102.060/105.049/107.155/2.187 ms

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Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread bob smith



Ed Greshko wrote:
Seems like your system can't resolve the host names into an IP address. 
Network/DNS problems


What does

host mirrors.fedoraproject.org 


return?


  
What it looks like to me is I do not have the proper copy of the 
repositories.
Does some one have a working copy, and example, I can try for 386/686 
system?

thanks
bob

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Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread Stuart Sears
bob smith wrote:
[...]
 What it looks like to me is I do not have the proper copy of the
 repositories.
 Does some one have a working copy, and example, I can try for 386/686
 system?

rpm -Uvh
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

(that link will wrap)

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gui editor latex under gnome

2008-09-23 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hi list
I need a GUI editor for latex. Particulary i want to ask if there is a
feature that permits an instant visualization of the result as in latex
editor (http://www.latexeditor.org/)
Thanks for help
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Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread bob smith



Stuart Sears wrote:

bob smith wrote:
[...]
  

What it looks like to me is I do not have the proper copy of the
repositories.
Does some one have a working copy, and example, I can try for 386/686
system?



rpm -Uvh
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

(that link will wrap)

Stuart
  

thanks, but this is what I got.
error: skipping http://download.fe.(concatenated by me)
transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error

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Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:13:36 -0400, bob smith wrote:

 
 
 Stuart Sears wrote:
  bob smith wrote:
  [...]

  What it looks like to me is I do not have the proper copy of the
  repositories.
  Does some one have a working copy, and example, I can try for 386/686
  system?
  
 
  rpm -Uvh
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
 
  (that link will wrap)
 
  Stuart

 thanks, but this is what I got.
 error: skipping http://download.fe.(concatenated by me)
 transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error

Then try:

wget 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

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Re: Logging maintenance question

2008-09-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote:
 I just discovered that some custom scripts I wrote a year or so,
 seem to have gone on the milling list, and that both the
 fetchmail.log and the procmail.log were approaching a gigabyte in
 size.

Ouch. :)

 So I cobbled up this:
 ==
 # Logrotate file for fetchmail.log and procmail.log
 
 /var/log/fetchmail.log {
   missingok
   compress
   notifempty
   weekly
   rotate 5
   create 0600 gene gene
 }
 /var/log/procmail.log {
   missingok
   compress
   notifempty
   weekly
   rotate 5
   create 0600 gene gene
 }
 ==
 and put it in /etc/logrotate.d with the same perms as most of them
 there.

I use logrotate to rotate fetchmail, mpd, and procmail logs monthly.
I keep the logs in ~/var/logs and logrotate as myself (not required,
but nice IMO).

$ cat ~/.logrotate/conf
monthly
rotate 12
create
dateext
compress

/home/tmz/var/log/fetchmail {
missingok
notifempty
}

/home/tmz/var/log/mpd {
missingok
notifempty
postrotate
~/bin/mpd-restart || true
endscript
}

/home/tmz/var/log/procmail {
missingok
notifempty
}

Then I have a script that runs something like this via cron:

/usr/sbin/logrotate -s ~/.logrotate/status ~/.logrotate/conf

I don't run fetchmail as a daemon, so I don't have logrotate handle
restarting or signalling fetchmail when it rotates the logs.  You'll
want to handle that if you're running fetchmail as a daemon.  The mpd
entry above and others in /etc/logrotate.d might be useful to you in
setting that up.

 But, executing logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf  returns instantly
 doing nothing to the old logs.  The generated listing of course is
 detailed and includes this:
 ==
 rotating pattern: /var/log/fetchmail.log  weekly (5 rotations)
 empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
 considering log /var/log/fetchmail.log
 log does not need rotating
 
 rotating pattern: /var/log/procmail.log  weekly (5 rotations)
 empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
 considering log /var/log/procmail.log
 log does not need rotating

Take a look at the -f option in logrotate(1):

-f, --force
Tells  logrotate  to force the rotation, even if it doesn’t
think this is necessary.  Sometimes this is useful after
adding new entries to logrotate, or if old log files have been
removed by hand, as the new files will be created, and logging
will continue correctly.

You only need that the first time after creating the new rules (and
only if you can't wait for them to be rotated on schedule).

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Re: Flash plugin - no sound

2008-09-23 Thread Rick Bilonick

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 01:29 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
 On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 00:59 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
 
  I have a similar problem (F8 completely updated) - no sound on flash
  videos (like youtube). I used to have audio on flash videos but at some
  point it stopped. I can play and hear the sound in the sound card
  detection and I can hear the audio from realplayer (playing Internet
  radio, for example) just fine but it doesn't work using vlc (used to).
 
 Don't know if this was mentioned before, so don't shoot me if so, but
 have you all checked to make sure libflashsupport rpm is installed?
 
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It's installed:

Parsing package install arguments
Package libflashsupport - 000-0.1.svn20070904.i386 is already installed.
Nothing to do

I would say that it all worked a month ago. At some point in the last
few weeks the audio for flash stopped working. I was able previously to
start up vlc and get the audio to work. But I can't get that to work any
more. Otherwise, audio seems to work fine. Just doesn't work with flash
video. The video works fine. (Although, when the problem first started,
the video would download but would not play - just for a few seconds.
Now the video plays OK but no audio.)

Anything else I can check?

Rick B.

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