Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-27 Thread Ulrich Mueller
 On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote:

 I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is
 there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select
 by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of
 like gcc-config -l does its listing and you can set with the
 appropriate number.

 This would save time and some typing and seems like something that
 would be fairly easy to do.

Already done. ;-) Try eselect news-tng that comes with =eselect-1.1.

Ulrich



Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-27 Thread Dale
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
 On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote:
 

   
 I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is
 there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select
 by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of
 like gcc-config -l does its listing and you can set with the
 appropriate number.
 

   
 This would save time and some typing and seems like something that
 would be fairly easy to do.
 

 Already done. ;-) Try eselect news-tng that comes with =eselect-1.1.

 Ulrich


   

Dang.  No wonder I am so poor.  I always come up with something that is
already done.  THAT little feature is so cool.  Now to remember it.  :/

Thanks. 

Dale

:-)  :-)





[gentoo-dev] Gentoo IRC _is_ better than ML ;)

2009-06-27 Thread Steven J Long
Duncan wrote:

 Wow, joke or not, this is the kind of thing that makes me glad I don't do
 IRC.
Just to answer this quickly, as I think you're querying my earlier assertion
that gentoo IRC is a lot of fun?

The real point is that on IRC you can just type: /ignore asshat
and you never know that person exists unless someone else is talking to him.
That makes IRC in general a LOT easier to deal with than the ML.

WRT paludis trolling, every year or so there's another couple of devs who
get drawn into that circle. They usually end up a lot more embittered, and
never as friendly as they used to be, ime. I've personally seen three guys
I rated, and used to chat with, go through that process. In any
event, /ignore makes #gentoo-* IRC bearable for me at worst, and
more often it's a lot of fun.

--
#friendly-coders -- We're friendly but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)




[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Council meeting summary for meeting on June 11, 2009

2009-06-27 Thread Steven J Long
Thomas Anderson wrote:

 Steven J Long wrote:
 Denis Dupeyron wrote:
 
  This list is for technical discussions only.
 I look forward to the day when that actually happens, and we are not
 regaled with countless emails about technical issues that were solved 3
 years ago, accompanied by juvenile insults at anyone who might disagree.
 
 
 Speaking of juvenile insults, your last mails concerning my summary have
 had their fair share of insults towards me(all unfounded and ridiculous).
 Would you please stop that?

I still can't see any insults; I was actually doing my best to give you the
benefit of the doubt. Clearly you are fairly immature, based on my
interaction with you over the last 3 years, and you did indeed take part in
a concerted political action, which was not at all what it was claimed to
be.

  Also, public mailing-lists
  are not for discussing your personal issues.
 
 It wasn't my personal issue; it was about an inaccurate summary and a
 Council member blatantly lying and using his position for partisan aims.
 
 The summary was not innacurate; If someone is banned, I put down the
 reason given _at the time_ for the banning. That seems fairly
 straightforward. There is nothing biased(or anything deserving being
 called a 'lie') in that summary

You weren't the Council member referred to. You really don't appear to have
considered my point of view very much.

snip 
 I do my best at professional journalism(I am an amateur however) and your
 remarks to the contrary show you haven't given thought to how much time
 and effort I spend at making it unbiased and accurate.

You need to think about not simply putting one side of a story in order to
maintain the appearance of impartiality. Which, as you took part in the
politicking, you didn't have in any case.

As for your time and effort, you put that in because you want to. While I
appreciate it, I also appreciate how much time and effort everyone else
puts in too; most especially the users without whom nothing would get done.
 
 You can keep on doing things badly all you like; just expect to get
 picked up on it when you summarise it inaccurately in the archives.
 
 See above, especially the part saying for what he called.

I was answering the censor him! tendency that is so prevalent when Gentoo
devs are being picked up on their behaviour and so reviled when it means
disallowing constant poisonous trolling. IIRC the argument is that it reads
like 'lex ciaran'; perhaps that's more an indication of how trollish ciaran
actually behaves than a direct attack on him.

The question is: if we're discussing someone else, would you allow that
behaviour? Given the treatment I've had meted out for a lot less egregious
insults, and never casually dropped into everyday discourse, the answer
clearly is No.

So again, we come round to why ciaran is allowed to act in ways that no-one
else is, despite having been kicked out twice. Frankly I don't care what
the reason is; just don't pretend the CoC or any of the other rules
you(collectively) have are anything more than a fig-leaf to doing w/e tf
you want in any event. I mean now you're even arguing the Developer
Council should allow non-devs to sit on it (and as ever it's simply to have
an exception for ciaran, as his work is such a shining example.. no wait,
it's evidently *not* that great. Why are we doing this again?)
 
 Or like, y'know, put your house in order/ keep that crap outta the
 archives. I don't have any more to say on it, but feel free to keep the
 flamefest going amongst yourselves.
 
 See above.

Ditto.
 
 Certainly seems to be what you're best at, after all. Ah oh yes, you're
 the person who stated user-rel wanted Council to review the decision,
 which they said they did not. Curious that you should ignore all the
 points about process and try to make out this is my personal issue and
 not an issue of borked process.
 
 I believe the Council was deciding only on what to do in #-council which
 is as stated their turf. Any userrel issues are probably separate to this
 problem.

Hmm firstly I was directly addressing one individual about his actions. He
raised it; either let him answer as to his intent, or speak for yourself.

Perhaps you should re-read and reconsider the process in light of what you
now know about userrel not once requesting Council to review, but only for
the ban to be rescinded.

There certainly was no need for it to be discussed in full open Council like
that, apart from trying to embarrass me and force a decision on the userrel
bug in the wrong forum (while quietly ignoring the actual background to
same.)
 
 
 As stated, summarise correctly, and even better, follow a more
 professional process, and this sub-topic would never have been raised.
 
 See above.
 
 As it is, this is
 about the level of debate I expected; blame the messenger, and avoid our
 own problems. I am glad there's an election on.
 
 So am I, but your slandering of my platform is not appreciated at all.
 
Please