Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 July 2012 04:46, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Markos Chandras wrote:
>> understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to "hire" people
>> either, but they worked ok for all these years
>
> I don't know.. Subjectively I don't think they work ok at all, since
> I still haven't finished them even after many years.

I agree that they don't work "ok" -- it only seems that way because
people are still joining us.

The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo
dev, and the second time I did the quizzes it took me 3 months.
I've seen others take a long time doing them as well. Davide (pesa),
one of our most valued contributors in the Qt team, took close
to two years I think.

I think this way we lose much valuable developer time. These
people could have had commit access and done much
valuable work so much earlier, if there wasn't this obstacle
of the quizzes...

We should think about what kind of people we want to attract
as future Gentoo contributors, and what are the best ways of
introducing them to the tasks they would need to perform, and
the knowledge they would need to have.

I'm happy to see that some effort was made, and we now know
that the web app is not working. What other ways can we think
of that might improve the recruitment process?

> But it's totally possible that they actually *do* work ok, and that
> I really absolutely *must* know everything they ask about before
> starting recruitment. Not sure.

The topics touched in the quizzes are things that a Gentoo
developer should know. I just don't think the way they work is
conducive to a good learning experience for most people.

>> and it is the only alternative we have at the moment.
>
> Thinking outside of the quiz^Wbox and getting to know people is a
> good alternative. It takes time too of course, but no quiz or web
> app can replace it.

What I noticed in my own experience as lead of our Qt team,
is that getting people started on the real work, being part of the
developer community and process, is a good way to introduce
them to how we do things in Gentoo. The Qt team has its official
overlay, and it is easy for us to give new contributors access to
it. That way they can learn to write ebuilds and eclasses, and
how to improve them, commit them, and get used to a good
workflow. Hanging out in the IRC channel and taking part in
discussions is an invaluable part of this as well.

I'm sure a lot of mentors do things in similar ways. And maybe
others have things to add to this.

We could have a portal page (e.g. on the wiki) with links to
all the relevant documentation for new developers
(dev handbook, devmanual, foundation info, gleps, etc)
that they should have knowledge of. Then recruits can read
these while they are doing work with their mentor, in an
overlay (either an official team overlay, or betagarden).

We could also develop a collection of tasks that a mentor
can choose from to give their recruits to do. Hopefully
this way we can train people in a more organic way.

Then when the mentor deems a recruit ready, they could
have an interview with one of the recruiters, and get
commit access to the official tree as usual.

Anyway, these are some of my ideas. What do you think?
-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin



Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 09:17 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode
>  wrote:
>> On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>> sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the
>>> "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and
>>> haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727
>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555
>>>
>>> One is asking for a bump and one is asking for some USE flag fixes.
>>>
>> I'll take it, starting with the bump and hopefully getting upstream to
>> accept a --enabled/disable for kerberos.
>>
> 
> Thanks a bunch Matt.
> 
also getting proper selinux support for it :D

-- 
-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)





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Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode
 wrote:
> On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the
>> "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and
>> haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs:
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555
>>
>> One is asking for a bump and one is asking for some USE flag fixes.
>>
> I'll take it, starting with the bump and hopefully getting upstream to
> accept a --enabled/disable for kerberos.
>

Thanks a bunch Matt.

-- 
Doug Goldstein



[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted:

> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>> BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with
>> /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted
>> for updates?
>>
>> That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really
>> understood to the point I'm comfortable with my ability to recover from
>> problems so I've not run one since my Mandrake era, but that's a status
>> that can change, and what with the /usr move and some computer problems
>> I just finished dealing with, I've been thinking about the possibility
>> lately.  So if there's some good docs on the topic someone can point me
>> at, I'd be grateful. =:^)
> 
> I doubt anybody has tried it, so you'll have to experiment.

"Anybody" /anybody/, or "anybody" on gentoo?  FWIW, there are people 
running it in general (IIRC much of the discussion was on Debian, some on 
Fedora/RH), but I didn't see anything out there written from a gentoo 
perspective.  Gentoo-based docs/perspective does help, as one isn't 
constantly having to translate binary-based assumptions into "gentooese", 
but there's enough out there in general that a suitably determined/
motivated person at the usual experienced gentoo user level should be 
able to do it, without having to be an /extreme/ wizard.  But so far I've 
not been /that/ motivated, and if there was gentoo docs available, it 
would bring the barriers down far enough that I likely /would/ then have 
the (now lower) required motivation/determination.

Just looking for that shortcut, is all. =:^)

> I imagine you could do it with a dracut module.  There is already a
> module that will parse a pre-boot fstab (/etc/fstab.sys).  The trick is
> that you need to create the root filesystem and the mountpoints within
> it first.  The trick will be how dracut handles not specifying a root
> filesystem.

While I do know dracut is an initr* helper, you just made me quite aware 
of just how much research I'd have to do on the topic. =:^\   I wasn't 
aware dracut even /had/ modules, while you're referring to them with the 
ease of familiarity...

> However, if anything I think the future trend will be towards having
> everything back on the root filesystem, since with btrfs you can set
> quotas on subvolumes and have a lot more flexibility in general, which
> you start to lose if you chop up your disks.  However, I guess you could
> still have one big btrfs filesystem and mount individual subvolumes out
> of it onto your root.  I'm not really sure what that gets you.  Having
> the root itself be a subvolume does have benefits, since you can then
> snapshot it and easily boot back off a snapshot if something goes wrong.

The big problem with btrfs subvolumes from my perspective is that they're 
still all on a single primary filesystem, and if that filesystem develops 
problems... all your eggs/data are in one big basket, good luck if the 
bottom drops out of it!

One lesson I've had drilled into my head repeatedly over now two decades 
of computer experience... don't put all your data in one basket!  It's a 
personal policy that's saved my @$$ more than a few times over the years.

Even with raid, when I first setup md/raid, I set it up as a nice big 
(partitioned) raid, with a second (similarly partitioned) raid as a 
backup.  With triple-digits gigs of data (this was pre-terabyte-drive 
era), a system-crash related re-add and resync would take /hours/.  

So when I rebuilt the setup, I created over a dozen (including working 
and backup copies of many of them) individual raids, each in its own set 
of partitions on the physical devices, some raids of which were further 
partitioned, some not, but only the media raid (and its backup) were 
anything like 100 gigs, and with many of even the working raids (plus all 
backups) not even activated for normal operation unless I was actually 
working on whatever data was on that raid, and in general even most of 
the the assembled raids with rw mounting not actively writing at the time 
of a crash, re-add and resync tended to be seconds or minutes, not hours.

So I'm about as strong a partitioning-policy advocate as you'll get, tho 
I do keep everything that the pm installs, along with the installation 
database (so /etc, /usr, /var, but not for instance /var/log or /usr/src, 
which are mountpoints), on the same (currently) rootfs of 8-ish gigs, 
with a backup root partition (actually two of them now) that I can point 
the kernel at from grub, if the working rootfs breaks for some reason.  
So the separate /usr/ thing hasn't affected me at all, because /usr/ is 
on rootfs.

But as I said I had some computer hardware issues recently, and they made 
me aware of just how nice it'd be to have that rootfs mounted read-only 
for normal operation -- no fsck/log-replay needed on read-only-at-time-of-
crash mounts! =:^)

So I'm pondering just how h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with
> /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted
> for updates?
>
> That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really
> understood to the point I'm comfortable with my ability to recover from
> problems so I've not run one since my Mandrake era, but that's a status
> that can change, and what with the /usr move and some computer problems I
> just finished dealing with, I've been thinking about the possibility
> lately.  So if there's some good docs on the topic someone can point me
> at, I'd be grateful. =:^)

I doubt anybody has tried it, so you'll have to experiment.

I imagine you could do it with a dracut module.  There is already a
module that will parse a pre-boot fstab (/etc/fstab.sys).  The trick
is that you need to create the root filesystem and the mountpoints
within it first.  The trick will be how dracut handles not specifying
a root filesystem.

However, if anything I think the future trend will be towards having
everything back on the root filesystem, since with btrfs you can set
quotas on subvolumes and have a lot more flexibility in general, which
you start to lose if you chop up your disks.  However, I guess you
could still have one big btrfs filesystem and mount individual
subvolumes out of it onto your root.  I'm not really sure what that
gets you.  Having the root itself be a subvolume does have benefits,
since you can then snapshot it and easily boot back off a snapshot if
something goes wrong.

Rich



[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:29:19 -0500 as
excerpted:

> If your /usr is in the same partition as /, then udev and systemd
> supports your configuration *without* an initramfs. I have it like that
> in a couple of servers, and actually I only use an initramfs in my
> laptop and desktop because I like plymouth.
> 
> If your /usr is in a separate partition as /, and you don't want to use
> an initramfs, you're free to do so. Only then udev (and systemd,
> if you use it) will not support your configuration, and any problem you
> encounter will be ignored in their mailing lists/bugzillas.


BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with 
/etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted 
for updates?

That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really 
understood to the point I'm comfortable with my ability to recover from 
problems so I've not run one since my Mandrake era, but that's a status 
that can change, and what with the /usr move and some computer problems I 
just finished dealing with, I've been thinking about the possibility 
lately.  So if there's some good docs on the topic someone can point me 
at, I'd be grateful. =:^)

I'm aware of the issues with /etc/mtab and have googled a bit on the 
workarounds, but that looks like a decent amount of work, and if I'm 
going to do that, I might as well invest the time and do it right, initr*, 
full tmpfs rootfs with everything non-volatile mounted on top, the whole 
shebang!

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman




Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the
> "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and
> haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555
> 
> One is asking for a bump and one is asking for some USE flag fixes.
> 
I'll take it, starting with the bump and hopefully getting upstream to
accept a --enabled/disable for kerberos.

-- 
-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)





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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> An initramfs it's just now the only supported way (by udev and
> systemd) to have a separated /usr partition.

Yes sure. I considered separate partitions in the 90s, let's just
say that I don't see the problem that many on the internet cry about.

Using multiple filesystems in a system allows doing very nice things,
but /usr /var /whatever is waay too clumsy, to do the nice things
there needs to be more cleverness, which we're not neccessarily ready
for just yet.


//Peter



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
[snip]
> Anyone who tries to argue that initramfs would be good for me to
> have on my systems should brace themselves for a mouthful of foul
> swedish language coming their way! ;)

I don't think anyone has argued it's "good" for anyone. An initramfs
it's just now the only supported way (by udev and systemd) to have a
separated /usr partition.

If your /usr is in the same partition as /, then udev and systemd
supports your configuration *without* an initramfs. I have it like
that in a couple of servers, and actually I only use an initramfs in
my laptop and desktop because I like plymouth.

If your /usr is in a separate partition as /, and you don't want to
use an initramfs, you're free to do so. Only then udev (and systemd,
if you use it) will not support your configuration, and any problem
you encounter will be ignored in their mailing lists/bugzillas.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> Seeing all the trouble some people have taken to make their systems
> work with mdev just to avoid having to use an initramfs, I really
> wonder how much effort it would have taken the simple task of learning
> one step more when updating kernels and switch to use an initramfs.

I think udev, systemd, and initramfs are orthogonal concepts.

FWIW I've built more or less deeply embedded Linux systems with
Gentoo and without, for years.

I stopped using init scripts long before I started using Gentoo in 2004.

systemd is in most regards a significant improvement over everything
that was previously available.

The few regards where it isn't are outweighed fairly easily by the
value of same process management both on desktop Linux and embedded
Linux.

On deeply embedded systems with say 2 or 4 Mbyte flash I might choose
something other than systemd however. As was pointed out, such a
system may also not need to be very dynamic, so losing udev is not
neccessarily a problem. If they do need to be dynamic, then will have
to make some room for udev as well.

Anyone who tries to argue that initramfs would be good for me to
have on my systems should brace themselves for a mouthful of foul
swedish language coming their way! ;)


//Peter



Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi,

Markos Chandras wrote:
> We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the
> recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected.

I've been considering recruitment for many years and I made my first
effort to prepare for recruitment about two years ago, but I haven't
finished the quizzes yet. I'm very happy to learn that a web
application did not work out (sans the wasted effort of course). I
don't know what a web app could bring that the quiz format can't.


> understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to "hire" people
> either, but they worked ok for all these years

I don't know.. Subjectively I don't think they work ok at all, since
I still haven't finished them even after many years.

But it's totally possible that they actually *do* work ok, and that
I really absolutely *must* know everything they ask about before
starting recruitment. Not sure.


> and it is the only alternative we have at the moment.

Thinking outside of the quiz^Wbox and getting to know people is a
good alternative. It takes time too of course, but no quiz or web
app can replace it.


//Peter



[gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the
"preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and
haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555

One is asking for a bump and one is asking for some USE flag fixes.

-- 
Doug Goldstein



Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
Davide Pesavento  wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
> > Davide Pesavento  wrote:
> >
> >> > [...]
> >> >> + # backward compatibility for non-array variables
> >> >> + if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p DOCS 2>/dev/null
> >> >> 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
> >> >> + dodoc ${DOCS} || die "dodoc failed"
> >> >> + fi
> >> >> + if [[ -n ${HTML_DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p HTML_DOCS
> >> >> 2>/dev/null 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
> >> >> + dohtml -r ${HTML_DOCS} || die "dohtml failed"
> >> >> + fi
> >> >>  }
> >> >
> >> > maybe issue an eqawarn in that case telling people to convert to
> >> > arrays; some time later make this an ewarn telling non-array
> >> > support will be removed and again later make this a die :)
> >> > (if you take that route i would expect you to start converting
> >> > packages to use arrays)
> >> >
> >>
> >> We have no intention of deprecating non-array variables in qt4-r2
> >> eclass.
> >
> > why ? having two codepaths for the same thing, one being inferior,
> > sounds like a good reason to deprecate the inferior one :)
> >
> > A.
> >
> 
> Maintaining these two codepaths has practically zero cost, while
> forcing every ebuild using qt4-r2 to switch to arrays would waste
> developers' time which is better spent elsewhere.
> 
> Furthermore, the non-array variant is not necessarily inferior,
> because it allows you to use bash globbing, brace expansion, etc...

And arrays stopped to allow that overnight?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Graham Murray posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:13:56 +0100 as excerpted:

> "Walter Dnes"  writes:
> 
>>   Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded
>> device area?  Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large
>> for embedded devices.
> 
> But surely most embedded devices do not need hotplug functionality, they
> have a known, fixed, set of devices. So should static nodes in /dev/ not
> be sufficient?

Well, there's (kernel-side) devfs as well, as others have mentioned. 

Meanwhile, "embedded" can mean different things to different users of the 
term.  I expect few would argue that onboard boot devices on embedded are 
likely to change, but there's a lot of (arguably embedded) devices with 
USB-host support these days, and some form of dynamic device-nodes, even 
if it's just devfs, can make that much more flexible and easier to deal 
with.

What's interesting is the potential on such devices for USB-based 
storage, displays, sound, net and HID, blurring the definition of 
"embedded" even further, altho one would hope nobody tries to connect all 
of those up to the same host USB port (via hub) at the same time as I can 
just imagine the bandwidth management headaches trying to do so, thus 
implying 2-3 USB host-ports, minimum.

-- 
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and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman




Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier  wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
> Davide Pesavento  wrote:
>
>> > [...]
>> >> + # backward compatibility for non-array variables
>> >> + if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p DOCS 2>/dev/null
>> >> 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
>> >> + dodoc ${DOCS} || die "dodoc failed"
>> >> + fi
>> >> + if [[ -n ${HTML_DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p HTML_DOCS
>> >> 2>/dev/null 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
>> >> + dohtml -r ${HTML_DOCS} || die "dohtml failed"
>> >> + fi
>> >>  }
>> >
>> > maybe issue an eqawarn in that case telling people to convert to
>> > arrays; some time later make this an ewarn telling non-array support
>> > will be removed and again later make this a die :)
>> > (if you take that route i would expect you to start converting
>> > packages to use arrays)
>> >
>>
>> We have no intention of deprecating non-array variables in qt4-r2
>> eclass.
>
> why ? having two codepaths for the same thing, one being inferior,
> sounds like a good reason to deprecate the inferior one :)
>
> A.
>

Maintaining these two codepaths has practically zero cost, while
forcing every ebuild using qt4-r2 to switch to arrays would waste
developers' time which is better spent elsewhere.

Furthermore, the non-array variant is not necessarily inferior,
because it allows you to use bash globbing, brace expansion, etc...

Thanks,
Pesa



[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-laptop/omnibook

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
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[gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
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Dear Gentoo Community,

If you are not a recruit, mentor, or wannabe mentor you may stop
reading now.

We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the
recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected.
There are a few open bugs, nobody is working on improving this
application and it's been quite a bit of pain to use it during the
(long) recruitment process. We understand that quizzes is not an ideal
way to "hire" people either, but they worked ok for all these years
and it is the only alternative we have at the moment. Hopefully, we
will manage to improve the web application on a future GSOC project.

If you have already submitted your answers on the web application,
that is fine. However, I would strongly advise future recruits to
complete the quizzes instead. If you don't, we will ask you to do so
when we pick you up. Obviously, this will lead to extra delay and
frustration.

This does not apply to Arch Testers. The recruitment process for Arch
Testers will still be through the web application

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Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

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