Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Hugo Doria
Done: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Meeting -- Hugo

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:25:55AM -0300, Hugo Doria wrote: > Done: > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Meeting > > -- Hugo Oh crap. I created http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_User_Meeting Haha

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
I am genrally busy enough on the weekends to not commit to anything further, plus I probably have little to contribute, so PLEASE send an email when a date is decided and IF I am available, I will try to be there. Now if you guys could hold it on a weekday morning (that is here in New Mexico) then

Re: [aur-general] Courtesy when moving packages to community

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
OR. Be polite and ASK them if it is alright to do so. Bob F. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi TUs, > > Following this post on the forums ( > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=447186), I would like to remind > people that it is good etiquet

[aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:20:22AM -0700, w9ya wrote: > I would like to remind everyone that the TU system was NOT originated solely > to be based on votes, in fact there was no voting until much more recently. > > Also, when the voting was added to the TU system the community and TUs were > SPECI

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Xavier
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another point to consider is that gerolde (the Arch Linux server) > is already being taxed to the point where it is becoming unstable. > We can either try to do something to help the situation, or > we can protect some maint

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Firmicus
Loui Chang a écrit : On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:20:22AM -0700, w9ya wrote: I would like to remind everyone that the TU system was NOT originated solely to be based on votes, in fact there was no voting until much more recently. Also, when the voting was added to the TU system the community a

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Another point to consider is that gerolde (the Arch Linux server) > > is already being taxed to the point where it is becoming unstable. > > We can either try to

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2008/11/10 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi TU's, > > I would like to organize a TU meeting on IRC to discuss the results of the > pkgstats script and the direction for the [community] repo. I am probably > the person with the worst time zone issues so I am happy to take a very late > night t

Re: [aur-general] Courtesy when moving packages to community

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon 2008-11-10 07:07, w9ya wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi TUs, > > > > > > Following this post on the forums ( > > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.p

Re: [aur-general] Courtesy when moving packages to community

2008-11-10 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-11-10 07:07, w9ya wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi TUs, > > > > Following this post on the forums ( > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=447186), I would like to remind > > people that it is good etiquette to let the maint

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
Sigh I do NOT normally comment here and certainly NOT with the tone I am about to use. But you guys (plural) are attempting to dictate binding discussions without first doing your own due diligence. Or you are asking me and others to do your due diligence for you? This is, of course, very trou

[aur-general] Courtesy when moving packages to community

2008-11-10 Thread Allan McRae
Hi TUs, Following this post on the forums (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=447186), I would like to remind people that it is good etiquette to let the maintainer of a package in the AUR know when you are moving their package to [community]. Either a direct email, or a nice thank y

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1 - I maintain an offshoot version of archlinux, derived from faunos, called > "shackstick". It is used and is becoming quite popular amongst the ham radio > community. It is packaged as a whole and the user does NOT download packa

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:31:17AM -0700, w9ya wrote: > I do NOT normally comment here and certainly NOT with the tone I am about to > use. But you guys (plural) are attempting to dictate binding discussions > without first doing your own due diligence. Or you are asking me and others > to do your

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1 - I maintain an offshoot version of archlinux, derived from faunos, called >> "shackstick". It is used and is becoming quite popular amongst the ham rad

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:31:17AM -0700, w9ya wrote: > > I do NOT normally comment here and certainly NOT with the tone I am about > to > > use. But you guys (plural) are attempting to dictate binding discussions > > withou

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 - I maintain an offshoot version of archlinux, derived from faunos, > called > > "shackstick". It is used and is becoming quite popular amongst the ha

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:13PM -0500, Loui Chang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Angel Velásquez wrote: > > The explain that bfinch shows is not the case, as I said (second time > > this day), there is an amount of packages (aspell,i18n related) which > > break the rule about

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
pkgstats results are far more reliable than votes, especially if a package has been added to [community] when it had less votes and has since become popular. Many people will find the package in the repository and simply download it. They may not even know (at first) about the AUR, or about the vot

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
I really don't see a vote thing as a requirement. Consider it a strong suggestion, one that the maintainer is able to break at his or her discretion. Bfinch I think you are overreacting a ton to this.

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I can't say for 22nd and 29th, but I can come on IRC on 15th November from 1100 UTC to 1730 UTC. On Sundays, anytime from 0330 UTC to 1730 UTC would be fine, except for 0730 to 0830 UTC when I'll be having lunch :) -- Abhishek Dasgupta

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't say for 22nd and 29th, but I can come on IRC > on 15th November from 1100 UTC to 1730 UTC. On Sundays, anytime > from 0330 UTC to 1730 UTC would be fine, except for 0730 to > 0830 UTC when I'll be having lunch :

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2008/11/10 Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I really don't see a vote thing as a requirement. Consider it a strong > suggestion, one that the maintainer is able to break at his or her > discretion. Bfinch I think you are overreacting a ton to this. > Yeah, it's certainly not a rule set in ston

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I really don't see a vote thing as a requirement. Consider it a strong > suggestion, one that the maintainer is able to break at his or her > discretion. Bfinch I think you are overreacting a ton to th

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-11-10 12:59, Loui Chang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:13PM -0500, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Angel Velásquez wrote: > > [...] > > > > Yeah I agree there should be room for some exceptions. Dependencies > > would be the obvious exceptions, a

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
P.S. Sadly this discussion, (for reasons best known ONLY to the people that did so,) has morphed into several separate discussions about the SAME things/stuff. Please gang; it makes this needlessly hard. And it also makes me (and a few others) look like a bad guy(s) for saying things across d

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:18:51PM +0100, Alessio Bolognino wrote: > On Mon 2008-11-10 12:59, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:13PM -0500, Loui Chang wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Angel Velásquez wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > Yeah I agree there should b

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2008/11/10 Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do you think they should really be part of community though? Wouldn't it > be sufficient for them to be in unsupported? > If the packages can be (reliably) automatically built and maintained, unless there's a resource problem, they can be easily part

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Angel Velásquez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 1 - I maintain an offshoot version of archlinux, derived from faunos, > >> called

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Kessia 'even' Pinheiro
This weekend I'll move to another apartament. In next, I can't say if I'll have internet access yet (I hope so). So, better to me is 29th november, any time you like... PS: I'll be a little away in next 2 weeks because the changes. So, online only in my work (time. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM

Re: [aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:44:50PM -0300, Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote: > This weekend I'll move to another apartament. In next, I can't say if > I'll have internet access yet (I hope so). So, better to me is 29th > november, any time you like... > > PS: I'll be a little away in next 2 weeks becau

[aur-general] TU Meeting

2008-11-10 Thread Allan McRae
Hi TU's, I would like to organize a TU meeting on IRC to discuss the results of the pkgstats script and the direction for the [community] repo. I am probably the person with the worst time zone issues so I am happy to take a very late night time slot. I guess a weekend would be best to deal

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Firmicus
Loui Chang a écrit : On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:18:51PM +0100, Alessio Bolognino wrote: On Mon 2008-11-10 12:59, Loui Chang wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:13PM -0500, Loui Chang wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Angel Velásquez wrote: [...] Yeah I agree the

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
> In a different matter, we have had a discussion last year about a possible > limit to the number of packages each TU should be allowed to maintain in > community, but we could not reach any agreement on this. Perhaps time is > ripe to discuss this issue once more. I'd rather try to keep discussio

[aur-general] pkgstats and community - attempt 2

2008-11-10 Thread Allan McRae
This whole thing has got a bit out of hand... All I wanted to do was organize a meeting for TUs to discuss the results of the pkgstats script. And now I arrive back to ~70 email with back and forward about how things should be. I am actually quite disappointed with some of the responses the

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: first results

2008-11-10 Thread w9ya
You guys asked for some numbers. Below I both answer Aaron and make a stab at how lousy our data really is. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM, w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If there is a problem with the servers and th

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The server is being strained (what parts exactly?) by the community repo. It's primarily disk space and IO load issues. The community repo and AUR are fairly large. A cron job which WAS keeping the AUR's permissions in

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and community - attempt 2

2008-11-10 Thread Ondřej Kučera
Hi, Allan McRae wrote: So lets start there. What should the [community] repo be doing? What is its purpose? There is no point discussing anything else until that is well defined. All responses must start with "The [community] repo is ..." The [community] repo is - in my non-dev, non-TU v

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and community - attempt 2

2008-11-10 Thread Brandon Martin
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:17:20 +0100, Ondřej Kučera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Allan McRae wrote: >> So lets start there. What should the [community] repo be doing? What >> is its purpose? There is no point discussing anything else until that >> is well defined. >> All responses must

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and community - attempt 2

2008-11-10 Thread Ronald van Haren
2008/11/11 Ondřej Kučera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Allan McRae wrote: >> >> So lets start there. What should the [community] repo be doing? What is >> its purpose? There is no point discussing anything else until that is well >> defined. >> All responses must start with "The [community] re

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Schaefer
> It's primarily disk space and IO load issues. I have questions, mostly meant to get people thinking about alternatives and ramifications of any solutions... If the real issue is disk space and IO, what about the possibility of a hardware upgrade? What about moving the largest packages to unsupp

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:22:01PM -0500, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > > It's primarily disk space and IO load issues. > > I have questions, mostly meant to get people thinking about > alternatives and ramifications of any solutions... > > If the real issue is disk space and IO, what about the possibi

Re: [aur-general] Packages in Community and votes.

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Schaefer
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only raised the issue of unused or barely used packages in Community > and pruning the repo. We should really be focusing on that before > diverting the discussion and delving into other areas. I know we've discussed this i