Status on coreutils? (was: Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?)

2004-04-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | The latest on coreutils is that it's still not ready to go mainstream | (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html). What is the current status on this? I still have it in my ITP queue and my Bugzilla is starting

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-04-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: | On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:02:55PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: | |cgf wrote: | | |I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the |distribution, however. | |Possibly we need a gdb packages steering

Re: Status on coreutils? (was: Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?)

2004-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 1 10:39, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | The latest on coreutils is that it's still not ready to go mainstream | (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html). What is the current status on this? I

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 17:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't speak for Corinna, but I would rather *not* have to be the bad guy or a single (double?) point of contact. I would rather have more community involvement. I'm already drowning in being the focal point for most cygwin bugs with help from only

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:41:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 28 17:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't speak for Corinna, but I would rather *not* have to be the bad guy or a single (double?) point of contact. I would rather have more community involvement. I'm already drowning

On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
cgf wrote: I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the distribution, however. Possibly we need a gdb packages steering committee which decides on these things. It could have rules like a package needs a simple majority vote to be a candidate for inclusion. I'd envision seven

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:02:55PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: cgf wrote: I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the distribution, however. Possibly we need a gdb packages steering committee which decides on these things. It could have rules like a package needs a simple

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread chris jefferson
Yes, someone did. I have no problem with moving to a new installer interface but, given the current level of development, I don't see who's going to do the work. If we don't have a volunteer available to do the work of adapting NSIS but we do have volunteers available to keep setup.exe working

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- chris jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, someone did. I have no problem with moving to a new installer Has moving to one of the existing linux packaging systems been considered? This would I think require changing cygwin so first you download a minimum package that just includes

ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? The latest on coreutils is that it's still not ready to go mainstream (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html). Igor -- http

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages

RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd also

RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be included, remembering that we have a software web page at cygwin.com which can be used to advertise

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:23:42PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:30:51PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be included, remembering that we have a

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:23:42PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: How do you submit something now that http://cygwin.com/ported.html doesn't contain any form ? It never contained a form. You use the form on the main cygwin page.

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:27:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-07 Thread Nicholas Wourms
cgf wrote: We've had a flood of package ITPs and a missing package maintainer. I'm imposing a moratorium on ITPs for now. Thank you!!! I was wondering when someone was going to stop the insanity ;-). Cheers, Nicholas

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Andreas Seidl
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm imposing a moratorium on ITPs for now. Does this mean no new ITPs or does this even mean that ITPs which are already in the pipeline are stalled? Andreas. -- http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to ports.html was or is in index.html ? articles.db is the master source for the software and news. You can always check the web pages out via cvs if you

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:55:17PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to ports.html was or is in

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to ports.html was or is in index.html ? articles.db is the master source for the software and news. You

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:55:17PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems

ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
We've had a flood of package ITPs and a missing package maintainer. I'm imposing a moratorium on ITPs for now. I think I'm beginning to detect the sign of breakage in the process and possibly am detecting the fact that we are overloading setup.exe. It is rather a shame that we have a package

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:56:13PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: [snip] But it's also a shame that http://cygwin.com/ported.html contains so many broken or outdated links. Can I go through it and submit a diff ? You most certainly can.

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: It is rather a shame that we have a package like coreutils going unclaimed while people are busily proposing other packages which would be of general utility to only a tiny percentage of cygwin users. You did get a volunteer for coreutils when you asked:

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:55:04PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: It is rather a shame that we have a package like coreutils going unclaimed while people are busily proposing other packages which would be of general utility to only a tiny percentage of cygwin users. You did

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Agreed 100%. But it's also a shame that http://cygwin.com/ported.html contains so many broken or outdated links. Can I go through it and submit a diff ? And maybe someone should make a cygwinfind.net, cygwinpackages.net, or something outside Cywin to host such packages. On Fri, 5 Mar 2004,

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-05 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:56:13PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: [snip] But it's also a shame that http://cygwin.com/ported.html contains so many broken or outdated links. Can I go through