Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/10/2010 06:55 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you have any thoughts on what we can do to correct it? Follow basic IRC etiquette for meetings

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread Kamil Paral
- Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: There actually already *is* a review point prior to moving to -updates, but it's currently owned by rel-eng and is not highly publicized, and very little gets rejected. It is there, though: rel-eng explained this earlier in the threads, and

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 03/09/2010 06:20 PM, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:55:33PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 09/03/10 16:50, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: I have limited time to do system installs and maintenance. Sticking with one

Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-10 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:51:52PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Till Maas wrote: You need to update packages from updates-testing first and then it's useful to run it. Please look at the wiki for example output. Would your script break, say, if he was using the bodhi-client from

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 20:25 -0500 schrieb Seth Vidal: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you have any thoughts on what we can do to correct it? Seth, respect would be a good starting point. 20:45:30 cwickert I know there

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:47:00AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: We shouldn't be held hostage to various threats. We shouldn't be afraid to try something because a vocal few are ranting against it. I could, of course, be very wrong. However threatening to leave the project if various things

Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-10 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? As long as the update hasn't corrupted any critical files, my non-optimal solution is to head over to koji, grab the last version of the

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:47:00AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 20:25 -0500 schrieb Seth Vidal: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:47:00 -0500, Josh wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 20:25 -0500 schrieb Seth Vidal: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you have any

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote: Seth, respect would be a good starting point. 20:45:30 cwickert I know there are people that will leave Fedora if we decide a policy that forbids major updates. both users and contributors 20:45:42 skvidal cwickert: people threatening to leave

Re: Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-10 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:24:18 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 13:06, Steven I Usdansky Your proposal especially doesn't address the third point. How do effectively you rollback the package on the mirrors when you don't control them? Assuming reversion to an

Re: Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Kahl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2010 01:06 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? There is no real recovery for traditional

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: I can agree with that last sentence in parts. Please don't forget the order of incidents, however. First the early-warning system with hundreds of messages and multiple threads, which made several packagers think do they want to ruin the

Re: Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/10/2010 05:36 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? As long as the update hasn't corrupted any critical files, my non-optimal solution is to

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: 20:45:42 skvidal cwickert: people threatening to leave should leave 20:45:48 skvidal orphan your packages and go 20:45:57 skvidal I'll be glad to clean up that mess While the phrasing may or may not be over the top, I read

Release Notes Wiki Freeze

2010-03-10 Thread John J. McDonough
Next week is the wiki freeze for Fedora 13 Release Notes. If you have something important that needs to be in the release notes, update the appropriate wiki beat. Go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats and select the appropriate beat. Then add a note to that beat. Your update

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:55:08 -0500 (EST), Seth wrote: Michael, Do you really think you're attitude has been respectful and helpful throughout all the time. Do you consider history at all? It seems to be enough that you do. Whatever you may remember correctly, I don't know what it is. You

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:50:25AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Do you like it when someone, who isn't getting their way threatens to take their ball and go home? There is a big difference between people threatening to take their ball home if something happens that they don't like, and people

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:59:56 +, Ewan wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:50:25AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Do you like it when someone, who isn't getting their way threatens to take their ball and go home? There is a big difference between people threatening to take their ball home

Install fedora-easy-karma by default? (was: Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism)

2010-03-10 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:29:28AM +0100, Milos Jakubicek wrote: Also thanks for packaging that immediately -- what about installing it by default? It's a tiny package and we really do want our users to provide feedback. I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not sure,

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: It surprised me to see FESCo fight like that in a meeting. Some members are beside themselves in rage. Steering is hard, let's go shopping. Whether someone is 'besides themselves in rage' is really hard to infer from an irc log. I

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:08 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Afaics this does not affect some minor issue, but a fundamental reason why package maintainer decided to become Fedora package maintainers. No volunteer package maintainer is in general forced to create updates and I am very sure that the

Re: F13 Alpha - Zarafa

2010-03-10 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 03/09/2010 05:23 PM, nodata wrote: Does Zimbra still ship as a blob of specific versions of lots of open source software, of which the specific versions cannot be changed? Also, the last time I looked, it had a bundled copy of the Sun JDK (not the open sourced one either). ~spot -- devel

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 10 March 2010 at 16:22, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:08 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Afaics this does not affect some minor issue, but a fundamental reason why package maintainer decided to become Fedora package maintainers. No volunteer package maintainer is

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Another question - how many broken things we shipped in release that could be fixed by updates? We shipped lot of unfinished, feature incomplete stuff in history...

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Another question - how many broken things we shipped in release that could be fixed by updates? We shipped lot of unfinished,

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:46:54 -0500 (EST) Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Another question - how many broken

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:22:37AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:08 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Afaics this does not affect some minor issue, but a fundamental reason why package maintainer decided to become Fedora package maintainers. No volunteer package maintainer

F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243 Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver? Regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:06:58AM -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? As long as the update hasn't corrupted any critical files, my non-optimal

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 17:14:41 Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243 Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver? Regards, Michal afaik you have

Re: should man-pages-* have Requires: man?

2010-03-10 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:59 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: There is no strong dependency between man and man-pages. man is just one utility amongst many utilities which can be used to process man-pages. Perhaps it would make sense to introduce a Provides:(man-reader) or some such and add a

Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: Good news everyone, you can probably expect to receive more positive bodhi karma for your updates in the future (or you already got unexpected much), because there is now a script called 'fedora-easy-karma'[0], that makes

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:38:53PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Wednesday, 10 March 2010 at 16:22, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:08 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Afaics this does not affect some minor issue, but a fundamental reason why package maintainer

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/03/10 16:14, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243 Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver? Regards, Michal What version *.iso did you try

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/10 Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com: On 10/03/10 16:14, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243 Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver?

[389-devel] Please review: Bug 538525 - Ability to create instance as non-root user

2010-03-10 Thread Endi Sukma Dewata
Hi, Please review the attached patch for this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538525 Description is included in the patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=398875action=edit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=398875action=diff Thanks. -- Endi S. Dewata

[389-devel] Please review: Bug 570542 - Root password cannot contain matching curly braces

2010-03-10 Thread Endi Sukma Dewata
Hi, Please review the patch for the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570542 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=398976action=edit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=398976action=diff Thanks. -- Endi S. Dewata -- 389-devel mailing list

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:53:49 -0500, Simo Sorce sso...@redhat.com wrote: What I don't get, seriously, is why people in 2. can't use rawhide or the latest updates-testing and instead pretend to inflict almost rawhide on everybody else. Because updates-testing is really for testing not

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 14:06:12 -0500, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: Things like the libata kernel change and KDE 3 to 4 migration are intentional events and all that's needed to make the transition smooth is to coordinate the release of a seamless upgrade package set. You I

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 10 March 2010 at 17:34, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:38:53PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: [...] Agreed. However, we should ask ourselves if it's better to have a package in our distribution even if it doesn't fit ideally with the rest or

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: You forget people developing proprietary software... Why would we want to encourage or even support that? I don't expect Fedora to encourage it (nor should we, IMO)... but that doesn't change the reality of $DAYJOB. If Fedora drops multilib, I will

Re: Updates proposal - alternative draft 1

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:20:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: As opposed to fake security threats? In the case of the kernel, if the new kernel update we rush through without passing via updates-testing repo doesn't boot you can always boot back into an older kernel but

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: You forget people developing proprietary software... Why would we want to encourage or even support that? I don't expect Fedora to encourage it (nor should we, IMO)... but that doesn't change the reality of $DAYJOB. If

Re: Updates proposal - alternative draft 1

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 00:52:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Let me know what you think This should be split into two policy proposals. One should cover QA related processes for pushing updates. The second should cover expectations on what kinds of updates packagers

gdbm soname change in Rawhide, package rebuild needed

2010-03-10 Thread Karel Klic
A newer version of gdbm (1.8.0-1.8.3) has been pushed into rawhide (devel) branch. This version changes libgdbm soname, so all packages using gdbm _must be rebuilt_. The soname change is needed as the new version moves dbm and ndbm routines to separate library gdbm_compat. The new version

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:29:42 -0600, Matthew wrote: There are just too many -devel packages and their dependencies to be ever relevant to someone for multi-arch installs. Far more users install i686 on 64-bit CPUs, and I have doubts that x86_64 installation users do

Re: Push scripts, mash

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/08/2010 09:29 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: There are just too many -devel packages and their dependencies to be ever relevant to someone for multi-arch installs. Far more users install i686 on 64-bit CPUs, and I have doubts that x86_64 installation users do much

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:05 -0600, Matthew wrote: Probably because I need multilib and have never experienced multilib-related problems (or if I have, they were so trivial as to be thoroughly forgettable). Just out of interest, does enabling a separate 32-bit

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default? (was: Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism)

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: Also thanks for packaging that immediately -- what about installing it by default? It's a tiny package and we really do want our users to provide feedback. I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not sure, whether this is a good

Re: should man-pages-* have Requires: man?

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 11:56 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 03/10/2010 11:40 AM, Ivana Hutarova Varekova wrote: from my point of view, the vast majority of users uses man to show the wanted man-page content (the reason to add the dependency). Agreed. Actually, I am having problems to

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Boy
There are nearly no facts, so everyone is just guessing and many people are just ignoring objections. That is true, indeed. But do we really need detailed statistics to make a good decision? All of us have an experience with Fedora over the last years. And I *guess* ( :-) ) most or even

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:20 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010 17:14:41 Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243 Any chance to get graphical

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's still legitimate to ask *those* users what they

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's still legitimate to ask *those* users what they

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without FAS accounts

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:44 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:20 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010 17:14:41 Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Michał Piotrowski
I can install F13 in text mode later and send some more informations about these issues with both drivers. Regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

IBM Statement on TCG DRTM Support

2010-03-10 Thread George C. Wilson
IBM supports the TCG DRTM standard efforts. After the approval of the TCG DRTM standard, IBM is planning to develop and provide DRTM UEFI support in its System X product line. -- George Wilson IBM Linux Technology Center Security Development -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/10/2010 02:16 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/10/2010 06:55 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you have any thoughts on what we can do to correct it? Follow basic IRC etiquette for meetings

Re: IBM Statement on TCG DRTM Support

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/10/2010 02:53 PM, George C. Wilson wrote: IBM supports the TCG DRTM standard efforts. After the approval of the TCG DRTM standard, IBM is planning to develop and provide DRTM UEFI support in its System X product line. That's all well and good, but is there a reason you sent this to the

Re: Meeting summary/minutes for 2010-03-09 FESCo meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/10/2010 02:16 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/10/2010 06:55 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: I agree, there was obviously a divisive and destructive aspect to that meeting. Jonathan, Do you have any thoughts on what we can do

F-13 Branched report: 20100310 changes

2010-03-10 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Wed Mar 10 09:15:11 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 doodle-0.6.7-5.fc12.i686 requires libextractor.so.1 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Robyn Bergeron robyn.berge...@gmail.com wrote: That looks to be about 400 people need to randomly selected and complete the survey (for +/- 5%). to get down to 1% you would need to get 6500 people. I don't think that the near-impossibility of having a

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default?

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: Also thanks for packaging that immediately -- what about installing it by default? It's a tiny package and we really do want our users to provide feedback. I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not sure, whether

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread James Laska
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:18 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:13 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Some basics I'd propose as a starting point for defining acceptance criteria include: 1. repoclosure/conflicts - no package update can introduce broken

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread James Laska
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:18 +, Paul Howarth wrote: On 09/03/10 20:43, James Laska wrote: Some basics I'd propose as a starting point for defining acceptance criteria include: 1. repoclosure/conflicts - no package update can introduce broken deps or conflicts. I'd

Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Chambers
Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it? And If we bought a new hd, via sata in my case within past year or newer computer in past year, are we using

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/03/10 15:22 (GMT-0600) Mike Chambers composed: Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it?

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:22:13PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it? And If we bought a new hd, via sata in my

[389-devel] Please review (take 2): [Bug 199923] subtree search fails to find items under a db containing special characters

2010-03-10 Thread Noriko Hosoi
Subject: subtree search fails to find items under a db containing special characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=199923 Files: ldap/servers/plugins/syntaxes/validate.c ldap/servers/slapd/back-ldbm/ldbm_add.c ldap/servers/slapd/dn.c Fix Description: dn.c: Based upon RFC

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:21 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 23:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Either we (package maintainers) are qualified to make sane decisions about our package or we are not. I don't really see a middle ground here. Being qualified to do

Re: F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

2010-03-10 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: This sounds like it's similar to what we saw with the vboxvideo driver, right? When that failed it didn't fall back to vesa, either... Quite possibly... The issue was that it knew the driver it was looking for and attempted to load it,

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Sandeen
Mike Chambers wrote: Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it? And If we bought a new hd, via sata in my case within past year or newer computer in

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/10/2010 04:22 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it? And If we bought a new hd, via sata in my case within past

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/10/2010 04:30 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/03/10 15:22 (GMT-0600) Mike Chambers composed: Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready for this or getting ready, or already using it?

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Doug Ledford wrote: Things like the libata kernel change and KDE 3 to 4 migration are intentional events That's the whole problem. Under our current model, we have places and times where to perform those intentional disruptive changes, they're called releases. In a consumable Rawhide, we

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/03/10 17:09 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: Felix Miata wrote: The change is for the benefit of manufacturers, not users. Readiness is only spotty. The discussion has been extensive and ongoing on the linux-ide mailing list. Users do benefit as well - more capacity per platter

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 16:08 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: It seems to cast doubt on the value of karma -- just because something gets lots of positive karma on N doesn't mean that N-1 is ok. Then again, the same concern is present in any grouped update if the voters haven't

Re: F13 Alpha - Zarafa

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: although something called OpenChange was added for MS Exchange access in Fedora 11. OpenChange != Open-Xchange In fact they're completely different: Open-Xchange is groupware software, to some extent a clone of M$ Exchange, but using open protocols. OpenChange is an

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Sandeen
Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/03/10 17:09 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: Felix Miata wrote: The change is for the benefit of manufacturers, not users. Readiness is only spotty. The discussion has been extensive and ongoing on the linux-ide mailing list. Users do benefit as well - more

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:28 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/03/10 17:09 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: Felix Miata wrote: The change is for the benefit of manufacturers, not users. Readiness is only spotty. The discussion has been extensive and ongoing on the linux-ide mailing

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/10/2010 05:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/03/10 17:09 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: Felix Miata wrote: The change is for the benefit of manufacturers, not users. Readiness is only spotty. The discussion has been extensive and ongoing on the linux-ide mailing list. Users do

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-10 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:21:45PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 23:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Either we (package maintainers) are qualified to make sane decisions about our package or we are not. I don't really see a middle ground here. Being qualified to do

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:09:40 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 16:08 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: It seems to cast doubt on the value of karma -- just because something gets lots of positive karma on N doesn't mean that N-1 is ok. Then again, the same

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:44 +, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:21:45PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 23:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Either we (package maintainers) are qualified to make sane decisions about our package or we are not. I

Webcam Test Day tomorrow (Thursday 2010-03-11)

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day [1]. It's really pretty simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and check if it works. There's detailed instructions on the Wiki page but that's really what it boils down to - fire up your webcam, run Cheese or something

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-10 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:59:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:44 +, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: The LHC is an interesting analogy; it certainly has problems that can be picked out with 20:20 hindsight, but there was no way anyone could have changed the processes in

Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-10 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:34:15AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 1) Comments could allow for multi-line code. I tried to paste stuff in and well skipped a couple of packages from the paste :) Do you have any wish about how this should behave? I was thinking that e.g. a comment like EOF

Re: F13 Alpha - Zarafa

2010-03-10 Thread Matěj Cepl
Dne 10.3.2010 16:35, Tom spot Callaway napsal(a): On 03/09/2010 05:23 PM, nodata wrote: Does Zimbra still ship as a blob of specific versions of lots of open source software, of which the specific versions cannot be changed? Also, the last time I looked, it had a bundled copy of the Sun JDK

Fwd: URL error on Fedora 13 Alpha BFO

2010-03-10 Thread Mario Chacon
Hello, I was trying to install Fedora 13 Alpha using BFO utility and I got an error during the download of the install.img. I saw that the url for the install.img is wrong: URL that use BFO utility: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub URL valid: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ it

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 18:16 -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:59:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:44 +, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: The LHC is an interesting analogy; it certainly has problems that can be picked out with 20:20 hindsight, but there

F-13 Beta Blocker Meeting 2010-03-12 @ 16:00 UTC (11 AM EST)

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
When: Friday, 2010-03-12 @ 16:00 UTC (11 AM EST) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net It's that time again: blocker bug review meeting time! Tomorrow is the first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta. Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Beta release. We'll be

Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:34:15AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 1) Comments could allow for multi-line code. I tried to paste stuff in and well skipped a couple of packages from the paste :) Do you have any wish

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Hmm, maybe then you are thinking of things that are far less stand-alone. The only run-time environment we care about is that the program can be executed (so, kernel can load it, glibc.i?86 exists, etc.). We tend to have very few if any dependencies beyond libc (and

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Al Dunsmuir wrote: The update to an older stable release should be made widely available in that release's updates-testing after the equivalent (not necessarily identical) fix has been widely tested in the latest stable release. Uh, no, just no. They should go to updates-testing

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: * yum install glibc.i686. Actually, you probably want glibc-devel.i686. But my point still stands, as long as you require only a few 32-bit packages, requesting them explicitly is not the end of the world. So if we were to drop support for that always install all libs as multilibs

Re: F13 Alpha - Zarafa

2010-03-10 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Kevin Kofler [11/03/2010 00:08] : OpenChange is an implementation of the M$ Exchange protocols, allowing Free Software groupware clients to interoperate with M$ Exchange. It's a requirement for Zarafa which is basically a bridge between open protocols (IMAP, POP, Caldav, ...) and Exchange's

Re: Fwd: URL error on Fedora 13 Alpha BFO

2010-03-10 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Mario Chacon wrote: Hello, I was trying to install Fedora 13 Alpha using BFO utility and I got an error during the download of the install.img. I saw that the url for the install.img is wrong: URL that use BFO utility: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub URL

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-10 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/10/2010 05:38 PM, Peter Jones wrote: On 03/10/2010 05:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/03/10 17:09 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: Felix Miata wrote: The change is for the benefit of manufacturers, not users. Readiness is only spotty. The discussion has

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