Re: "Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 10:59 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > That's why I'm so frustrated that Fedora seems to be committed > to keeping the Mozilla trademarks, which moot any discussion of whether > to deviate for those packages. But this is only my opinion. Fe

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 07:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 08/13/2010 07:11 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > Let's try that again. Fedora has no obligation to you; nothing entitles > > you (or anyone for that matter) to push updates or even to post to this > > list. > ... and people are free to ha

"Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 22:26 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Do you have any sort of proof that it's a "political" reason? It would > seem to me that our kernel maintainers do not wish to include code that > hasn't been blessed by Linus in our packages. Doing so has burned us in > the past, and perh

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2010 01:23 AM, Luke Macken wrote: > On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>> - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >>> - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >>> in testing for

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 10:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Ball wrote: >> This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the >> Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives >> http://fedo

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 12:33 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 12.08.10 13:19, Mike McGrath (mmcgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a >> single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets not

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 12:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00:29 -0700, > Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> We usually catch most initial blockers for any given release at the >> first TC stage. Bugs we slip for are usually ones identifi

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Ball wrote: > This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the > Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects Those same objectives say that Fedora shou

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 03:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > > Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done > > is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. > > Why don't you go start your own distribution? If you are right,

[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC4 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Andre Robatino
Fedora 14 Alpha RC4 is now available [1]. Please refer to the following pages for download links and testing instructions. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> We'll until Lougher writes something that Linus will accept, we >> need to wait. > But WHY? IMHO, an upstream tarball is just a base to apply our > patches onto. Because the kernel team doesn't agree with you, of course. This should be unsurprising

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Adams wrote: > Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done > is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. > Why don't you go start your own distribution? If you are right, then > you should have no trouble getting a large group of deve

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > IMHO, FESCo should be abolished, Fedora needs to be ruled by the SIGs! Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. Why don't you go start your own distribut

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > We'll until Lougher writes something that Linus will accept, we need to > wait. But WHY? IMHO, an upstream tarball is just a base to apply our patches onto. We shouldn't be prisoners of upstream, especially when upstream processes are just too slow to fit our needs. Back

Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC

2010-08-12 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-08-15 01:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Network work is being done in our pr

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > But FWIW, when it comes to KDE in particular, the whole thing is moot or > soon to be moot anyway because parts of KDE are now being redefined as > "critical path", resulting in even more annoying update policies, even > though there was clear consensus in KDE SIG that such policies are

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:18:29 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs > > makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will > > probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a gi

Re: HEADS UP! Ohloh Fedora repositories

2010-08-12 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 8/12/2010 9:16, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > I'm currently in process of automatic enlisting of all ~10K Fedora Git > repos at Ohloh. Do you have some way of automatically adding new packages as they are added to Fedora in the future? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://adm

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > This argument has been brought up all the time. The thing is, it takes > time to find people to +1 updates. It takes even longer if the people > actually test the updates before +1ing them (as they're expected to). This > excessive and useless QA adds delays over delays. But FWIW, when

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
List Troll wrote: > If you have been *testing* it for 2-3 weeks surely you have no problem > to find two testers to confirm the small fix? This argument has been brought up all the time. The thing is, it takes time to find people to +1 updates. It takes even longer if the people actually test th

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread List Troll
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Luke Macken wrote: >> Ok, so the problem here is that bodhi unpushes updates when you edit >> *anything* in it.  If it only unpushed an updated when you add/remove >> builds from it, then this scenario would be sane. > > There's still the "We'

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > So perhaps the delay between "invasive features autorized" and "alpha" > is too short. It's true that sometimes very invasive features have been rushed in right before the feature freeze, often irrespective of the (lack of) benefits (at least at their state of developmen

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Luke Macken wrote: > Ok, so the problem here is that bodhi unpushes updates when you edit > *anything* in it. If it only unpushed an updated when you add/remove > builds from it, then this scenario would be sane. There's still the "We've been testing a new KDE release for 2-3 weeks, now we need

Re: Any chance the responsiveness issue-fix will be backported ?

2010-08-12 Thread Neal Becker
Linuxguy123 wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3OQ > > I'm interested in this. I have noticed that for the past (several months?) my system would freeze at apparently random times, while disk goes busy, for periods of 20-30 seconds. This did not used to happen

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > The F-(x) package will have higher EVR than the F-(x+1) one. This > will break the upgrade path. Is there any measures to prevent this? No. In fact FESCo specifically refused to consider this as an issue, they say separate releases need separate testing and so they refuse

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: > It isn't broken so there is nothing to fix; slipping to fix issues > found is a feature not a bug. > We don't have any reason to "rush". +1 Slips DO and WILL happen. It's just a matter of fact. It also happens in other projects. We just need to accept this. If we really want to

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Will Woods wrote: > This is a good point, and it's one of the reasons the 'critpath' stuff > exists. It's the same concept, applied somewhat differently: rather than > freeze the 'CoreOS' stuff earlier, we freeze it harder - we require more > testing for those pieces. The problem is, "freezing har

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > I disagree, the feature is shipping on time. Shipping on time enables > others in the Fedora community (people who build on, deploy, etc) know > with some assurance what their schedules will look like. If I were a > project manager looking at using a Linux OS in my pro

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >       - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >           - When someone tries to push an update to stable, bodhi will >             look to see if it has the appropriate karma, or if it has >             been in testing for more than N days. I

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > To me this implies that we should begin testing earlier (or, perhaps, > never stop testing) and treat any new failure as an event of > significance. It's tough to meet a six month cycle if we spend half of > it telling people to expect everything to be broken. We HAV

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > We've tried that in the past and it didn't work. Slipping the whole > schedule right away is better than slipping piecewise when it comes to > planning. Huh? What's the worst that can happen? That we slip again, being at the same release date as with the cascading slip sy

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Luke Macken wrote: > Fixed in > https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/changeset/97b1a9d1f9ceecaaa2128837cc5bbd7f8e495f36 That "fix" is really unhelpful and makes it a PITA to edit updates! In the past, KDE SIG has often edited in some trivial fixes into the final stable push of a KDE grouped update which

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Luke Macken
On 08/12/2010 07:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Now without any further testing the package can be pushed to stable, >> which contradicts the purpose of this whole change in bodhi. > > Sssh, why can't you keep quiet about this?! > >> I think, for packages that are modified dur

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Luke Macken
On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>- Minimum time-in-testing requirements >>- Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >> in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will >>

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Now without any further testing the package can be pushed to stable, > which contradicts the purpose of this whole change in bodhi. Sssh, why can't you keep quiet about this?! > I think, for packages that are modified during the testing period, > this N should be calculated

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs > makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will > probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a given size image. It's quite sad that we're waiting for upstream there.

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >       - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >           - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >             in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will >             add a comment notifying the maintainer that the

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Well, this has nothing to do with that. We are currently only pushing > to stable those updates that are needed to fix Alpha release blockers > in F14. So, it wouldn't matter here. It will matter after the Alpha release when urgent dependency fixes will be withheld for 1 week

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:31:58 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: > I think that this is really going to break our workflow! I think it's going to help our workflow and provide our users with more stable updates. Time will tell. > For example, for the Fedora 14 under development, we now have to wait > a

Fedora 14 Blocker Bug Review Meeting 2010-08-13 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EST)

2010-08-12 Thread John Poelstra
Subject: Fedora 14 Blocker Bug Review Meeting 2010-08-13 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EST) When: Friday, 2010-08-13 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EST) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Alpha release. We'll be discussing all of these to determine if they m

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Luke Macken wrote: > - Package update acceptance criteria compliance >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria >- Disable direct-to-stable pushes > (https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/434) >- Minimum time-in-testing requirements >

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:13, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/08/12 11:55 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > >> if you want to maintain s-c-d, I'm sure ajax would be more than >> happy to hand over ownership. > > Being a non-programmer I'm confident there's little likelihood I'd be > competent t

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:19 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > How can we fix this? Step 1 is to realize/admit there is a problem. You've tactfully done that. Step 2 is to gather data and knowledge. That doesn't appear to be happening in these posts. On the data side, it would be very interesting to

New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Luke Macken
A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number of bugfixes and improvements, along with some important process changes. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates ChangeLog = - Package update acceptance criteria compliance https://fedoraproject

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/08/12 16:53 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed: > > > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> For the benefit of those few, and there will likely always be some, for > >> whom > >> automatic isn't, some tool is ne

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 16:52 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:00 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> EDID & DDC are mere conveniences unnecessary to the function of the device. I >> really couldn't care less whether EDID/DDC exists, much less works. What >> matters (works just fine) f

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 16:53 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> For the benefit of those few, and there will likely always be some, for whom >> automatic isn't, some tool is needed upstream in Xorg, possibly SaX2 or SCD >> at least as a starting po

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
I'll reply here but I'm also bringing together some things in the rest of the thread... sorry about that. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a > single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets no

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:02 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > If our schedules aren't reasonably fixed, than others have a hard time > working with us. Loosing users (especially companies with resources to They are reasonably fixed. Please don't blow this out of proportion. I don't believe we'v

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 08/12/2010 02:22 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Ciesla (l...@jcomserv.net) said: >> I disagree that a clockwork release schedule is required for quality, or >> even perceived quality. If that's the sort of metric being looked at, >> the user is probably best suited to RHEL, CentOS, etc. > I

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 12.08.10 13:19, Mike McGrath (mmcgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a > single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not > point fingers. How can we fix this? It's clearly not one group or one > individ

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 12 août 2010 à 13:51 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit : > I guess I'm just saying that, if we had the developer time to do it, it > would be super nice if we could get the "pre-F15 rawhide is useless" bit over > and done with by the time F15 branches. But back in reality, I know > tha

Re: Any chance the responsiveness issue-fix will be backported ?

2010-08-12 Thread Linuxguy123
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3OQ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Any chance the responsiveness issue-fix will be backported ?

2010-08-12 Thread Linuxguy123
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3Mw I believe I am affected by this issue from time to time. Any chance that a near future Fedora kernel would contain the "fix" ? Thanks -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > For the benefit of those few, and there will likely always be some, for whom > automatic isn't, some tool is needed upstream in Xorg, possibly SaX2 or SCD > at least as a starting point. A wider call for a maintainer of SaX2 or SCD or > some

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:00 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > EDID & DDC are mere conveniences unnecessary to the function of the device. I > really couldn't care less whether EDID/DDC exists, much less works. What > matters (works just fine) from a display, which may have been manufactured > before the

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:39 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Would an 8[1] month cycle cause fewer slips per release? Fewer bugs? For me, one of the guiding principles for Fedora QA's work on tools and policies has been this: time, by itself, doesn't fix anything. Making the schedules longer isn't

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 21:33 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I want to mention one thing: on opensuse the "base" > system has a different schedule then the rest of the OS. i.e. the > kernel, gcc, glibc and the low-level tools freeze first, while > everything else may be hacked on a couple of wee

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a > single slip listed twice).  Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not > point fingers.  How can we fix this? [snip] > This is a collective failure. While I agree t

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 21:33 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 12.08.10 13:19, Mike McGrath (mmcgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a > > single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not > > point fing

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 14:32:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > So users of absent or dysfunctional DDC and/or EDID should be committed to > 800x600 or 1024x768 @96DPI until they replace their (quality, antique, still > working just fine) displays or learn the cryptic and complicated methodology

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Ciesla (l...@jcomserv.net) said: > I disagree that a clockwork release schedule is required for quality, or > even perceived quality. If that's the sort of metric being looked at, > the user is probably best suited to RHEL, CentOS, etc. It would be interesting to look at RHEL/CentOS to see

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 08/12/2010 02:14 PM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > On 08/12/2010 03:08 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: >>On 08/12/2010 01:39 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>> > "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: BN> I can't help but note that the slips have

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 08/12/2010 03:08 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > On 08/12/2010 01:39 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: >>> BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we >>> BN> started to actually *have

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 11:55 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > if you want to maintain s-c-d, I'm sure ajax would be more than > happy to hand over ownership. Being a non-programmer I'm confident there's little likelihood I'd be competent to attempt such an endeavor. Nevertheless, my complaints are n

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 08/12/2010 03:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:19:29 -0500, > Mike McGrath wrote: >> Since 2006 we've slipped at least 16-18 weeks by my count. That's more >> than half of a full release cycle. >> >> Thoughts? > > One thing I have noticed is people landing big chang

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 08/12/2010 01:51 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "MM" == Mike McGrath writes: > MM> Possibly also stop changing earlier? > > Not necessarily. We should certainly try to get the earth shattering > changes done as early as possible (i.e. soon after branch) but I > recognize that there

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 08/12/2010 01:39 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: >> BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we >> BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We >> BN> di

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > We usually catch most initial blockers for any given release at the > first TC stage. Bugs we slip for are usually ones identified at that > stage that we couldn't fix in time, bugs introduced between TC and RC by This is anoth

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:19:29 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Since 2006 we've slipped at least 16-18 weeks by my count. That's more > than half of a full release cycle. > > Thoughts? One thing I have noticed is people landing big changes (such as python and systemd) that break things for a wh

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 08/12/2010 02:39 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a >> single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not >> point fingers. How can we fix this? > > It is

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 14:38 (GMT-0400) Bill Nottingham composed: > Felix Miata said: >> So users of absent or dysfunctional DDC and/or EDID should be committed to >> 800x600 or 1024x768 @96DPI until they replace their (quality, antique, still >> working just fine) displays > Just as a point, if the EDI

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Any of the QA guys have any way to measure the the most common cause of > our slips? Is it usually stuff we're our own upstream for? Is it > integration? Is it bugs that were introduced months ago but only recently > found or bugs that we

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 14:50:38 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > > One thing I am curious about is why, when slipping for an Alpha target, > the whole schedule slips. Can't we just take a week out of the Beta > cycle? The amount of testing time is roughly the same. We've tried that in the

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 14:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/08/12 10:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > It's more or less dead. ajax technically maintains it, but it's right at > > the bottom of his priority list and we've been wanting to drop it for > > ages. It's useful for almost

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "MM" == Mike McGrath writes: MM> Possibly also stop changing earlier? Not necessarily. We should certainly try to get the earth shattering changes done as early as possible (i.e. soon after branch) but I recognize that there isn't sufficient developer time available to both stabilize one

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 08/12/2010 02:39 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: >> >> BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we >> BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We >> BN> did

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) said: > > > This is a collective failure. > > > > I'd like to question that premise. Why is it a failure if we adjust our > > release schedule to meet our release criteria ? > > Well, ideally we'd be able to sched

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:27:05 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > Problem is not an image (we will provide it in the future, forever), the > issue > is size constraint - software grows faster and faster, we have more > dependencies > etc. -> means less software on LiveCD... I hope to occasi

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 14:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > The reason I started this thread is precisely because I have little tolerance > for being stuck in last century's 1024x...@96dpi lowfi on a display I've been > running 2048x1536 on for roughly a decade. Before xrandr, X could itself > perform

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On 12/08/10 19:19, Mike McGrath wrote: How can we fix this? It's clearly not one group or one > individual or we'd just go talk to them. This is a collective failure. I don't think it's any failure, just that more ppl are finding problems across a greater variety of both hard\virtual-ware.

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On 12/08/10 19:19, Mike McGrath wrote: How can we fix this? It's clearly not one group or one > individual or we'd just go talk to them. This is a collective failure. I don't think it's any failure, just that more ppl are finding problems across a greater variety of both hard\virtual-ware.

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:29 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: > > BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we > BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We > BN> didn't slip nearly as much when we weren'

[perl-Email-Date-Format/el6/master] Resurrect for EPEL-6

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Howarth
commit 7dfb64501728fe5f414283fc4225f9846abb4431 Author: Paul Howarth Date: Thu Aug 12 19:39:41 2010 +0100 Resurrect for EPEL-6 Package has disappeared from RHEL-6 as of the Beta 2 Refresh, so this package, a clone of what was in Beta 2, is being introduced in EPEL-6 to satisfy

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net) said: > So users of absent or dysfunctional DDC and/or EDID should be committed to > 800x600 or 1024x768 @96DPI until they replace their (quality, antique, still > working just fine) displays Just as a point, if the EDID/DDC is dysfunctional, then I don't think

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: > > BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we > BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We > BN> didn't slip nearly as much when we weren't testing it.

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread drago01
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a > single slip listed twice).  Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not > point fingers.  How can we fix this? It isn't broken so there is nothing to fix; slipping to

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: ... snip ... > Since 2006 we've slipped at least 16-18 weeks by my count. That's more > than half of a full release cycle. > Actually, I don't think that the slips in the releases have _accumulated_ to be 'half' of a full release cycle' beca

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 10:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > It's more or less dead. ajax technically maintains it, but it's right at > the bottom of his priority list and we've been wanting to drop it for > ages. It's useful for almost nothing these days, especially now GNOME > has a mechanism for

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide/F14 upgrades

2010-08-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 12.08.10 12:06, Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: > > > Yes, that is correct. An already built version on f15 will always be > > > "newer" than anything coming up from f14. > > > > Can I "undo" such a build? I did that mostl

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "BN" == Bill Nottingham writes: BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We BN> didn't slip nearly as much when we weren't testing it. To me this implies that we should begin testing earlier (o

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide/F14 upgrades

2010-08-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 12.08.10 22:10, Chen Lei (supercyp...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Lennart, Heya, > > I found that systemd-units depends on pkgconfig, is this dependency > really needed for minimum systemd? Yes, this is intended this way. udev does the same these days. We consider .pc files simply a nice wa

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) said: > > This is a collective failure. > > I'd like to question that premise. Why is it a failure if we adjust our > release schedule to meet our release criteria ? Well, ideally we'd be able to schedule such that we can accomplish our release criteria wit

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:19 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > This is a collective failure. I'd like to question that premise. Why is it a failure if we adjust our release schedule to meet our release criteria ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Mike McGrath
Oct 6 2006: "Fedora Core 6 release date slip" - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2006-October/002243.html Oct 16 2006: "Another slip in the FC6 schedule" - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2006-October/002248.html Jul 11 2006: "FC6 test2 freeze slipping by a week

Re: HEADS UP! Ohloh Fedora repositories

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:07 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:16:52PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello All! > > > > I'm currently in process of automatic enlisting of all ~10K Fedora Git > > repos at Ohloh. Right now roughly 7% of repositories were added and > > o

[Test-Announce] Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
Hi, everyone. So, we have one bug remaining for Fedora 14 whose blocker status is unclear: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985 Two reporters in the bug - John Reiser and Mike Chambers - and one reporter from the list - Rui He, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-Augu

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I updated system yesterday, installed scd just now: > > [init 3]# system-config-display > File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 27, in > import xf86config > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 1

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/12 10:52 (GMT-0400) David Malcolm composed: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I updated system yesterday, installed scd just now: >> [init 3]# system-config-display >> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 27, in >> import xf86config >>

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide/F14 upgrades

2010-08-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:10:25PM +0800, Chen Lei wrote: > I found that systemd-units depends on pkgconfig, is this dependency > really needed for minimum systemd? Please file things like this in bugzilla so they don't get lost in the chaos of this discussion list. -- Matthew Miller Senior Sy

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