Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "drago01" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 9:39:54 AM > Subject: Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how > to install into a LVM partitions (or > RAID)) > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > El Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:59:54 -0700 > Jesse Keating escribió: >> On 10/31/2012 09:56 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> > * Jesse Keating, Jeremy Katz, and others who helped shape the >> > curren

[Test-Announce] 2012-11-05 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2012-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-11-05 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again tomorrow. Note the time 'change', now that daylight savings has ended in Nort

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * drago01 [05/11/2012 08:00] : >> >> That's like selling a car and telling the customer "it might not move >> at all in that case you are on your own sorry". > > This is par the course for proprietary software (with the added bonus > that yo

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* drago01 [05/11/2012 08:00] : > > That's like selling a car and telling the customer "it might not move > at all in that case you are on your own sorry". This is par the course for proprietary software (with the added bonus that you can't actually fix it since you don't have the source code). Em

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 12:18 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson : >> > > Note >> > > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major v

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
Michael, Without contributors there is no need for infrastructure, right? ;) To me it means that we need more contributors working on infrastructure (as on every other aspect of the distro) not pruning. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team - Original Message - > From: "Michael Schere

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:59:54 -0700 Jesse Keating escribió: > On 10/31/2012 09:56 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > * Jesse Keating, Jeremy Katz, and others who helped shape the > > current policy and theory of our release schedule felt that the 6 > > mon

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:32:33 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you substitute 'unstable' for level 1, 'testing' for level 2 and > 'stable' for level 3, then this is not dissimilar to how Debian > operates. Sure, and if you eliminate level 3 (which leads to multi-year-long freezes), then you h

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:22:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I disagree. It's usable by the kind of people who use Fedora. Who like > shiny cutting-edge stuff and don't mind dealing with wonkiness > constantly. I wouldn't dream of putting any regular person on a Fedora > install, quite frankly. It'

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:55:38 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > and one "stable" release ( valid for 2 maybe 3 years ) for those in the > community that want something they dont constantly having to upgrade to > and can deploy on their servers. ( ofcourse to have a stable release we > first and

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > This is a very valid argument. I understand this is a devel list, so we > should stay on the technical level, but if we discuss such broad changes > that affect the whole project, we should also take into account other > aspects. > > Switc

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Jiri Eischmann
- Original Message - > From: "Bruno Wolff III" > To: "Kevin Fenzi" > Cc: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 7:37:45 PM > Subject: Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally > trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: > how to install

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le dimanche 04 novembre 2012 à 13:19 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov a écrit : > The point is that such a measurement serves nothing but pissing off people. > You need to track activity on packages - how long bugs stay open without > response > (note that this doesn't mean becoming accepted as one mig

Re: Fedora 18 Upgrade Experience

2012-11-04 Thread Reindl Harald
i guess so and i am pretty sure i removed it because problems with failing service starts and since named works for many months with the systemd-unit below on personal as also 4 production servers i can say for sure that nobody needs this pid-files they are mostly for old sysvinit-scripts because

Re: Fedora 18 Upgrade Experience

2012-11-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.11.2012 19:26, schrieb Brown: > And there's the creation of the pid file directories for both named and > ddclient > that seem to disappear every time I reboot, also seems like a bug somewhere man tmpfiles.d BTW: all these packages should be fixed a long time ago nearly no service needs

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread devzero2000
For microsoft perhaps, but Ubuntu, Debian ? Upgrading from a release to the next is trivial, and in general work well. Sure, probably the update to the core system component is more light, no Usrmove, no systemd, or something like this. And preserving, updating the new configuration based on the pr

RE: Fedora 18 Upgrade Experience

2012-11-04 Thread Brown, David M JR
Okay, So this is a package specific issue and both bind and ddclient need to remove the PidFile directives in their systemd service configuration? Thanks, - David Brown From: Reindl Harald [h.rei...@thelounge.net] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:36 AM T

Re: Rolling release model philosophy

2012-11-04 Thread Simon Lukasik
On 11/04/2012 04:50 PM, Denis Arnaud wrote: > Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:07:02 +0100 > Simon Lukasik wrote: > >> Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There >> were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am >> not sure if something like the foll

Fedora 18 Upgrade Experience

2012-11-04 Thread Brown, David M JR
Fellow Devs, I know you guys are talking a lot about the Fedora 18 slip and who's to blame etc. But I decided to upgrade most of my systems anyway, I'm not here to complain I realize I get to keep the pieces and I'm smart enough to fix them (and work around them) until things get settled down.

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
The point is that such a measurement serves nothing but pissing off people. You need to track activity on packages - how long bugs stay open without response (note that this doesn't mean becoming accepted as one might be busy with other things), how long the package stay with open CVEs, what is t

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 10:13 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:04:40PM +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > Not necessarily commenting on whether this whole idea is good or not, > > but how hard would it be to just have the N release and updates > > repositories enabled at the s

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Simon Lukasik
On 11/04/2012 05:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Lukasik writes: >> Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There >> were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am >> not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed: > >> Each N-th

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 12:18 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson : > > > Note > > > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version > > > upgrades for their operating systems > > Adam, th

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Alek Paunov
On 04.11.2012 19:25, Simo Sorce wrote: note that this is "also" our strength in some respect because it allows the system to evolve a lot more quickly, but it also means upgrades are Indeed. simply going to break stuff, and that's not so great for desktop environments and scare the hell off

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Simo Sorce
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:44 +0100, drago01 wrote: > > much lower levels of churn, > > No they actually have way higher levels of churn ... just think about > it ... in fedora we are talking about 6 months worth of chrun not 5+ > years. Can't speak for Red Hat but maybe this is one of the reasons >

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Simo Sorce
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson : > > Note > > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version > > upgrades for their operating systems Adam, this is plainly untrue for Microsoft, they always supported upgrading to

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.11.2012 17:05, schrieb Tom Lane: > Simon Lukasik writes: >> Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There >> were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am >> not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed: > >> Each N-t

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Reindl Harald
nobody here is screwing others work teh topic is how about to find out AUTOMATICALLY which are they doing the work and which things are orphaned without finding it out the hard way in the running release cycle and if you need to find out things automatically you need any flag to measure - this wo

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Lukasik writes: > Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There > were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am > not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed: > Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==1 -- is alive for

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Panu Matilainen writes: > On 11/04/2012 12:17 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: >> And I am doubting that changing the release model will suddenly make >> people do QA. > Adam's point is that reducing the number of branches requiring QA should > permit more thorough QA with the scarce resources availab

Re: Rolling release model philosophy

2012-11-04 Thread Denis Arnaud
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:07:02 +0100 Simon Lukasik wrote: > Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There > were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am > not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed: > Each N-th Fedora rel

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:04:40PM +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > > - It's been suggested before, but could we practically keep N and N-1 > > > packages in rawhide repos? Then 'yum downgrade' becomes much more > > > handy. Repodata size and mirror size might shoot that down though. > > Spea

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 09:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > - It's been suggested before, but could we practically keep N and N-1 > > packages in rawhide repos? Then 'yum downgrade' becomes much more > > handy. Repodata size and mi

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list > to agree to run it full time on their main machine. I did for years. On F18 right now, but I'm willing to go back to all Rawhide all the time. Here's some impo

rawhide report: 20121104 changes

2012-11-04 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sun Nov 4 08:15:11 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [LabPlot] LabPlot-1.6.0.2-12.fc18.i686 requires libaudiofile.so.0 LabPlot-1.6.0.2-12.fc18.x86_64 requires libaudiofile.so.0()(64bit) [PyKDE] PyK

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Simon Lukasik
On 11/03/2012 12:30 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 16:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> * Upgrading every year, with an unreliable upgrade process, is not >> something you have to do with a proper stable OS > > On some stable OSs you cannot upgrade *at all*. It is true that some O

F-18 Branched report: 20121104 changes

2012-11-04 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sun Nov 4 09:15:51 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [dhcp-forwarder] dhcp-forwarder-upstart-0.10-1801.fc18.noarch requires /sbin/initctl [dnf] dnf-0.2.14-2.git4831982.fc18.noarch requires python-hawkey >=

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 18:32 -0600, Kevin Fenzi a écrit : > So, I have been thinking about rawhide. > > I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think > there's something we can do to help with that: > > Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on thi

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/04/2012 12:17 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 09:29 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 09:29 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: > > > Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but > > one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only two repos to > > maintain - whilst in

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/04/2012 02:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full ti

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
How does it sound? Really like the right way to build community by excluding people? Think about this more before trying to screw others work? Your feature might mean nothing for someone else if you want to see it happen step in and do your part and don't tell people that there work should be re

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
Hmm, actually I have new proposal. Policy about active/inactive maintainers should be decided only by actual maintainers. In the true meritocracy way - if you don't maintain anything you don't have a say. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team - Original Message - > From: "Reindl Hara