Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 11:29 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: This is a silly straw-man. No one[1] formats external HDs with anything other than MS-DOS FAT. Fedora changing the default for the main hard disk will not make any difference to this case of your contrarian user giving away LVM-formatted USB

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:03 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: snip there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options by default (filename downcasing), using any other FS

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:15 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:53:03AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: That's the essence of what's being discussed here laptop/desktop/workstation installs default to ext4 and experienced users/sysadmins those that generally know what lvm

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 05:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:03:28PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Strongly no to this. We need to have fewer choices during the installation and more flexibility later. LVM provides this. So we agree on disagreeing. Let's go the middle path

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 09:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Nobody has yet proven that LVM is a problem Well if you don't consider what Lennart mentioned [1] as a con against usage of lvm by default what pros do you see for having lvm by default for the novice end user? JBG 1.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2010 05:03 PM, clum...@redhat.com wrote: We have been spending a lot of time and thought trying to scheme about how to accelerate btrfs. At this point, it is actually fairly stable but still missing key things (most notably a fsck that can fix the file system!). Last week at

Re: Why should I ever bother filing another bug?

2010-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2010 07:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: In practice, we run very few metrics on Bugzilla This is the problem we should be gather all kinds of bug metrics and general component activity from bugzilla. This is very vital information for QA group to harvest and have. ( without it we cant

Re: Why should I ever bother filing another bug?

2010-11-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/09/2010 09:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:31 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/09/2010 07:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: In practice, we run very few metrics on Bugzilla This is the problem we should be gather all kinds of bug metrics and general component

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/05/2010 07:47 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 05/11/10 07:27, Alexander Kurtakov wrote: So what if I got 100 bug reports and didn't answered 10 bugs you will want to orphan my package? Welcome to the world without gtk, openjdk, eclipse-platform, kdelibs I think maybe it is meant more

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2010 01:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/05/2010 09:46 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:56:51 +0100, Ralf wrote: ABRT It doesn't tell the user that core dumps without reproducer are worthless in most cases but blindly sends out reports Parts of the Fedora user

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2010 02:11 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/05/2010 10:06 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:58:21 +, Jóhann wrote: On behalf of all reporters that have never received a response from a maintainer on a component they have reported against I not only ask the ABRT

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/04/2010 01:21 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 04.11.2010, 13:28 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:41:22 +0100, Bert wrote: So can someone please explain my why I should continue to try to improve Fedora by reporting bugs ? Glad you ask this. The

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/04/2010 04:24 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 04:10:31PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: If the maintainer is not responding to reports or not acting as the link to upstream ( that if he's not upstream himself ) for the component he's responsable for in Fedora I

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/04/2010 07:47 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: If someone else cares and retests, they ideally would be able to reopen it, but Bugzilla currently doesn't allow that Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong but as I recall we changed that deliberately. ( should be a discussion about this in this

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/04/2010 10:22 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: 2- ABRT should keep track of unresponsive users. If a user has an outstanding needinfo? flag for the bugs sent through ABRT, he shouldn't be able to send a new bug report through ABRT for my packages. Since this has turned into general pony

Re: Questions about Fusion Linux

2010-10-19 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/19/2010 03:29 PM, TK009 wrote: I got an email this morning from the Fusion Linux group. In it, the group lead suggested this to one of his users - Fusion 14 betais based on Fedora 14 which isn't released yet so there could be number of bugs that haven't been fixed yet. I suggest you

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/14/2010 10:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * ACTION: : will defer systemd to f15 release to give more time to fix small issues and docs and general polish. (nirik, 21:12:43) What are you kidding me! Gnome-shell better be sparkling out of aunt Tilly pony eyes before we ship it..sigh

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/15/2010 12:01 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM, James Laskajla...@redhat.com wrote: Much like we introduced and communicated btrfs support in F-11, should we communicate systemd as a technology preview in Fedora 14? I would agree with this. I certainly plan to

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/29/2010 05:29 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: Beats me, but not to releng, the team who's ability you were calling into question. Could you care to explain to me how I'm was calling releng ability into question? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/27/2010 10:47 PM, Bob Arendt wrote: Actually I think Fedora*should* articulate who the users are, basically design and express who and what Fedora is designed for. If you poll users - people who download Fedora - and cater to their stated desires for the sake of market share, then

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/28/2010 05:31 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 17:16:12 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\johan...@gmail.com wrote: It's not far from reality that Red Hat will get bought by a company like Oracle so what's preventing us to get the same treatment as OpenSolaris got

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/28/2010 06:42 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: This is utter bullshit. It assumes that anybody who works in the corporate world and happens to have an interest in Fedora is somehow going to be a puppet for the Smokey backroom corporate overlords and their evil designs upon Fedora. It's

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/28/2010 08:28 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: What are you afraid of? I think my concerns have been very clear. Fedora is not a country, you don't have to move to get away. All the code is free. Most the code isn't even ours, it belongs to the upstreams. If somebody were to buy RHT, the

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/28/2010 09:40 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: Dennis is his backup (RH employee) and if need be I know jwb (not redhat employee) is more than capable of handling these problems. Believe it or not, we do consider these things and cross train. If you have the several hours per week available

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/28/2010 09:40 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: I know it's not a comfortable thing to deal with, I know I'm not super happy about it but Fedora exists almost entirely because RH wills it to. If RH decided Fedora should go away, it would. You could fork, have a mess of a time getting

Re: If you cannot boot after installing systemd v8...

2010-08-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/26/2010 12:05 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: FYI, Fedora 14 Alpha testers: Please read the following, since this update issue will hit you after you install Fedora 14 Alpha and then update. We probably need to spread this news out wider and add to the Common F14 bugs page And emphasise

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

2010-08-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/11/2010 09:02 AM, Rudolf Kastl wrote: instead of trying to workaround the problem i actually tried to check if a clean install of latest package would work properly with this result: Installing : systemd-units-5-2.fc15.x86_64 This is far from being the latest packages ( the latest

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

2010-08-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/11/2010 10:32 AM, Rudolf Kastl wrote: 2010/8/11 Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com: On 08/11/2010 09:02 AM, Rudolf Kastl wrote: instead of trying to workaround the problem i actually tried to check if a clean install of latest package would work properly with this result:

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

2010-08-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/04/2010 06:05 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: This from an F13.x86 F14-Rawhide F14-Branched Guest (Host if F13.x86_64) Some still from the video: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-040810-185144.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-040810-185343.php

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2010 06:37 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Personally, speaking as a person_and_ a sysadmin, it would be worthwhile to have a big freakin button somewhere that allowed me to disable all native systemd config files and let me run sysinit style files when the situation demands... ie crap

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/21/2010 03:24 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I have a few requests for things to add to that page :-) * What replaces chkconfig systemd-install Now first the gotcha then I'll provide chkconfig replacement example. Admins will need to know that they have to use chkconfig for services

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/21/2010 04:03 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Would it be reasonable to extend chkconfig so that it can know which services it can no longer control and provide a pointer blurb to admins when they try to use chkconfig with those services in the F14 timeframe. The reality is any change to

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Burying the underlying issue yet again under the carpet or Hall monitoring it wont resolve it neither will a shouting contest between people do. People will need leave all emotion behind and look neutrally at each other point of view and listen to each other constructive criticism to gradually

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/08/2010 02:40 AM, John Poelstra wrote: Matěj Cepl said the following on 05/07/2010 04:41 PM Pacific Time: More and more I was writing this email, more and more I tend to agree with somebody today, who wrote that they key problem of the Fedora community is unclear vision about its

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/04/2010 01:50 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: You must all realize that the ratio of bureaucracy/process burden and quality of maintainers/packagers go hand in hand. The better the maintainers/packagers/components are less bureaucracy/process burden is needed

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/04/2010 06:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Peter Jones wrote: Wait just a second - you're arguing that requiring testing doesn't work because nobody tested the KDE spin within 8 days. You might want to rethink this position. Why? I don't see the contradiction. If nobody tests

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/03/2010 10:30 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: The point here is that Kevin isn't perfect. As such, he can make mistakes, just like all of us. By asking for a couple karma nods from different people, we increase the chance of catching some of those mistakes. Since the delay exists anyway, it

Re: Postgresql namespace

2010-04-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Is there any reason why we aren't naming this as closed to upstream as possible? http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/fedora/fedora-12-x86_64/ http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/fedora/fedora-12-x86_64/ BTW What's the difference between upstream packages and the

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