Re: Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

2010-07-10 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Carl Gaudreault carl.gaudrea...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531464#c29 I appreciate the effort to be more explicit in your reasoning by adding an additional comment in response to this out-of-ticket dicussion. That being said. I

Re: Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 23:27 +0200, Andreas Tunek wrote: I get Empathy crashes all the time, duplicates of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531464, but this bug is in WONTFIX status. Anyone know why? Look

Re: Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Carl Gaudreault carl.gaudrea...@gmail.com wrote: So It seems Carl G. has been closing several bugs across multiple components without comment recently.  Hmm.    Not cool. -jef I gave the reason why i closed it. Are you saying that you comment in 27 requesting

Re: Python 2.7 status: mass rebuild of python packages requested

2010-07-08 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: Hope this is helpful Dave Is there any hints on expected gotchas that we can look out for. Deprecations or API changes of significant merit? -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: bodhi statistics

2010-06-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Miller maxamill...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Did we really need to take some raw numbers that Luke was kind enough to put together and make it into some sort of QA methods holy war? The lesson here is that for data mining to make sense there must a consensus

Re: fuse needs an update

2010-06-07 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Due to bug 493565[1], fuse needs to be updated. This bug has been around for a very long time, and no one can seem to reach the fuse maintainer. I see this bug daily on one system and I'm tired of it. Can anyone help?

Re: -upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

2010-06-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Patrice Dumas pertu...@free.fr wrote: That being said, it seems that the new init system, systemd is already in the pipe. Doing a policy for an obsolete technology may be some time lost. Maybe even better would be preparing a policy for systemd scripts than

Re: -upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

2010-06-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Handling this with systemd is very easy: you can just drop in a file in /etc/init.d/foo *AND* /etc/systemd/system/foo.service from the same package. And then, if something that is not systemd is booted it will only

Re: -upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

2010-06-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: If you can make everyone move away from sysv to something else, then by all means I'll do my best to aid in patches, but I don't have much confidence since everything that has been said about

Re: i386-class support changed in F-13?

2010-06-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Ah. It's a shame it wasn't put up for consideration as a release blocker. Obviously the rather peremptory response from Jakub didn't help with that... Would the flag concept for blocker status that Jesse was championing

Re: i386-class support changed in F-13?

2010-06-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: It's a bit intangible and not entirely predicated on whether we're using the keyword or flag setup, I think. Currently when we're considering bugs we use a search that excludes closed bugs, In either case, I would

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Well, that depends on configuration. In systemd you can choose individually for each unit whether you want to allow it to continue run processes on shut down, whether you want the main process killed, the process

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Please, judge systemd on technical grounds, don't judge it on political, or emotional grounds. I'll publish the numbers of a 100% socket-activated boot soon. I would love to have the necessary data to have an

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: Right now, it's not about speed.  Speed is one thing, and somewhat important.  But doing it right is also important.  Make it right, then make it fast, because if you try to make it fast first, you'll often be doing it

Re: short window between fedora-release update and resuming of updates-testing

2010-05-18 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: While I understand the decision behind enabling updates-testing repo by default, I think it should be turned off much earlier,  perhaps during the beta release phase.  Due to the workflow I follow,  one of the problems

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:14 PM, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm  12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm  48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm ...the last

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: It's unfortunate that these two big packages didn't make it into the base repo, but such is life. ;( As this is the first time we've done the early branching... I certainly expect mistakes right around the time of the branch

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: Well, no, not if there's an easy way to find the existing stuff.  Is there a way to extract this info from Bugzilla?  I'd stick that query in my bookmarks and peek at it every couple days. Indeed. I'd like to use my proven

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Chen Lei supercyp...@gmail.com wrote: It seems a lot of trivial packages in fedora are unmaintained for a long I dispute your claim that there are a lot. Yes we are going to have things fall through the cracks. But I've seen no analysis and no tools which would

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: I use the non-responsive process or active nagging quite a lot, since I often stumble upon such packages (it already happend twice to youtube-dl that the current maintainer did not have enough time). Thankfully the start of

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: This probably means at least a rudimentary application testing rig and a discipline that identifies and deals with distressed packages. Does the ongoing work with AutoQA provide the solution you are looking

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: That's the wrong argument. We all know why we _can't_ make it just work, but that doesn't excuse us. You are right. The answer is clearly to export US legal rules to the rest of the world so we can have an equally

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-06 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Rudolf Kastl che...@gmail.com wrote: one of the questions raised in the meeting posted by mcepl was... why dont those people leave if they are unhappy. simple... they put alot sweat blood and tears into a project, and they have friends... with the development

Re: use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com wrote: Agreed, I'm tired of (insert random benchmarking site) saying OH NOES! Fedora got SLOWER AGAIN! when it's really a lot of debug going on. Stating something like this clearly on login install would be nice, not just for

Re: use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: Good point.  Clearly though one can't delay the setting of the final release behaviors too long, or else *those* won't get tested. I'm not arguing about what that point should be. I'm just saying that this glib debugging

Re: Please move your ABRT bugs upstream

2010-05-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: I understand. But please respect what others are thinking. I do see a problem in abrt that it wastes my time. It's not possible for you to simply ignore the abrt bugs? I filter the [abrt] ticket email into a separate

Re: Please move your ABRT bugs upstream

2010-05-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: An anonymous database is easy to ignore by packagers. I fear that that might turn to something as useless as pulseaudio. The little jab at pulseaudio is extremely inappropriate and absolutely non-constructive to the

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

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: If the breakage was more of a functional break and not a dep break, that's where automated testing comes in, and we grow the automated functional testing of updates so that if an update comes along we can detect the

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

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Alex Hudson fed...@alexhudson.com wrote: I think it's a bit disingenuous to talk about prevailing opinion of the mailing list otherwise; to me a lot of the discussion looks an awful lot like a vocal minority, Be careful about meeting subjective opinion with

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

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Thanks a lot Kevin; you showed a lot of class trying to stir up the same arguments that you stirred up before.  Maybe the reason you lost votes is that a lot of people just don't agree with you; pouting about that won't

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Look interesting from a QA point of view. How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some ability to look for commonalities when

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: - Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not the correct value) users use the software i package It may or may not be superb information...but you haven't told me how collecting this

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I can try. If one software is used  many time from many user, directly or indirectly, and it have not such many  problems (e.g bug open on bugzilla for example ), well this  could guide to the decision of the

Re: popularity package context on fedora

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: To make sense it should be on by default. Good luck with that. I strongly suggest that any usage which only makes sense with on by default is not a usage you can rely on as a strawman. The popularity application

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Christopher Aillon cail...@redhat.com wrote: But, I'll re-iterate what Jan told you earlier in the thread that we've been working on it with upstream and have been for a while, and it's a HUGE undertaking.  We've already made significant progress and have

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Christopher Aillon cail...@redhat.com wrote: Anyway, it's unfortunate that this really isn't done more often.  I really think that as a project, we'd be doing a lot better if we mandated upstream review before applying patches to any package if you aren't an

Re: playing flash regression in f13-beta

2010-04-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Luming Yu luming...@gmail.com wrote: God must have fixed the problem for us. :-) or some mysterious things happened with the web site offering the mysterious video, which sometimes working, sometimes not working It's most likely a connectivity problem

Re: playing flash regression in f13-beta

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Luming Yu luming...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm,... tried ff 3.6.4, not working... Just fyi, the flash video in question works fine for me in a fully updated 64bit F13 beta using the 64bit flash using the tarball from the adobe website

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: I hope it's just me... but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. I have two 64bit F13 laptops... fully updated with updates-testing except for

Re: Gnome Games Clutter/OpenGL issues

2010-04-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: I have been dealing with this issue in the context of Ubuntu Lucid, however since it can be reproduced under F13 Beta I thought it would be wise to raise it here.  In some cases, gnome-games do not properly fall back to

Re: Gnome Games Clutter/OpenGL issues

2010-04-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Clutter is not targeting mesa's software rastersizer ... so clutter upstream do not really care if it works without any hardware support or not. Which is all fine for an optional component gnome-shell which explicitly states it

Re: Gnome Games Clutter/OpenGL issues

2010-04-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: It is just a game ... Ever tried to run compiz on software? (hint: desktop effects will tell you to come back once you are using a 3D driver). Ah...see here's the thing... this application doesn't actually tell you

Thoughts on using Lernid in Fedora meetings classroom sessions.

2010-04-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
I'm assuming everyone here has heard of Lernid, the little classroom ui that Jono Bacon original put together. I got lernid trunk up and running on Fedora 13. All the prerequisites are in place. it connects to the Ubuntu events. My understanding is that lernid just needs a hardcoded url from

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: I agree, and thought Seth made his point well.  I typically consider the set of things in Fedora I need to worry about to be the set of bugs assigned to me, plus the ones I've files, plus any FTFFS or broken deps I'm aware

Re: Can I have some documentation examples excluded from Abrt crash collection?

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Karel Klic kk...@redhat.com wrote: Please file a RFE in Bugzilla, and include the filename mask(s) marking the files you want to exclude. I think it will be something like: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/*/examples/*.py do you want that in Fedora

Can I have some documentation examples excluded from Abrt crash collection?

2010-04-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
So I'm maintaining matplotlib and scipy.. which effectively allows scientists to pretend they are programmers So matplotlib includes a large selection of examples to read over as documentation. Some of these example do some crazy complicated things which make use of matplotlib and wont work out

FYI: Taking ownership of orphaned inkscape in EPEL 4/5

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
Here's the notice that I'm taking ownership of orphaned inkscape in EPEL 4/5. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: Thoughts?  Am I missing something? When someone is publishing updates and putting them into testing specifically to address known bugs... and they get the fix wrong in some way... I think its perfectly acceptable to

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: The comparison to bugs is not valid.  A bug is the same bug until it is fixed.  An update consisting of different packages is a different update. What? We don't tag testing-updates with an ID. Testing packages...are

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573510#c2 How hard is it to use Bodhi properly? And then at the bottom of the bug report... there's newer packages...and newer links. There's no value in commenting on

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: It confuses the people who put in the effort to test your packages.  I updated to NetworkManager-0.8.0-4.git20100325.fc12.x86_64 and hit bugs 576925 and 578141.  I wanted to leave negative feedback on the update, but

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: Better comparison: Bugzilla does not allow the content of an attachment to be edited once it is submitted.  Instead, people submit a new attachment and obsolete the old one. Yes and koji keeps builds around to even

Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: There's another possible explanation for that policy: users who don't participate in testing know that any update with an ID went to stable and won't be distracted by references to IDs of testing updates in various

Re: geos soname bump in F-12 updates

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: Looks like the geos update for F-12 bumped the soname: python-basemap-0:0.99.2-6.fc12.i686 Sigh thanks for the heads up. I'll push a rebuild now. -jefNot to be picky, but it sure would be nice if there was some way

Re: urgent testing call: F13 kernel-2.6.33.1-24.fc13

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: That seems strange, it should use dracut, not mkinitrd at all? Is this an F13 system? dracut package provides /sbin/mkinitrd and you'll see that new-kernel-pkg gets called with --mkinitrd as well as --dracut in the

Re: Packages requiring numpy may require a rebuild in f13 and rawhide

2010-04-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Thomas Spura spur...@students.uni-mainz.de wrote: Are you sure, packages like gnuplot-py *have* to get rebuild? Your first programm that causes troubles 'python-basemap' is not noarch. A compiled programm needs a rebuild, but a programm with just python files

Re: Packages requiring numpy may require a rebuild in f13 and rawhide

2010-04-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:54 AM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: Doing so now and forcing a rebuild _might_ help isolate the change.  I don't know if that's a good idea at this stage for F-13, though. Hope this is helpful; I haven't had enough coffee yet today so I may be missing

Packages requiring numpy may require a rebuild in f13 and rawhide

2010-04-01 Thread Jeff Spaleta
Found this today with python-basemap. Numpy 1.4.0 introduced some ABI changes. Anything that compiles against numpy and hasn't been rebuilt since Numpy 1.40 was introduced in late January may need to be rebuilt in F-13 and rawhide. Just a friendly heads up. I'm fixing python-basemap now and

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: That's just your perception and I don't see any consensus on that.  The bug is fixed and fixed only in the development branch and this is a fairly common thing to do for upstream projects as well as distributions.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: that's why there is 'clone' functionality. Use it. Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would normally close as fixed rawhide? -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would normally close as fixed rawhide? Are you saying, that everyone facing that bug, should search from every

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? Bugzilla has multiple uses. The upstream project goes to some length describing it as a flexible tool. We in fact use it for multiple purposes. We use it for

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report upstream - in which case the maintainer should politely ask them to; sometimes it makes

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