Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to Tom "Spot" Callaway he's been on fire today packaging submitted unit files and shipping them. Your work did not go unoticed! JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-09 Thread Christoph Frieben
2011/9/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": > On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to > Tom "Spot" Callaway he's been on fire today packaging submitted unit > files and shipping them. > > Your work did not go unoticed! I do agree in particular with respect to his labour to prov

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-09 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Christoph Frieben wrote: > 2011/9/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": >> On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to >> Tom "Spot" Callaway he's been on fire today packaging submitted unit >> files and shipping them. >> >> Your work did not go unoti

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Christoph Frieben > wrote: >> 2011/9/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": >>> On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to >>> Tom "Spot" Callaway he's been on fire today packaging submitted unit

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-09 Thread John5342
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 14:47, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Christoph Frieben > wrote: >> 2011/9/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": >>> On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to >>> Tom "Spot" Callaway he's been on fire today packaging submitted unit >

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-09 Thread drago01
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:37 AM, John5342 wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 14:47, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Christoph Frieben >> wrote: >>> 2011/9/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": On behalf of the systemd convertion team Just wanted to say thanks to Tom "Spot" Ca

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/10/2011 12:15 PM, drago01 wrote: > Well it seems upstream isn't really interested in fixing this so if we > want chromium in fedora we'd have to ask FESCo for an exception. I agree with that. If Spot is going to maintain it anyway, it might as well as be in the repository and more accessi

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: > Well it seems upstream isn't really interested in fixing this so if we > want chromium in fedora we'd have to ask FESCo for an exception. It means we need to fix it for them, even if it means heavily patching Chromium (more heavily than what Spot is already doing). Kevin

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 10.9.2011 17:23, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): > I agree with that. If Spot is going to maintain it anyway, it might as > well as be in the repository and more accessible to end users with > better security Well, we could do a little salami tactic ... e.g., use system v8 which is packaged and a

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 20:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/10/2011 12:15 PM, drago01 wrote: > > Well it seems upstream isn't really interested in fixing this so if we > > want chromium in fedora we'd have to ask FESCo for an exception. > > I agree with that. If Spot is going to maintain it

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-12 Thread Jos Vos
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:41:36PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Given that it's not a particularly vital package, since we have the > somewhat more 'correct' Firefox, I don't think it's necessary to suspend > our packaging standards to accept this kind of crappy code into Fedora. Well, I under

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 13.9.2011 00:15, Jos Vos napsal(a): > I just started to use it myself and it is in some situations *so much* > faster than Firefox (on low-mem netbooks, for example), that I'm *very* > glad to have Spot's packages. Looking at Google's Chrome RPM, I would > definitely refuse to install it on an

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-13 Thread Jos Vos
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > The fact that it is important for Fedora users, doesn't mean it must be > in the official Fedora repos (see MP3 codecs or other lovely programs in > non-Fedora repos). [...] I know. I was just reacting to Adam's argument "Given that

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-13 Thread David Malcolm
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:24 +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > The fact that it is important for Fedora users, doesn't mean it must be > > in the official Fedora repos (see MP3 codecs or other lovely programs in > > non-Fedora repos). [...]

Re: Kudos to Tom "Spot" Callaway

2011-09-13 Thread Jos Vos
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:57:48AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > I believe I agree with you [1] - but to be pedantic (sorry!) what Spot > is packaging is "Chromium", not "Chrome". AIUI, the former is Free > Software, the latter is not. OK, thanks for the clarification. Substitute Chrome by Chro