Re: orphaning gwibber, any takers?

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Hudson
On 04/01/10 21:47, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: On 01/04/2010 04:25 PM, Ian Weller wrote: I know Gwibber is widely used by Fedora users because there are a crapton of abrt reports for it and I just can't keep up with it. :) If no one else wants it, I will take it. I'd prefer to comaint

Re: New covenant published

2009-12-23 Thread Alex Hudson
On 23/12/09 18:58, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: On 12/23/2009 01:56 PM, Alex Hudson wrote: Can I ask on what grounds? Is the patent license insufficient, or is there some other problem? It's difficult to fix things if we don't know what's broken. The most obvi

Re: New covenant published

2009-12-23 Thread Alex Hudson
On 23/12/09 18:46, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: With that said, this new "covenant" does NOT change our stance on Moonlight. It is still not permissible in Fedora. Can I ask on what grounds? Is the patent license insufficient, or is there some other problem? It's difficult to fix things if

New covenant published (was: Re: moonlight and the new covenant)

2009-12-23 Thread Alex Hudson
On 19/12/09 11:03, Alex Hudson wrote: The covenant is published as far as I can see here: No, that's the previous one which was not good enough. The new one is not yet published. Correction: it's now published here - http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/newmoon

Re: moonlight and the new covenant

2009-12-19 Thread Alex Hudson
On 19/12/09 11:00, Julian Aloofi wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.12.2009, 10:47 + schrieb Alex Hudson: I doubt it's worth asking until the new covenant is actually published, which is supposed to happen next week. The covenant is published as far as I can see here: No, that's th

Re: moonlight and the new covenant

2009-12-19 Thread Alex Hudson
On 19/12/09 10:36, Julian Sikorski wrote according to Miguel [1], the moonlight covenant was updated and now allows for redistribution by third parties. Does it change anything wrt. its inclusion in Fedora? I doubt it's worth asking until the new covenant is actually published, which is su

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Alex Hudson
On 27/11/09 06:08, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point as it makes things worse rather than better. If you do this, please consider having a radeonhd->radeon testing day

Re: Updates-testing

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Hudson
On 14/10/09 16:47, Seth Vidal wrote: yum downgrade pkgname it works fine for the simple-ish cases. If that works, then gravy. I can't admit to having tried it in the past - although, I'm not really a yum user, I use packagekit, and indeed pk whines at me to turn off the legacy software when

Re: Updates-testing

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Hudson
On 14/10/09 16:49, Mike McGrath wrote: I've suggested this very thing in a F-A-B thread this week. We, packagers, have no way to fix a mistake and very few things preventing us from making them: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00168.html I love this! I

Updates-testing (was: Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?)

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Hudson
On 14/10/09 15:31, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 09:27 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: The problem isn't GLODA and smart folders, it's that we have no process in place to identify and deal with problems like this before it's too late. Aside from updates-testing you mean, where people

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Alex Hudson
On 23/09/09 17:00, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:23 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the compression to something that works agreed. Dropping xz at

Re: Page size pain / localisation / possible F13 feature

2009-08-27 Thread Alex Hudson
On 27/08/09 18:40, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: On 08/27/2009 12:11 PM, John J. McDonough wrote: Do we even have an inventory of places where page size matters? And then, are those that "get it right" actually using some standard source, or do they simply use a different default? A great first

Page size pain / localisation / possible F13 feature

2009-08-27 Thread Alex Hudson
Hi everyone. Living in a European milieu I generally prefer my page sizes to be set to the likes of A4. One thing which keeps aggravating me is the myriad places where I keep having to repeat to the computer my preference. In Thunderbird and Firefox right now, if I open up 'Page Settings' it