Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Matej Cepl
Rahul Sundaram, Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:24:53 +0530: It was ok to ship a beta release of thunderbird but updates shouldn't cause such issues. If the fixes were necessary to push as updates then it would have prudent to disable smart folders and indexing by default and leave it enabled in Fedora

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl, Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:32:26 +: Rahul Sundaram, Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:24:53 +0530: It was ok to ship a beta release of thunderbird but updates shouldn't cause such issues. If the fixes were necessary to push as updates then it would have prudent to disable smart folders

Re: Development packages for Thunderbird/Sunbird

2009-10-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Henrik /KaarPoSoft, Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:20:44 +0200: However, to compile blueZync, development packages for thunderbird and sunbird are needed (i.e. header files, idl files etc). As far as I can see, not such -devel packages are available for Fedora 11 or 12. When you install

Re: Help with debuging Xserver / Goes in an infinite loop

2009-10-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Joshua C., Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:05:54 +0200: Do we have a bug for this? If not, please do file one and include all those information you collected for this thread together with /var/log/ Xorg.0.log (if possible after the problem happened -- on reboot put 3 to the end of the kernel command line,

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl, Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:26:09 +: However, for personal reasons I need to decrease my personal involvment in non-work related Fedora work. I have still on my list: * cycle -- Calendar program for women (any ladies would like to decrease gender gap in Fedora packaging? Or would

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Christoph Wickert, Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:58:58 +0200: I'm going to take over nimbus. I already reviewed it and you asked me for co-maintenance. Sorry I didn't find the time to look into the EPEL build error sooner, it's still on my todo list. Ownership released. Concernig bug

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Dominic Hopf, Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:46:04 +0200: syncevolution -- SyncML client for evolution I would like to maintain this package then. Talk with Peter Robinson about comaintainership. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Christoph Höger, Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:23:01 +0200: 2. The sync-ui binary (which I wanted to test the most ;)) is missing. It is not missing in devel (now F-12) package. But it is still not working correctly due to %{_libdir}/syncevolution packages. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Peter Robinson, Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:09:20 +0100: syncevolution -- SyncML client for evolution I'll take this one. Released in pkgdb. Thanks. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-10-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Jesse Keating, Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:39:16 -0700: We've stopped caring about anything outside of the critical path. Thanks for clarifying it. At least I know now that I should give up on maintaining Fedora packages because nobody cares about them. Will do next week. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list

Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-02 Thread Matej Cepl
(intentionally breaking the thread so this is not burried somewhere in depths) Michal Schmidt, Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:15:30 +0200: You're misinterpreting Jesse's quote out of context. I am misunderstanding them (in case your interpretation is more correct). So that's just that rel-eng doesn't

Re: Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]

2009-10-02 Thread Matej Cepl
- Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Bugs can include RFEs as well as actual brokeness. I don't think that really buys you anything. And a bad maintainer could just file an RFE for an upgrade and refer to that bug when they provide the upgrade. Yes, of course, but I expect Fedora

Re: PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

2009-10-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:58:15 +0200: Yes. It slowed down builds, and it often triggered bizarre build failures which were NOT bugs in the program, but in the toolchain or in some core library like glibc, which in turn delayed important updates to the affected packages. I.e., it was

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-10-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Dickson, Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:41:51 -0400: Maybe removing the Final Development part and replace it with something like Beta Freeze (Bug Fixes ONLY) might have helped. Well my problem with the current state is that it is not Bug Fixes ONLY, we are getting to acks (Red Hat people know

Re: PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

2009-10-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Jeff Garzik, Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:55:56 -0400: Both ppc and ppc64 have been excellent at catching software bugs in my projects that long went unnoticed on i386/x86-64. The lack of big endian builds by default is a notable loss, and will lead to a decline in software quality. I think this

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Jesse Keating, Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:45:08 -0700: Right, I've always taken it to mean Our experimental code is in, and we're ready to take end user testing feedback on it which is different from our code is in, but not really done, and we don't care if it's broken because we're going to

Re: Thunderbird 3.0pre?

2009-09-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Mail Lists, Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:23:11 -0400: You might want to delete your .thunderbird directory and try again. Im happy for you. For what its worth, I have several accounts too - not just many mail folders. My experience is that it is better to run IMAP server on localhost and store all

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Seth Vidal, Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:16 -0400: We don't have anything sexier than 'We changed the compression system'? in F12? I'm sure we can come up with something more interesting. Maybe we changed the background of something.. That's more interesting than this, right? :) We made it much

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl, Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:55:50 +: /me shakes his fist at comps and complaints for thousand times that we * for the thousandth time (shaking fist doesn't excuse me from English grammar) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-19 Thread Matej Cepl
Colin Walters, Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:46:50 +: These are wrong and should be in the comps group. Looks like Matthias added them. I'll move them to comps now. Which seems like to typical Fedora event ... after all FESCO approved Features, code freezes, etc. etc., somebody just throws

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Adam Williamson, Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:26:53 -0700: Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same distribution, following different update polices - GNOME favours stable, KDE favours adventurous. This

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Ralf Corsepius, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0200: I turned away from supporting Mr. Robinson, ignored his reviews and left reviews to others So you lost your right to slander him now. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Adam Williamson, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:38:43 -0700: Oh, and the only non-fiction I read is the newspaper :) Not only I was a lawyer, I was even in a PhD student in sociology/ criminology in my previous life. :) Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Clipboard manager by default in Fedora 11

2009-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Ian Chapman, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:47:23 +0800: I'd like to see some consistency between how apps handle clipboard content, when 1. The user highlights content and pastes using the middle mouse button 2. The user uses the copy paste menu options or hot keys. Read this

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jesse Keating, Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:11:32 -0700: Orphan: qt-qsa LabPlot requires qt-qsa-devel = 1.1.5-6.fc11 LabPlot requires libqsa.so.1 I am not Qt user, but isn't qt-qsa the only how to get SSL/TLS for many (all?) Qt projects? (I know I had to install it for kopete and psi to have

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Sven Lankes, Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:42:07 +0200: qt-qsa is the 'old' variant. The package containing the current code is qca2 and that is still maintained. Cool. I suspected I am out-of-date. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Jeroen van Meeuwen, Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:30:46 +0200: On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:13:14 +0200, Julian Aloofi To be honest, I think environments that work like that won't use Fedora anyway if it wasn't supported for at least three, let's say two and a half, years. Having to agree with your

Re: readline update?

2009-07-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Ralf Corsepius, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:29:46 +0200: I thought, we banned all non-utf-8 aware packages? I agree, who needs grep after all :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194471 /kidding Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: readline update?

2009-07-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Ralf Corsepius, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:29:46 +0200: I thought, we banned all non-utf-8 aware packages? And BTW zsh has been fixed not to corrupt non-ASCII filenames? Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:07:39 +0200: It's also a hard decision where to draw the line: will you accept a PDF of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (which is in the public domain) as well? What exact criteria make Dive into Python OK and Around the World in 80 Days not? And

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Bill Nottingham, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:43:10 -0400: I'm not sure how distributable the KJV is or isnt', but it's explicitly forbidden by the guidelines. Of course, I suspect we'll now have someone claiming that the camel book is actually a religous text. Of course, and GNU Manifesto! But, no

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Jason L Tibbitts III, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:32:48 -0500: Open a ticket on their trac (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/). Hmm, it *is* complicated. The issue here is that the guidelines explicitly permit documentation and help files; diveintopython is obviously documenting Python, and if it was

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-30 Thread Matej Cepl
drago01, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:00:56 +0200: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. ($LANGUAGE has been Java, Javascript and now C#). I am not big fan of RMS, but we have to admit that at least in case of Java, he was just right, and among other things, because of strong

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:08:11 +0200: I'm not familiar with the JavaScript story, but if he really recommended against using it, there was certainly a valid reason. His point was that thousands of line of hardly obfuscated Javascript (think Google Docs) is hard to recognize from

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Peter Lemenkov, Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:25:10 +0400: Please, take a look at smolts statistics, for example. Don't fool yourself with wrong statement that many users (not redhat employees) using Rawhide. Actually in this case Red Hat employees are as good as any other user. Matěj --

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Ralf Corsepius, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:22:47 +0200: Yes, my Fedora 11 _desktop_ experience so far has been very negative, to say the least. And yes it says just a little about state of F11 desktop. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-30 Thread Matej Cepl
梁穗隆, Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:51:30 +0800: I am using f-spot to export my photos to picasa web album. It is much better than Google Picasa for Linux. I know that gnote will replace tomboy. I hope solang will replace f-spot for the reason that sometimes after I upload photos to picasa web album

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Frank Murphy, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:45 +0100: Is there any contingency plans in place, for a worst case scenario if C#, is lost? FesCo? Sure, there is, but no need to panic ... sky is not falling yet (and there are many reasons to believe it never will). Note for example, that default

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Jindrich Novy, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:41:42 +0200: then you can do: # yum install texlive Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/texmf from install of texlive-2008-0.1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnuplot-common-4.2.4-6.fc11.x86_64 Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:21:43 +: Jindrich Novy, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:41:42 +0200: then you can do: # yum install texlive Installing : texlive-2008-0.1.fc11.x86_642/92 Error unpacking rpm package texlive-2008-0.1.fc11.x86_64 error: unpacking

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Orcan Ogetbil, Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:16:36 -0400: - Let's keep F-12 the same: ppc, ppc64, i586, x86_64 - Since ppc and ppc64 are going to be dropped from F-13, fill in the blank spot with i686+SSE2, i.e. F-13: i586, i686+SSE2, x86_64 Everyone happy? No, I hate we will be missing other-endian

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Josh Boyer, Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:28:04 -0400: Another option would be to retain the current i586 support, and add the i686+SSE2 as a new primary arch, with an eye towards depreciating the current x32 support down the road. There would seem to be less initial pain involved here, and everyone would

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Charles Butterfield, Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:19:17 -0400: Okay, so I mostly love Fedora. However, here are 4 things that got by blood really, really boiling, so I thought I'd share my emotions. They are mostly policy issues, where I think you have gotten it very very wrong. DON'T FEED THE

Re: Question about web applications

2009-06-05 Thread Matej Cepl
David Nalley, Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:25 -0400: Perhaps I am the least well suited to respond as I did some of the initial review. However, there are at least 10 bundled libraries with ampache, including pear-XML_RPC, nusoap, getid3, small snippets from Horde, captchaphp, php-Snoopy, etc.

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Reindl Harald, Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:45:21 +0200: I think it is simple BAD to close bugreports with upstream! For me as enduser of fedora i have one bugzilla and i really like to help with bugreports, try things if maintainer needs better explains what happens. As you can see from this thread,

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Jaroslav Reznik, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:01:01 +0200: Most bugs are filled by quite technically skilled users. It doesn't seem so from my point of view. Depends on the importance of the bug (when Xorg doesn't start at all, they find a way to bugzilla). Moreover, we want to move from fora to

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Ralf Corsepius, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:01:46 +0200: We are not forcing anyone to do anything but we think direct communication between user and developer is much more better I consider maintainers redirecting arbitrary reporters to upstreams to be rude and hostile, because they are presuming

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Adam Williamson, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:35:07 -0700: There's an obvious answer to this question: we track the importance of issues to Fedora via the Fedora bug tracker, not via upstream bug trackers. There's no way I can mark a bug in the KDE bug tracker as blocking the release of Fedora 12. For

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:29:35 +0200: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers http://list.gmane.org/fedora-test-l...@redhat.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Dennis J., Thu, 28 May 2009 21:02:05 +0200: Murder is a crime, pornography isn't There are many states (including many states of USA) where it is. Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Till Maas, Fri, 29 May 2009 15:01:29 +0200: It seems more to me, that the Feature owner does not care, because the package is very incomplete and I got no response from my comment in December 2008 that Virtualbox won't make it into Fedora. Btw. how does the Feature owner delete the page? It

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Fri, 29 May 2009 15:30:29 +0200: You mean we should not name RPM Fusion? You can. I probably can as well too (I haven't checked lately), but it is just such fun not to name it. :) Matěj -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

2009-05-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Tom Lane, Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:19 -0400: Unless everyone working on Fedora *moves* to the Isle of Man (and obtains citizenship there), I don't think this sort of maneuver keeps us out of trouble anyway. Realistically we all have to worry about the laws of wherever we live. So as long as a