Re: Features for Fedora Project PBX 1.0

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:08 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > I'm not going to say no to this, but I am going to say that if this is > a > service we are serious about offering, it will take $$. Whereas the > contributor only bridge can be made available now with our current > resources. > Yeah

Re: Hosting repos that are not upstream

2007-08-01 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:42 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:42 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > > Collaboration between more than 1 or 2 people on a patch set to &

Re: Hosting repos that are not upstream

2007-08-01 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:42 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Collaboration between more than 1 or 2 people on a patch set to > propose > upstream. Yeah, this is what I've been pushing for forever. "Private Builds". The use case is something like project utopia. Where you have to make a pile of

Re: smolt, hardware compatibility and package stats

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 07:54 -0400, Russell Harrison wrote: > > > On 6/25/07, Christopher Blizzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually think that we need to capture a small bit of that > information. i.e. kernel, hal, pm-utils and whatnot. B

Re: smolt, hardware compatibility and package stats

2007-06-25 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 17:41 -0400, Russell Harrison wrote: > > Doesn't knowing what's installed help determine what could be fighting > with the hardware? Seems like there are two data points to capture. > What's installed (seems like a good feature for smolt) and what's > actually used (which mu

Re: smolt, hardware compatibility and package stats

2007-06-25 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 22:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> > >> What do folks think of extending smolt into more of a system profiler > >> including optionally collecting information on installed packages? > >> > > > > I'm on the fence about this

Re: Our SCM

2007-06-20 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:06 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > However it does rely on the accessibility of those upstream repos. > Shouldn't be a major issue. If it's down, no updates. Trust me when I say you don't want to do this. You always want to have a local copy. For OLPC we have a jhb

Re: Our SCM

2007-06-20 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Does that make any sense at all? My specific proposal was mostly about translations which I don't think have the same scaling problems you (rightfully) point out with source in general. I like a lot of what you had to say there. Instead

Re: Our SCM

2007-06-20 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:22 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > > So, Infrastructure is much closer to developers, in that the pool of > potentials are more likely to be clued. But keeping it this hard to > contribute means we are missing out on the 1x more people who are > not clued enough to ge

Re: Our SCM

2007-06-19 Thread Christopher Blizzard
Before you guys descend into a discussion of specific SCMs can you talk about what the goals are for what you want to do? Mike touched on them but I think that it needs more discussion before you talk about what you love/hate about specific tools. --Chris

Re: Upgrade metrics

2007-06-15 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 18:29 +0200, Paulo Santos wrote: > > Something like: > - "New survey is available" > - you click in it, do the survey and send it with the profile, it > would also be nice to have a checkbox to disable the announcements. > That's a good idea. I always worried about how to

Re: Upgrade metrics

2007-06-15 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > It keeps trying as best as it can until network comes up. If all > that > fails (say a reboot is required before network comes up) the monthly > smolt checkin will start up and we'll get them a month after they > install. The monthly

Re: Upgrade metrics

2007-06-15 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:54 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > The problem with the smolt numbers is that anyone doing kickstarts, > installing via runlevel 3, yum upgrades or anaconda upgrades will > never > get prompted to enable smolt and there are privacy concerns just > enabling it by default.

Re: RFR: GIT Package VCS

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:31 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > At the same time, I think we still need to be able to very clearly > separate out our changes from what upstream has. Just a git repo of the > kernel very quickly gets out of control and you end up with bazillions > of things that you never p

Re: RFR: GIT Package VCS

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:53 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > > This might sound crazy (SUPPORT > 1 SYSTEM, ARE YOU CRAZY?) Well, > yes, > until you realize what you need to do here. To start with you only > have > to teach the rpm build side how pull a specific ta

Re: RFR: GIT Package VCS

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:16 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > The problem with a staged approach like this two-fold > 1) Moving off of CVS is going to end up requiring a fair bit of > relearning/retraining for people. Even if we keep the workflow the > same. So by having it as a two-step thing, peop

Re: RFR: GIT Package VCS

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:31 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Right. I really don't think we want to just take our current system, > switch out CVS, and end up with all of the same workflows. The change > should be more about how do we improve workflows. That means thinking > about things like: > *

Re: Vote for the (probable) name of Fedora 7!

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:10 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:07 -0400, Voll, Toivo wrote: > > > >> Is there an explanation of the names somewhere? What they stand for, why > >> they are being suggested, how t

RE: Vote for the (probable) name of Fedora 7!

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:07 -0400, Voll, Toivo wrote: > Is there an explanation of the names somewhere? What they stand for, why they > are being suggested, how they compare to the previous names... It's Nothing you have to worry about. --Chris > > -- > Toivo Voll > University of South Florida

Re: Disk space requirements

2007-03-24 Thread Christopher Blizzard
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:04 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:58:37AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > As for the mirrors, what are they obligated to take and what can they pick? > > They can pick and choose however they like fundamentally. They > exclude by arch (e.g. ppc ofte