Quoting Tim Thome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
For the packagers... how to package for a release. I maintain my own
boxen, so when a security issue pops up, I download source or make the
fix locally. How to build a package and release it into testing remains
somewhat of a mystery... I'd be happy to do s
Quoting David Eisenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What do you suggest as an alternative for IRC for folks who are not able or
interested in using it?
I work in several opensource projects that have IRC channels, and I've never
used IRC for any of them, and no one has ever complained about that fac
Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
>> resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity
>> (Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the
>> resources need t
Eric Rostetter wrote:
Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity
(Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the
resources need to come from m
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:46:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Unifying and opening up more of the infrastructure and other ideas like
that only doing critical security fixes are things to look at.
But FL's charter is already to only cater about security fixes, or do
you imp
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:47, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
> > resources
>
> Well, if the barrier to contribute was lower, getting more people would be
> easier.
Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity
(Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the
resources need to come from more voluntary people, e
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:47, Axel Thimm wrote:
> The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
> resources
Well, if the barrier to contribute was lower, getting more people would be
easier. If it were say as easy as using the Extras build system so that any
curren
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:46:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Unifying and opening up more of the infrastructure and other ideas like
> that only doing critical security fixes are things to look at.
But FL's charter is already to only cater about security fixes, or do
you imply to categorize
Axel Thimm wrote:
I don't know if the board has power over suggesting to Fedora's
sponsor, Red Hat, to resuffle its engineering resources, but if so,
then it's a simple equation: If FL is indeed going to get more
resources to prolong a Fedora release's lifespan then these resources
need to be dr
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> OK, I'll bite. What do you want exactly from the Board?
>
> Wave our magic Fedora wand to produce more (active) community contributors?
> OK, lemme see, now where did I leave that darn thing...
I see 2 things that could help:
*
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David Eisenstein wrote:
>
> > Fedora Board, please take heed. Although providing a stable, long-term
> > operating system/environment is *not* one of Fedora Project's stated
> > goals, the practical lifetime of a Fedora release of 1 y
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:04:06PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Additionally, the project simply needs at least one person who manages the
> project as a full-time job.
And by "needs", I mean: I'm very skeptical that it can be viable without
this. While the project was in its most functional sta
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Wave our magic Fedora wand to produce more (active) community contributors?
> OK, lemme see, now where did I leave that darn thing...
Well, to be honest, a little bit, yeah. There just hasn't been good
infrastructure in place for contr
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Dave Stevens wrote:
> a confession of inadequacy is more of a preliminary than an answer
>
> Dave
Sorry, to butt in
Maybe, what we need to do is have a re-organization of the idea of
FedoraLegacy instead of trying to overtax anyone. Or chase an
On Monday 06 November 2006 09:59, Dave Stevens wrote:
> a confession of inadequacy is more of a preliminary than an answer
Confession how? How would it be any different from the Fedora Legacy project
itself from making some sort of 'confession' ? The unfortunate problem is
ours to solve.
--
On Monday 06 November 2006 06:21, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David Eisenstein wrote:
> > Fedora Board, please take heed. Although providing a stable, long-term
> > operating system/environment is *not* one of Fedora Project's stated
> > goals, the practical lifetime of a Fedora release of 1 year (without
David Eisenstein wrote:
> Fedora Board, please take heed. Although providing a stable, long-term
> operating system/environment is *not* one of Fedora Project's stated
> goals, the practical lifetime of a Fedora release of 1 year (without
> Legacy to be there to security-maintain them for (at le
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From: "Thorsten Leemhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit
> >> == MISC ==
> >>
> >> * I got the impression (and LWN readers, too ["hello corbert! "]) that
> >>
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