Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-29 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:45:26PM -0700, Duncan wrote: > Lance Albertson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:14:11 -0500: > > > Ok, after talking with a few folks I want to retract my comment about no > > shell access. I didn't think about the other groups (docs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-29 Thread christian . hartmann
Lance Albertson: > > I'm just getting ansty about all these new people we're bringing > > on and the security behind it. Thats my main concern at this point, not > > whether your work is more or less than a regular developer. Andrea Barisani: > Seriously security_wise and admin_wise I don't see s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-29 Thread Michele Noberasco
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:03:59 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: imho sys-apps/qingy should also belong here... What about kdm and gdm? Bye Michele -- Life can be so tragic -- you're here today and here tomorrow. pgpq1Bfk5g6we.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-29 Thread Duncan
Michele Noberasco posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:02:31 +0200: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:03:59 +0200 > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > imho sys-apps/qingy should also belong here... > > What about kdm and gdm? Don't know about gdm,

[gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia

2005-06-29 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, Starting from linux-2.6.13-rc1 the PCMCIA subsystem has been patched to exports certain internals to sysfs, which allows using hotplug for handling insertion/ejection of 16bit PCMCIA cards. For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be added to portage. Therefore, a n

Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia

2005-06-29 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be > added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to > sys-apps/pcmcia-cs in base/virtuals for now) will be added as well. I forgot to menti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 28/06/05, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Johanson wrote: > > > it wasn't even *him* who introduced the > >keywords in question, he did a by the book bump moving arch -> ~arch for > >all arches listed in keywords. > > > Book in question sort of presumes that ones wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-29 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:45 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > Really? I thought the policy was "When upgrading, drop all existing > keywords from arch to ~arch, and leave any existing ~arch keywords > intact.". It is. Sincerely, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribu

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-29 Thread Duncan
christian.hartmann posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:54:35 +0200: > Lance Albertson: >> > I'm just getting ansty about all these new people we're bringing on >> > and the security behind it. Thats my main concern at this point, not >> > whether your work is more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 05:45 am, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 28/06/05, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Johanson wrote: > > > it wasn't even *him* who introduced the > > >keywords in question, he did a by the book bump moving arch -> ~arch for > > >all arches liste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-29 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:02, Michele Noberasco wrote: > imho sys-apps/qingy should also belong here... > What about kdm and gdm? qingy seems to be just a replacement for getty so it isn't relative directly with authorizations and authentication. Same for kdm/gdm which are mere frontends and be

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-29 Thread Haas Wernfried
Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:27:31AM +0100, Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > Just a question, will there be a different group for moderators that > belong to staff and moderators which doesn't belong? I think this is not planned at the moment. > I'm asking this > because users may relate different gro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:35 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Although this would require a request to someone with shell access to > the CVS box, it would preserve all the history of the moved packages. > The loss of history is (IMO) the _primary_ problem of moving packages. I definitely agree. Lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:30 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > > but I have a dev in the > >dotnet herd who's really pretty upset right now as a result of such > >apparently scathing comments accusing him of being an evil conspirator, > >a wrecker, and traitor, when it wasn't even *him* who

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:45 -0700, Duncan wrote: > OK, I'm with you on the security thing (being one that would prefer a > USE=clientonly flag, remember, tho I understand the reasons behind not > doing it), but I DO know there's quite the occasional use for someplace to > host scripts, patchlets, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-29 Thread Michele Noberasco
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:37:42 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:02, Michele Noberasco wrote: > qingy seems to be just a replacement for getty so it isn't relative > directly with authorizations and authentication. > Same for kdm/gdm which ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:27:31AM +0100, Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > Just a question, will there be a different group for moderators that > belong to staff and moderators which doesn't belong? I'm asking this > because users may relate different groups meaning official gentoo > replies from gentoo s

[gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@g.o and maintainer-wanted@g.o now available for use

2005-06-29 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:56:07PM +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: > Two new aliases will be made that bugs can be assigned to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Used for packages that are already in the tree and that are in > desperate need of a maintainer. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Used f

[gentoo-dev] Something to remember when using the new maintainer-* aliases

2005-06-29 Thread Maurice van der Pot
Hi people, I've already noticed a few people assigning to the new aliases, but forgetting to put appropriate herds on the CC. This was mentioned in the previous thread, but not everybody may have read that one. So please keep in mind: If a bug is submitted for a package of interest to a certa

[gentoo-dev] Perl 5.8.6 is unmasked

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Cummings
Just sharing :) Perl 5.8.7 is the new ~x86 and ~sparc version -- -o()o- Michael Cummings |#gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev|on irc.freenode.net -o()o- pgpumt0iPbBwC.pgp Descrip

[gentoo-dev] Help with Jabber<->MSN

2005-06-29 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
I'm trying to figure out wich branch of a new MSN transport for jabber to put in portage. If "you" could help would be great. What you need: 1-Jabber client with avatar support ( psi-0.9.3-r3 and r4 have, r4 is better) 2-One jabber acount (jabber.org or you can open one on on my server jabber.feli

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Joshua Baergen

2005-06-29 Thread Mike Doty
All- Please take a moment to welcome our newest developer, Josh_B. Josh is from Canada. Josh has joined to help out the X herd. In his own words, "I'm originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1992. For the summer I am living in Sylvan Lake where I am the

[gentoo-dev] Updating the list of non-SPARC herd devs keywording for SPARC

2005-06-29 Thread Jason Wever
Hi All, In the past, a few folks that aren't part of the SPARC herd had communicated that they had the ability to actually test packages on SPARC hardware and been giving the blessing of the SPARC team to keyword select packages. I'm trying to go through and update that list now to make sure it i

[gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Joshua Baergen

2005-06-29 Thread R Hill
Mike Doty wrote: All- Please take a moment to welcome our newest developer, Josh_B. Josh is from Canada. Josh has joined to help out the X herd. In his own words, "I'm originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1992. For the summer I am living in Sylvan Lak