Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | voting previleges Again, why? They have not yet demonstrated their understanding of complex technical issues. Voting should be restricted to people who know what they're doing. Arch testers have not yet proven themselves. Does that mean that all the Gentoo people who

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Homer Parker wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 04:14 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | voting previleges Again, why? They have not yet demonstrated their understanding of complex technical issues. Voting should be restricted to people who know what they're doing. Arch testers have not yet proven

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 01:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: This list is automagically generated. It will be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list at irregular intervals until someone asks me to stop. I know that this is automatically generated, but can we either change the bug subjects or figure

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Jakub Moc
13.9.2005, 13:39:10, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I know that this is automatically generated, but can we either change the bug subjects or figure out some way to add proposed categories to these? I think changing the summary should suffice. For the ones with categories, I can pretty much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Thierry Carrez wrote: Nathan L. Adams wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: right ... once a GLEP has been hammered out and approved, there isnt really anything left for managers/council to do ... it's then up to whoever to get it done ;) They *could* do some 'creative re-org' a.k.a. remove some

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Barbato wrote: | Simon Stelling wrote: | | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:51:38 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | define exactly how one proves themself, and in what context. | | Repeated good contributions. |

[gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Frank Schafer
Hello, this bug is from 2005-02-05. It was reported again (in this thread) 2005-02-10. I hit the same behavior 2005-09-08. internal compiler error: segmentation fault during emerge Xorg The bug is simply reproducible (emerge Xorg) at the same line of code. The bug is still marked as NEW.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:24:38PM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Hello, this bug is from 2005-02-05. It was reported again (in this thread) 2005-02-10. I hit the same behavior 2005-09-08. internal compiler error: segmentation fault during emerge Xorg The bug is simply reproducible (emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Frank Schafer wrote: Does someone know if it's worth a try with the vanilla and if vanilla here means a really vanilla from kernel.org or if it's sufficient to get the (too patched and thus not so vanilla) vanilla-sources. vanilla-sources is not patched. Please be kind with me regarding to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: are running vesafb-tng and have =1GB RAM then try turning off vesafb-tng Why ? -- Cheers, Ivan Yosifov. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Ivan Yosifov wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: are running vesafb-tng and have =1GB RAM then try turning off vesafb-tng Why ? Actually, this shouldn't matter, as this only occurs with 64gb highmem. I only mentioned it as this is the only random crasher

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:01 +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: are running vesafb-tng and have =1GB RAM then try turning off vesafb-tng Why ? Because of known bugs I'd guess? -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Frank Schafer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:14 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Ivan Yosifov wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: are running vesafb-tng and have =1GB RAM then try turning off vesafb-tng Why ? Actually, this shouldn't matter, as this only occurs with 64gb

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:08 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: 13.9.2005, 13:39:10, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I know that this is automatically generated, but can we either change the bug subjects or figure out some way to add proposed categories to these? I think changing the summary should

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:21:22 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uhm... Different people have different skill levels. Some of this is | down to natural ability, some of it is down to experience. Arch | testers have not yet proven themselves. Full developers have (at | least in

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:39:31 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Each has a role, don't blur the AT definition into ebuild devs unless | you've after eliminating AT positions (something I doubt going by | your previous QA threads); if you're after that, state so please. Not at all.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins set it up' Recruitment,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Jon Portnoy wrote: [Tue Sep 13 2005, 11:22:32AM CDT] The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins set it up' Recruitment,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:22:32 -0400 Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: | | The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. | | No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't | like devrel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Cakebread
Lance Albertson wrote: Ah, I see. To the best of my knowledge that just needs to be worked out w/ the GLEP 15 people and infra. I dropped into -infra and they said that there's space for it, but that bug # 98282 lists a couple of contentious points. (Also, the gentooexperimental scripts

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:09 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:22:32 -0400 Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: | The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. | | No it hasn't, unless by

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:39:10 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I know that this is automatically generated, but can we either change | the bug subjects or figure out some way to add proposed categories to | these? I think changing the summary should suffice. For the ones | with

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Jakub Moc
13.9.2005, 20:31:30, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:52:33 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uhm, if the ebuild submitter does not choose a category, then we'd | have to change the subject ourselves (and sometimes I'm not even | remotely sure into which

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:57:24 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sure, I've already managed to delete all the bugspam this caused... | *g* Yeah, maintainer-wanted bug emails are a pain in the ass. How about we turn off email sending for: * I'm added to or removed from this capacity *

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Jakub Moc
13.9.2005, 21:08:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:57:24 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sure, I've already managed to delete all the bugspam this caused... | *g* Yeah, maintainer-wanted bug emails are a pain in the ass. How about we turn off email sending for:

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:52:33 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uhm, if the ebuild submitter does not choose a category, then we'd | have to change the subject ourselves (and sometimes I'm not even | remotely sure

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:53 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Okay, I've gone through and added in approximate categories to the subjects where possible. A few I'm really not sure about, if anyone wants to tinker feel free. Excellent! This is definitely appreciated. Thanks. -- Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * Keywords field changes Wouldn't you *want* to see these? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:50:50 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | * Keywords field changes | | Wouldn't you *want* to see these? Mmm, I suppose maybe someone might try to sneak a REVIEWED add past us. I've switched the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 02:04 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: - in the case of developers who do not wish to follow accepted policies/guidelines/etc even after being enlightened, devrel is notified and takes appropriate corrective action - in the case of a need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this a bad thing ? i'd prefer to have devs settle crap themselves than ever contacting devrel :P It's very relevant, because it supports

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 04:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this a bad thing ? i'd prefer to have devs settle crap themselves than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:02:45PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 04:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: QA team identifies a misbehaving dev who refuses to change and then hands off the name/relevant data to devrel ... QA team then is pretty much done with the issue and the rest is up to devrel to resolve I disagree that devrel should be involved. I think QA should hand

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 06:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: QA team identifies a misbehaving dev who refuses to change and then hands off the name/relevant data to devrel ... QA team then is pretty much done with the issue and the rest is up to devrel to resolve I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:22 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:31 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: at any rate, you're proposing giving the control to the QA team which has no guidelines or processes outlined, let alone the manpower. devrel has all of these. And devrel is the wrong group to handle it,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:46 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Not really, because my opinion that devrel shouldn't be involved is not automatically turned into reality (much to my regret). I'm trying to supply evidence why this should stay between QA and infra. at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: as avenj pointed out, current 'mission statement' of devrel says that they handle the issue of actually revoking a dev's access I thought this was written somewhere too, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Do you know where it says this? It certainly says they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:59 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: as avenj pointed out, current 'mission statement' of devrel says that they handle the issue of actually revoking a dev's access I thought this was written somewhere too, but I can't seem to find it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: It certainly says they're responsible for adding and removing developers, but I don't see anything about them being solely responsible for revoking access. no, nowhere does it say 'devrel is the only team which may revoke access', but it is the only team which says

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:22 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: It certainly says they're responsible for adding and removing developers, but I don't see anything about them being solely responsible for revoking access. no, nowhere does it say 'devrel is the only team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's responsibilities are It sounds like somebody needs to take a look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:21 pm, Nathan L. Adams wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's responsibilities are It sounds like somebody needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: GLEP's are developed after the details are ironed out in public developer forums ... their purpose isnt to fast track changes through the Gentoo council to kill long threads not saying that is what you meant, just making

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:21:42PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
Frank Schafer wrote: I'm still on the kernel from the life-cd. The self compiled kernel has the highmem option set to off (I have only 1GB). I'm on x86 Intel Celeron M and have CHOST set to i686-pc-linux-gnu and CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium2 Um, why pentium2? The Celeron-M is the same core

[gentoo-dev] GNOME 2.12.0 Final - Testing

2005-09-13 Thread John N. Laliberte
Hello all, The GNOME herd is now ready for 2.12.0 to be tested. The gnome-2.12.0.ebuild should hit the mirrors shortly. ( just committed) Please see this document for information on how to test: http://dev.gentoo.org/~allanonjl/gnome/2.12.0/testing.instructions.txt Thanks, and happy bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Corey Shields
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 5:22 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: I would like there to be a clause that infra has the ability to at least temporarily revoke access to have the ability to protect our servers if something came up quickly. I've always made sure any permanent removals go through

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:10 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: As far as devrel goes, call me a traditionalist but I think while infra should be able to do emergency deactivations (and afaik nobody's ever said they shouldn't) devrel should continue to be responsible for disciplinary issues

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Curtis Napier
Lance Albertson wrote: snip ... I tend to agree with Donnie on this partially. Devrel's main focus isn't the QA of the tree, its dealing with developers. QA should have the authority to limit access to the tree if someone isn't following the guidelines properly. They are the ones with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: I'm not an ebuild dev so I may not know enough about this situation to competantly comment on it but it seems to me that QA should have some sort of limited ability to temporarily take away write access to the tree until devrel