Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

2005-10-16 Thread Marc Hildebrand
Luca Barbato wrote: Those 6 packages do not look maintained and have different issues. avifile: superseded by ffmpeg, xine and, yet to be in portage due some packing issue (it has to be snapshotted as ffmpeg), mlt. Ooops. Is someone working on mlt too? I have some working ebuilds somewhere

[gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-10-16 Thread Hania Sabbidin
Dear Gentoo Developers, I am a student at the American University of Beirut (AUB) currently working for a Masters degree in Engineering Management. I am in the process of conducting research work on organizational aspects of the open source software development process. Accordingly, I’ve devised

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-10-16 Thread Luca Barbato
Hania Sabbidin wrote: For those of you who are willing to help, I am attaching a .doc version of the same file if you were not able to open the earlier attachment. Thanks, Hania Sabbidin What about an ascii text or OpenDocument? Would be better just put a link and let who is interested go and

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

2005-10-16 Thread Luca Barbato
Marc Hildebrand wrote: Ooops. Is someone working on mlt too? I have some working ebuilds somewhere but I'm *very* busy atm so I can't test it. (And there are other packags that have a high priority too. Got interested bug got overbusy too =/ lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-10-16 Thread Tres Melton
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:17 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Hania Sabbidin wrote: For those of you who are willing to help, I am attaching a .doc version of the same file if you were not able to open the earlier attachment. Thanks, Hania Sabbidin What about an ascii text or OpenDocument?

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-10-16 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Tres Melton schrieb: I think the very concept of free software and interchangeable data formats has eluded him. His first posting had an attachment in SXW (OOo Writer 1.x) format. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14

[gentoo-dev] Consolidated Virtualization effort in Gentoo

2005-10-16 Thread Benedikt Boehm
Hi All, recently Stuart and I came up with idea to consolidate development of all Virtualization systems in Gentoo. Virtualization is a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments. Virtualization techniques create multiple isolated

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end. media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has currently no upstream and there's no maintainer. One week from now,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end. media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-10-16 Thread Hania Sabbidin
Quoting Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tres Melton schrieb: I think the very concept of free software and interchangeable data formats has eluded him. His first posting had an attachment in SXW (OOo Writer 1.x) format. Thank you for pointing this out. Unfortunately, when I got a

[gentoo-dev] [OT] Colocation

2005-10-16 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
Anyone know anywhere that offers discounts on colocation for FLOSS developers? Nathaniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread aeriksson
Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end. media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has currently no upstream and there's no maintainer. One week

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:22 +, Luis Medinas wrote: After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a few bugs asap. Excellent. I was getting a bit worried that my favorite multimedia application was

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] Colocation

2005-10-16 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Sunday, October 16, 2005 13:52, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: Anyone know anywhere that offers discounts on colocation for FLOSS developers? I'm interested in this as well. Can anyone recommend a Canadian-based colocation host? -- Anthony Gorecki Ectro-Linux Foundation pgp0KQUlFz6Eu.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:01 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:22 +, Luis Medinas wrote: After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a few bugs asap. Excellent. I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] Colocation

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:52 pm, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: Anyone know anywhere that offers discounts on colocation for FLOSS developers? http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ offers some discounts you could also check out the links on the right side of http://www.gentoo.org/ -mike --

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead...

2005-10-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 October 2005 14:20, Zac Medico wrote: I am very impressed with the number of bugs closed in preparation for the 2.0.53 release (dependencies of bug 108082) and it seems like it is in everyone's best interest to keep up this pace so that all the easy bugs are closed ASAP. There is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead...

2005-10-16 Thread Zac Medico
Jason Stubbs wrote: It will likely be that some of the bugs marked against 108262 won't be fixed in time. Perhaps it would have been better to just open a metabug when the branch is opened and mark bugs against it as they are fixed. It's nice to have a list of open bugs against the release