Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations (fwd)

2006-04-08 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:40 +, S. Lockwood-Childs wrote: > I apologize if this is a resend, but it seemed to me like the 1st attempt > didn't get through (can't imagine why it would take longer than a couple > of days to get to a gentoo-hosted mailing list from a gentoo-hosted mail > account...

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-libs/korelib

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Loeser
There has been no upstream release in years, and the download URLs no longer work. It also has some open bugs (bug #127131). If anyone wishes to step up and maintain this, please do so within the next 30 days, or I am removing it from the tree. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations (fwd)

2006-04-08 Thread S. Lockwood-Childs
I apologize if this is a resend, but it seemed to me like the 1st attempt didn't get through (can't imagine why it would take longer than a couple of days to get to a gentoo-hosted mailing list from a gentoo-hosted mail account...) -- On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Christopher O'Neill wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:07 -0500, lnxg33k wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > * If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> > > developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development > > tools or development documentation. > > I'm a little late jumping int

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:37:01 +0100 Jonathan Coome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think planet.gentoo.org helps in this regard, but there could be a > lot more done to keep end users aware of what's going on. > It certainly does, but having some way to further organise this information by package

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Carsten Lohrke gentoo.org> writes: > How do you want not to enforce it? Have you actually read the proposal? It's quite sensible and is entitled: "Proposal: Integrated boot themes on LiveCDs and installations" I suppose that the themes would be defaulted to on the LiveCDs and optional for regu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread lnxg33k
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 "Christopher O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly | newsletter (which currently seems to be lacking much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread lnxg33k
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: I would also suggest creation of a gentoo-dev-help@ mailing-list. Something similar to what, i guess, the homonym IRC chan is, but for people who don't like IRC. I like this idea as well and agree with the reasoning snip'ed out. As for other mail about -user,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread lnxg33k
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development tools or development documentation. I'm a little late jumping into this and I haven't read all the threads yet, however I agree wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Alec Warner
Simon Stelling wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Jakub Moc
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> highly suspect statements >> >> these states are all quite common ... trying to make some kind of >> supposition as to which is the most common is a waste of time > > No. It's my opinion. Respect it, please. You don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
Graham Murray wrote: > What would be even nicer would be if it could create and maintain an > html index, for example at /usr/share/doc/index.html, to all package > html documentation in a similar way to that which gnu info maintains > the top level index to all info documentation on the system. Y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Graham Murray wrote: Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs installed. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Carsten Lohrke
I dislike the idea to create lots of symlinks for that reason. But I'm having a bug¹ open at mozilla.org with the goal to create rss feeds from the documentation. Carsten [¹] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332095 pgpBhuQuKgGb2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: > highly suspect statements > > these states are all quite common ... trying to make some kind of > supposition as to which is the most common is a waste of time No. It's my opinion. Respect it, please. You don't have to agree. > in my experi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Have you submitted a bugzilla as a request or suggestion - that's the best way to get it acted on . On Saturday April 8 2006 11:48, Fabian Neumann wrote: > Hi Gentoo devs, > > The Problem: I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation > in my browser. E.g., for the Python documentatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:48:12 +0200, Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation in my > browser. Yup, me too. See bug #67130. The feature is optional (you have to set DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf). Symlinks are autocreated when there is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Murray
Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version > of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of > course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs > installed. The first format co

[gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Fabian Neumann
Hi Gentoo devs, The Problem: I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation in my browser. E.g., for the Python documentation this would be file:///usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.2/html/index.html. But as the version number is included in the path, I have to update the bookmark every tim

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-08 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 07 April 2006 17:47, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > What Alec said, however, this would require that we have interested > developers who would subscribe and be active when they can, to avoid it > becoming another -user. > > But yes, I like that idea too! Thank you. Actually -user used to h

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-08 Thread Wernfried Haas
Maybe your answer has already been answered somewhere in this thread, here are some threads on the forums on this issue (some are about older versions, but the reasons are likely the same): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-335187.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-446306.html Searching

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: > - we were invited to a convention O'Reilly hosts (forgot the name) OSCON, and it's really quite good dev/suit ratio. I was there last year, along with Corey and some other OSL people. I'd like to get a booth if we can have enough people to staff it. Thanks, Donnie signa