Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread Warwick Bruce Chapman
Who cares about views? It is our distro and we just like to make it better. Right? There is a plethora of potential Gentoo developers out there and this sort of press does nothing for getting them any closer to joining the effort. Secondly, regarding the DW article, surely if it was as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
From your draft: (note: most parts shamelessly stolen from Christel) In that case, showing only what differs from Christel's proposal would have been a better way to present yours. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:06:28 +0100 Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But then, why do we need a Code of Conduct at all? There is nothing in it that people don't already know and if they choose to still commit the offense, it's either that they don't think it's one or that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:40:54 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. If someone wanted to start a gentoo-politics, by all means, go ahead, just don't expect anyone to read it. That's not such a bad idea, really. I don't mean creating -politics as such, but the idea of separating out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:51:42AM +0100, Denis Dupeyron wrote: From your draft: (note: most parts shamelessly stolen from Christel) In that case, showing only what differs from Christel's proposal would have been a better way to present yours. Sorry if that was unclear, that note didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:58:50PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * The wrong idea of what the user base is, and what the target user base is. Gentoo's direction is too heavily influenced by a small number of extremely noisy ricer forum users, many of whom don't even run Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jakub Moc
Wernfried Haas napsal(a): On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:58:50PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Sunrise is the canonical example. Also consider the way the forums are being run (like it or not, the forums are taken by many to be representative of Gentoo's user base)... Drop your theories about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:15:27PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No one's been complaining about the user forums, apart from ciaran afaict Oh, I assure you I'm not the only person to have serious issues with the forums. A number of Gentoo developers and former Gentoo developers have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But then, why do we need a Code of Conduct at all? I don't see as we need a CoC at all. The Etiquette policy should suffice. We're all adults here and we don't need another babysitter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread C. Bergström
This is a great link for the leaders, developers and just about anyone else involved in our community. While this is solely my opinion I do humbly ask anyone with a spare few minutes to step back and take a look. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645q=poisonous+people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C. Bergström wrote: This is a great link for the leaders, developers and just about anyone else involved in our community. While this is solely my opinion I do humbly ask anyone with a spare few minutes to step back and take a look.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:06:28 +0100, Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi all, I've been voicing my concern repeatedly on irc, and I believe that it would probably be more effective here. I believe that the solution of adopting a Code of Conduct, especially in this rushed way,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:33:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paludis had nothing to do with that. It was a Portage change that required the update. hansmi's log was from 1-06-2007. The change in portage was added 1-23-07. This was before the discussion and portage fix, when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:49:39 +0100 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:58:50PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * The wrong idea of what the user base is, and what the target user base is. Gentoo's direction is too heavily influenced by a small number of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
George Prowse wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: I'd rather make it known that that sort of backhanded tactics to get rid of someone you don't like won't work whoever uses them. You would certainly make that point. then let the other employee leave and let the employee in question know that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Incidentally, I'm unsure as to how your analogy applies here. You keep mentioning 'best employee'. I'm not sure how that fits in. No, twice he said one of the best employees. Honestly Ciarian, I'd think you of all people would not want to mis-quote someone. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +, George Prowse wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: snip Personally I understand why

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: George Prowse wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: I'd rather make it known that that sort of backhanded tactics to get rid of someone you don't like won't work whoever uses them. You would certainly make that point. then let the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/15/07, Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that sums the most important differences up, if you need more information, please read post proposals. ;-) It's much clearer like this, now. Thank you. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Caleb Tennis
The KDE team is still grossly understaffed. Most of the long term developers on the team are either gone or inactive, and the ones still working on it really need help. Bugs are piling up, patches are waiting, and package versions need bumped. I simply don't have the time to keep up with it

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Volunteers, please join #gentoo-kde at irc.freenode.net! We'll be expecting you. On 3/15/07, Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The KDE team is still grossly understaffed. Most of the long term developers on the team are either gone or inactive, and the ones still working on it really need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Warwick Bruce Chapman
* The repeated abuse of silly phrases like Gentoo is about choice, Gentoo is about the community and Gentoo should be about fun to attempt to rationalise insane policy decisions. Choice, community and fun are all very well, but without a quality distribution they're worthless. The primary goal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Caleb Cushing wrote: What on earth is going to be a major visible improvement to a command line based package manager that any average Gentoo user is going to realise? The average user probably only uses a few commands: emerge -u/p/a/v/--sync/package/world/system and then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:30:11 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather make it known that that sort of backhanded tactics to get rid of someone you don't like won't work whoever uses them. You would certainly make that point. then let the other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Becker
And if said employee had already pulled several I'm resigning publicity stunts in the past? And if said employee had seen other people trying the same thing unsuccessfully? Then you deal with them at such a time as they appear, you do not let 2 employees go when everyone's integrity could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Caleb Cushing wrote: I have no idea if it's possible but if a topic is deemed to be off topic then can any further replies with that subject be forwarded automatically to another address like gentoo-dev-offtopic so they dont go to gentoo-dev? I believe you can change the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote: There is a plethora of potential Gentoo developers out there and this sort of press does nothing for getting them any closer to joining the effort. I consider myself a potential Gentoo developer, although as I stated in my first post I simply don't have the time.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:19:52 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What on earth is going to be a major visible improvement to a command line based package manager that any average Gentoo user is going to realise? The average user probably only uses a few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:40:54 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. If someone wanted to start a gentoo-politics, by all means, go ahead, just don't expect anyone to read it. That's not such a bad idea, really. I don't mean creating -politics as such,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jonathan Adamczewski
George Prowse wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:19:52 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What on earth is going to be a major visible improvement to a command line based package manager that any average Gentoo user is going to realise? The average user probably

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ferris McCormick wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +, George Prowse wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: snip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: George Prowse wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: I'd rather make it known that that sort of backhanded tactics to get rid of someone you don't like won't work whoever uses them.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Stephen Becker wrote: And if said employee had already pulled several I'm resigning publicity stunts in the past? And if said employee had seen other people trying the same thing unsuccessfully? Then you deal with them at such a time as they appear, you do not let 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:44:37 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe was leaving anyway. Ask Joe to leave soon which saves every single problem. Joe just does what he was going to do, you get what you want and the company keeps on running smoothly. The company then has the choice of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
I think this one is a lot better, thanks amne. In terms of implementation, can't we just get some dev-moderators (cf proctors) who moderate bugzilla and ml? If a user comes into those channels they are subject to the same standards, with perhaps a little leeway since they don't post from a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Becker wrote: I would still have told Diego exactly how I felt about unreasonably abusing an arch team member who was simply trying to do his job What by abusing him in turn on bugzilla so it would stay part of the public record? Good game representing gentoo there. And was Diego being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:44 +, George Prowse wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an ultimatum is one of the quickest ways to become unemployed.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: Fortunately some people value integrity above what you call man-management and people skills. Yes in times gone by, they used to be called hermits. Can we stop the nastiness please? You are clearly impugning a whole swathe of people's integrity. --

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: When these big debates arise, discussion could be shunted to the separate list, requiring those who care enough to join the debate, to join that list, which may help limit the number of people who get involved. Perhaps gentoo-discuss. Or maybe you guys could just use

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote: There is a plethora of potential Gentoo developers out there and this sort of press does nothing for getting them any closer to joining the effort. Agreed by me at least. In any event, the Distrowatch article did not change either my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:11:49 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you think that that's all a package manager should do, you have a serious lack of imagination. Most users need or would heavily benefit from far more. See http://ciaranm.org/show_post/95 for some modest ideas that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:36:19 +1100 Jonathan Adamczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Also, mandate that there be a link to upstream changelogs (or a summary thereof) in a packages changelog in portage. Help users make informed decisions about upgrades. Some devs already do this e.g.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ferris McCormick wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:44 +, George Prowse wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an ultimatum is one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Becker
On 3/15/07, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Becker wrote: I would still have told Diego exactly how I felt about unreasonably abusing an arch team member who was simply trying to do his job What by abusing him in turn on bugzilla so it would stay part of the public record? Good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen Becker napsal(a): First of all, get your facts straight. The bugzilla incident of which you speak happened before all of this. Second of all, the language is irrelevant. Point is, he was acting like an asshole to somebody , so he got abused in return. Yeah indeed, lets get the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:11:49 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you think that that's all a package manager should do, you have a serious lack of imagination. Most users need or would heavily benefit from far more. See http://ciaranm.org/show_post/95 for

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
George Prowse wrote: Caleb Cushing wrote: How about the speed of search's? the speed of resolving dependancy's? how about the speed that it takes to calculate a dependancy listing after you've already done it once? portage is SLOW. So speed... Re: speed of searches, try qsearch from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:44:37 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe was leaving anyway. Ask Joe to leave soon which saves every single problem. Joe just does what he was going to do, you get what you want and the company keeps on running smoothly. The company

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Becker
On 3/15/07, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Becker napsal(a): First of all, get your facts straight. The bugzilla incident of which you speak happened before all of this. Second of all, the language is irrelevant. Point is, he was acting like an asshole to somebody , so he got

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote: I'm not sure that differs much from the meaning I interpreted from Ciaran's point. I read antarus' point as: without a happy dev community you won't achieve a quality distro. Ciaran seems to be saying you can, and *then* everyone will be happy. That sounds like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Jakub Moc wrote: Stephen Becker napsal(a): First of all, get your facts straight. The bugzilla incident of which you speak happened before all of this. Second of all, the language is irrelevant. Point is, he was acting like an asshole to somebody , so he got abused in return. Yeah

[gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: Perhaps not implausible in its strictest sense, as it could be done. It would, however, be a monumentally stupid idea in the general case, if said user happened to be a contributor upstream to widely-used packages, or happened to discover an important security bug in

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
George Prowse wrote: Caleb Cushing wrote: I have no idea if it's possible but if a topic is deemed to be off topic then can any further replies with that subject be forwarded automatically to another address like gentoo-dev-offtopic so they dont go to gentoo-dev? I believe you can change the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Seemant Kulleen
OK, you three. Knock it off. Right now. This is exactly the sort of utter nonsense that we've been talking about viz. what's going on on this mailing list. There is no excuse to be an asshole, Stephen, because in doing so (even as a retaliation) renders your own point null and void. It's one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 16:38 +, George Prowse wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:44:37 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You miss the point. This was not the first time a resignation stunt had been pulled by that developer, and previously another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:31:08 + George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're massively underestimating the requirements of the average user, what with the tree as complex as it is these days. Most users now: * Have to use external repositories * Have to handle at least some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:30:36 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're avoiding my point. The improvements that are being made are, by and large, insignificant. Portage doesn't need a few little tweaks now and again. It has to start delivering a whole load of major new

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which, even if it were true, is besides the point if doing so prevents any development from getting done. And just how much development gets done on the forums? No development gets done on here either. Discussion does. Development happens when people aren't getting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 15/03/07, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No development gets done on here either. Discussion does. Development happens when people aren't getting drawn into long flames about the distro they use, which only clog up peoples' inboxes. Are you suggesting a dev forum on forums.gentoo.org?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:30:36 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're avoiding my point. The improvements that are being made are, by and large, insignificant. Portage doesn't need a few little tweaks now and again. It has to start delivering a whole load

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:30:01 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which, even if it were true, is besides the point if doing so prevents any development from getting done. And just how much development gets done on the forums? No development gets done on here

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:33:12 -0300 Mauricio Lima Pilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:15:05 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which, even if it were true, is besides the point if doing so prevents any development from getting done. And just how much development gets done on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Mauricio Lima Pilla
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:46:46 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Why are those responsible for the forums unwilling to accept any feedback or criticism, instead attacking the attacker or accusing the attacker of merely being one of my pawns? Or, when it happens on the forums, making unspecific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:40 +0100, Jakob Buchgraber wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management system. How is this useful, honestly? Ciaran's exercising his strengths:

[gentoo-dev] Re: OT: Dickheads, but good devs Was: Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
C. Bergström wrote: Since there's a select few people here who feel it's their duty to keep posting non-technical discussion to this list. 1) Someone much more senior than me please step in and take a leader role. 2) Everyone wrapped up in please take a step back and see what's actually

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * Portage. Portage is being incrementally improved. My understanding was that the portage team can't move forward with a new version until EAPI0 is done? I also think either you are ignoring the changes or you are just unaware of things that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management system. I think you underestimate just how much rewriting and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:42:17 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alec Warner wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * Portage. Portage is being incrementally improved. My understanding was that the portage team can't move forward with a new version until EAPI0 is done? Entirely untrue. Even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:42:17 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding was that the portage team can't move forward with a new version until EAPI0 is done? They can't move forward with changes that break ebuild compatibility until EAPI-0 is documented and EAPI-1 can start to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management system. Because it's far simpler to start from scratch.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management system. Patches welcome, I think is the appropriate response

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-15 Thread expose
Hi List, The following mail has been written on Tuesday before alot of the recent discussions. It hasn't been changed except for three passages, which I left out (marked with [...]) which had no actual content, and don't make sense to be send to the list, but only to the actual addressee, who

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management system. Patches welcome, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:15, Jeff Gardner wrote: Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But then, why do we need a Code of Conduct at all? I don't see as we need a CoC at all. The Etiquette policy should suffice. We're all adults here and we don't need another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen Becker napsal(a): On 3/15/07, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah indeed, lets get the facts straight and let's see who did behave like an asshole: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=110676action=view Indeed both of us were assholes that day, I never denied that. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: OT: Dickheads, but good devs Was: Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml

2007-03-15 Thread George Prowse
Steve Long wrote: C. Bergström wrote: Since there's a select few people here who feel it's their duty to keep posting non-technical discussion to this list. 1) Someone much more senior than me please step in and take a leader role. 2) Everyone wrapped up in please take a step back and see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Both of you please stop this thread right here. It's getting nobody anywhere. Thanks, seemant signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Joris Van den Bogerd
On 3/15/07, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:15, Jeff Gardner wrote: Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But then, why do we need a Code of Conduct at all? I don't see as we need a CoC at all. The Etiquette policy should suffice.

[gentoo-dev] www-apps/dokuwiki maintainer needed

2007-03-15 Thread Raphael Marichez
Hi, www-apps/dokuwiki is without an ebuild maintainer and has an open security bug #163781 that corresponds to several vulnerabilities https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163781 CVE-2006-6965 CVE-2006-5099 CVE-2006-5098 CVE-2006-4679 CVE-2006-4675 CVE-2006-4674 CVE-2006-2945 CVE-2006-2878

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Philip Webb
070315 Caleb Tennis wrote: The KDE team is still grossly understaffed. Bugs are piling up, patches are waiting and package versions need bumped. I simply don't have the time to keep up with it anymore. I've been doing this for over 4 years now and my interests have shifted to other things.

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/dokuwiki maintainer needed

2007-03-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:30 +0100 Raphael Marichez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. Non-vulnerable version is in the tree, and I have added myself to metadata.xml with description Backup

[gentoo-dev] Summary for 15 March 2007 special council meeting on CoC

2007-03-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
hours. the full log can be found at the normal location: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070315.txt -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer Council Member E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgpb3TjNZxZbC.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: My understanding was that the portage team can't move forward with a new version until EAPI0 is done? They can't move forward with changes that break ebuild compatibility until EAPI-0 is documented and EAPI-1 can start to be defined. That's not to say that user-side

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Florian D.
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: Volunteers, please join #gentoo-kde at irc.freenode.net! We'll be expecting you. from a user point of view: why don't you just close a bug, if * a user is careless enough to forget about emerge --info (don't ask for more info- just close it) * there is a chance that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Long
Jakob Buchgraber wrote: So I just think something has to be changed e.g. making paludis an official gentoo project and mentioning it in the docs, but keep portage as the default pm. If portage can't get improved, then people have to get informed that there is a better alternative, because I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:36:49 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: My understanding was that the portage team can't move forward with a new version until EAPI0 is done? They can't move forward with changes that break ebuild compatibility until EAPI-0 is

Re: [gentoo-dev] A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Kumba
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: And that's precisely because a whole generation of RHCEs knows *exactly* where everything is on a Red Hat or Fedora system, and Gentoo puts everything somewhere else. :) If I were an RHCE, I'd have just as much trouble customizing and tweaking a Gentoo (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Kumba
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I joined this list mostly to talk about the proposed code of conduct. This oughta stir the pot a little, but way back when I was just a wee lil o' geek in a Star Wars club, we had a developed Code of Conduct. Now for the most part, it worked and worked well.

[gentoo-dev] Why warn for unsupported LINGUA?

2007-03-15 Thread Jonathan Adamczewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARN: unpack Sorry, but mozilla-sunbird-bin does not support the en_GB LINGUA Why is this a warning? (and it's a warning in plenty of ebuilds). I have LINGUAS defined in /etc/make.conf - warning about an unsupported LINGUA is like warning about an unsupported USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why warn for unsupported LINGUA?

2007-03-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:04:34 +1100 Jonathan Adamczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this a warning? (and it's a warning in plenty of ebuilds). I have LINGUAS defined in /etc/make.conf - warning about an unsupported LINGUA is like warning about an unsupported USE flag. Exactly. I would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 16 March 2007 02:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a competing package management

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
Rearranging and snipping a bit to clarify my points. On Friday 16 March 2007 09:17, Daniel Drake wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: 2) Each technical area usually has a clear authority - ie. a spokesman whom is listened to and usually has one's posts challenged with clear respect. 1) There is a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Summary for 15 March 2007 special council meeting on CoC

2007-03-15 Thread Duncan
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:02:15 -0700: * The motion was called for accepted the CoC with the above modifications, as well as revisiting it next council meeting, and reviewing the actions of proctors during every

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Summary for 15 March 2007 special council meeting on CoC

2007-03-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:35:00AM +, Duncan wrote: * If you perceive a breach of the Code of Conduct guidelines, let the proctors know. How? The council's email address is given for appeals, but no general proctor address is listed. (At least none that I saw, even after searching, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev vs lkml?

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: Underlying the draft code of conduct is an assumption that aggressive and less-than-nice behavior on gentoo-dev is seriously harming Gentoo. On the other hand, LKML is famous for its flamewars, and nobody claims that Linux is in serious trouble.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Guessing a package by short name

2007-03-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: My only concern is about consistency. IE the portage backend (if I recall correctly) should return all matching nodes; emerge would then take that list and find the first one that matches in the vdb. However it becomes a bit