[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, "Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Christian Faulhammer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What we propose is proper testing and keywording by anyone > > around...not just team members. > > Writing test plans like emacs team does really helps too. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò): > In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students > that were already full-fledged Gentoo developers. I sincerely would > like that this year we put as a rule that Gentoo developers cannot > partecipate in Summer of Code as stu

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-03-02 23h59 UTC

2008-03-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-03-02 23h59 UTC. Removals: sys-apps/mii-diag 2008-02-25 10:44:35 armin76 sys-devel/distcc-config 2008-02-25 18:11:37 armin76 media-sound/jmax

[gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) writes: > In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students that > were already full-fledged Gentoo developers. I sincerely would like that > this year we put as a rule that Gentoo developers cannot partecipate in > Summer of Code as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:57:03PM +0100, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Sunday, 02. March 2008 20:25:09 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > Do we inspire them by telling them that anybody who has made this > > > choice in the past is not to be rewarded financially for doing so? > > This brings up

[gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
"Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your entire argument is based on the assumption that the Summer of > Code program's primary goal is to recruit new developers for Open > Source projects. While this is one goal I am unsure if holding it > above the others is necessary. I know it's not

Re: [gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Alec Warner
On 3/2/08, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/08, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know this is going to stir up quite some discussion, but I do think > > it's worth trying requesting it at least. > > > > In the past two years we had quite a few ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Alec Warner
On 3/2/08, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know this is going to stir up quite some discussion, but I do think > it's worth trying requesting it at least. > > In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students that > were already full-fledged Gentoo d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Sunday, 02. March 2008 20:25:09 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > Do we inspire them by telling them that anybody who has made this > > choice in the past is not to be rewarded financially for doing so? > This brings up a different point of view too. From my point of view it's pretty simple

[gentoo-dev] Re: One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we inspire them by telling them that anybody who has made this choice > in the past is not to be rewarded financially for doing so? This brings up a different point of view too. Why should just somebody be rewarded financially and not someone else?

Re: [gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Thilo Bangert wrote: > it's not just what you "sincerely think"! I most certainly think, you have > a valid point. > > from http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_goals: > And yet from the same site: 7. Can students working on an open source project continue to work on it as part of Goo

Re: [gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:47:28PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?? wrote: > In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students that > were already full-fledged Gentoo developers. I sincerely would like that > this year we put as a rule that Gentoo developers cannot partecipate in

Re: [gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Thilo Bangert
> But I > sincerely think the main goal of Summer of Code is to allow new people > to enter the scene of Free Software, to understand how Free Software > projects work and so on. it's not just what you "sincerely think"! I most certainly think, you have a valid point. from http://code.google.

Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect

2008-03-02 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
> peper told me he'd wrap up a few bugs and make a release this week after > I was about to go touching eselect all over when we know my C/C++ is > better then my bash. won't have time till next week ;/ need to finish uni projects and exams. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński

[gentoo-dev] Re: Digest of gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org issue 571 (29615-29664)

2008-03-02 Thread Ryan Hill
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Digest of gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org issue 571 (29615-29664)

2008-03-02 Thread Raúl Porcel
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Digest of gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org issue 571 (29615-29664)

2008-03-02 Thread chris
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SOC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Luca Barbato
joshua jackson wrote: All, Google is once again doing the summer of code for students. I'm helping organize it this year and am putting out a call for some elements to help. 1) We need idea's for things to do. Diego has already submitted some via his blog which have been taken into consideratio

[gentoo-dev] One request for the next SoC: non already-devs students

2008-03-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I know this is going to stir up quite some discussion, but I do think it's worth trying requesting it at least. In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students that were already full-fledged Gentoo developers. I sincerely would like that this year we put as a rule that Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress?

2008-03-02 Thread Vaeth
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: > Duncan schrieb: > > Bernd Steinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > > > > What about the timezone? > > > Baselayout had a setting for the timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock. > > > baselayout-2.0.0 > > > + openrc doesn't seem to have that. Not needed? > > > > > > > No

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Bo Ørsted Andresen (zlin)

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Long
Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 14:28 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: >> He has been breaking the tree for a while now but as Calchan has been >> having availability problems I get to insult him a little bit later than >> usual. Bo hails from Aalborg, Denmark. He studies to become a con

[gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Long
Fabian Groffen wrote: > Ben de Groot wrote: >> Bernd Steinhauser wrote: >> | Wouldn't it be more clean if it is amd64 just like the Linux one? >> | Because the arch basically is the same. I think that >> | amd64(-linux) -- x86_64-fbsd >> | x86(-linux) -- x86-fbsd >> | >> | would be more confusing t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Richard Freeman wrote: We might also aim to make it easy for users to mix-and-match levels of stability by package. I know it is possible already, but perhaps it could be improved, or pre-canned lists of packages that users might typically want bleeding-edge vs stable could be compiled. Tusnam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Freeman
George Shapovalov wrote: > The good thing about this approach is that it only requires an initial > investment of organizing and automating things but does not add any regular > work to the devs. In fact, if the "tested" category becomes popular enough, > it can cut the work for stable testers,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-02 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What we propose is proper testing and keywording by anyone > around...not just team members. > Writing test plans like emacs team does really helps too. I waste too much time figuring out how to test properly so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-02 Thread George Shapovalov
Sunday, 2. March 2008, Steve Dibb Ви написали: > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > What we propose is proper testing and keywording by anyone > > around...not just team members. > > I agree... our main problem is manpower -- people actually working on > the stable bugs. I've tried to do it myself a