Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think nominations are open. I nominate > rane > welp > zlin Alright. Then I'll nominate all members of the current council. In alphabetical order: amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes jokey lu_zero vapier Denis. -- g

[gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think nominations are open. I nominate rane welp zlin I think I've spelt all of them correctly and that all three are are qualified. Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, U

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

2008-06-02 Thread Joe Peterson
Joe Peterson wrote: > Has anyone volunteered to take net-misc/ntp? I know there are alternatives > (like OpenNTPD), but this one is the "official" one, so I'd hate to see it > slip into substandard quality. Also, e.g. OpenNTPD is a subset and is less > accurate, so it is not a complete replacemen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

2008-06-02 Thread Joe Peterson
Has anyone volunteered to take net-misc/ntp? I know there are alternatives (like OpenNTPD), but this one is the "official" one, so I'd hate to see it slip into substandard quality. Also, e.g. OpenNTPD is a subset and is less accurate, so it is not a complete replacement. I will take it on if no

[gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

2008-06-02 Thread Gunnar Wrobel
Hi, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > many of these are low maintence ... i'd forgotten i was even listed under > them > as i havent seen a bug report in a long time. some i added (well probably > too many) on a lark, so if they do end up being crappy and no one cares, i > guess t

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=threads vs. USE=threadsafe

2008-06-02 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:25:29 +0200 Christian Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we should be consistent here You may also want to consider the following: threadsonly [dev-libs/boost] ithreads [sys-devel/libperl] orathreads[dev-libs/libsqlora8] frnothreads [net-dialup/f

[gentoo-dev] USE=threads vs. USE=threadsafe

2008-06-02 Thread Christian Hoffmann
Heya, while I was emerging dev-libs/sqlite, I noticed that it uses USE=threadsafe to distinguish between threadsafe and non-threadsafe builds. While this is not strange per-se, lots of (?) other packages seem to make that decision based on USE=threads (dev-lang/php, dev-db/postgresql-base, ..

[gentoo-dev] Re: packages up for grabs

2008-06-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dev-util/elfsh I'll take a look, I might have some use for this. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-06-02 Thread Luca Barbato
Santiago M. Mola wrote: I think we have not enough feedback from users about this. Either Bugzilla is not the right tool, or we don't encourage users enough to ask for keywords when they need them. Currently, some people assume that "if a user from $arch needed this package, he'd have requested k

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

2008-06-02 Thread Alec Warner
On 6/1/08, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200 > > Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > IMHO the packages should be keyworded if an arch team member or an > > > user of that arch requests it. Keywording something if

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

2008-06-02 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> >> On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200 >> Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> IMHO the packages should be keyworded if an arch team member or an >>> user of that arch requests it. Keywording somet

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

2008-06-02 Thread Raúl Porcel
Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200 Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Requesting ~arch keywords: Is a maintainer able to request ~arch keywords, if the package is not a dependency of some other package which is keyworded, and the maintainer doesn't have that arch? Yes.