[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/twisted-{pair, xish, flow} and dev-python/twibber (Removal due 11 October 2008)

2008-08-11 Thread Jesus Rivero
The following packages have been masked for removal in 30 days. dev-python/twisted-xish dev-python/twisted-pair dev-python/twisted-flow They are either unmaintained or deprecated and they force downgrade on the newly stable dev-python/twisted*-8.1.0 dev-python/twibber is also unmaintained and d

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Duncan
Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:31:03 +0100: > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum to >> keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things. Meh. I >> deman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking of qt 4.4?

2008-08-11 Thread Ben de Groot
Hanno Böck wrote: > So question, what are the showstoppers for qt 4.4? And more general comment, > especially on important packages that many people rely on, please provide > more informative comments in package mask, e.g. bug numbers. Bug numbers should indeed have been provided. The tracker bu

[gentoo-dev] Unmasking of qt 4.4?

2008-08-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I'm maintaining a package of merkaartor in gentoo, of which the latest version requires qt 4.4. I'll mask that for now, but I'm not really happy with that. I wanted to ask what are the showstoppers for qt 4.4 to get unmasked. The mask is commented with: "Masked for testing, various dependen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread George Prowse
On 11 Aug 2008, at 14:19, Patrick Lauer wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Patrick Lauer wrote: If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum to keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things. Meh. I demand mandatory fun hours twice a week! And a coffee machine. And a pony. Yes! A pony! Being bitten by the Pony is not fun. Pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick Lauer
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the problem. Some people think Gentoo sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where > everyone gets along. Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the problem. Some people think Gentoo should primarily be a fun-loving

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for > several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in the > direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread David Leverton
2008/8/11 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Many folks are happy at the current pace of development. I imagine > these two folks were frustrated at the lack > of new features in the ebuild spec that were readily available in > kdebuild-1 and decided to move on. More power to them I say. I'm pre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Ingmar Vanhassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There're other projects in the Free-Software world that I currently > enjoy putting my time into more, I'm sure it's more than obvious to those > of you who know me which... > Good luck with that project! -- Santia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bo. Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: | My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for | several months. I'm sorry to see you go, but it isn't a surprise. Thanks for all the hard work in Gentoo and in QT/KDE in particular. Als

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ingmar. Ingmar Vanhassel wrote: | Hello list, | | As usual with this kind of mails, this has been long overdue, but it's | about time that I retire from Gentoo. I'm sorry to see you go, but it's not a surprise. Thanks for all the hard work in Gen

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New PROPERTIES=virtual value to identify meta-packages?

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Zac Medico wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:15:11 -0700 >> Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Does this seem like a desirable way to represent the "virtual" >>> attribute? Any suggestions? >> >> Again, I'm not so sure that this doesn't represent multiple separable

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for > several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in the > direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates that > most current Gentoo developers appear to be sa

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall we create a ballot for PROPERTIES value definition proposals?

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Long
Zac Medico wrote: > Given the vast number of possible choices to consider when defining > new PROPERTIES values [1], perhaps we should create a ballot and > hold a vote on definitions that people have submitted. I suppose > that voters would be able to vote yes or no on each proposed > property de

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alec Warner wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear to me that Gent

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-08-10 23h59 UTC

2008-08-11 Thread Christian Hoffmann
On 2008-08-11 02:15, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Removals: www-apps/knowledgetree 2008-08-09 21:22:58 hoffie dev-php4/ZendOptimizer 2008-08-09 21:53:34 robbat2 dev-php4/adodb-ext 2008-08-09 21:53:34 robbat2 dev