[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Duncan
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org posted 4a4d97d5.10...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:32:05 +: I have a few ideas about this that I'll have to put in writing and share later, but let me start by proposing that for such a change we require the support

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2009/2010

2009-07-03 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
I'm forwarding Roy's email to the dev-announce ml for reaching the wider community and for future reference. Roy Bamford wrote: All, On behalf of the Elections project, the next Gentoo Council will be composed of:- Ned Ludd (solar) Petteri Räty (betelgeuse) Denis

[gentoo-dev] Manifesto archive

2009-07-03 Thread Torsten Veller
* Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2009/council-200906-nominees.xml Please archive the manifestos somewhere under the project space like it was done the last years. Looking back at the 2005 list of nominees, all external links are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Exim and Sendmail need a maintainer

2009-07-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 02-07-2009 22:06:33 +0100, AllenJB wrote: Fabian Groffen wrote: On 24-06-2009 13:51:37 +, Torsten Veller wrote: | mail-mta/exim. I'm looking for users that want to help maintaining Exim. Especially if you feel like becoming a Gentoo developer at some time, contact me

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Luca Barbato
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I have a few ideas about this that I'll have to put in writing and share later, but let me start by proposing that for such a change we require the support of at least 2/3 of the devs that vote *and* a minimum of 1/3 of all devs. I'd use absolute majority

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:43:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Which groups who would like to be able to contribute currently feel that they can't, why do they feel that and why haven't they said so? For

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix

2009-07-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Petteri Rätybetelge...@gentoo.org wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:00:35 +0300 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:25:11 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:45:29 +0300 Theo Chatzimichos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Freeman
Luca Barbato wrote: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I have a few ideas about this that I'll have to put in writing and share later, but let me start by proposing that for such a change we require the support of at least 2/3 of the devs that vote *and* a minimum of 1/3 of all devs. I'd use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifesto archive

2009-07-03 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Hi Torsten. Torsten Veller wrote: * Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2009/council-200906-nominees.xml Please archive the manifestos somewhere under the project space like it was done the last years. Looking back at the 2005

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:08:48 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Actually pkgcore folk have pushed for stuff. mtime preservation is a simple example of things I've pushed for- at the time implemented by portage/pkgcore, eliminates the orphan potential for .pyc and other generated

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GSoC status] Web-based image builder

2009-07-03 Thread Eitan Mosenkis
This week has gone pretty well and I'm hoping to get a testing server up soon, though it looks like it will be running the backend in a virtual machine due to the root privileges requirement. I've added support for several more output formats: ext2 image, jffs2, and two different styles of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-07-03 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 15 June 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: If there are interactive ebuilds that don't declare PROPERTIES=interactive, you can just compile a list and post it to gentoo-dev-announce telling maintainers to add it or you will do it at some date X a week from the announcement or later at your