Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-01-2011 21:00:24 -0500, Dane Smith wrote: > > Again, I strongly object to this plan. Instead: > > > > To become a QA member, one must be a current developer, for at least 6 > > months, and one must go through a quiz. The quiz is then evaluated by > > the QA lead or a replacing member from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-01-2011 20:31:24 -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 22:11 Fri 28 Jan , Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > So draft we would like to have implemented as Glep update is this diff: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~scarabeus/glep-0048.diff > > > > Please comment and help us improve the "english" of the whol

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-src cvs repo and svn repos migration to git

2011-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 31-01-2011 04:54:47 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > http://sources.gentoo.org under "Subversion Repositories"). Same as before, > I'd like to point me out the ones that are still active, and you (the > maintainer(s)) want to be migrated to git. I have a repository in use there, but don't wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Petteri Räty
On 01/31/2011 07:04 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > >> 2. I don't think it makes sense for QA to discipline developers >> permanently in these cases. They should suspend access pending Devrel >> resolution of the issue. Devrel should of course strongly consider >> the input of QA. > > That should

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-src cvs repo and svn repos migration to git

2011-01-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Theo Chatzimichos : > I decided to start migrating some CVS and SVN repos to git. First I > should do a cleanup though, and see which ones are still active. > 1) gentoo-src [1] cvs repo contains a number of projects separated to > directories. Most of them seem really old and inactive. I'd li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
I'm going to basically reply with my normal QA rant. 1) QA is important to the overall health of Gentoo. People will not use broken shit. 2) QA should be straightforward. If a developer need to do X to assure quality it should be fairly obvious why X is required. It should be clear where to go

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Markos Chandras
After thinking about this, I think it is ok for QA team to revoke privileges for a specific developer. However, devrel must be responsible for making this decision permanent or give the developer another chance or whatever. As many of you have already said, it is devreal who deals with humans not Q

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:06 Mon 31 Jan , Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 30-01-2011 20:31:24 -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 22:11 Fri 28 Jan , Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > > So draft we would like to have implemented as Glep update is this diff: > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~scarabeus/glep-0048.diff > > > > > >

[gentoo-dev] Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so

2011-01-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Hi, when trying to bump sci-geosciences/googleearth to a 6 beta version [1], there's a problem with missing /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 file, which the binary somehow requires, and otherwise fails with a rather cryptic error message (saying that the binary itself is missing). Apparently this is mandated

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-src cvs repo and svn repos migration to git

2011-01-31 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 01/31/2011 09:12 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 31-01-2011 04:54:47 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: >> http://sources.gentoo.org under "Subversion Repositories"). Same as before, >> I'd like to point me out the ones that are still active, and you (the >> maintainer(s)) want to be migrated to g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so

2011-01-31 Thread Nathan Phillip Brink
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Hi, > > when trying to bump sci-geosciences/googleearth to a 6 beta version [1], > there's a problem with missing /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 file, which the binary > somehow requires, and otherwise fails with a rather cryptic error > mess

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-src cvs repo and svn repos migration to git

2011-01-31 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 01/31/2011 09:35 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Theo Chatzimichos : >> I decided to start migrating some CVS and SVN repos to git. First I >> should do a cleanup though, and see which ones are still active. >> 1) gentoo-src [1] cvs repo contains a number of projects separated to >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-src cvs repo and svn repos migration to git

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Pagano
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:54:47AM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to point me out the ones that are still active, and you (the > maintainer(s)) want to be migrated to git. In that case, I'll contact you for > any additional info I will need, such as the structure of the gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so

2011-01-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 01/31/2011 04:23 PM, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote: Have you checked if patchelf can fix the googleearth binary? I think that it is intended for this sort of problem: http://nixos.org/patchelf.html . Thank you, this really helped! And since patchelf is in the tree, I could workaround googleear

[gentoo-dev] Adding app-arch/xz-utils to the system set

2011-01-31 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Given the increased use of lzma compressed files, including on portage snapshots, I'd like to add app-arch/xz-utils to the system set. We already have a few bugs about requiring xz-utils such as 347557[1] and 305127[2]. [1] - https://bugs.gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding app-arch/xz-utils to the system set

2011-01-31 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 1.2.2011 00:33, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto napsal(a): > Hello. > > Given the increased use of lzma compressed files, including on portage > snapshots, I'd like to add app-arch/xz-utils to the system set. > We already have a few bugs about requirin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 81 bugs

2011-01-31 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:00:04 +0200 (EET) Alex Alexander wrote: > Our bug queue has 81 bugs! A pattern is starting to emerge, where by Sunday there are usually more than fifty and sometimes up to a hundred unassigned bug reports waiting, sometimes double that. It looks like a few people are doing