On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:25:02 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012 07:33:59 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Some other questionable ones:
emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open
We've had this discussion before...
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On 07/15/2012 06:15 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
On 15 July 2012 04:46, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:
Markos Chandras wrote:
understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to hire people
either, but they worked ok for all these years
I don't
On Saturday 14 of July 2012 10:32:04 Markos Chandras wrote:
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Dear Gentoo Community,
If you are not a recruit, mentor, or wannabe mentor you may stop
reading now.
We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the
recruitment
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Markos Chandras wrote:
In my opinion, the quizzes contain all the knowledge that is
required for someone to start developing for Gentoo. Yes, maybe
it requires too much knowledge
So which is it? All that is required or too much?
Also,
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo
dev, and the second time I did the quizzes it took me 3 months.
I've seen others take a
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted:
I doubt anybody has tried it, so you'll have to experiment.
Anybody /anybody/, or anybody on gentoo? FWIW, there are people
running it in general (IIRC
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:
I've been managing my own overlay and a few private ones for a few
years now, all while using catalyst to build more or less customized
Linux systems for me and for others.
I dive into bugzilla when a bug bites, and I'll
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:25:02 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012 07:33:59 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Some other questionable ones:
emboss - Adds support for the
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier
On 15 July 2012 21:27, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
been
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:45:25 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
It's not that it takes all that much time. It can be done in say one
or two workdays. But you need to set aside a block of time (and
usually two, one for each of the quizzes, or more if you need to
break it up or iterate
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
you need to set aside a block of time (and usually two
...and you don't need to be able to put in that level of attention
every now and again when you're a developer?
Not the same amount of meta time, no.
I agree with the estimate of about two days for the quizzes.
On 15 July 2012 21:50, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:45:25 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
It's not that it takes all that much time. It can be done in say one
or two workdays. But you need to set aside a block of time (and
usually
# Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org (15 Jul 2012)
# Bundles dev-python/pexpect (bug #315843)
# Replaced by ssh-copy-id from net-misc/openssh.
# Removal in 30 days.
net-misc/ssh-installkeys
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:
less idiotic
idiots such as perhaps myself need years because we're doing
whatever work as opposed to learning foundation bylaws by heart.
Well, I don't think the bylaws are a terribly important topic for the
quizzes, and
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:36:05 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:36:05 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org
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On 07/15/2012 11:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
(Please consider quoting only what is relevant. Thanks!)
Markos Chandras wrote:
In my opinion, the quizzes contain all the knowledge that is
required for someone to start developing for Gentoo. Yes,
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
Certainly. But it is likely much more interesting work and has
considerably more impact.
The mentoring period and the review have considerable impact too.
Whether you think one is more important than the other depends on you
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:30:31 -0400 as excerpted:
Looking at the docs it seems like you'd need a hook for the cmdline
stage that sets rootok (assuming it gets that far without a root, or if
you set it to something like root=TMPFS). Then you'd install a hook to
mount to
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
So I have the general idea,
but doing it from an initr* with limited tools available will be
interesting.
Dracut modules can specify any tools they need, and they will be
loaded into the initramfs. Obviously you'll want to
Is it valid to do something like:
move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgame media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythmovies
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:08:45 -0500
Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote:
Is it valid to do something like:
move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
move
On 07/15/2012 03:08 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
Is it valid to do something like:
move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgame
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:08:45 -0500
Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote:
Is it valid to do something like:
move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythbrowser
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 05:58:25AM +, Duncan wrote
They're seriously thinking about (and may be planning on) removing
that option from the kernel entirely, to keep people configuring
their first kernels from getting themselves in trouble, but of
course that's now part of the
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2012-07-15 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
net-misc/remmina-plugins2012-07-09 02:47:44 floppym
gnustep-apps/projectmanager 2012-07-09 08:42:59 voyageur
gnustep-apps/keyarcher
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:48:55 -0400 as excerpted:
Giving it a little thought, the simplest tmpfs-based root would be one
that defines a tarball as a the root. The system would create a tmpfs,
extract the tarball to it, and then use the existing fstab-sys module to
mount
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:48:55 -0400 as excerpted:
Giving it a little thought, the simplest tmpfs-based root would be one
that defines a tarball as a the root. The system would create a tmpfs,
extract the
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Thinking in that direction does stimulate yet another idea, tho. What
about a squashfs root? AFAIK squashfs is read-only at use time, thus
enforcing actually mounting something else to write anything, eliminating
many of the
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