Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Justin (jlec)
On 18/02/15 09:12, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:48:19 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18/02/15 08:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: I seem to recall the developer quizzes may have had (or indeed requested) some more information on this matter. The test ebuild focuses

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:48:19 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18/02/15 08:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: I seem to recall the developer quizzes may have had (or indeed requested) some more information on this matter. The test ebuild focuses on this topic. What is that? jer

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:34:21 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: At the end of the review session we ask the recruits to fix an ebuild which has numerous technical and, as mentioned, legal aspects to take care of. That's a novelty I wasn't aware of, then. The technical practicalities

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Justin (jlec)
On 18/02/15 09:48, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:34:21 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: At the end of the review session we ask the recruits to fix an ebuild which has numerous technical and, as mentioned, legal aspects to take care of. That's a novelty I wasn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 18-02-2015 a las 03:11 +, Duncan escribió: Pacho Ramos posted on Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:34:50 +0100 as excerpted: The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to kill himself that keyword

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread hasufell
Is there a communication problem? I don't remember getting either: * a bug report * a ping * a review request Did I miss something? Justin Lecher (jlec): jlec15/02/17 13:39:15 Modified: ChangeLog Added:watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild Log: Version Bump

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-18 Thread hasufell
Patrick Lauer: ebuild.badheader, That would break repoman for the majority of overlays. You don't really expect overlay maintainers to follow gentoo copyright, do you? Really... before repoman is fixed, none of this will happen (or people will just run a hacked repoman version).

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: fcaps.eclass

2015-02-18 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-18, o godz. 16:11:53 Mike Frysinger (vapier) vap...@gentoo.org napisał(a): vapier 15/02/18 16:11:53 Modified: fcaps.eclass Log: clarify USE=filecaps intention #540430 Revision ChangesPath 1.11 eclass/fcaps.eclass Please commit

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64 update

2015-02-18 Thread C Bergström
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Tom Gall tg...@gentoo.org wrote: So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is going to start shipping in March for ~$129. The HiKey board is an 8 way 64 bit ARM board with 8 A53 cores. (No A57s bummer!) Only had a gig of

[gentoo-dev] Mailing list for ebuild review

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
The topic of a review workflow comes up frequently, but Gitlab, Gerrit, etc. are blocked on a host of other problems that may never be resolved. It would still be nice to be able to request reviews somewhere, and for ebuilds, a mailing list combined with a threaded MUA works fine. Would anyone

[gentoo-dev] arm64 update

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Gall
So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is going to start shipping in March for ~$129. The HiKey board is an 8 way 64 bit ARM board with 8 A53 cores. (No A57s bummer!) Only had a gig of memory on the board but it’s not a bad device. I’ve had one for about 2-3

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-board/kaya

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org (19 Feb 2015) # Doesn't work with current version of ruby. Dead upstream. # Masked for removal in 30 days. games-board/kaya

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 16 Feb 2015 11:45, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 16 Feb 2015 21:00, Patrick Lauer wrote: Thus I suggest making the following warnings proper errors: some of these are because they produce false positives. at least these bugs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 18 Feb 2015 23:10, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2015 18:43:59 hasufell wrote: Is there a communication problem? I don't remember getting either: * a bug report * a ping * a review request

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2015 18:43:59 hasufell wrote: Is there a communication problem? I don't remember getting either: * a bug report * a ping * a review request Did I miss something? Yes. Why is this package

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] qmake-utils.eclass: add qt{4,5}_get_bindir helper functions

2015-02-18 Thread Ben de Groot
The attached patch proposes two helper functions to be added to qmake-utils.eclass. These functions echo the correct directory where qt binaries such as moc and lrelease are located. They can be used in ebuilds when such binaries need to be called directly. (Ebuilds should not rely on qtchooser

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Justin (jlec) wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] qmake-utils.eclass: add qt{4,5}_get_bindir helper functions

2015-02-18 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: The attached patch proposes two helper functions to be added to qmake-utils.eclass. These functions echo the correct directory where qt binaries such as moc and lrelease are located. They can be used in ebuilds when such

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers - as for me. If you want contributing to be easy, overhead

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Justin (jlec) wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers - as for me. If you want contributing to be easy, overhead like this

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: The only things devs need to do with respect to copyright is follow the law Ah, but which law? I understand that law in e.g. Germany does not permit non-natural persons to own copyright. The public domain

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64 update

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Gall
On Feb 18, 2015, at 2:32 PM, C Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Tom Gall tg...@gentoo.org mailto:tg...@gentoo.org wrote: So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is going to start shipping in March for ~$129.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread hasufell
Patrick Lauer: Why is this package metadata missing the python herd for no reason? Because the python herd doesn't currently maintain the package, nor did they ask me to be co-maintainers. Also Why are you pretending to own packages when we're supposed to be working together as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wednesday 18 February 2015 18:43:59 hasufell wrote: Is there a communication problem? I don't remember getting either: * a bug report * a ping * a review request Did I miss something? Yes. Why is this package metadata missing the python herd for no reason? Also Why are you

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64 update

2015-02-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/18/15 15:32, C Bergström wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Tom Gall tg...@gentoo.org wrote: So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is going to start shipping in March for ~$129. The HiKey board is an 8 way 64 bit ARM board with 8 A53 cores. (No

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/watchdog: watchdog-0.8.3.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-02-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 19 February 2015 00:48:18 hasufell wrote: Patrick Lauer: Why is this package metadata missing the python herd for no reason? Because the python herd doesn't currently maintain the package, nor did they ask me to be co-maintainers. So you put a python package in the dev-python