Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 03/04/2010 09:59 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > Obviously, some people want this and some don't. It isn't appropriate > to simply hand down an edict that things will be one way or the other if > we truly consider Fedora a community run project. It must be a > community decision. That means, a

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/05/2010 10:16 AM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: > Does that mean if Fedora N is released with KDE 4.x, the users get > 4.x+1 only in Fedora N+1? It sounds diagonally opposite to the > latest-and-greatest, bleeding edge policy of Fedora. > If you would point me to such a "bleeding edge" policy

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> We should change or refine the Freeze Policy page then. Having different >> definitions of what is required for alpha to go out and what can go in >> after alpha leads to incorrect expectations on the part of dev

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-04 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 18:30 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:11 -0500, James Antill wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:14 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 > > > less > > > than F11 stable updates.

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: [...] > 3.  adjust plans/policy wrt kde upgrades. >  a. implement kde stability proposal as is (to limit 4.x type upgrades to at > most one per fedora release) > >  b. simply do new 4.x versions only for fn+1?  pros: less chance to disrupt > curren

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Doug Ledford writes: > Limitations, yes. Current state, no. You can't make a policy to do the > impossible and expect it to just happen. But you *can* make a policy to > do the very hard and seemingly impossible and make it happen. To that > end I reference the fact that man has in fact been t

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have taken over the maintainership from Robert, and the new usb_modeswitch rpms are in rawhide now. Let me know if you guys need anything fixed on that :) - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) IT Desktop R&D Lead. Globa

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On 03/04/2010 06:27 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Doug Ledford wrote: >> But let's be clear. That's a *policy* decision. One of the things that >> got very confusing in the previous thread(s) was the intermixing of >> policy decisions and technical issues. For instance, Kevin's response >> to my pro

Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-04 Thread TK009
Greetings I hope everyone is well. With the worst of the “snowpocalypse" behind us  (here in the Northern Hemisphere) and the branching of Fedora 13, there is a bit of ‘spring cleaning’ the the bugzappers need to do. This e-mail is designed to let you know about the upcoming bugzilla changes hap

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 3/4/2010 9:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > That's the problem - it's just postponed to upgrade from update - you can > choose one hell from 1. break update, 2. break upgrade. None of this should > happen. > > To reiterate - I would *much* prefer change around and upgrade than an update. I

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > It's actually almost no extra work to build the updates also for the > previous stable release. We have to build them for the current stable > anyway. It just means doing the usual routine (copying the specfile, > committing and running make tag and make b

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-04 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:11 -0500, James Antill wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:14 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: > > > > > Extras had significantly fewer packages, > > > > Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 22:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > James Laska wrote: > > To re-emphasize a point Adam made above, users of other desktop > > environments are strongly encouraged to participate in community test > > runs during release milestones. As it stands, we have one test result > > [1

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-04 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Jesse, On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:16 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: >> Erm, dont take it personally please, but, have you ever used a >> different distro? One example is openSUSE (yes, i use it on some boxen >> here) does exactly that. What's

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Laska wrote: > To re-emphasize a point Adam made above, users of other desktop > environments are strongly encouraged to participate in community test > runs during release milestones. As it stands, we have one test result > [1] from the a desktop environment other than GNOME. > > While it

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Doug Ledford wrote: > [the whole nine yards] I like this idea. As a user of fedora updates- testing and kde-redhat, in order to get the latest software the soonest onto my computer, without having the burden of reinstalling my system twice a year on 2 computers, x86_64 desktop and i686/PAE la

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > I did explicitly explain to you and the other desktop SIGs at the start > of the F13 cycle that, because we just hadn't had time to discuss all > the thorny implications of the question, the desktop criteria would be > considered only with regards to the default desktop. Wh

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I think it is unnecessary to provide the latest > releases for any releases except the current and > rawhide. If people don't bother to upgrade to the > current release, then they obviously don't care > to run a cutting edge system, so there is no > point in providing

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Alpha_Freeze_Policy > # At Alpha Milestone, all packages should testable and feature > complete--whether they are "official features" of the release or not And kpackagekit is hardly testable if it doesn't work at all due to unresolved symb

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Doug Ledford wrote: > But let's be clear. That's a *policy* decision. One of the things that > got very confusing in the previous thread(s) was the intermixing of > policy decisions and technical issues. For instance, Kevin's response > to my proposal was all about technical issues he saw. Tech

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-04 Thread James Antill
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:14 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: > > > Extras had significantly fewer packages, > > Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 less > than F11 stable updates. > > http://archive.fedoraproj

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > Could you try to run it manually and paste log/output somewhere? > > akonadictl start Was it so that mysqld wants to communicate through fs sockets which does not work on NFS $HOME? [akonadiserver] Failed to use database "akonadi" [akonadiserver] D

rpms/perl-Net-RawIP/devel perl-Net-RawIP.spec,1.6,1.7

2010-03-04 Thread Štěpán Kasal
Author: kasal Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-Net-RawIP/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv23559 Modified Files: perl-Net-RawIP.spec Log Message: - use rpm macro perl_default_filter Index: perl-Net-RawIP.spec ===

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > What bugfix releases would we be supposed to push? There are no further > 4.3.x releases. Nothing, if that's the case. In case there is a major security hole and they only fix it in SCM and notify about it without making a release - I expect you to add

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: > Extras had significantly fewer packages, Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 less than F11 stable updates. http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/6/x86_64/repoview/index.html > no

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Juha Tuomala wrote: > For all those who say that "latest stuff is the reason why > I use Fedora!!!1", there is rawhide for you. > I have tried this, but that is not possible. Generally, a few weeks after the release of a new fedora, rawhide becomes unusable for a while, even unbootable. My la

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/04/2010 05:13 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:02 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: >> On 03/04/2010 04:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: Option two is one more repo for all "updates". Which may be well and good, but might a

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:02 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On 03/04/2010 04:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > >> > >> Option two is one more repo for all "updates". Which may be well and > >> good, but might also be less interesting than a more general appr

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:19 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > Obviously this would require some tools work, but isn't it worth > considering? This is essentially serviced by KoPeRs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > But let's be clear. That's a *policy* decision. One of the things that > got very confusing in the previous thread(s) was the intermixing of > policy decisions and technical issues. For instance, Kevin's response > So, I'm going t

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/04/2010 04:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: >> >> Option two is one more repo for all "updates". Which may be well and >> good, but might also be less interesting than a more general approach. In >> #4, what I'm suggesting is essentially the possibili

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/05/2010 02:55 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > OK, that sounds good. So, I withdraw objections after Rahul's question, > as far as Fedora is concerned. > Great Dan Williams - Does it make sense to add as a dependency to ModemManager or should I add it to comps? Rahul -- devel mailing list

[Bug 555420] FTBFS perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.005-6.fc12

2010-03-04 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555420 --- Comment #8 from Ville Skyttä 2010-03-04 16:44:47 EST --- Created an attachment (id=397930) --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.co

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > > Option two is one more repo for all "updates". Which may be well and > good, but might also be less interesting than a more general approach. In > #4, what I'm suggesting is essentially the possibility of a SIG having > overlay repos for whatever dist

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:43 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > We already have systems for checking common guideline compliance > > problems and things like dependency issues within a single > > repository; we don't have tools for doing this across a bunch of > > separate quasi-independent repos. > >

[Bug 555420] FTBFS perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.005-6.fc12

2010-03-04 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555420 Ville Skyttä changed: What|Removed |Added --

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/04/2010 04:36 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:28 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>> As a little gedankenexperiment, let's explore for a second a 4th option: >>> Fedora-blessed/hosted/sponsored/whatever repos for things that we don't >>> feel should be mandated on users

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:05:29PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > To give a practical example, if 'KDE X.Y with shiny new IM client' is > > > listed as a feature for the Alpha, we'd say the freeze policy requires > > > the new IM c

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/04/2010 04:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:19 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > >>> yup, this is very likely. One reason Mandriva's backports repository >>> was initiated was because, when MDV allowed only conservative >>> updates and had no official facility for adventuro

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:28 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > As a little gedankenexperiment, let's explore for a second a 4th option: > > Fedora-blessed/hosted/sponsored/whatever repos for things that we don't > > feel should be mandated on users, but which some users may want and some > > mainta

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:19 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > yup, this is very likely. One reason Mandriva's backports repository > > was initiated was because, when MDV allowed only conservative > > updates and had no official facility for adventurous updates, a > > forest of third-party repos offer

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:46:35 -0800 Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need modeswitching > > > than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take > > > patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because > > > they as

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/04/2010 10:59 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: > The problem is that there _aren't_ bug fixes for these old releases. When 4.x > comes out, upstream pretty much drops development on 4.x-1 except for security > issues which are backported from 4.x. If upstream really issues security fixes for 4.x-1, then

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/04/2010 01:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Whether it would be a separate backports repo or merely some more >>> conservativeness in our update stream >> >> FWIW, for stuff like KDE, if we don't allow new feat

Re: [389-devel] Please review: fix various memory leaks

2010-03-04 Thread Noriko Hosoi
On 03/04/2010 01:03 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: Fixes for various memory leaks found during testing. -- 389-devel mailing list 389-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-devel ack. (Thanks, Rich!!) --noriko smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptograph

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:59 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > > The problem is that there _aren't_ bug fixes for these old releases. When 4.x > comes out, upstream pretty much drops development on 4.x-1 except for > security > issues which are backported from 4.x. This leaves us in the tough position of

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > I'm not particularly sold on the definition in the freeze policy, and > > honestly I suspect it's been honored much more in the breach than in the > > observance. I'd be very surprised if all planned features of a given > > release have

[389-devel] Please review: fix various memory leaks

2010-03-04 Thread Rich Megginson
Fixes for various memory leaks found during testing. >From 1d79c10d9d3351459fd52e84cb30e4b0e65a61b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Megginson Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:02:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fix various memory leaks var/tmp/run_gssapi.vg.25032:Memory leak: 99 bytes duplicates: 5 >

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Ryan Rix
On Thu 4 March 2010 12:14:55 pm Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > So please, Fedora KDE users - comment > > these changes! > > I prefer to get the releases as KDE releases > them, instead of having to wait... and wait... > and wait... > > I scanned the Stability Proposal

To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Doug Ledford
Obviously, some people want this and some don't. It isn't appropriate to simply hand down an edict that things will be one way or the other if we truly consider Fedora a community run project. It must be a community decision. That means, as Adam Williamson pointed out, this is likely a decision

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:01:42PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:22 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > > On one hand we have people complaini

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread John5342
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 19:00, Kevin Kofler wrote: > John5342 wrote: >> A simple way to encourage constructive input from users on both the >> state of play and providing more bug reports might be to regularly >> (perhaps even daily as soon as a significant update comes along) to >> post a list of

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:07 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need modeswitching > > than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take > > patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because > > they assert it s

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:12 -0800 Dan Williams wrote: > The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need modeswitching > than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take > patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because > they assert it should b

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:22 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > On one hand we have people complaining about the quality of updates, on > > > the > > > other hand we're ha

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread James Laska
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > James Laska wrote: > > > Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to > > > review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria [1] have > > > be

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > On one hand we have people complaining about the quality of updates, on the > > other hand we're happily releasing crap we know is broken. > > It's an *alpha*. 'Crap we kn

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > So please, Fedora KDE users - comment > these changes! I prefer to get the releases as KDE releases them, instead of having to wait... and wait... and wait... I scanned the Stability Proposal document that had been linked. Here is what I think: As I had expected, b

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
John5342 wrote: > A simple way to encourage constructive input from users on both the > state of play and providing more bug reports might be to regularly > (perhaps even daily as soon as a significant update comes along) to > post a list of all the bugs that are reported against the updates > (bot

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Whether it would be a separate backports repo or merely some more > > conservativeness in our update stream > > FWIW, for stuff like KDE, if we don't allow new feature upgrades even in the > current stable release

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > James Laska wrote: > > Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to > > review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria [1] have > > been met. The team agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 03/04/2010 10:15 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > In other words, SIG's current policy is doing more harm than good >> > for Fedora. > Not necessarily. There has also been some very positive feedback for the KDE > 4.4 updates, and some people are using Fedora BECAUSE such updates get > pushed. >

rpms/perl-Net-RawIP/devel perl-Net-RawIP.spec,1.5,1.6

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rpms/perl-Net-Ping-External/devel perl-Net-Ping-External.spec, 1.4, 1.5

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Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/04/2010 11:28 PM, John5342 wrote: > > In my opinion most of fesco has lost it's mind even contemplating the > recent suggestions. Please don't destroy one of Fedora's greatest > strengths for the sake of some morons who want Fedora to be RedHat > with a different colored hat... I am getting f

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread John5342
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 16:20, Rex Dieter wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > >> Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were >> caused this week by the updates they released.  Even an "I'm sorry I broke >> your desktop" would go a long way.  The update the busted my desktop >>

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/04/2010 10:08 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > That's the problem - it's just postponed to upgrade from update - you can > choose one hell from 1. break update, 2. break upgrade. None of this should > happen. > It has already happened and it will happen again and again and no amount of i

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10

2010-03-04 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 03/04/2010 05:21 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: > > On 03/04/2010 12:07 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > >> On 3 March 2010 21:45, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > >>> Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: > >> I've done some up

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:44 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:50:21 +0530 > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > (adding linux-usb to cc:, see below) > > > Increasingly a number of broadband connections require usb_modeswitch to > > connect online > > > > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/0

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were > > caused this week by the updates they released. Even an "I'm sorry I broke > > your desktop" would go a long way. The update the busted my desktop > > happen

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Juha Tuomala wrote: > a) how users are supposed to consume those bugfix releases only, > when you push feature release in the middle of working week? What bugfix releases would we be supposed to push? There are no further 4.3.x releases. > b) why those different releases exist in the first p

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:34:20AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > Where is the module 'fedora_cert' packaged? I can't seem to find it. It is in fedora-packager-0.4.0-1.fc12 from updates-testing. Regards Till pgp7Sganx4A6n.pgp Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:50:21 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: (adding linux-usb to cc:, see below) > Increasingly a number of broadband connections require usb_modeswitch to > connect online > > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/03/vodafone-australia-mobile-broadband-and.html > > Any opposition to add

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: > Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were > caused this week by the updates they released. Even an "I'm sorry I broke > your desktop" would go a long way. The update the busted my desktop > happened on a pretty vanilla install, I suspect lots of u

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:33:20 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 03/04/2010 07:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/04/2010 07:27 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> That said, IMHO the best solution is still to have this stuff in the > >> official updates. But it's true that the kind of issues some users

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:40:38PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Perhaps this could be added into fedora-packager? > > Well, it's useful also for testers (or even just users) who are not > packagers, so I'm not sure that's the best place. I am more in favor of packaging by

F-13 Branched report: 20100304 changes

2010-03-04 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Thu Mar 4 09:15:19 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 doodle-0.6.7-5.fc12.i686 requires libextractor.so.1 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires lib

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:36:53PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > small nit: if a single update has, say, three packages in it, the script > presents it for your feedback three times. This is fixed in the current git release. Regards Till pgp1JcxH9MT6j.pgp Description: PGP signature -- devel

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:26:17AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:23:30AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: >>> Great script here's a small set of changes to have easy-karma use yum as a

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/04/2010 07:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/04/2010 07:27 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> That said, IMHO the best solution is still to have this stuff in the >> official updates. But it's true that the kind of issues some users are >> having with KDE 4.4 are unfortunate. This particular Ak

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > > Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were > > caused this week by the updates they released. Even an "I'm sorry I broke > > your desktop" would go a long way. The update the busted my desktop > > happen

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:26:17AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:23:30AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > >> Great script here's a small set of changes to have easy-karma use yum as a > >> module > >> instead of via subprocess

how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike McGrath wrote: > Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were > caused this week by the updates they released. Even an "I'm sorry I broke > your desktop" would go a long way. The update the busted my desktop > happened on a pretty vanilla install, I suspect lots of

Re: usb_modeswitch by default

2010-03-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:05 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:27:47PM +0100, drago01 wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Increasingly a number of broadband connections require usb_modeswitch to > > > connect online > > > > >

Re: [389-devel] Modification of passsync DLL

2010-03-04 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Rich, the Problem is, that there is a second SSO system involved that also needs to be checked, and we were thinking that we can utilize the passsync DLL as well for that. the logic for checking the other system is already available and only needs to be implemented into the 64bit ready pa

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> That's why nobody can't enjoy the upstream's intended stability in bugfix >> releases and plan major upgrades. > > You keep saying that, yet you have provided no evidence of such a stance > from upstream. KDE upstream actually has no policy on what ver

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> You mean the KDE stability proposal? As this is F11, i.e. "previous >> stable", KDE 4.4 would actually not have been pushed to F11 under that >> proposal. > > How i read it, you would still push *one* feature release in the

Re: [389-devel] Modification of passsync DLL

2010-03-04 Thread Rich Megginson
Soeren Malchow wrote: > Dear all, > > i hope this is the right place. > > I am looking for a developer who can create personalized modifications > to the passsync DLL, specifically we need to have a function that > matches the password complexity against the DS ( and another LDAP ) > and then re

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Upstream has no policy about what kind of releases are to be provided as > updates, this is a distribution decision. They add features to own releases just for that reason, so downstreams and users could avoid such mess that has just happened. If you d

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Nottingham
Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: > A less ugly script can now be found here: > http://till.fedorapeople.org/tmp/easy-karma.py > Improvements: > - display update details, e.g. bugs and notes > - use src.rpm to find matching update > - skip updates that have already been commented > > With th

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:23:30AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> Great script here's a small set of changes to have easy-karma use yum as a >> module >> instead of via subprocess. >> >> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/easy-karma-yum.patch > > There is

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > will pick up that role (for KDE, kde-redhat stable would probably be > revived, currently it's mostly empty for Fedora as the kind of stuff > which would be in there is usually just pushed as official Fedora > updates). Go ah

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Juha Tuomala wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> I would argue having this within Fedora infrastructure would be better as >> it would prevent proliferation of third-party repos replacing Fedora >> packages and the resulting compatibility issues (see e.g. the chaos we're >> having f

[389-devel] Modification of passsync DLL

2010-03-04 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, i hope this is the right place. I am looking for a developer who can create personalized modifications to the passsync DLL, specifically we need to have a function that matches the password complexity against the DS ( and another LDAP ) and then reports back whether the complexity is

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> Go ahead, make that to your kde-hardcore-followers-repo. In my >> understanding, that's what it has been for past years already >> anyway. > > Third party repos are highway to hell unfortunately. Quite interesting statement from the KDE SIG who runs

Re: duplicate f13 package announcements

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:54:28AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: >M A Young wrote: >> I don't know if this has already been raised but I notice on the >> package-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org list that several Fedora 13 >> packages keep getting announced, for example, by checking the archives I >>

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:58:32 Thomas Janssen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:30:43 Juha Tuomala wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> > current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an > >> >

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:30:43 Juha Tuomala wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an >> > unofficial one will no doubt spring up, or an existing unofficial r

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