Re: pycairo

2013-11-03 Thread Christopher Meng
So any new progress here? I haven't seen any updates still so far. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

[Test-Announce] 2013-11-04 @ ** 16:00 UTC ** - Fedora QA Meeting

2013-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2013-11-04 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again! Please note the time change to 1600 UTC: this is due to the recent change to

orphaning xmmsctrl

2013-11-03 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
I am giving up my maintainership for xmmsctrl, a command line utility to control xmms. I still use xmms a lot, but I don't have a need for xmmsctrl anymore. I was once using it to control xmms from a superkaramba (KDE) widget. It is stable, with dead upstream. Grab it if you are interested. Best,

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > Do I understand correctly that first problem could be solved by > stabilizing APIs used in various Linux projects? Because developers > don't want stabilizationt they invent workarounds like sandboxes? > Wouldn't it be easier to have

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz Do I understand correctly that first problem could be solved by > stabilizing APIs used in various Linux projects? Because developers > don't want stabilizationt they invent workarounds like sandboxes? > Wouldn't it be easier to have stabl

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 03.11.2013 19:40, drago01 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz > wrote: >> On 03.11.2013 19:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:if success is >>> >>> >>> * to have no centralized updates >>> * have

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 03.11.2013 19:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:if success is >> >> >> * to have no centralized updates >> * have most applicatons and tools never updated at all >

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > since it is a free operating system it does not need to be commerical > successfull and so it needs to satisfy it's *existing* and potential userbase > but not obsessive attrative for *everybody* No. If you loose to the competion you become

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 03.11.2013 19:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:if success is > > > * to have no centralized updates > * have most applicatons and tools never updated at all > * have the weakest security model even compared to Windows th

[Bug 1026009] perl-Class-Tiny-0.012 is available

2013-11-03 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026009 Jitka Plesnikova changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |CLOSED Fixed In Version|

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:if success is > > * to have no centralized updates > * have most applicatons and tools never updated at all > * have the weakest security model even compared to Windows these days > * have a standards violating OS > * have a unstable

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2013 18:28, schrieb Chris Murphy: > On Nov 3, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> What we have now is: >> * a free-of-charge repository with central QA ensuring that everything works >> together, >> * a commitment of that repository to ship only Free Software and active >> auditin

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 3, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christian Schaller wrote: >> And I think that will be the crux here too. To me the main part of >> 'supporting' something here will be in handling our ABI story better, not >> about writing custom work arounds for various 3rd party software. > >

Re: libodb-devel not available for arm?

2013-11-03 Thread Dave Johansen
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Dave Johansen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Dan Horák wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:51:48 -0700 >> Dave Johansen wrote: >> >> > I'm packaging odb ( http://codesynthesis.com/products/odb/ ) for >> > Fedora/RHEL and I've run into a bit of a proble

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le dimanche 03 novembre 2013 à 14:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > Michael Scherer wrote: > > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take > > them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I > > strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that m

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 03.11.2013 15:10, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > We DON'T want Apple-like "apps"! This is exactly what is going to happen with "Sandboxed applications for GNOME" (GNOME, Fedora, Linux - whatever you want). Sadly this idea is promoted and developed by some RH employees. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- dev

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2013 15:43, schrieb Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller: > So I am not saying that clean code and maintainability and ease of > development is not important, but I think being a community dominated by > coders we tend to put way to much emphasis on these things compared to > actually solvi

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 14:42 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christian Schaller wrote: > > The PRD avoids these questions by design. To often open source discussions > > end up being discussions about the merits of the means as opposed to the > > actual goals. > > Well, I disagree about the basic deci

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: > I'd agree with you if the majority of updates weren't either packaging > tweaks or new upstream versions with little-to-no useful update text. "Packaging tweak" updates are not that common. And the fact that the update notes are useless doesn't necessarily mean the update

Re: bad use of "Dist Tag" in some packages of rawhide

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > I only did a search of "BAD use of %{dist}" and "NO %{dist} tag". > But there is a lot of rubbish: Wow! As Michael Schwendt pointed out, your list does contain a fair set of false positives, but there's really a lot of junk too, e.g.: > 0.1.fc21 Missing alphatag. >

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Softwareready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2013 14:23, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Michael Scherer wrote: >> When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take >> them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I >> strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that most companies >> do care ab

Re: bad use of "Dist Tag" in some packages of rawhide

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Apparently, not even the kernel package applies Fedora's official > pre-release snapshot release scheme. The kernel package has actually always been the worst offender when it comes to honoring packaging guidelines. It used to be even more of a mess than it is now.

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christian Schaller wrote: > And I think that will be the crux here too. To me the main part of > 'supporting' something here will be in handling our ABI story better, not > about writing custom work arounds for various 3rd party software. That still implies shipping legacy libraries and sometimes

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 November 2013 13:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Fewer updates mean fewer bugfixes and thus more bugs! I'd agree with you if the majority of updates weren't either packaging tweaks or new upstream versions with little-to-no useful update text. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapro

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christian Schaller wrote: > The PRD avoids these questions by design. To often open source discussions > end up being discussions about the merits of the means as opposed to the > actual goals. Well, I disagree about the basic decision of whether we want a standard desktop UI or something, uh, "d

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: > i am using updates-testing over years and often enough koji-packages too > there are not much "barely" and problemtaic tested updates at all > if someone wnats a system with less to zero updates he is using the > wrong distribution and better suited with RHEL +1, the frequen

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Scherer wrote: > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take > them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I > strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that most companies > do care about this as well. Company computers should get u

F-20 Branched report: 20131103 changes

2013-11-03 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sun Nov 3 09:15:02 UTC 2013 Broken deps for armhfp -- [blueman] blueman-1.23-7.fc20.armv7hl requires obex-data-server >= 0:0.4.3 blueman-1.23-7.fc20.armv7hl requires gvfs-obexftp [bwm-ng] bwm-ng-0.6

Re: bad use of "Dist Tag" in some packages of rawhide

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 01:42:00 +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > I only did a search of "BAD use of %{dist}" and "NO %{dist} tag". > But there is a lot of rubbish: > > alpha9.2.fc21 > 02.6.fc21 > 0.alpha3.fc21 > 0.fc20 > 0.fc21 Starting with 0 instead of 1 is a harmless mistake some packagers do