Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Smart
On 24/07/13 11:50, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Thought's comment flames? To me, crowd sourcing seems to work because it's about some exciting new technology that people have to have and it's the only way to have it. There's a buzz, an excitement that needs to light up twitter in order to get

Re: livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

2013-05-31 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/06/13 03:25, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > Have we adopted livemedia-creator for 19, or still using livecd-creator? > Still livecd-creator for F19. Thanks. -c -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

2013-05-31 Thread Chris Smart
On 14/11/12 01:40, Matthew Miller wrote: > With that timeline, I think it's going to be hard to *use* it for F18 Final, > but I can certainily start testing it. Then, we can look at adopting it for > F19. Have we adopted livemedia-creator for 19, or still using livecd-creator? -c -- devel mailin

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2013-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
On 12/07/2012 11:53 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: > One of the results was a conversation I had with a few guys to > whom I recommended Fedora as a development environment. It showed me > that there's indeed something wrong. While they all said that Fedora's > features were brilliant, they unanimously rej

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Smart
On 09/06/12 19:34, drago01 wrote: >> Is that actually true though? >> > >> > If Fedora does not implement some form of Secure Boot support, 100% of >> > Fedora users will still be able to install Fedora on new machines, after >> > they disable Secure Boot, if their computer even has it at all (and

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/06/12 02:22, Peter Jones wrote: > > Next year if we don't implement some form of Secure Boot support, the > majority > of Fedora users will not be able to install Fedora on new machines. Is that actually true though? If Fedora does not implement some form of Secure Boot support, 100% of Fe

Re: Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Given that Mozilla is dramatically changing the development of Firefox > and making releases much more frequent - i.e. Firefox 5 due in July, 6 Further: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-release

Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Smart
Given that Mozilla is dramatically changing the development of Firefox and making releases much more frequent - i.e. Firefox 5 due in July, 6 later in the year, are Firefox updates going to change in Fedora? Are we still going to stick with the major version series at the time of Fedora release, or

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a > directory /run in the root directory. Most likely you'll sooner or later > stumble over it, so here's an explanation what this is and why this is. > Sou

Re: Changes to polkit-desktop-policy

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Recently, > > we noticed that firstboot now has a checkbox to give admin privileges to > the first user. It does so by adding the user to the wheel group, which > unfortunately, doesn't do much [1] for PolicyKit, which was using a > differe

Re: Mono-2.10.1 - coming soon

2011-03-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just in the process of a final package for mono-2.10.1 and would like to > garner some opinions before the final spin. > Was Mono ever split into the ECMA and non-ECMA components, as Miguel promised? -c -- devel mailing list deve

Re: better Macbook Pro support in F15?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Hi, > > There are quite a few Macbook Pro reported in Fedora. Some of them are easy > fixes, e.g. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652801 > (just install a few packages) Actually, I do not think that this is possible. AFAIK, t