Re: Fedora 13 Release Candidate Phase

2010-05-14 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 13:45 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >>> current karma next to each push request? Or maybe Bodhi could be >>> configured to automatically cancel stable requests when the karma drops >>> below 0? >> >> I can look at doing this on the client side for pushes.

Re: Retire glib and gtk+ 1.2 from rawhide?

2010-05-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Chen Lei wrote: > Andrea Musuruane wrote: > >> On F-12/x86_64: >> [snip] >> swami-0:0.9.4-6.fc12.x86_64 >> >> It seems to me that removing gtk+ won't be an easy task :( > > Most of those applications are replaced, e.g. xmms2 for xmms, putty(svn) > for putty 0.60, since it's already done by some ot

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Juha Tuomala wrote: > They've modified the bugzilla way too much and thus logged in users > cannot for example change version or component which causes that > there is way too much of entries that would need some kind of manual > work and they lack the manpower to do that. >[...] > They do give the

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Till Maas wrote: > Also it would be nice to provide hardware testing feedback, e.g. for Xorg > updates to say "Works with nouveau, Geforce XY, using VGA out and XV", > which then shows that e.g. 3D support, DVI out or multi screen support > was not tested. That sounds like a social problem, or at

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> Here is where we have a definition problem. To me, unbaked stuff is >> things that haven't had a good month of testing if its a large change >> (a couple of days if its a small one). > > If you count all the testing done on prereleases, KDE 4.4.0

Re: Adventurous updates?

2010-03-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: > But that high-impact bugs in some Fedora Updates have slipped > through, because their package maintainers had been willing to take > the risk, and that has prompted some people to try to change that > part of Fedora. That's *exactly* what I am afraid of... that Fedora is

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > How many contributors are interested in only serving themselves? Is that > what we want to encourage? I'm going to hazard a guess and say "all of them". It's basic psychology; people don't do things that have no (perceived) benefit to them. At most ephemeral, that benefit

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 01:14 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> [...] > > There is clearly no reason to continue this conversation with you Kevin. > We are just going to disagree. That's what's really sad to me. Despite that the only "hard" evidence we have seems to agree with wh

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jon Masters wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 01:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Jesse Keating wrote: >>> Then in my opinion those users, and those maintainers who wish to cater >>> to those users, can go start their own project. >> >> Even if those users are 70+% of the current Fedora users? > > Pro

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 15:31:26 -0600, >Matthew Woehlke<> wrote: I'd ask you not to do that, but you've been quite clear you've no intention of listening. >> Ubuntu's method satisfies more users, that is why they use Ubunt

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/13/2010 03:01 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> >> Maybe by chasing "stable" you will find more users, but I think you will >> lose adventurous users in the doing. I also think that the sort of user >> you are likely to pi^H^

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/12/2010 04:36 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: >> And i disagree here. People like that have to face that Fedora or any >> similar distro isn't for them. > > I don't see why you want to continue pushing off users instead of > working out a method that satisfies more users. U

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default?

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/11/2010 11:00 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> >> I tried to send you a reply, but it bounced; gmail says the address you >> gave does not exist. >> > > I got the mail. Thanks. Yes, sorry. Must not have read the bounce close enough; I

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default?

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/11/2010 02:14 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> >> Can you leave bodhi feedback with an FAS account if you haven't signed a >> CLA? (The thing about FAS accounts I am not crazy about is the CLA. What >> about using a bugzilla account inst

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Kevin Kofler wrote: > as long as you require only a few 32-bit packages, requesting them > explicitly is not the end of the world. So if we were to drop support > for that "always install all libs as multilibs" option Eh? I didn't even know there was such an option. And I agree, /that/ should be

Re: Install fedora-easy-karma by default?

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: >>> Also thanks for packaging that immediately -- what about installing it >>> by default? It's a tiny package and we really do want our users to >>> provide feedback. >> >> I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not su

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:05 -0600, Matthew wrote: >> Probably because >> I need multilib and have never experienced multilib-related problems (or >> if I have, they were so trivial as to be thoroughly forgettable). > > Just out of interest, does enabling a separate 32-bit

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:29:42 -0600, Matthew wrote: > >>> There are just too many -devel packages and their dependencies to be ever >>> relevant to someone for multi-arch installs. Far more users install i686 on >>> 64-bit CPUs, and I have doubts that x86_64 installation us

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Matthew Woehlke wrote: >>> You forget people developing proprietary software... >> >> Why would we want to encourage or even support that? > > I don't expect Fedora to encourage it (nor should we, IMO)...

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> You forget people developing proprietary software... > > Why would we want to encourage or even support that? I don't expect Fedora to encourage it (nor should we, IMO)... but that doesn't change the reality of $DAYJOB. If

Re: Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Schwendt wrote: > There are just too many -devel packages and their dependencies to be ever > relevant to someone for multi-arch installs. Far more users install i686 on > 64-bit CPUs, and I have doubts that x86_64 installation users do much > development with i686 packages. At most they in

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic > packages into individual packages is a whole lot > of unnecessary work. Better to provide releases > as they occur, than to waste time unnecessarily > breaking down the monolithic packages. To what > end and benefit? Who,

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

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: >> Such as? We're filling a niche, this is one of our unique selling points, >> you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater! > > Who is this "we" you keep speaking of? When did huge dumps of updates > in supposedly stable releases be

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

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
James Antill wrote: > I think I'm starting to see a pattern here: > > . Kevin doesn't use DVD updates, so anything that needlessly breaks DVD > updates is fine because DVD updates are worthless. DVD updates are by definition broken, unless you have never run updates on your previous system. >

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

2010-03-02 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 02:11 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> You and everyone else, please stop proposing Rawhide as the solution for me >> and people who want the same "update everything that doesn't break things" >> policy, it does NOT fit our usecase at all! > > If you don't

Re: Bodhi karma feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Doug Ledford wrote: > One could argue that the current bodhi karma system is simply too > simplistic for real use cases. Maybe instead of just +1 -1, there > should be: > > Fixes my problem > Works for me (someone testing that didn't necessarily have any of the > problem supposedly fixed by this u

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

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Björn Persson wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> 1. upgrades which disrupt, regress or break things. Those can only be >> pushed to Rawhide, if at all. > > Such as KDE 4.4, just to pick a recent example. I had to log out and log in > again before I could start Kmail again. That can be quite disruptive

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

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
James Antill wrote: > The current state of play is (taking a random kde example): > > kdeutils F11 GA 4.2.2-4.fc11 > kdeutils F11 Updates 4.4.0-1.fc11 > kdeutils F12 GA 4.3.2-1.fc12 > kdeutils F12 Updates 4.4.0-1.fc12 > > ...so if someone tries to update from F11 (with updates) using an F

Re: Final (hopefully) privilege escalation policy draft

2010-02-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:10 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> That's correct. This is frankly a 'realistic' decision, on the basis >> that the PackageKit maintainer believes updating packages should be >> allowed for a regular user by default and intends to implement this, and >>

Re: LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Charley Wang wrote: > The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to > get failing packages to build can be found here : > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange "a program that links with libxml2 and uses dlopen may not link with libdl" Nothing forbids linking