Re: RFC: retiring yum

2017-09-02 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 1, 2017 4:54 PM, "Kai Bojens" wrote: On Friday, 1 September 2017 21:30:44 CEST Matthew Miller wrote: > RPM specfile changelogs are often of interest to systems > administrators. Agreed. Before I update a huge number of hosts I'd like to check the changelogs for any possible trouble. This

Re: OpenVPN, OpenSSL and Fedora 26+

2017-04-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 27, 2017 3:13 PM, "David Sommerseth" wrote: On 27/04/17 01:20, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 21:18, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 26/04/17 17:08, Lee Howard wrote: >>> On 04/25/2017 01:39 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: This is actually just a very

Re: future of official optical media support in Fedora

2016-12-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 15, 2016 08:09, "Matthew Miller" wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 07:31:29AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > This is interesting. Does IPMI also allow you boot from a "remote > > USB device"? > Not any of the servers I've worked with. Only remote DVD boot. I've > never heard of anyone being abl

Re: upstream dev. asks suggestions about howto make packagers work easier (bundled libraries, etc.)

2016-11-20 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 20, 2016 1:49 AM, "Germano Massullo" wrote: > > We often deal with upstream developers that bundle libraries in their > code, so to make a package we have to debundle them, etc. > This time, an upstream dev. asked me what he could do to make easier > the work of packagers. > In this case th

Re: /sbin/nologin in /etc/shells

2016-09-30 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 30, 2016 05:17, "Toby Goodwin" wrote: > > As a member of the "remove nologin from /etc/shells" faction, I have 2 > technical reasons for my position. I don't think either of these points > have been addressed by the "leave it in" faction. > > 1. Certain programs use pam_shells to check acce

Re: Re-review to unretire package: python-nikola

2016-07-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 6, 2016 9:59 AM, "Igor Gnatenko" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:13 PM, José Abílio wrote: > > Hi, > Hi, > > I have submitted python-nikola to unretire the package for rawhide since > > it is available in the other branches. > Link to review request? > > > > A review swap is we

Re: Preparing a new release of Fedora Developer Portal - asking for feedback

2016-04-20 Thread Pete Travis
This might also be interesting for Docs people. --Pete -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: 3D printing SIG

2016-03-19 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 17, 2016 11:14 AM, "Miro Hrončok" wrote: > > On 17.3.2016 16:08, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> >> Hi Fedorains, >> >> I was thinking about creating a 3D printing SIG in Fedora. Would anyone >> be interested in that? >> >> Miro > > > I've created a wiki page here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: F24 Self Contained Change: Let's Encrypt client now in Fedora

2016-02-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 10, 2016 6:29 AM, "Josh Boyer" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Jared K. Smith > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> > >> And aren't we supposed to *not* do stuff like this > >> anymore? > > > > > > > > If I had to guess, I'd say that this was

Re: Attempting to contact unresponsive maintainers - lnovich ooprala and vjancik

2016-02-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 14, 2016 2:07 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:59:18 + > "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:06:58PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 01:34:28PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > Greetings, we've been told that t

Re: Urgent F23 testing request: logout bugs

2015-10-21 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 21, 2015 11:13 AM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > Hi folks! > > So we're building 23 Final RC2 now, but we have a couple of outstanding > proposed blocker bugs, and we could use some more data to evaluate > them. > > The way to test is really simple: > > * Install F23 Final TC11 Workstation o

Re: Packaging of PlayOnLinux

2015-10-15 Thread Pete Travis
On 10/15/2015 12:55 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> - Original Message - >>> Dne 14.10.2015 v 16:50 Bastien Nocera napsal(a): If the application cannot work without downloading anything, or being supplied third-party (somet

Re: ansible in Fedora 23+ (python3)

2015-10-14 Thread Pete Travis
On 10/14/2015 07:47 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 08:57:57PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Beyond that, though, why not just have your ansible play ensure its own >> deps are installed? If you're dealing with docker, make sure the >> package you need is installed before y

Re: Orphaned packages available for new point of contact

2015-09-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 10, 2015 4:24 AM, "Mathieu Bridon" wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 11:16 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: > > On 2015-09-09, 19:37 GMT, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > pytz > > > python-dateutil > > > > I see these two as too important to let them fall, so I am > > taking them. However, I would really re

Release Notes: Wiki Freeze Looming

2015-09-03 Thread Pete Travis
a big help. If you'd like to propose content for after the freeze, reach out to d...@lists.fedoraproject.org or #fedora-docs. -- Pete Travis Fedora Docs Project Lead [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

create-tx-configuration retirement

2015-08-26 Thread Pete Travis
I am re-retiring create-tx-configuration. I kept it around after Sparks retired it in case we needed it for the transition away from transifex, and that's done, and we didn't. -- Pete -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedor

Re: Sponsors - who does (not) work on FE-NEEDSPONSOR tickets

2015-08-17 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 17, 2015 10:07 AM, "Marcin Haba" wrote: > > Hello, *snip* > I am not going to continue this discussion because as I wrote in > previous mail, it was only feedback from my side. It is not my intention > to gain something by this feedback. It is just feedback to potential > consideration if

Re: Validity of i686 as a release blocker

2015-08-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 4, 2015 9:40 AM, "Paul W. Frields" wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 09:47:27AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > [...snip...] > > Perhaps it is time that we evaluate where i686 stands in Fedora more > > closely. For a starting suggestion, I would recommend that we do not > > treat it as a relea

[Test-Announce] Fedora 23 Release Notes are Open!

2015-08-05 Thread Pete Travis
; If you want to participate to that degree, great! If not, don't be dissuaded. It's a huge help to have leads and requests thrown into the funnel, there are writers waiting to take it the rest of the way. -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - &#

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Netizen Spin

2015-05-18 Thread Pete Travis
On May 18, 2015 7:34 AM, "Jan Kurik" wrote: > > I am sorry for the wrong subject of my previous post. This is a Self Contained Change, not a System Wide. > > Regards, > Jan > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jan Kurik" > > To: devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Sent: Monday, May

Re: dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

2015-04-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 13, 2015 5:07 AM, "Radek Holy" wrote: > > > ____ >> >> From: "Pete Travis" >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Sent: Friday, Ap

Re: "askbot-setup" command not found

2015-03-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 23, 2015 7:20 AM, "Pete Travis" wrote: > > > On Mar 23, 2015 3:58 AM, "Kalpani Anuradha" wrote: > > > > Thank you Suchakra, Corey Sheldon and Ankur Sinha for the support. And after viewing the AskFedora Redesign Plan my interest to contribu

Re: "askbot-setup" command not found

2015-03-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 23, 2015 3:58 AM, "Kalpani Anuradha" wrote: > > Thank you Suchakra, Corey Sheldon and Ankur Sinha for the support. And after viewing the AskFedora Redesign Plan my interest to contribute towards this project further increased. > > As initial work to get involved in the GSoC project "AskFedo

Re: F22 Self Contained Change: Disabled Repositories Support

2015-03-17 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 17, 2015 5:18 AM, "Jan Zelený" wrote: > > On 16. 3. 2015 at 15:52:10, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Disabled Repositories Support = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DisabledRepoSupport > > > > Change owner(s): Richard Hughes > > > > The Software too

Re: Is there a process for requesting packaging?

2015-03-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 7, 2015 6:15 AM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 10:53:27 +0100 > fed...@activityworkshop.net wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm an upstream developer and I'm unfamiliar with the Fedora > > processes, so my apologies if I'm asking obvious questions or asking > > in the wrong pla

Re: Why sysrq is limited to only "sync" command on official fedora kernel?

2015-02-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 26, 2015 9:01 AM, "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:51:46AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > The only time I've needed sysrq reboots in recent memory was while running > > rawhide and knowingly venturing into uncharted territ

Re: Packages

2015-02-26 Thread Pete Travis
project.org/pkgdb/packager/sundaram/ > > Rahul > > I'll take python-dateutil15, and see it through to retirement once the last of the dependencies are gone. I see you've already retired askbot - any sign from upstream that they'll support a newer django within a reasonable

Re: Why sysrq is limited to only "sync" command on official fedora kernel?

2015-02-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 25, 2015 1:50 PM, "Reindl Harald" wrote: > > > > Am 25.02.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Zdenek Kabelac: > >> Dne 25.2.2015 v 18:44 Reindl Harald napsal(a): >>> >>> >>> Am 25.02.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Paul Wouters: On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm? Syncing is al

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

2015-02-24 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 24, 2015 8:32 AM, "Mikolaj Izdebski" wrote: > > On 02/24/2015 02:17 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > >> I would much rather live without any legacy jdk, and if so then without any > >> rules. But not setting > >> them will bring chaos for majority of users. > > > > I have a question: Is the

Re: F22 Self Contained Change: LXQt

2015-02-24 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 24, 2015 2:57 AM, "Jaroslav Reznik" wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: LXQt = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LXQt > > Change owner(s): Helio Chissini de Castro , > Christoph Wickert > > Package the LXQt desktop Environment for Fedora. > > * This Change is announced aft

Re: Changes in the f22 workstation

2015-02-20 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 20, 2015 2:09 PM, "Matthias Clasen" wrote: > > I wanted to give a heads-up to the wider audience about a number of > workstation changes that are landing in the f22 branch (and rawhide) > this week, in time for the alpha freeze next week: > > - The message tray at the bottom is gone, notifi

Re: amending the new package process

2015-01-22 Thread Pete Travis
On 01/22/2015 07:15 PM, Haïkel wrote: > 2015-01-21 11:49 GMT+01:00 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos : >> >> Step 6: ... If the proposed package is not reviewed for 2 months, the >> package must be reviewed by the submitter, and a git module with the >> master branch will be approved. >> > > I share your con

Re: python-dateutil update

2015-01-18 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2014 09:47 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2014 8:51 AM, "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" >> wrote: >>> >>> On

Re: Deleting f20-gnome-3-12 copr

2015-01-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 7, 2015 7:23 AM, "drago01" wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Richard Hughes" wrote: > >> > >> I'm planning to delete > >> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Deleting f20-gnome-3-12 copr

2015-01-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Richard Hughes" wrote: > > I'm planning to delete > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/ this > week. The original description always had "This COPR will be updated > until Fedora 21 has been released or until the entropy death of the > universe, wh

Re: Other download options

2014-12-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 10, 2014 10:47 AM, "Mike Pinkerton" wrote: > > > On 10 Dec 2014, at 11:52, Jerry James wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Maros Zatko wrote: >>> >>> Yes, there is netinstall in the Server variant, I suppose it's not the same as >>> Workstation one and (as a user) I'm getting pret

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 1:31 PM, "Reindl Harald" wrote: > > > > Am 09.12.2014 um 21:25 schrieb Pete Travis: > >> Lets say I do have an understanding of network basics, just for the sake >> of argument. I share my application with you. The application is >>

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 12:55 PM, "Reindl Harald" wrote: > > > Am 09.12.2014 um 20:51 schrieb Pete Travis: > >> Hmm... a whitelist of things that are allowed to ask for firewall >> accommodation doesn't help me develop new applications at all. And >> you&#

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 12:38 PM, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:09:23PM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2014 12:06 PM, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:52:01AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > &

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 11:54 AM, "Brian Wheeler" wrote: > > On 12/09/2014 01:45 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> >> - Original Message - >>> >>> Richard Hughes wrote: So do I! I'm a developer, which spin do I use so that the firewall doesn't get in my way? We can't develop a *product

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 12:06 PM, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:52:01AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2014 11:33 AM, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > > I should have said "ask firewalld for a port to be opened" - sorry

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 11:33 AM, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there will be > > work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port. Where

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 10:54 AM, "Stephen John Smoogen" wrote: > > > > On 9 December 2014 at 10:46, Alec Leamas wrote: >> >> On 09/12/14 18:39, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy > >> >> [cut] >> >>> OS X's firewall is disabled by default. Where's th

python-dateutil update

2014-12-07 Thread Pete Travis
ge for the maintainers involved. Please reply here with any concerns about this process that might not have occurred to me. [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126521 [1] https://immanetize.fedorapeople.org/python-dateutil.requires - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Proj

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-22 Thread Pete Travis
On 11/21/2014 11:22 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I think the Fedora policy requires more of a commitment from > maintainers than I can offer. In any event, I know RStudio Server can > be built from source on Fedora and that it works but it needs a lot of > detailed attention to turn it into

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 21, 2014 12:48 PM, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: > > The two I want most are RStudio (desktop and server) and R Commander. RStudio does exist in RPM form but the packages are made via 'cmake' rather than by Fedora's process, and the server's using the old school /etc/init.d rather than sy

Re: Orphaned Packages in branched (2014-11-20)

2014-11-20 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 20, 2014 2:25 PM, wrote: > > The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they > are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure > that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_

Re: Removing packages that have broken dependencies in F21 tree

2014-11-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 13, 2014 8:02 AM, "Kalev Lember" wrote: > > On 11/13/2014 03:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: >>> >>> transifex >> >> >> Huh?? If this is the package I'm thinking of, it's pretty important >> to many other packages. > > >

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 18, 2014 5:00 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > My comment was not meant to be argumentative, but rather tongue-in-cheek. > > However, I do believe when changing a default, it isn't about what is > > convenient for me. It's about

Re: Samba as AD DC

2014-09-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 7, 2014 11:58 AM, "Simo Sorce" wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 01:12 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is (Samba) Fedora 20 still not capable of being Active Directory Domain > > Controller? > > > > I mean is that page current: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Samba4#Cu

Re: Add Gparted into Live's

2014-08-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 8, 2014 4:03 PM, "Hedayat Vatankhah" wrote: > GParted provides a number of essential features users might need, some of which are not provided even by any command line tools in Fedora repositories: resizing and moving partitions/filesystems. And something like resizing FAT partitions is wha

Re: dnf even allows to uninstall RPM and systemd without warnings

2014-06-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Jun 23, 2014 4:55 PM, "Gerald B. Cox" wrote: > > First of all thank you for your reasoned response. I simply disagree. > > I understand the fact about require bugs, and the tons of dependent packages. I've seen that also when I've tried to remove a package and noticed it had a myriad of depen

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-22 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 22, 2014 3:05 AM, "Christian Schaller" wrote: ... > > As a sidenote, there has been a lot of discussions on this an other Fedora lists > over the last few Months where people have loudly come out against what they see > as infringements on the Freedom part of the four F's. Having seen this

Re: Diagrams and images used in documentation

2014-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 3, 2014 9:27 PM, "William Brown" wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the software that is used to make images like : > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/FreeIPA_Guide/images/IPA_arch.png > > Or > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html-single/System_Administrators_Gui

Re: What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

2014-03-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 25, 2014 8:27 PM, "Dan Mashal" wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > My point is that it must ALSO be possible to install the preferred desktop > > directly, without installing GNOME first. > > > Exactly this. > > Installing MATE from the spin is not exactly t

Re: F21 System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units

2014-03-04 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 4, 2014 7:51 AM, "Matthew Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > = Proposed System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cron-to-systemd-time-units > > I'm in favor, but I think we could use a li

Re: F21 System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units

2014-03-04 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 4, 2014 10:52 AM, "Lennart Poettering" wrote: > > On Tue, 04.03.14 15:54, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: > > > Hello, > > 2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Jaroslav Reznik : > > > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units = > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cr

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 6, 2014 11:06 AM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:00:17 -0500 > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > I would like to see one of the following, in order of preference: > > > > 1. Step one: when a release hits EOL, move the bugs to NEEDINFO with > > a notice similar to the current

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-03 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 3, 2014 9:31 PM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 20:14 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > So, look what I wrote today: > > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface > > > > >

Review swap: glyphicons-halflings-fonts RHBZ#1050805

2014-01-26 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to swap reviews with someone for a font I've packaged up[1] . [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050805 - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet.

Re: What to do about packaging beta, or rc as alternate installable

2014-01-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 23, 2014 1:12 PM, "Stephen Gallagher" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/2014 01:43 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Christopher Meng wrote: > >> But you can do this on copr IMO. Also update-testing is not just > >> a place for updates to have a break, you c

Re: Fedora.next in 2013 -- Big Picture and Themes

2014-01-03 Thread Pete Travis
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2013-November/015317.html [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2013-November/015337.html - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -BEGIN PGP

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Pete Travis
gt; less) "foolproof"? > > Thanks in advance, > Tim > Enough people have asked this sort of question that Chris Roberts and I started hacking on a Guide to address it. Suggestions, criticisms, or contributions are equally welcome. [1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/multiboot

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 14, 2013 5:05 AM, "valent.turko...@gmail.com" < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Friend of mine just showed me his cheap 13" laptop running Intel D2500 > and first thing he said that he had issue installing linux on it. > > When I asked about GPU and answer was "Intel" I assured him tha

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 31, 2013 11:43 PM, "Tim Lauridsen" wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: >> >> It isn't a *package* management application. It's an *application* >> management application, ie., it only handles packages that are desktop >> applications (and therefore have desktop

Re: Packages have "proxy" word.

2013-10-31 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 31, 2013 6:08 PM, "مصعب الزعبي" wrote: > > بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم > > Hi, > > The result of updating Fedora by yum is fail !! > > When any package have "proxy" word marked to (install or update) , error message will appear with http 403 error forbidden. > > In my country Syria (maybe othe

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 25, 2013 3:09 PM, "Michael Schwendt" wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:54:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > I'm sure the docs team talks about stuff in Rawhide occasionally too; > > Unlike "devel", the docs list is related to Documentation only, isn't it? > > Could you imagine turning

Re: Lack of response about sponsorship

2013-10-20 Thread Pete Travis
*snip* > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group > lists, how to get sponsored. Just waiting might be a solution, but > probably not the fastest one. > > Matthias > > -- > I don't agree with this. The sponsorship process is as much an introduction to the commu

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 10, 2013 8:20 PM, "Kevin Kofler" wrote: > > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:58:32AM -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: > >> > * Fedora Workstation > >> Will this subsume Live-Desktop.iso and Live-KDE.iso? > >> What about other current desktop Spins? > >> Presumably some of t

Re: Review swap request: web-assets

2013-08-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 23, 2013 6:00 PM, "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > > Hi! > > Would someone be willing to trade me a review for: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997678 > > It's dead simple at the moment: it just provides a couple directories and RPM > macros. Later on it will grow some httpd mag

Re: no mention of interface naming in Fedora 19 Release Notes

2013-07-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 16, 2013 11:22 AM, "Andrew McNabb" wrote: > > Fedora 19 has gone through yet another change to how network interfaces > are renamed (biosdevname, etc.). This isn't mentioned in the "Changes > in Fedora for System Administrators" section of the Release Notes, > though it does seem to be in

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

2013-07-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 10, 2013 5:25 AM, "Jaroslav Reznik" wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Application Installer = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller > > Change owner(s): Richard Hughes , together with the > desktop team > > We will replace the existing gnome-packagekit frontends (

Re: icedtea-web installed and enabled by default in Fedora 19

2013-06-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Jun 17, 2013 9:03 AM, "Bill Nottingham" wrote: ... > > > > > > > I think given all the trouble this plugin has caused recently, it wouldn't > > be wise to install it for everyone. If you need it, great, install it, but > > if a users doesn't need it, it's really just creating a level of risk we

Re: git rebase master

2013-05-27 Thread Pete Travis
On May 27, 2013 11:17 AM, "Sérgio Basto" wrote: > > Hi, > git puts me crazy > > in here : > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/debconf.git/ > > I have master now correct and want F19 be the same (git merge master) > but do a commit just in F19, seems that never will be the same . > > I try > fedpk

Re: Maintainer input on release notes

2013-05-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, John J. McDonough > wrote: > > We had a short discussion of this at this morning's meeting but felt a > > broader discussion here was warranted. > > > > When preparing the Release Notes, we often ask the deve

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Pete Travis
perhaps even become active contributors. People **will** bitch about being able to read the password as they type it. "Any Press is Good Press" is a bromide that Fedora shouldn't test. - Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immane

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 5, 2013 2:23 PM, "David Lehman" wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:59 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman > > wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:29:21AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > > > equated to the memory requirements for the running environment, > especially > > &

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
quirements of the installation environment can't be equated to the memory requirements for the running environment, especially for cloud guests. @minimal requires less memory to install than a full desktop - but does anyone want to run Fedora with less memory than that, or is doing so ventur

How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-02 Thread Pete Travis
id in targeting more comprehensive documentation. Beyond a basic desktop, what use cases would you like to see us represent? -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://a

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 15, 2013 10:13 AM, "Rahul Sundaram" wrote: > > On 03/15/2013 10:52 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >> >> I agree that it doesn't really need a feature page, but IMHO it should >> be in the release notes (this is something that could break existing >> programs). > > Here you go > > https://fedorapro

Re: Fedora Knowledge Base / Help Center Idea

2013-03-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 13, 2013 1:55 PM, "Rahul Sundaram" wrote: > > On 03/13/2013 02:52 PM, Pete Travis wrote: >> >> . >> >> Guides are getting updated too, of course. More writers make for better docs, so if you want that for our users, please help write docs instead of

Re: Fedora Knowledge Base / Help Center Idea

2013-03-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 13, 2013 11:31 AM, "Máirín Duffy" wrote: > > On 03/13/2013 11:53 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > I imagine that some kind of well discoverable (e.g. advertised during > > installation, or in the default browser homepage) knowledge-base beyond > > installation guides, release notes e.a. could

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 12, 2013 9:12 AM, "Peter Jones" wrote: > > On UEFI systems, which is most new desktops: > > 1) we don't need any grub UI whatsoever > 2) we don't need the 5 second timeout > 3) we don't need to indicate to the firmware that we need USB probed > unless it's the device we're booting from. >

Re: Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

2013-02-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 15, 2013 5:34 AM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > On 08/02/13 01:36 PM, Pete Travis wrote: . >> >> I haven't poked at mediawiki in a while, so please correct me if I'm >> wrong, but isn't it fairly self contained? I recall copying the content

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 15, 2013 6:39 AM, "Aaron Gray" wrote: > > Pete, > > Yeah that's the easy bits, they need details too. The bit I have yet to find out how to do is to forward HTTPS and DNS ports between the primary internet network and the secondary DHCP BOOTP network on 192.168.1.x. I had this working on S

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 14, 2013 12:03 PM, "Pete Travis" wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2013 3:47 AM, "Aaron Gray" wrote: > > > > On 7 February 2013 16:41, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> > >> On 02/07/2013 04:23 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > >&g

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 9, 2013 3:47 AM, "Aaron Gray" wrote: > > On 7 February 2013 16:41, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >> On 02/07/2013 04:23 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: >>> >>> Can someone who knows firewalld please do a HOWTO to on setting up a secondary DHCP with DNS and HTTPS access for PXEBOOTing of Fedora18

Re: Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

2013-02-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 8, 2013 12:54 PM, "Stephen John Smoogen" wrote: . Two the fix is to upgrade to a very new > version which will break everyone who upgrades until they (or the > first person who gets to the website :) ) runs the upgrade mode.. > which might not work due to either custom changes or the fact t

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 28, 2013 9:56 AM, "inode0" wrote: > (snip) > I'm happy to see renewed discussion about the future of the Fedora > desktop. After four releases it isn't bad to step back and take a look > at how things are working out. I hope we can do that with an eye to > where we want to go in the future

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 9, 2013 12:32 PM, "Nathanael D. Noblet" wrote: > > On 01/09/2013 12:26 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Pete Travis
A simple short term solution might be to purge this statement from the documentation for affected releases. If we should expect the splash only in certain cases, of course the docs should state that expected behavior. Since you folks are testing, would anyone mind filing a bug against the document

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Pete Travis
> I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions of > packages and add something in the release notes for each major GUI / > programming language / user application that got a big update. > > Rich. > I only