Re: security bug (Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!)

2011-05-03 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, I sent a request to docs ml but I did not receive any response. I also do not see any related stuff in documentation http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats To whom should I go with this? (I'd do it myself if I only knew English well and I would be Fedora dev :)) W dniu 22 kwietnia 2011 19:

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-05-02 Thread John Keller
On 04/29/2011 11:05 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, John Keller wrote: > >> Right now the only options, to my knowledge, are to use the netinst >> (hybrid image) or use some special tool/process to convert the DVD ISO >> into a bootable USB key. The former can be flaky

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/29/2011 05:43 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 02:29 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: >> On Tue 26 April 2011 21:58:08 Mathieu Bridon wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: it is better to have the package (even if it's poorly maintained) than to no

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-29 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 02:29 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Tue 26 April 2011 21:58:08 Mathieu Bridon wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > it is better to have the package (even if it's poorly > > > maintained) than to not have it at all! > > > > I think that's where

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-29 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue 26 April 2011 21:58:08 Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > it is better to have the package (even if it's poorly > > maintained) than to not have it at all! > > I think that's where some of us disagree with you. > > Having lots of parts of poo

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, John Keller wrote: > Right now the only options, to my knowledge, are to use the netinst > (hybrid image) or use some special tool/process to convert the DVD ISO > into a bootable USB key. The former can be flaky (as you mention) and > the latter is cumbersome (an

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-29 Thread John Keller
On 04/26/2011 06:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 07:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> I decided to reinstall using netinstall.iso. > > Just a general note here: during pre-release time netinstall is always > more likely to have trouble than media install. We test installa

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:11:16 +0200, KK wrote: > > Will you resurrect the packages when their package maintainer retires > > them after F-15 gold despite of you having fixed them to build? > > Retiring the packages is evil in the first place, and IMHO we're making it > way too easy. Packages shou

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 04/26/2011 01:11 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Retiring the packages is evil in the first place, and IMHO we're making it > way too easy. Packages should only get retired if they are replaced by > something different with equivalent or superior functionality or if they > really cannot be made to wo

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 07:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Initially (1st try), I tried a "customized package set". I was warned > about a long series of missing deps. The install however proceeded and > ended with anaconda raising before-mentioned error. > > Then, (2nd try) I tried a "default

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 07:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > I decided to reinstall using netinstall.iso. Just a general note here: during pre-release time netinstall is always more likely to have trouble than media install. We test installation of the pre-release media (Alpha, Beta) quite heavily.

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Will you resurrect the packages when their package maintainer retires > them after F-15 gold despite of you having fixed them to build? Retiring the packages is evil in the first place, and IMHO we're making it way too easy. Packages should only get retired if they are r

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:21 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mathieu Bridon wrote: > > I think that's where some of us disagree with you. > > > > Having lots of parts of poor quality doesn't raise the global quality of > > Fedora. Having only a few parts, each of excellent quality, does. > > If you r

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:26:40 +0200, KK wrote: > > Arbitrary provenpackagers spending time on rebuilding semi-orphaned > > packages (or even incorrectly retired packages) isn't helpful. > > Actually, IMHO it is. Will you resurrect the packages when their package maintainer retires them after F-15

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mathieu Bridon wrote: > I think that's where some of us disagree with you. > > Having lots of parts of poor quality doesn't raise the global quality of > Fedora. Having only a few parts, each of excellent quality, does. If you really NEED a certain piece of software (for a job, for a hobby or fo

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > it is better to have the package (even if it's poorly > maintained) than to not have it at all! I think that's where some of us disagree with you. Having lots of parts of poor quality doesn't raise the global quality of Fedora. Having only

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > How do you (as provenpackager) know whats broken? Do you look over bug > reports for packages you fix? Do you talk with upstream and check for > bugs there or new releases? Do you use the package day to day and fix > or report issues you run into? > > Or do you just fix it so

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:26:40 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Arbitrary provenpackagers spending time on rebuilding semi-orphaned > > packages (or even incorrectly retired packages) isn't helpful. > > Actually, IMHO it is. We should work together as a community and get > r

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Arbitrary provenpackagers spending time on rebuilding semi-orphaned > packages (or even incorrectly retired packages) isn't helpful. Actually, IMHO it is. We should work together as a community and get rid of this idea that packages are owned by one person (or a short li

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:33:23 -0400, BN wrote: > > > We consider broken deps within the set of packages included in the > > > released images to block the release, but there are none of those in > > > Beta. Broken deps outside the package set that gets on images aren't > > > really as important. >

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Michael Schwendt (mschwe...@gmail.com) said: > > We consider broken deps within the set of packages included in the > > released images to block the release, but there are none of those in > > Beta. Broken deps outside the package set that gets on images aren't > > really as important. > > Sure,

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:35:43 -0700, AW wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:51 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > > > Branched report with number of missing requires goes on fedora-devel and > > to maintainers of those packages, so they must be aware of it. The list > > is shorter than it was before b

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/21/2011 09:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:51 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: >> On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps and t

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps >> and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death? >> >> All three happened to me, when trying this Beta, yesterday ;) >

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 14:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 04/19/2011 04:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of > > Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late > > May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open sour

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:51 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> > >> I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps > >> and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/21/2011 07:21 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > Branched report with number of missing requires goes on fedora-devel and > to maintainers of those packages, so they must be aware of it. The list > is shorter than it was before beta but there's still lot of packages. Do > we want to release it as

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps >> and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death? >> >> All three happened to me, when trying this Beta, yesterday ;)

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/21/2011 11:04 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: >> Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: >> * Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and >> OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15. > If we are going to mention OCaml then to be fair > can we please also menti

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps > and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death? > > All three happened to me, when trying this Beta, yesterday ;) Filing bug reports is helpful and what one is suppos

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/19/2011 04:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of > Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late > May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating > system that continues to deliver innovative featur

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:42:02AM -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: > > > * Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and > > > OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15. > > > > If we are going to mention OCaml then to be fair > > can we please also mention GHC 7.0.2, > > which is major ne

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Jens Petersen
> > * Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and > > OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15. > > If we are going to mention OCaml then to be fair > can we please also mention GHC 7.0.2, > which is major new version upgrade since F14? Ok that is probably me failing to follow the

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-20 Thread Jens Petersen
> Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: > * Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and > OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15. If we are going to mention OCaml then to be fair can we please also mention GHC 7.0.2, which is major new version upgrade si

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every si