Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 03/05/2010 06:56 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 03/05/2010 02:52 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >> One size does still not fit all, although this is a great idea for >> most packages in Fedora for packages in certain niches this is a bad idea. >> >> I've said this before (and got 0 response), I bel

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 03/05/2010 06:32 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:52:56AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Make rawhide consumable as a semi-rolling release itself. >> >> We already have this it is called early branching of the next release. I >> would fully agree with you if it were

Re: Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:39:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 23:47 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > to how these numbers have changed in a week. I hope then everyone from > > the QA SIG is using the script to report feedback, so it will be save to > > say that an update was

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:42:28PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-03-05 17:00:12, Till Maas wrote: > ... > > But it seems that os.getlogin() is too smart for this purposes, e.g. > > for me it always uses the username that started X, even if I "su -" > > or "sudo -i" into another account. > >

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:18:37PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:42:32AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > Imho for the beginning, there is no need to be able to query complete > > profiles, but it would be enough to have a count p

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On 06/03/10 09:04, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:18:37PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:42:32AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > >>> Imho for the beginning, there is no need to be able to query complete >>> profiles,

Koji or me at fault?

2010-03-06 Thread Paul
Hi, I've imported monodevelop-debugger-gdb for f13 and rawhide and have tried to build it. Koji is going through the setup, but then falling over on the build. Looking at the logs, it looks like a python problem... http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034431&name=build.log Can any

Re: Koji or me at fault?

2010-03-06 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/06/2010 11:35 AM, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I've imported monodevelop-debugger-gdb for f13 and rawhide and have > tried to build it. Koji is going through the setup, but then falling > over on the build. Looking at the logs, it looks like a python > problem... > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ko

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:34:08AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 06/03/10 09:04, Till Maas wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:18:37PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:42:32AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > >>> Imho for

Re: VCS key in spec files and some scripts

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Till Maas wrote: > > Also a link to an example spec would be helpful. The fedora-easy-karma.spec now uses this, so in case anyone else is interested to test it, it can be used. But I needed some patc

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On 06/03/10 10:04, Till Maas wrote: --snipped-- > DB) > 3) once a day a crawler reads all files and counts for each package how > often they are installed, >> >> What about uninstalled? >> >> Update bring in upd to X, but package Y,Z. come in. >> User removes Y,Z without breaking anythi

Re:Koji or me at fault?

2010-03-06 Thread Chen Lei
make tag TAG_OPTS=-F make build 在2010-03-06?17:35:55,Paul??写道: >Hi, > >I've?imported?monodevelop-debugger-gdb?for?f13?and?rawhide?and?have >tried?to?build?it.?Koji?is?going?through?the?setup,?but?then?falling >over?on?the?build.?Looking?at?the?logs,?it?looks?like?a?python >problem... > >http

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-06 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/05/2010 06:07 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:10:41PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> I suspect that the Fedora policy, as stated, makes the most sense for >> most people who use Fedora. There is no rule against pushing new >> package releases to updates, but they're

Re: Fight bugs, not FESCo

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:19:27AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 06/03/10 10:04, Till Maas wrote: > --snipped-- > > DB) > > 3) once a day a crawler reads all files and counts for each package how > > often they are installed, > >> > >> What about uninstalled? > >> > >> Update bring in

gcc internal error on F13

2010-03-06 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791 I have no idea how to proceed The package builds just fine on F12, F11 and F10. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapr

Re: gcc internal error on F13

2010-03-06 Thread Jens Maucher
What shows the build.log? -- J Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 10:20 -0300 schrieb Paulo Cavalcanti: > I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error: > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791 > > > I have no idea how to proceed > > The package bu

Re: gcc internal error on F13

2010-03-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paulo Cavalcanti writes: « HTML content follows » I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791>http://koji .fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791 I have no idea how to proceed Create a bug ag

Re: gcc internal error on F13

2010-03-06 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Paulo Cavalcanti writes: > > >« HTML content follows » > >I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error: > > > > > >http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791>http://koji > >.fedoraproject.org/

rawhide report: 20100306 changes

2010-03-06 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sat Mar 6 08:15:05 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires libboost_serialization-mt.so.5 emotion-0.1.0.042-5.fc12

Re: gcc internal error on F13

2010-03-06 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error: > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791 > > > I have no idea how to proceed > > The package builds just fine on F12, F11 and F10. > > The

Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Wickert
While we are at it, here is another great update: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 * New version introduced in F11. * Doesn't fix any bugs but it's an enhancement only. * Useless update description "update to 4.7.1". * And *of course* it was push

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, 2010/3/6 Christoph Wickert : > While we are at it, here is another great update: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 > >      * New version introduced in F11. >      * Doesn't fix any bugs but it's an enhancement only. >      * Useless update description "update to 4

Re: Perl, Imap and Kerberos

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Freitag, den 05.03.2010, 19:22 +0100 schrieb Christoph Höger: > Hi all, > > I am currently writing an IMAP client script in perl. > > Since this script will only be used in one single use case and the IMAP > server supports Kerberos authentication, I thought it would be a good > idea to use M

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > Hi, > > 2010/3/6 Christoph Wickert : > > While we are at it, here is another great update: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 > > > > * New version introduced in F11. > > * Doesn't fix any

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:49:03PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > maintainers, I think KDE or this update show that we were better off > with an official policy. Did the mc update break something? Regards Till pgpdxHb1B1LoX.pgp Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.f

proven packager needed - mrpt

2010-03-06 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Following the previous thread on opencv: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/131584.html Almost all packages have been rebuilt against opencv-2.0.0-7 (thank you, guys !) except mrpt. We didn't get any news from mrpt only maintainer jlblanco and most packages have been pus

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Naheem Zaffar
2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski > > Why I can install KDE 4.4 in F11 and I can't install latest gnome? > (I'm just asking because I'm curious, not because I use Linux on > desktop) I think for many people the issue is not that it can be an update (maybe the enhancements etc are useful to someone).

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/06/2010 11:28 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:49:03PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > >> maintainers, I think KDE or this update show that we were better off >> with an official policy. >> > Did the mc update break something? > Even if it did not it would be

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/6 Christoph Wickert : > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: >> Hi, >> >> 2010/3/6 Christoph Wickert : >> > While we are at it, here is another great update: >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 >> > >> >      * New version introduce

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/6 Naheem Zaffar : > > > 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski >> >> Why I can install KDE 4.4 in F11 and I can't install latest gnome? >> (I'm just asking because I'm curious, not because I use Linux on >> desktop) > > I think for many people the issue is not that it can be an update (maybe the > enha

Re: Heads up: X server configuration changes

2010-03-06 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Peter Hutterer > wrote: >>> > Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: >>> >> Any pointers on how to migrate the 'enable touchpad tap-to-click' >>> >> feature from the existing .fdi file(s)? >> >> Section "InputClass" >

Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Adam Williamson
I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, right? Here it is: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=241710 I tried to present the

Re: Upcoming Bugzilla Changes

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:14:38AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:27 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > Especially it needs to be made sure that only bugs created prior to > > adding "F13" to RedHat Bugzilla or the branching of F13, depending on > > what happened later, are to

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread shmuel siegel
On 3/6/2010 9:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, > right? > > > What do people make of this? >

Re: proven packager needed - mrpt

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 19:03 +0100 schrieb Haïkel Guémar: > Following the previous thread on opencv: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/131584.html > > > Almost all packages have been rebuilt against opencv-2.0.0-7 (thank you, > guys !) except mrpt. > We didn't ge

F-13 Branched report: 20100306 changes

2010-03-06 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Sat Mar 6 09:15:12 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 doodle-0.6.7-5.fc12.i686 requires libextractor.so.1 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires lib

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 21:12 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: > On 3/6/2010 9:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyo

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Saturday, 06 March 2010 at 18:49, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: [...] > > Because I don't understand the > > criteria for Fedora package update. > > > > Why I can install KDE 4.4 in F11 and I can't install latest gnome? > > Becaus

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Josh Stone
On 03/06/2010 11:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I tried to present the poll in a very neutral way, and as far as I know, > it hasn't been linked to from anywhere else; only regular forum members > are likely to come across it. So it shouldn't be massively inherently > biased, and has a reasonable

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/07/2010 01:40 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > If that were the case, I'd have expected someone to bring it up in the > comments. No-one has. > > I've never actually heard of anyone running FN-1 because they want a > 'more stable' system; this thread was the first time I heard that > theory. In

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:04:31 -0800 Adam Williamson wrote: ...snip... > What do people make of this? I'm no expert on polls/polling, but I suspect that many of the people who are more interested in a 'stable/less updates' Fedora don't frequent things like the forums or users list. Sure, they mig

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, > right? > > Here it is: http://foru

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 03/05/2010 06:07 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:10:41PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> Well, that's a rather specialized taste. > >> And since I was lost at the previous step, I wonder here what you >> think Thomas

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, > right? > > Here it is: http://forums.fedorafor

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Dariusz J. Garbowski
On 06/03/10 01:10 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 21:12 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: >> On 3/6/2010 9:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread >>> about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and >>> controver

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 15:00 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > I don't think people realize what they're asking for. I'll just defer to > my favorite Ford quote: > > "If I had asked my customers what they wanted," Ford said, "they would > have said a faster horse." I don't think that's quite apt. The

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > I have seen some discussions, but I don't follow them. I'm waiting for > results ;) Get involved, try to influence the discussion. > Pity. There are many Fedora policies that are useless for end users > like me, but update poli

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread >> about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and >> controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone l

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski: > On Saturday, 06 March 2010 at 18:49, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > [...] > > > Because I don't understand the > > > criteria for Fedora package updat

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > 2010/3/6 Naheem Zaffar : > > [snipped] > > PS other places that have more stable updates also have their problems - > > there are many users who dislike Ubuntu because bugs are not fixed and they > > have to live with them far too

Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
Good news everyone, you can probably expect to receive more positive bodhi karma for your updates in the future (or you already got unexpected much), because there is now a script called 'fedora-easy-karma'[0], that makes providing feedback a lot easier. This makes it more important to consider t

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated > to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new > versions to F11. > Why? I don't want to update/reinstall all my machines every 6 months. And I

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/07/2010 12:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, > right? > > Here it is: http://forums.fedora

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:16:45PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > > 2010/3/6 Naheem Zaffar : > > > > [snipped] > > > PS other places that have more stable updates also have their problems - > > > there are many users who dislik

Re: Adding optional packages to comps.xml

2010-03-06 Thread alekcejk
As there are no objections I have added to "Sound and Video" v4l2ucp in comps.xml for F12-F14, ucview for F11-F14, EL5 (Robert Scheck replied that I can do it) and gtk-v4l for F13-F14. Alexey Kurov -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil : > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> >> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated >> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new >> versions to F11. >> > > Why? I don't want to update But you are

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/6 Christoph Wickert : > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > >> I have seen some discussions, but I don't follow them. I'm waiting for >> results ;) > > Get involved, try to influence the discussion. > I'm just a guest here :) I'm not a Fedora developer so m

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski : > 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil : >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: >>> >>> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated >>> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new >>> versions to F11. >>> >> >> W

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/07/2010 12:25 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> >> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated >> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new >> versions to F11. >> > > Why? I don't want to

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:40:20PM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil : > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > >> > >> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated > >> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pu

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:25 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: >>> >>> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated >>> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in p

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:48:23AM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > deal with the problems that might arise with the new version. But if the > new version is dumped upon me in the middle of a week, I'm left without > a choice. I have to immediately deal with whatever problems arise from > the upgra

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil : > The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core > components revision number . I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros in past 11 years, and this is something new to me... I hope that RHEL 6 will be released soon, Fedora 11 is going to be

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/07/2010 04:14 AM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > I'm just a guest here :) > > I'm not a Fedora developer so my vote doesn't really matter. > Getting involved does not require a vote and any user position if expressed in a constructive fashion does matter and is part of how we can form a decis

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski: > 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil: >> The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core >> components revision number . > > I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros > in past 11 years, and this is something new to me... > I understand that. However th

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 17:48 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski : > > But you are updating to latest KDE in f11. So what is the deal with > > full system update? > > > > Time. A simple "yum update" or make a selective update takes a few > minutes. A whole system update takes m

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/07/2010 12:52 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Yet moreover you also have the option of updating bugfixes in > addition, leaving the enhancement updates out. I really don't think I have that option. It might work in some cases, but generally it's bound to fail. A security update in an application

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 17:48 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski : >> > But you are updating to latest KDE in f11. So what is the deal with >> > full system update? >> > >> >> Time. A simple "yum update" or make a selective

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:28:32AM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:52 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > Yet moreover you also have the option of updating bugfixes in > > addition, leaving the enhancement updates out. > > I really don't think I have that option. It might work in some cases

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Henrique Junior
Em Sáb, 2010-03-06 às 18:00 +0100, Christoph Wickert escreveu: > While we are at it, here is another great update: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 > > * New version introduced in F11. > * Doesn't fix any bugs but it's an enhancement only. > * Usele

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Doug Ledford
On 03/06/2010 03:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:04:31 -0800 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > ...snip... > >> What do people make of this? > > I'm no expert on polls/polling, but I suspect that many of the people > who are more interested in a 'stable/less updates' Fedora don't >

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 03:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread > > about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and > > controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Ev

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:07:13PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Most of our packagers follow the guidelines from the wiki: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines > This means, they apply at least three criteria: > * An update should not break something > * An upd

Re: Provide more testing feedback (was: Re: Refining the update queues/process)

2010-03-06 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:32:11PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > can be packaged. Another obvious TODO is to get bodhi_update_str() > included in the bodhi client in fedora-python. > I'll be happy to take that patch. Looking like I'll be pushing out an updated python-fedora next week. Depending on th

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Björn Persson
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Moreover you also have the option of updating security fixes only. That option doesn't really exist, as was already demonstrated: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/131926.html Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: Expect more positive bodhi karma / check karma automatism

2010-03-06 Thread Milos Jakubicek
On 6.3.2010 23:21, Till Maas wrote: > Good news everyone, > > you can probably expect to receive more positive bodhi karma for your > updates in the future (or you already got unexpected much), because > there is now a script called 'fedora-easy-karma'[0], that makes > providing feedback a lot easi

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil : > 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski: >> 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil: >>> The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core >>> components revision number . >> >> I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros >> in past 11 years, and this is something new to me...

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2010 03:50:22 pm Henrique Junior wrote: > A few days ago the discussion on policy updates are maturing and that it > is beneficial to Fedora, but it's useless to start threads with the > attitude of "pointing fingers and accusing" using an ironic tone. Agreed. Please stop star

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:52 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Yet moreover you also have the option of updating bugfixes in >> addition, leaving the enhancement updates out. > > I really don't think I have that option. It might work in some cases, > but gener

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski : > 2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil : >> 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski: >>> 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil: The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core components revision number . >>> >>> I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros >>> in past 11 yea

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Debarshi Ray
> Why? I don't want to update/reinstall all my machines every 6 months. Since you don't want to update every 6 months, you want people to keep updating every now and then? Cheers, Debarshi -- One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an imaginary part. -- Andrew Koenig -

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/07/2010 06:47 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > Again I say "updates-testing"! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for > a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them > plenty of time to adapt. > If you have a large codebase two months is barely enough time to even big ev

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/7 Rahul Sundaram : > On 03/07/2010 06:47 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> Again I say "updates-testing"! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for >> a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them >> plenty of time to adapt. >> > > If you have a large codebase two months is

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 6 March 2010 17:00, Christoph Wickert wrote: > While we are at it, here is another great update: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326 > >      * New version introduced in F11. >      * Doesn't fix any bugs but it's an enhancement only. >      * Useless update descripti

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/07/2010 06:47 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> Again I say "updates-testing"! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for >> a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them >> plenty of time to adapt. >> > > If you have a l

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you > get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it. > updates-testing should not be used for this purpose because among other things you might want to push

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Debarshi Ray
>>> Again I say "updates-testing"! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for >>> a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them >>> plenty of time to adapt. >>> >> >> If you have a large codebase two months is barely enough time to even >> big evaluating a move >> > > Then make i

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you >> get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it. >> > > updates-testing should not be used for thi

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil : > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> >>> Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you >>> get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it. >>> >> >> updates-

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski: > 2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil: >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you get too many complaints. But make it available for tho

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-06 Thread Rakesh Pandit
On 6 March 2010 02:50, Adam Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >>> We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The >>> working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding >>> whether to ship it is, br

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sonntag, den 07.03.2010, 01:49 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > Let's consider a situation - I'm developing a project in php 5.2. This > project might work fine on php 5.3 - I don't know I didn't tested it > yet. I'm depending on 5.2 version. Testing this code for a new php > will take some ti

"Welcome to Fedora" docs/video/audio

2010-03-06 Thread Rakesh Pandit
Added marketing in cc (probably better place for discussion). Does it make sense to ship a small pdf (say having a title "Welcome to Fedora") or if possible a video for users as an introduction to our distribution ? If yes, because it makes sense to keep it as small/simple as possible what should

New version of PackageDB in staging

2010-03-06 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Hello all, The first beta of the new PackageDB is running in our staging environment now. https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ All the features for 0.5.x should be present but there's definitely bugs to be found in the implementation. When you across one, feel free to find me on IRC to

Re: Another great update

2010-03-06 Thread Ryan Rix
On Sat 6 March 2010 5:54:11 pm Conrad Meyer wrote: > All Fedora developers are people, too -- please remember to show > some respect. "Be excellent to eachother" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Our_Community -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == signa