Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:36 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:28:16PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:11:08PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays (notting, 18:50:29) > > > > * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jaro

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:11 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays (notting, 18:50:29) > > * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final - > > not updated yet (jreznik, 18:58

Re: cone : potentially orphaned package

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:48 +0100, I wrote: > 2011-06-23 : FTBFS not responded to > 2010-06-30 : -static packaging bug not responded to > > Plus, release 0.89 from 20-May-2011 is available whereas Fedora contains > 0.84 from 2010 ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/files/cone/ ). > > This

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 12:10:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:11 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays (notting, 18:50:29) > > > * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: Grub2

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 12/08/2012 01:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm not sure if there's an 'update-safe' way of doing this. Instead of updating the "system" theme he could copy&paste the /boot/grub2/themes/system directory and call it "/boot/grub2/themes/les" and in /etc/default/grub add: GRUB_THEME="/boot/

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

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs problem. Sometimes Fedora just feels like a bunch of people/SIGs working independent of each ot

F-18 Branched report: 20121208 changes

2012-12-08 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sat Dec 8 09:15:43 UTC 2012 New package: PackageKit-Qt-0.8.6-3.fc18 Qt support library for PackageKit New package: cliquer-1.21-4.fc18 Find cliques in arbitrary weighted graphs New package: kcm_wacomtablet-1.3.7-2.fc18 KDE Control

rawhide report: 20121208 changes

2012-12-08 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sat Dec 8 08:15:10 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [ansible] ansible-fireball-0.9-1.fc19.noarch requires python-keyczar ansible-node-fireball-0.9-1.fc19.noarch requires python-keyczar [ape] ape-2

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

2012-12-08 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2012/12/7 Tomas Radej : > The threat for Fedora is that even in the FOSS, there is competition. > Distros are competing for users - users that give back, users that > report bugs, or users that are or become maintainers and developers. > When the overwhelming response to Fedora is "Hey, they've go

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

2012-12-08 Thread inode0
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. > > This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. > > Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs problem. We might not have enough chef

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

2012-12-08 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > >I imagine it boils down to money since Fedora=free and RHEL=$$$. > Corporate suits will will weigh cost >of Fedora support vs RHEL support and > decide accordingly. > > >Or if money is an issue use Centos. Not really! We are already a

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

2012-12-08 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sunday, December 09, 2012 12:12 AM, Arun SAG wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel mailto:clydekunkel7...@verizon.net>> wrote: >I imagine it boils down to money since Fedora=free and RHEL=$$$. Corporate suits will will weigh cost >of Fedora support vs RHEL sup

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

2012-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:12:24 -0800, Arun SAG wrote: Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We want our users to use the latest software out there but we also want to reduce the upgrade cycle. You CANNOT disturb every developer in a company to upgrade hi

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

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : > This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. > > This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. > > Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs > problem. > > Sometim

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

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > > In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora has > > turned into > > Rawhide more than Fedora with 17 and even more so with 18. > > You mean like people who are pushing features > (https://fedoraproject.org/wik

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

2012-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:32:01AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > In general, adding packages in an update is actually a fairly safe thing > to do, as it's very unlikely to disturb any existing setups unless some > of those packages somehow provide stuff existing packages might depend > on. You ha

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

2012-12-08 Thread Rahul
On 12/08/2012 12:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: In general, adding packages in an update is actually a fairly safe thing to do, as it's very unlikely to disturb any existing setups unless some of those packages somehow provide stuff existing packages might depend on. You have to explicitly insta

[rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0100 Michael Scherer wrote: ...snip... > in fact speaking of more testing in rawhide, do you run rawhide ? > If not, maybe that's something that is part of the problem, and the > first step to a solution. IE, someone should volunteer, and get enough > feedback on

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

2012-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2012 05:31 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : In fact, I never heard anyone complaining about "kde is dying" while the numbers are much more worrisome : http://www.ohloh.net/p/kde/contributors/summary Maybe that's caused by

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

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 09:32 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora has > > > turned into > > > Rawhide more than Fedora with 17 and even more so with 18. > >

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

2012-12-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/07/2012 08:26 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > It underscores the need for the base OS or core to be absolutely as small as > possible. FreeBSD provides a good model, small installed system customized > with packages/ports. Personally I would like to see a three-level approach: > > Level 1

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

2012-12-08 Thread Rahul
On 12/08/2012 01:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scared by the bureaucracy) Can you be more specific? What sort of bureaucracy do you think is avoidable in the current proce

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

2012-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2012 17:19, schrieb Mathieu Bridon: >> You CANNOT disturb every developer in a company to upgrade his box every >> 6 months. > > You don't have to upgrade every 6 months. > I'm still running Fedora 16 at work because I haven't had time to upgrade finally you have to yes, you can from

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

2012-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2012 17:25, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:12:24 -0800, > Arun SAG wrote: >> >> Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We >> want our users to use the latest software out there but we also want to >> reduce the upgrade cycle. >

Re: Grub2

2012-12-08 Thread les
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 06:34 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 12/08/2012 01:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I'm not sure > > if there's an 'update-safe' way of doing this. > > Instead of updating the "system" theme he could copy&paste the > /boot/grub2/themes/system directory and call it "

Re: Grub2

2012-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-07 11:54 (GMT-0800) les composed: My name is Les Howell. I do semiconductor test programs for mainframe ATE. My current issue is with GRUB2. I am slightly visually impaired due to glaucoma. This is important, because setting my system up to use bigger fonts is vi

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

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 19:31 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : > On 12/08/2012 05:31 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : > > > In fact, I never heard anyone complaining about "kde is dying" while the > > numbers are much more worrisome

RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
Kevin, This is great and is exactly what I was talking about. Michael, For the record, yes I run rawhide. I have Fedora 14,16,17,18 and 19 running here. Dan -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Kevin

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

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
Please don't speak about things you don't understand. MATE 1.5 is more stable than 1.4 and was pushed for a reason. Dan -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael Scherer Sent: Saturday, December 08,

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

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 12/07/2012 08:26 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > > It underscores the need for the base OS or core to be absolutely as > small as possible. FreeBSD provides a good model, small installed system > customized with packages/ports. Personally

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

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the potential other user >base that don't have

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

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My primary problem with Fedora isn't "lack of stability", but lack of API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades. In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes upgrades typically come along with, but the number "

Re: projectM

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:55:18 +0200, Brendan Jones wrote: > On 06/01/2012 03:24 PM, Jameson wrote: > > Unfortunately, I'm no longer in a position to maintain the projectM > > packages (libprojectM, libprojectM-qt, projectM-jack, > > projectM-libvisual, and projectM-pulseaudio), so I will need to or

Re: Grub2

2012-12-08 Thread les
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 15:06 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-12-07 11:54 (GMT-0800) les composed: > > > My name is Les Howell. I do semiconductor test programs for mainframe > > ATE. > > > My current issue is with GRUB2. I am slightly visually impaired due to > > glaucoma. This is i

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

2012-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2012 12:20 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/08/2012 05:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My primary problem with Fedora isn't "lack of stability", but lack of API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades. In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes