Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:36, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:52:38PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > > I used this [1] for the last LWE I went to. Its an OO2 drawing file. > > Edit to your liking (I took out my real numbers). > > > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ramereth/misc/gentoo-b

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Lance Albertson
Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:52:38PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Friday 07 April 2006 19:39, Roy Marples wrote: > ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the > ones we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, th

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 10:42, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Of course, the pretty thorough hashing that this current proposal is > getting pretty much means that this time is much different than the > last, and that I should probably just shut up now. dont worry, i'm pretty sure just about everyone re

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:52:38PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 07 April 2006 19:39, Roy Marples wrote: > >>> ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the > >>> ones we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, the guy > >>> wants

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 19:39, Roy Marples wrote: >>> ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the >>> ones we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, the guy >>> wants to follow up later with *you* >> Quite an important point, but to have that

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:07:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > - lots of interest in kickstart-like features in our installer ... people > want > to throw install media into a fresh box, boot it, and come back later and > have it be done/usuable The 'CLI' frontend I wrote ~9 months ago worked

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 07 April 2006 19:39, Roy Marples wrote: > > ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the > > ones we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, the guy > > wants to follow up later with *you* > > Quite an important point, but to have that fuzzy corporate feel t

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 07 April 2006 19:38, Mark Loeser wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > - quad g5 ppc64 running e17 and burning livecds for people on the fly (by > > far the i686/installer was the most popular but amd64 was pretty strong > > too ... we gave away prob like 8 ppc and 4 ppc64

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mark Loeser
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > - the dual core amd64 demo machine was running XGL and some movies like FF7 > Advent Children (due later this month in the US btw!) ... this was such a > pimp demo, it caught everyone's attention ... and the best part was, opensuse > was across from us

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > - devs need to make personal Gentoo business cards cause when people ask > for *your* card, you look retarded when you say you have none (i know i > felt retarded ;x) Meh, you just look retarded :P > ... some just want a generic Gentoo busi

[gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
here's a big old brain dump of all the fun stuff that went down this year - the dual core amd64 demo machine was running XGL and some movies like FF7 Advent Children (due later this month in the US btw!) ... this was such a pimp demo, it caught everyone's attention ... and the best part was, ope

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:54, Aron Griffis wrote: > Vapier wrote: [Tue Apr 04 2006, 01:12:28AM EDT] > > the idea is that it's common sense and to need to vote on something > > like this seems asinine > > It might seem that way, but something that is voted on and accepted > has credibility. Some

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:34, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > sorry, those last two paragraphs are covered elsewhere between infra and > > evrel ... so the document should be considered without those last two > > paragraphs > > This is what I'd li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 07 April 2006 10:31, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > Still, the basic question is: Why!? There's no benefit for the user, who > will choose whatever theming he wants anyways. Imho it's superfluous and > therefore wasted time. highly suspect statements these states are all quite common ... tryin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> can you post the .xpm for use with grub-0.xx for me to check out ? > Don't have one designed yet, this is all still in the planning stages. There's one available at http://www.schultz-net.dk/grub.html (scroll down pass the Debian/Slackware ;) ). -- Krzysiek Pawlik

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub, >> bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago >> and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub, > bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago > and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have a > really awesome bootup,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:48:12 -0400, Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 11:15, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, > > > > I would also suggest creation of a gentoo-dev-help@ mailing-list. > > isn't that what the gentoo mailin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Fri, Apr 7, 2006 at 18:07:14 +0200, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > What Alec said, however, this would require that we have interested > developers who would subscribe and be active when they can, to avoid it > becoming another -user. Well, even if it's a small percentage of the devs, #gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Cummings
On Friday 07 April 2006 11:15, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, > > I would also suggest creation of a gentoo-dev-help@ mailing-list. Not to be a wet blanket (I'm all for making current users happier and encouraging new folks to take the bold step) but isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:42 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>* If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> > >>developers, perhaps we should foc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Alec Warner
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>* If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> >>developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development >>tools or development documentat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> > developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development > tools or development documentation. I would also suggest creation of a gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 07 April 2006 15:28, Simon Stelling wrote: > He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken? How do you want not to enforce it? The last timeĀ¹ someone came up with a "branding" use flag, some were in favor of, some against it. Still, the basic question is: Why!? Th

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Duncan
Simon Stelling posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:28:46 +0200: > Carsten Lohrke wrote: >> On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes >>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:43 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:19:35 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of > | keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of > | your t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Duncan
Christopher O'Neill posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100: > some examples: > > . A few days ago someone posted on the dev list asking about KDE3.5.x and > it's current masked status. As a KDE user myself I was also interested in > the answer to his que

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:20 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: [snip] > On the other hand, this problem does have a solution--another level of > indirection. Anybody who wishes, dev or user, could spend time > tracking Gentoo development (through bugs and the mailing lists) and > submit status reports

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:35 +0200, Martin Ehmsen wrote: [snip] > How about a website/blog hosted on www.gentoo.org pr. project and a > little tool for posting on such a website (ala echangelog). I don't have > the time to set something like that up on my own, but I would use it if > it was give

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:19:35 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of | keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of | your time or getting in your way) and then keep the masses informed, | wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:32 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: > Perhaps we should have a page explaining all of the ways someone can > help / contribute to Gentoo. There is no central place (that I know of) > for finding out what you can do as a user to make your favorite > distribution become even bett

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:30:10 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | What do you believe could make Gentoo more attractive > | to new users and to current users? > > Something that's often missed in these discussions...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Martin Ehmsen
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of your time or getting in your way) and then keep the masses informed, would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Simon Stelling
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. There's a thread in gentoo-c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:37 +0100, Jonathan Coome wrote: > On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:33:07 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The general case of the above is that if you want information, you > > need to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific > > relevant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 02:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: [snip] > The general case of the above is that if you want information, you need > to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific > relevant list or Bugzilla. The information doesn't come looking for you. That may have b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:32 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:33 +0200, Grobian wrote: > > Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping > > the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of what kind of > > things are being done in Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:33 +0200, Grobian wrote: > On 07-04-2006 11:07:28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [let's pretend I snipped a bit here, oh wait, I did!] > Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping > the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of wha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Grant Goodyear
Christopher O'Neill wrote: [Fri Apr 07 2006, 03:51:58AM CDT] > As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved > communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it > feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regarding to how we are > progressing on certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 "Christopher O'Neill" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a > | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly > | newsletter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Heya Chris, Thank you for responding! On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:51 +0100, Christopher O'Neill wrote: > As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved > communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it > feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regardi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes > IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding > along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:33 +0200, Grobian wrote: > Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping > the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of what kind of > things are being done in Gentoo's kitchen? > Of course this only holds for new projects like in yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas Cort
Perhaps we should have a page explaining all of the ways someone can help / contribute to Gentoo. There is no central place (that I know of) for finding out what you can do as a user to make your favorite distribution become even better. The Free Software Foundation has a nice page here: http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Jonathan Coome
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:33:07 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The general case of the above is that if you want information, you > need to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific > relevant list or Bugzilla. The information doesn't come looking for > you.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Jakub Moc
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Christopher O'Neill wrote: >> . I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and >> have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I >> know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly >> with GCC4 and that there are n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:33:12 +0200 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 07-04-2006 11:07:28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > I mean, as a purely hypothetical example... Could you imagine just | > how many dumb feature requests, questions and requests for code | > from the unwashed masses someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Christopher O'Neill wrote: > . I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and > have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I > know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly > with GCC4 and that there are no introduced bugs, but I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Grobian
On 07-04-2006 11:07:28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I mean, as a purely hypothetical example... Could you imagine just how > many dumb feature requests, questions and requests for code from the > unwashed masses someone would get if they admitted to having an early > alpha of an alternative to P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:30:10 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What do you believe could make Gentoo more attractive | to new users and to current users? Something that's often missed in these discussions... The only serious interaction between Gentoo and nearly all of our end

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 "Christopher O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly | newsletter (which currently seems to be lacking much useful | information). I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher O'Neill
As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regarding to how we are progressing on certain things. Let me pick some examples: . A few days ago someone posted

[gentoo-dev] Bump and grind etiquete

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Cummings
I have to ask, please refrain from adding packages to the tree and assigning them to a herd that you have no part in. The folks that watch those herds would appreciate it. It'd also be nice if you did this if you at least got all of the deps correct. Please refrain from arbitrarily bumping pac