Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
There is a problem here for the java folks...Technically, their migration-overlay is an overlay, and technically, that overlay is currently unofficial. Therefore, technically, if it is against the rules for projects and/or devs to use bugzilla for unofficial overlays, then it is against the rules

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:28 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Now, the java team is an official Gentoo project... And even more pertinent (and a point that got lost in all this, sadly): The gentoo-java's migration effort is NOT an overlay in the sense that breakmygentoo or sunrise are. It is mere

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Lance Albertson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:14:12 +0200 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Just to take this to a humorous extreme - > | would you be content if sunrise ceased all operations? > > That's not a humourous extreme at all. That would be a good start. Now, > follow it u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt use flag recap - qt3 and qt4 as default?

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
Hmm...Are thre any packages out there which *must* be built against the same qt as (the rest of) kde? If so, I don't think qt4 should be in the default use flags until KDE4 hits arch. This keeps people from reporting issues with KDE apps built against the wrong version of QT. --Arek On 6/23/06

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:43:49AM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Have a link for this patch? > > Sorry, I forgot to give it in my original posting: > >http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2006-June/006422.html That bug does not include a patch that has been acce

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Greg KH wrote: > Have a link for this patch? Sorry, I forgot to give it in my original posting: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2006-June/006422.html Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:31:17PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > Testing of 2.6.17 is very much appreciated, please also file bugs > > against problems you have with the kernel itself :) > > For the e1000 driver to work on my new ThinkPad X60s I had to patch > Linux

[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt use flag recap - qt3 and qt4 as default?

2006-06-23 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Caleb Tennis wrote: > 2) Remove qt use flag, and create qt3 and qt4 global flags. It allows proper use.masking. Thanks. > people who are in favor of #2 have volunteered to do the work to implement > it as well as put qt3 into the use.defaults for 2006.1 so KDE will work > "out of the box". What

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, > It may or may not be what you want, but what you've described sounds > very close to what Mark Shuttleworth articulated as the vision behind > launchpad. > https://launchpad.net/ on a short view, I didn't see any parallels to my source-db project

Re: [gentoo-dev] VNC packages need your help [pre-emptive last rites]

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Not really, tightvnc isn't on this list ... is there some reason you > can't use it instead? tightvnc doesn't provide the vnc.so module for X. x11vnc can do the job, but it's unstable for me and quite sluggish... -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
I've been thinking about Solar's email. I believe Solar is actually very correct in his assessment. I think I'll recant my initial statement about devrel. To KingTaco and the gang: my apologies, you guys did the right thing at the time. Thanks, Seemant -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:56:00 -0400 (EDT) "Caleb Tennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose I'm not really big on one versus the other. I was for #1 > simply because it required the least amount of effort to implement, > however the people who are in favor of #2 have volunteered to do the > wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:33:21PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:07 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > > > You're suggesting jakub maybe shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:07 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > > You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he > > > *doesn't* give one unofficial

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
Executive summary: There is a (by now) well established knowledge on group dynamics depending on its size, involving parameters such as "Dubnar's number" for example. Two references I spotted just recently (well, Ok, they are from 2004 actually :)) can be found below: http://www.lifewithalacr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: >> I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds >> (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying >> that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it >> is :) I mean if he was serio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:14:12 +0200 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Just to take this to a humorous extreme - | would you be content if sunrise ceased all operations? That's not a humourous extreme at all. That would be a good start. Now, follow it up with a promise that something simil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, Tuan Van wrote: > I don't really object to #2 but please do inform current users so > thing still work after an `emerge world -Du` That's why we're going to ask them to be added to default useflags :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek

Re: [gentoo-dev] VNC packages need your help [pre-emptive last rites]

2006-06-23 Thread Tuan Van
Mike Frysinger wrote: > > tightvnc sucks imo > -mike IMHO, your vnc sucks more ;) Tuan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Doty wrote: >> It is devrels place to attempt to stop the fighting. This is what I >> did. I clearly indicate that this is temporary and when the council is >> willing to clear this nonsense up, it will supersede anything I put >> forth yesterday. > > I agree that i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:40 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:20:44AM -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > Unless there's more discussions going on than I'm privy too... what I > > grokked out of the IRC log was that the argument was that it's an > > 'unofficial overlay'.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Tuan Van
Caleb Tennis wrote: > Ok, so there are two fundamental ideas here: > > 1) Keep the qt use flag, use it if a package offers qt3 or qt4 support. > If both, then make it for the more recent version and add a local flag for > qt3 support. > > A few of us like this one, including me. The downside to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he > > *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another? > > The jave "unofficial

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Also, just so I'm clear on my stance on this: I don't care one whit about whether those keywords are used in bugzilla or not. Keywords are a way to help bugzilla users use bugzilla. As for perceptions about it -- as long sunrise is clear on their pages that they are absolutely not official as of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he > *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another? The jave "unofficial" overlay is well on its way to becoming an official and officially hosted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because > | he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over > | another?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:50 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Perhaps it is a few developers trying to actually enforce the council's > decision and make sure that the 100% unofficial project doesn't *look* > official. Using "InOverlay" as if Sunrise is some sort of Gentoo > offi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:20:44AM -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote: > Unless there's more discussions going on than I'm privy too... what I > grokked out of the IRC log was that the argument was that it's an > 'unofficial overlay'. No, this is about a project that was supposed to be suspended until it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alec Warner wrote: > I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds > (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying > that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it > is :) I mean if he was serious, he would have addressed t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Joshua Nichols wrote: > Umm maybe it's just to early in the morning, but I don't see > anything in the logs regarding using bugzilla for overlays not on > overlays.gentoo.org. I only see references to sunrise specifically, not > a blanket statement for all non-overlays.gentoo.org overlays > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Doty wrote: > It is devrels place to attempt to stop the fighting. This is what I > did. I clearly indicate that this is temporary and when the council is > willing to clear this nonsense up, it will supersede anything I put > forth yesterday. I agree that it is devrel's place to help peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:50 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Frankly said, neither council nor devrel have any say in suspending > projects hosted outside of gentoo, be it sunrise, gentopia, > java-migration, java-experimental, BMG, or whatever else. You just can't > dictate unpaid people what are they go

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because | he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over | another? One unofficial project that has screwed up so badly that the council has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua Nichols
Patrick Lauer wrote: > No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as > well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. > If sunrise gets blocked with the argument "it's an overlay" then, by > logic, the Java overlay should get the same treatment, even if this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 09:58 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > With respects to Gentoo trademarks. That is a foundation issue and > would have to be raised with them. Well, if it doesn't follow the guidelines[1], then it is improper usage and would either need to adhere to the guidelines or quit using our t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread George Shapovalov
This was originally supposed to go into another thread, but hey - this is a perfect illustration of what I am going to talk about (to unconfuse Seemant right away - this is not related to your posting but rather to the situation that lead to it). I really was considering sending this as a "theor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
Seemant Kulleen wrote: First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? What is this absolute nonsense of "you don't like my toy, you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even >> discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific >> channel. Could someone clear me up on this? >> >> Thanks, >> Donnie >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:43:23AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical > decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but > aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? > > What is this ab

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Doty wrote: >> All- >> >> We've had a discussion about sunrise and have reached a compromise. >> Someone will summarize it later, I've attached the raw logs for now. >> Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted >> overlays, this will be the defini

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 19:05 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > All- > > We've had a discussion about sunrise and have reached a compromise. > Someone will summarize it later, I've attached the raw logs for now. > Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted > overlays, this will be the d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as >> well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. >> If sunrise gets blocked with the argument "it's an overlay" then, by >> logic, the Java overlay should get the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Patrick Lauer wrote: > No, it just shows that two different standards are applied and jakub (as > well as some others) do not wish for any discrimination. > If sunrise gets blocked with the argument "it's an overlay" then, by > logic, the Java overlay should get the same treatment, even if this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Seemant Kulleen wrote: This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast. People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama. +1 (with gusto!) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Seemant Kulleen wrote: > First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical > decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but > aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? Not sure either, maybe brix will be able to answer your quest

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 22:18 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 06:50 -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > > OK, so - java folks, please, take your java migration overlay bugs > > > somewhere else from bugzilla. > > The gentoo-java developers have been working their tails off for over a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds? What is this absolute nonsense of "you don't like my toy, you can't have your toy" going o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 06:50 -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > OK, so - java folks, please, take your java migration overlay bugs > > somewhere else from bugzilla. The gentoo-java developers have been working their tails off for over a year to do a massive migration (far broader reaching than the av

[gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap

2006-06-23 Thread Caleb Tennis
Ok, so there are two fundamental ideas here: 1) Keep the qt use flag, use it if a package offers qt3 or qt4 support. If both, then make it for the more recent version and add a local flag for qt3 support. A few of us like this one, including me. The downside to this is you get a USE that may lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua Nichols
Jakub Moc wrote: > Anders Hellgren wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: >> On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even > discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-spe

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.17 kernel stabilisation plan

2006-06-23 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Daniel Drake wrote: > Testing of 2.6.17 is very much appreciated, please also file bugs > against problems you have with the kernel itself :) For the e1000 driver to work on my new ThinkPad X60s I had to patch Linux 2.6.17. It would be nice if this patch that I found in a bugtracker (IIRC, in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Anders Hellgren wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: > >>> On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel. Co

Re: [gentoo-dev] sunrise, a temporary compromise

2006-06-23 Thread Anders Hellgren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote: On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific channel