Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
So, are you proposing to encourage people to do commits for the sake of commits? Make people do revbumps/keywording just to get their commits in, without doing proper testing? Or to hold on number of commits till commitfest? It's not the commits that should be encouraged - it's the bug fixing, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] GeNUS : how I currently manage my gentoo network (200+ machines)

2006-10-20 Thread Alin Nastac
Hubert Mercier wrote: > Since this work saved me a lot of work / time / money in the past two > years, I thought maybe it could help others. Just let me know if we > could do something with this, if it sounds usefull/less to you, etc... Sounds pretty useful to me :-P signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:17:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. | > | > I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging

[gentoo-dev] GeNUS : how I currently manage my gentoo network (200+ machines)

2006-10-20 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, When I recently "officially" joined the Gentoo Project, I had the idea to share a part of my work, in the way of a scripts set I've been working on for more than 2 years now, which I called GeNUS (Gentoo Network Update System). My lab and teaching department massively used Linux for 4 ye

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. > > I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit > broken stuff. How exactly does it do that? Thanks, Donnie signatu

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit broken stuff. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : htt

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Mike Doty wrote: --[PinePGP]--[begin]-- Just a random thought that popped into my head: We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in some small amount

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Doty wrote: > > Thoughts? > - hall of fame is nice, money isn't - we all know that Flameeyes and vapier will be at the top =) -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:05:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > In designing an enterprise infrastructure around Gentoo at my place of > employment, I have discovered a feature that would improve Gentoo's > usefulness greatly in this field. > > I'm writing to ask for your opin

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-20 Thread malverian
Hello all, In designing an enterprise infrastructure around Gentoo at my place of employment, I have discovered a feature that would improve Gentoo's usefulness greatly in this field. I'm writing to ask for your opinion on a change to sys-apps/portage that would allow users to maintain local revi

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/rezound

2006-10-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Another package taking the way of the dodo, rezound has multiple bugs open, and no maintainer. It does not seem to build at all out of the box. It's now masked and pending removal 21 of november if nobody steps up to maintain it. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 20 October 2006 22:08, Dan Meltzer wrote: > /me can see the kde team (flameeyes) holding off on committing a new > release until a commit fest :/ No need for a new release.. Transforming all the patches to pachsets, removing an old version, changing a variable name ... there's a lot of s

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:42:43PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > money-- ++ As said in some other mail, stats in GWN or something like that would be nice - kloeri already did some nice graphs (see planet). > We aren't all on the same currency and everyone is volunteers. You're just jealous because

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.20 21:00, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a random thought that popped into my head: We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a little something too.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Chris White
On Friday 20 October 2006 14:15, Michael Crute wrote: > How about beer? Thats where all the money goes anyhow ;-) I'm sure that recruiters would have a beautiful time trying to keep up with the new developer requests. -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: xx (Scissors Were Here) xx pgpl

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/20/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a random thought that popped into my head: We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a little some

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:00:26PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > Just a random thought that popped into my head: > > We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in > some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a > little something too. Then the person wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Grobian
On 20-10-2006 15:00:26 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just a random thought that popped into my head: > > We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in > some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a S

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 10/20/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a random thought that popped into my head: We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a little some

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a random thought that popped into my head: We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a little something too. Then the person with the highest amount

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Gustavo Zacarias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > x86 and amd64 immediately, and assuming they don't have showstoppers, > ppc/ppc64/sparc usually follow up real quick. SPARC has showstoppers, so it won't be going stable any time soon. As usual i'll file a bug with patches once

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Mike Pagano wrote: This seems to me like a good opportunity to engage the arch teams for some assistance. So the arch teams would be happy to handle "package foo doesn't compile with 2.6.18" bugs, for example, bug 148381? Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Pagano
On 10/20/06, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Announce it here (or -core) which needs a fix and then just commit the > fix if it is trivial and there has been no reaction. I think you didn't grasp the problem exactly. There are a large number of packages wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Christian Faulhammer wrote: Announce it here (or -core) which needs a fix and then just commit the fix if it is trivial and there has been no reaction. I think you didn't grasp the problem exactly. There are a large number of packages which build against the kernel and do not get much atten

[gentoo-dev] Testing run of countify

2006-10-20 Thread Grant Goodyear
Dear all, I just asked infra to run countify on woodpecker (and not tell me any of the results). KingTaco graciously did so and e-mailed the output to the election officials. The reason is that this way malformed ballots will (hopefully!) be detected, and I'm asking the election officials to co

[gentoo-dev] Trustee polls closing quite soon

2006-10-20 Thread Grant Goodyear
As I write this, it's 17:42 UTC, and the polls close at some microsecond before 00:00 UTC. If you haven't voted and you wish to be a member of the Gentoo Foundation (and you're eligible), please do so. Best regards, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gento

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Tach Daniel, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Daniel Drake schrieb: > This is becoming a real problem for me as I'm having to waste excessive > amounts of time on every kernel release fixing bugs in packages which > are nothing to do with me. I'm considering dropping stable

[gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Maskings

2006-10-20 Thread Alec Warner
app-editors/xwpe for bug # 124298 Dead upstream, doesn't compile. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [adopt-a-dev] New hardware needs and offers

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Cort
You haven't gotten one of these e-mails from me for a few week because there hasn't been a lot of activity. However, this week we got quite a few CPU offers and a request from a developer who is in need of a hard drive. Just a reminder, we have a spiffy list of stuff that people want to give devel

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:00:29 +0100 Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, baselayout 1.13 can use either GNU or BSD userland - hopefully one day > portage (or package manager of choice) can too :) Ehm, it does (or at least should do) already. Why else should we have all these `if userl

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Thomas Cort wrote: What package(s) are going stable in 1 week? I have no clue what you are writing about since you didn't mention it in your e-mail. I did a quick search and found the following 6 packages which have a version 2.6.18: gentoo-sources-2.6.18 linux-headers-2.6.18

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Christian Heim
On Friday, 20. October. 2006 04:46, Thomas Cort wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:21:21 -0400 > > Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is your 1 week warning.. fix any packages which don't compile and > > ensure the fix is also in the stable tree. > > What package(s) are going stable in 1

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-ruby/rudl

2006-10-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Another last rites. dev-ruby/rudl is a package with Ruby bindings for SDL. It does not build with GCC4 (see bug #152055), no package in the tree depend on it, last release (0.8, not even stable) is from two years ago, and it's not the only ruby bindings for SDL, as ruby-sdl exists too, that rel

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Cort
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:17:51 +1000 Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While Thomas's questions are pertinent, his tone was rather hostile and > remarks accusatory. That's unfortunate. I hope dsd doesn't take it too > personally. Sorry if it came across rather harsh, it was not my intent. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not certain, That turning vanilla-sources into linux-sources is wise, since it would then follow that gentoo-sources become gentoo-linux-sources, and so on for all the other linux variants. Since everybody knows and understands what vanill

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Roy Marples
On Friday 20 October 2006 03:46, Thomas Cort wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:21:21 -0400 > > Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is your 1 week warning.. fix any packages which don't compile and > > ensure the fix is also in the stable tree. > > What package(s) are going stable in 1 we