[gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where

2006-02-22 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Hi, at first I'm new at this list (I subscribed yesterday), so excuse me if I write stupid things... possibly there is a page or FAQ about this subject, but I really didn't find it. I want to help and I don't know where. I tried to find a page at gentoo.org which lists needed manpower or at le

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where

2006-02-22 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
22. Februar 2006 10:04, Rafael Bugajewski: > [...] I forgot to write which architectures I use: amd64 and ppc. Greets, Rafael Bugajewski pgpQ2RU6VIqwI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Kowarsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hi, > > at first I'm new at this list (I subscribed yesterday), so excuse > me if I write stupid things... possibly there is a page or FAQ > about this subject, but I really didn't find it. > > I want to help and I don't know where. I tried to find

Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Mark Kowarsky wrote: > If you want to help > http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=104 > contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). Thanks for the nice link. I read some stuff and now I know that the first step is "helping out". So I will translat

[gentoo-dev] Searching for a person who can advice me

2006-02-22 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Hello Gentoo developers, because I do not know anybody in the Gentoo developer community I want to ask if anybody has enough time and motivation to help a newbie doing his first steps in Gentoo development? It would be nice if this person could also "transform" to my mentor if I feel ready in

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Xavier Neys
Rafael Bugajewski wrote: > Mark Kowarsky wrote: > >> If you want to help >> http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=104 >> contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). > > Thanks for the nice link. I read some stuff and now I know that the first > ste

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Francesco Riosa
Rafael Bugajewski wrote: > Mark Kowarsky wrote: > >> If you want to help >> http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=104 >> contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). > > Thanks for the nice link. I read some stuff and now I know that the first > ste

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Kowarsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Bugajewski wrote: > Mark Kowarsky wrote: > >> If you want to help >> http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=104 >> contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). > > Thanks for the nice link. I read s

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Hendrik Grahl
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:17, Rafael Bugajewski wrote: > Mark Kowarsky wrote: > > If you want to help > > > http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=10 > > >4 contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). > > > > Thanks for the nice link. I read som

Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

2006-02-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Tony Vroon wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and > accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, > unless > anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. > This software has been abandoned by it's authors

[gentoo-dev] splash-utils question

2006-02-22 Thread chinlu chinawa
Hi, First of all might need to say that I'm not myself a gentoo user. I've just been trying to implement fbsplash/splash-utils within my distro, which is a custom lfs. I've compiled last version of splash-utils with mng-support, against klc-1.2. The kernel I'm using is 2.6.14 (patched as well a

Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

2006-02-22 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > http://www.beep-media-player.org/site/About says: As far i understand it and according to the description of the ebuild that one is media-sound/bmpx, not media-sound/beep-media-player. confusion++ ;-) cheers, Wernfried -

Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Tony Vroon wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and >> accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, >> unless >> anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. >> This software has

Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

2006-02-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Ugh, it looks like this new 'BMPx' branch uses gstreamer.  Is there no > way to keep the good old clean, working version of BMP in portage? That is audacious. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/AL

Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

2006-02-22 Thread Tony Vroon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Tony Vroon wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and >> accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, >> unless >> anyone can convince me of a good rea

[gentoo-dev] testing for new versions of db.

2006-02-22 Thread Paul de Vrieze
Hi all, * if you don't want the explanation, skip to * I believe I have finally found a solution to the problems that plague berkeley db. While slotting has worked for a long time now, there were serious problems caused by the fact that db is often used within libraries. Some of these

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

2006-02-22 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
> [...] a lot of very, very useful information [...] At first I want to thank you all for the really good information provided. I already read a big part of the resources given and it really helps me, so I'll get closer to gentoo development (and documentation). During this week I will look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] New forums staffer: kernelsensei (Boris Fersing)

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Gordon
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 22:48 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > Boris is one of the people taking care of the French forum and now has > joined the official Gentoo ranks. > > He writes about himself: > My name is Boris Fersing, I'm 20 years old, French and live on the > French-German border. I study Co

[gentoo-dev] time to unify xml/xml2

2006-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
ive update the xml use.desc entry to be generic and marked the xml2 entry as deprecated ... can people start fixing their packages themselves ? i'll give some lead time so as to cut down on the # of bugs that need to be filed to get this finished up ... -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-dev] time to unify xml/xml2

2006-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 23:46, Mike Frysinger wrote: > ive update the xml use.desc entry to be generic and marked the xml2 entry > as deprecated ... can people start fixing their packages themselves ? i'll > give some lead time so as to cut down on the # of bugs that need to be > filed to ge

[gentoo-dev] mwcollect deprecation notice

2006-02-22 Thread Chris White
Hi all, Just a quick announcement that as per the announcement recently: http://www.mwcollect.org/ mwcollect has merged code with nepenthes ( http://nepenthes.mwcollect.org/ ). That said, the upgrade path will be as follows: 1) Version 3.0.4 will be added to the tree, most likely tomm