[gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and OpenRC can go stable. Up to now I have: * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module * a newer splashutils stable * documentation updates (http://bugs.gentoo.org/213988, thanks Jeremy) What else? A

[gentoo-dev] Re: RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-22 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Petteri Räty : > > there is no set date, but I want to post a GLEP 42 news item before > > the actual stabilisation. Maybe other channels like the web page > > can carry that news then, too. Please comment the attached news > > item. Vapier wanted to know, if it is possible that the news ite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > What else? As some of you might foresee, this can be as hard as a > major GCC stabilisation, so it must be well-planned and organised. Depends on which version of openrc gets stabilized in the process. We're currently wo

[gentoo-dev] Re: RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-22 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Philip Webb : > 090520 Petteri Räty wrote: > >> A lot has changed from Baselayout version 1.x to 2.0.0, so all > >> users should take a look at the upgrade guide found at > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml > >> to not break their systems. You will likely see an update

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Duncan
Christian Faulhammer posted 20090522121717.19049...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 22 May 2009 12:17:17 +0200: > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and > OpenRC can go stable. Up to now I have: > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Or should I file the bugs? It seems no one else has and maybe the > maintainers don't have the config for what they're maintaining, or > otherwise don't see the warnings. I'm aware of the dm-crypt issue and will try and spend some t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Duncan
Mike Auty posted 4a16a08f.8060...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 22 May 2009 13:54:39 +0100: > I'm aware of the dm-crypt issue and will try and spend some time this > weekend getting that into shape. If you do file bugs, please make them > block bug 251730 [1], which is the deprecated war

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and > OpenRC can go stable.  Up to now I have: > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module > * a newer splashutils stable > * documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and > OpenRC can go stable.  Up to now I have: > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module > * a newer splashutils stable > * documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-22 Thread Dawid Węgliński
On Friday 22 of May 2009 12:17:17 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and > OpenRC can go stable. Up to now I have: > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module > * a newer splashutils stable > * documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Petteri Räty : >>> there is no set date, but I want to post a GLEP 42 news item before >>> the actual stabilisation. Maybe other channels like the web page >>> can carry that news then, too. Please comment the attached news >>> item. Vapier wanted to know, i

[gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I need some opinions about accessibility on our release media. I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media for amd64 and x86: app-accessibility/espeak (with portaudio in use so it supports alsa) app-accessibility/espea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread Petteri Räty
William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I need some opinions about accessibility on our release media. > > I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media > for amd64 and x86: > > app-accessibility/espeak (with portaudio in use so it supports alsa) > app-accessibility/espeakup > ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:58:32PM +0300, Petteri R??ty wrote: > > I understand his point about keeping the minimal cd small, but I > > disagree about the software not being required to do an install. If a > > blind person wants to install gentoo from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-22 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Michael, > Eventually, we should pass something like "-Dhostname=superhost" as > cmdline parameter to uselect... > Didn't want to get into that detail. Afterall `hostname` will always return the same regarding the host therefore it can be retrieved from uselect's engine. > I don't like to have

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread Josh Saddler
William Hubbs wrote: > My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software > being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? I am all in favor of this. We should strive to provide easy access to our distribution, and that includes opening up new access methods. I remember one time

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:40:43PM -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: > Question: what kind of end-user configuration is required once the CD is > booted to make use of it? There is a patch with this bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/267708 which needs to be appli