Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 25

2009-06-25 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 22.06.2009, 15:18 -0400 schrieb Thomas Anderson: > (This is late because I was traveling and dev-zero is/was on devaway.) > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenod

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 24. June 2009 17:48:38 Doug Goldstein wrote: > I wanted to take this time to encourage everyone who can vote in this > year's council elections. This is your chance to affect the technical > development for Gentoo for the coming year and I encourage you to take > it. Cardoe said it v

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit (2)

2009-06-25 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, Here I come again with another gsoc update. Nearly weekly (10 days) but still better than nothing ;) Last time, I was talking about an ebuild for packagekit soon. Actually, packagekit is not useful without a pretty frontend. I am using gnome-packagekit but packagekit and gnome-packagekit move

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > between both. This strengthening bridge of understanding can be seen in dev- > zero's move to appoint ciaranm as his proxy for today's council meeting. > Sorry to rain on your parade, but with ciaranm's consistent history, allowing him to

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed > (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) Please point to the rule that says that a non-developer cannot be on the Council, and please point to the rule that says that a C

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Alistair Bush
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> between both. This strengthening bridge of understanding can be seen in dev- >> zero's move to appoint ciaranm as his proxy for today's council meeting. >> > > Sorry to rain on your parade, but with ciaranm's

[gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-25 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go b

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Duncan
Alistair Bush posted 4a43e30e.4090...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:50:22 +1200: > I realise that ciaranm has had a nasty past. But recently I haven't see > anything. I for one hope that this continues and that other members of > the community take a look at themselves be

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 > Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > >> Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed >> (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) >> > > Please point to the rule that says that a non-developer cannot be on > the Council,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Illegal news item name

2009-06-25 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> it was brought up by ulm that the news item >> '2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16' has an illegal name because it >> contains a dot. > > I stumbled upon this when I experimented with new

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, June 26, 2009 03:13, Andrew D Kirch wrote: > Please be quiet. why ?, maillists is imho made to be used in non silent mode else one could aswell argue to close it down -- xpoint

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 > Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > > Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed > > (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) > > Please point to the rule that says that a non-developer can

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Alistair Bush wrote: > > Sorry to rain on your parade, but with ciaranm's consistent history, > > allowing him to participate in Gentoo's discussions itself is a > > privilege of patience on the part of the Gentoo community. > > > > I would believe that recent hist

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:50:22 +1200 Alistair Bush wrote: > I would believe that recent history would show the opposite. There > seem to be a group of developers at which the mere mention of ciaranm > results in setting them off. Regardless of the technical merits of a > solution they seem more i

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 >> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >>> Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed >>> (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) >> Please point to the rule that sa