Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.01.05 05:47, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:43 Mon 17 Dec , Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel > > wrote: > > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should > probably > > > be decided by people who know more than me... and in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2013, 16:46:07 schrieb Roy Bamford: > > That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own > > website > > backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro, > > not > > a website framework. No reason we should care, day to day, about > > anythi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2013, 16:46:07 schrieb Roy Bamford: > >> > That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own >> > website >> > backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro, >> > not >> > a websit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: >> Even if you're not a business you should care about maintainable solutions. > > I'm sure at the time it was created (12+ years ago) the website looked > pretty maintainable :) Hen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 18:03 Sat 05 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2013, 16:46:07 schrieb Roy Bamford: > > I agree its not 'core business' but Gentoo isn't a business. > > Even if you're not a business you should care about maintainable solutions. More importantly, even if you aren't a b

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2013-01-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:26 Sat 22 Dec , Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > After seeing: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 > > > > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages > > for informing peo