Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Curtis Napier
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:09:07AM -0600, Homer Parker wrote: @staff.g.o Staff sounds pretty good to me. ./Brix This sounds good to me as well, very professional. How easy is it going to be to change to a normal @g.o address? As simple as a forward? For insta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Curtis Napier
Homer Parker wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 17:01 -0500, Curtis Napier wrote: > >>This sounds good to me as well, very professional. How easy is it >>going >>to be to change to a normal @g.o address? As simple as a forward? For >>instance, if someone who is an A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Curtis Napier
Kurt Lieber wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:44:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Curtis Napier wrote: Maybe a new GLEP is in order? It makes sense to do it now since infra is going to be setting up alias' anyway. While we're at it possibly an @dev.g.o as well (as someone mentioned)? That

[gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-20 Thread Curtis Napier
This has been cross posted to gentoo-dev and www-redesign. http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org After receiving a ton of very useful feedback from the developer community I have updated the redesign. It should now be closer to 100% accessible and it should (hopefully) render perfectly in all browsers

[gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-22 Thread Curtis Napier
First of all, thank you everyone for all the feedback. Your input is important and greatly appreciated. I should have said that the last update was not complete as far as design was concerned. I was mainly looking for accessibility and rendering issues on as many browsers/OS's as possible. I g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-23 Thread Curtis Napier
Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 23 November 2005 07:40, Curtis Napier wrote: ps. I also found two graphical glitches: - There is a misterious white bar just below the overview bar (see ws1.png) - The corners of the jump pads do not have the proper background color (see ws2.png) Fixed. In

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-24 Thread Curtis Napier
I honestly thought that the changes I made were better from an accessibility standpoint. I guess I was wrong. Aaron was gone for months and months and months so I was listening to the feedback from others and trying to please everyone. I think I forgot that I took on this project to implement A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-25 Thread Curtis Napier
Flammie Pirinen wrote: 2005-11-25, Curtis Napier sanoi, jotta: I honestly thought that the changes I made were better from an accessibility standpoint. I guess I was wrong. Not really. So on that note, I've gone over the design and gotten it closer to Aarons's reference. [

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-11-28 Thread Curtis Napier
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 16:47, Jan Kundrát wrote: What about setting the HOMEPAGE of alsa-something to point to our ALSA-guide? Because that's not the homepage? I go often on pgo to see the homepage of something, and it's usually to get *upstream* homepage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Curtis Napier
Speaking as a user who upgraded from 3.3.x to 3.4.x a loong lng time ago and also as a forum mod who sees questins about this on a daily basis: Users are more or less aware that they will have to rebuild the entire world including the kernel when they upgrade gcc. If they aren't alread

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

2005-12-11 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Does anyone really use emerge --ask? Yes. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-11 Thread Curtis Napier
George Prowse wrote: After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after any baselayout upgrade had been applied. This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system after a library malfuncti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-15 Thread Curtis Napier
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:13:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: There was a tip in the GWN about turning on dir_index on an already formatted file system. If formatting a new one, just use mkfs.ext2 -J -O dir_index /dev/$whatever to create your file system. Good thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-15 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34:05 -0500 Andrew Muraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 2. What choices/options are on the table for this feature? The big controversy seems to be over whether repositories carry a unique identifier string (for example, in metadata/repository_id) or w

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-17 Thread Curtis Napier
I agree with ciaranm that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces. Seriously. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Curtis Napier
Sven Vermeulen wrote: Hi all It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. I can't believe this. I am very sad. Swift is my mentor and one of a few people whos work inspired me to donate my time to Gentoo to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Curtis Napier
Dale wrote: Niklas Bolander wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:59, Peter wrote: I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the current ebuilds, because I really don't need to reinstall nvidia-settings and nvidia-glx every time I build a new kernel. That's why we

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Curtis Napier
Dan Meltzer wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | i

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-25 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Would you like us to add the Windows XP source code to the tree with LICENSE="gpl-2" as well? No, but could you add Win2000? ktnks. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: codergeek42

2005-12-27 Thread Curtis Napier
Danny van Dyk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, please help me to welcome Peter Gordon aka codergeek42, our latest addition to the ranks of Gentoo Developers. And someone please explain to him how to secure his bum in SpanKY's immediate vicinity ;-) Welcome codergeek!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46)

2005-12-27 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:00 +0100 Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That will increase the sync time for all of our users - can we please | keep this info out of the sync-tree? Learn to use the rsync exclude list. FAQ: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-3

Re: [gentoo-dev] relocation.

2005-12-30 Thread Curtis Napier
051230 John Mylchreest wrote: as of tonight I pack up my most valued of possessions -- my computer kit -- and get ready to board a one-way ticket to York. I guess that means I won't be the only American in ##uk anymore. ;-) Have fun in New York John! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: adding ca-certificates as a PDEPEND to openssl

2005-12-30 Thread Curtis Napier
Yuri Vasilevski wrote: Now, being a little bit less ideological, I think it is perfectly ok to add certificates from some organizations like CACert.org that try to make security free for all Internet users as well as open source projects' certificates (like debian ones). But it should be up to bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] relocation.

2005-12-31 Thread Curtis Napier
Benjamin Judas wrote: Am Samstag 31 Dezember 2005 16:10 schrieb Lares Moreau: Uhh.. in this case. I don't think York == NewYork maps.google.com | search 'York UK' just FYI -Lares Some americans have a limited horizon, you know ;) ... just a flat new-years joke, folks ;) ... oo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:09:09 + Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > If you'd like to see more interesting or innovative changes, start | > by looking into how we can make it easier for developers to | > advertise what they've been doing. | | planet.g.o? No, that'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Napier
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:46, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Yeah ok, let me end up these holidays, and I'll prepare a written request to change the Linux part in something else You should also contact the folks working on the gentoo.org redesign. While there wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-11 Thread Curtis Napier
Sven Vermeulen wrote: Lance Albertson said: I can probably setup toucan to use gorg in some fashion if I had a few folks to test it with. I'm sure that would make things easier for a lot of people for rendering things. Since documentation posted on dev.gentoo.org isn't Gentoo's by default, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Jokey (Markus Ullmann)

2006-01-31 Thread Curtis Napier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Markus has been contributing to gentoo through bugzilla and bugdays for a few months and have now finally joined the ranks of official Gentoo developers. Markus is going to help with netmon related ebuilds. Markus tells us about himself: "I'm a 23 year old geek

Re: [gentoo-dev] New forums staffer: mark_alec (Mark Kowarsky)

2006-02-08 Thread Curtis Napier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Mark_alec just joined the team as our newest global forums moderator. I'm sure he's already well known on our busy forums :) Welcome newest Forum Victim^^Staffer! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-02-21 Thread Curtis Napier
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 Computational Linguistics at the University of

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-04 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 21:53, Mark Loeser wrote: >> Here is my updated version after some feedback from people: >> >> * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, >> the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. >> * The QA team m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-04-01 Thread Curtis Napier
Alin Nastac wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > >> It is debatable whether users whose systems are already working properly >> should be expected to read sections of the Handbook >> merely in order to accommodate a newly-introduced form of configuration >> or whether some brief note in the emerge output

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:15 +, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: >> Carsten Lohrke gentoo.org> writes: >> >>> How do you want not to enforce it? >> Have you actually read the proposal? It's quite sensible and is entitled: >> >> "Proposal: Integrated boot themes on LiveCDs a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Curtis Napier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 09:53:04AM CDT] >> I'm willing to theme *.gentoo.org to match [...]. > > Speaking of which, what is the current status of the web redesign? > > Thanks, > g2boojum Well, I was planning on announcing thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Curtis Napier wrote: >>> Spyderous already has a new logo started that we can build on. We can >>> easily take it and build an entire theme around it. We also have the >>> lila theme and the Gentoo Icon Set we can use as raw material. Bo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Curtis Napier wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 11:21:14AM CDT] >> The redesign as it was known up until this point is no more. There were >> things the winner of the contest had to do and he failed to do them >> (after almost 2 years of trying to get him too)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 15:37, Grant Goodyear wrote: >> In any event, I think we need to remove the flying saucer guy. When >> drobbins left and turned over the Gentoo IP to us, one thing that he >> kept was the flying saucer guy. I believe that he was allowing us to >> us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 18:38, Curtis Napier wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Monday 10 April 2006 15:37, Grant Goodyear wrote: >>>> In any event, I think we need to remove the flying saucer guy. When >>>> drobbins left and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 14:08, Curtis Napier wrote: >> I honestly think we can make it happen if we all pitch in. > > a simple news item on the front page + GWN request could prob gather a lot of > attention > >> other WM's/desktops can al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-11 Thread Curtis Napier
Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote: >> wwwredesign.gentoo.org already has been converted and is going live on >> www.gentoo.org shortly (we just have a few last minute things to do). > > can we add a robots.txt on wwwredesign.gentoo.org that disallows / from > * ? if the site is just for testing a new lay

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-11 Thread Curtis Napier
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Monday 10 April 2006 15:37, Grant Goodyear wrote: >> >>> In any event, I think we need to remove the flying saucer guy. When >>> drobbins left and turned over the Gentoo IP to us, one thing that he >>> kept was the flying saucer guy. I believe that

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild Developer: Christian Hartmann (ian!)

2006-04-16 Thread Curtis Napier
Danny van Dyk wrote: > Hi, > > It is my pleasure to announce publicly that ian! has passed all > necessary quizzes to touch our holy gra^H^H^H portage tree. > > He'll be helping mcummings in his perpetuate combat with perl and its > dependencies. May the source be with him. > > Congratulations

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving Gentoo User Relations

2006-04-17 Thread Curtis Napier
Volkov Peter wrote: > Hello. > > IMO the very important element of gentoo user relations that is absent > at w.g.o is search field! Gentoo does not have good searching point. > > Each time I encounter bug/problem before asking for help if I'm a good > boy I have to search for solution in differen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing

2006-04-21 Thread Curtis Napier
Eldad Zack wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 05:08, Luca Longinotti wrote: >> The PHP Herd announces that the old-style PHP packages, which were >> unsupported and deprecated for months, are finally going away. >> After months of work, the team considers the new dev-lang/php package >> and the relat

[gentoo-dev] Status Reports

2006-04-28 Thread Curtis Napier
As part of an initiative to keep our users up to date the User Relations Project is going to feature a yearly "Status of Gentoo" article in the GWN (hopefully a series of articles if we can gather enough information). This will entail getting all the projects to ensure their respective /proj page i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-08 Thread Curtis Napier
I've been around since the beginning and have fond memories of Larry just like the rest of you. I wasn't planning on getting rid of him. In fact, I was planning on using him a little more for other things. I already used him for a custom error page[1] and was planning on working him into other pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > i guess your only criticism is that it's stupid ... that's pretty easy to > quantify > -mike Stupid is my subjective opinion but if you want really good reasons for me to drop Larry then heres the only one I need: Larry our wonderful mascot is from a font collection that

[gentoo-dev] apology

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis Napier
My last email was only supposed to go to vapier. That was not very professional behavior on a public list, my apologies to Mike Frysinger and to the list in general. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] apology

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis Napier
My last email was only supposed to go to vapier. That was not very professional behavior on a public list, my apologies to Mike Frysinger and to the list in general. signature.asc Description: PGP signature signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: offtopic (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage)

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > you get awfully personal awfully fast dont you ...[sic]... > well, you've clearly never met me before, so why dont you learn to keep stupid > and uniformed remarks to yourself, k ? As I previously said, that was only supposed to go to you and not to the list in general.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis Napier
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Curtis Napier wrote: [Tue May 09 2006, 09:49:27PM CDT] >> Larry our wonderful mascot is from a font collection that we DO NOT OWN >> THE COPYRIGHT TOO. Our esteemed ex-architect STOLE Larry. Legally >> speaking we have no rights to use Larry whatsoeve

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : NeddySeagoon

2006-06-15 Thread Curtis Napier
Shyam Mani wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please take a moment to welcome our latest addition to the Forums gang, > Roy Bamford aka NeddySeagoon. Thanks for volunteering your time Roy, we will all benefit from your extensive knowledge and your patience with n00bs. --Curtis signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning bugs to treecleaners

2006-06-28 Thread Curtis Napier
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:54:02 +0200 > Raphael Marichez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> IMHO this seems a good idea. The portage tree is growing every week, >> every month, and it doesn't really suit for the very little systems >> (embedded linux) nowadays. Furthermore, with

Re: [gentoo-dev] TreeCleaner June Removals

2006-07-02 Thread Curtis Napier
Alec Warner wrote: > dev-libs/nana bug # 32672 -> Removed > x11-wm/blwm bug # 71479 -> Removed > app-editors/gnotepad+ bug # 122993 -> Removed > net-misc/powerd bug # 70373 -> Removed > dev-lisp/cl-clx-sbcl bug # 134623 -> Removed > app-office/gnofin and gnome-extra/gnobog bug # 134624 -> Removed >

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-04 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 02:46, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> well it's about that time of the year ... time for nominating >> people for the next Gentoo Council > > i guess i'll start off some mass nominations of random people off the top of > my head who i think would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-05 Thread Curtis Napier
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:00 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: [snip] > > Anyway, I really am starting to like the DVD available via the store > idea more and more, as it only means Release Engineering needs to do a > little extra work, and it requires no extra work for our

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: bugs performance issues

2006-07-05 Thread Curtis Napier
Lance Albertson wrote: > Please thank GNI for helping us out! They really deserve a lot for > helping us :). > > Thanks- > > [1] http://www.gni.com/ > Thank you GNI! mmm blade cluster signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Curtis Napier
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:42:27 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" > > | > Setting CFLAGS and praying is not asking for something. Setting a > | > MY_X86_CPU_DOES_THIS_MKAY variable is asking for something. > | > | And if you know what your CPU does, is it that difficult to te

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Curtis Napier
Jory A. Pratt wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:31:56 -0700 Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> | Or instead of throwing a hissy fit yourself about diego not agreeing >>> | with you..I don't know you could go and show the way that you feel it >>> | should be d

[gentoo-dev] viewcvs.gentoo.org

2006-07-19 Thread Curtis Napier
viewcvs.gentoo.org is no more. It has been migrated to sources.gentoo.org and the links on the website have been updated. Thanks neysx and ramereth. --Curtis -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Ned Ludd wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 08:06 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: >> Ned Ludd wrote: >>> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:21 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Curtis Napier wrote: > > Yes indeed it is impressive hardware at a pretty kickass facility :) > > I got to chat with the CEO of the company that donated that equipment > and the wait was *more* than worth it. Once it's up and ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build >> -nls -static" 0 kB >> >> Total size of downloads: 0 kB >> >> See the little "D"? >> >> It's not big,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >>> And what does this flag exactly say at this point ? >>> >>> Install only xlib ? >>> Install xlib and some further ones ? Which ones ? >>> Install all libs ? >> Opening

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, > log into dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Alec Warner wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> | It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be >> | strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anym

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-06 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 I'm in support of having a list of devs who want to do paid support. Anything that helps people eat is OK in my book. ;) On the other hand, I think we need to have the foundation run this past our lawyer(s) and make sure we have our i's dotted and out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-08 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:50 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: MD5 >> >> I'm in support of having a list of devs who want to do paid support. >> A

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staff Member: Haas Wernfried (amne)

2005-07-15 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Doty wrote: > All- > > Please take a moment to welcome amne on board. He helped draft GLEP > 38, which makes global forums mods gentoo staff members. I'll let him > intoduce himself. > > "Hi, > It's kind of funny to write an introduction if you have been around > for a while. I started t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Luis Medinas

2005-08-08 Thread Curtis Napier
On Monday 08 August 2005 17:32, Mike Doty wrote: Everyone welcome our newest minion: MetalGOD. Welcome MetalGOD. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] subscribe

2005-09-12 Thread Curtis Napier
"Josh M. Anders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: subscribe This is not the proper way to subscribe to a gentoo mailing list. Please see this page for the correct way to subscribe. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Thank You curtis119 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Curtis Napier
Lance Albertson wrote: snip ... I tend to agree with Donnie on this partially. Devrel's main focus isn't the QA of the tree, its dealing with developers. QA should have the authority to limit access to the tree if someone isn't following the guidelines properly. They are the ones with the technic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Curtis Napier
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: I'm not an ebuild dev so I may not know enough about this situation to competantly comment on it but it seems to me that QA should have some sort of limited ability to "temporarily" take away writ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Curtis Napier
Mike Frysinger wrote: his comment wasnt directed at you in any way, it was to try and get support for the new proposal floating on the devrel list atm -mike Oh good, I wasn't sure what he meant. Thanks for clearing that up spanky. +1 for the new proposal floating on the devrel list atm. :-) -

[gentoo-dev] Re: splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Curtis Napier
Yuri Vasilevski posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:20:44 -0500: >> So I think it may be good for some packages to be split in several >> packages (but right now I can't think of any), but I think it'll be much >> better introduce more granularity into many ebuils

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Forums Moderator Policies and Guidelines

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Curtis Napier
In conjunction with the recent GLEP concerning Gentoo Forums becoming an official Gentoo Project the Forum team has released a new document entitled "Gentoo Forums Moderator Policies and Guidelines". A preview of this document is currently being hosted at http://curtis119.no-ip.org/forum-guide.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Curtis Napier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I'll repeat myself, but I think that if you don't require current >moderators to pass the staffing quiz, you're against the point of >"Moderator as an authority". > >There are several possible solutions: >a) Require all the existing moderators to do the quiz in some time >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Curtis Napier
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