[gentoo-dev] DWS for 2007-05-07 - 2007-05-13

[Markus Ullmann]

Hi, this is the -dev weekly summary, actually the first one ;)

Announcements / Important stuff
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Announcing GLI ("the installer") 0.5 (by agaffney)
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.installer/594
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The Gentoo Linux Installer team would like to announce version 0.5[.4]
(we've found a few bugs since the initial 0.5 release) of the installer.
This release, which is available on the 2007.0 x86 and amd64
LiveCD/DVDs, has a lot of changes from the previous one (so many that it
really should have been a new major version, but we haven't even reached
1.0 yet, so it's a bit hard to jump to 2.0).

Release BitTorrent seeding (by robbat2)
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/48936
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Could the ~80 people that are still seeding the 2006.1 release on
BitTorrent please move to seeding the 2007.0 release instead?
The 6 torrents below are the most popular (in order), and account for
98% of the BitTorrent traffic since the 2007.0 release yesterday.
1. livedvd-i686-installer-2007.0
2. livecd-i686-installer-2007.0
3. livedvd-amd64-installer-2007.0
4. livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0
5. install-x86-minimal-2007.0-r1
6. install-amd64-minimal-2007.0
I will be retiring the 2006.1 torrents on June 1st, until then, they are
available at http://torrents.gentoo.org/?category=2006.1


Active threads last week:
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Announcing GLI ("the installer") 0.5
dev-db/firebird needs an active maintainer
Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?
Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation
invalid <herd> in metadata.xml
Last rites sys-apps/855resolution
Linux 2.6.21 plans
mail-mta/courier needs a maintainer
media-sound/DBMix removed from tree
missing metadata.xml
net-www/apache-1* masked.
New herd: kernel-misc
Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport
Release BitTorrent seeding
RFC: ion license
Suitable USE flag name for stuff that requires non volatile memory
Virtuals and Java
www-client/pybugz needs a maintainer
[RFC - Moving categories around]
[RFC] missing <herd> tag in metadata.xml


One sentence summaries on more active threads:
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RFC: ion license
ion's upstream license prohibits keeping "ion" name if the package is
patched

Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?
Do we have to add a new license for base license + exception or use base
license plus exception?

Suitable USE flag name for stuff that requires non volatile memory
dhcpcd wants to store non-volatile stuff now in some cases

[RFC] missing <herd> tag in metadata.xml
<herd>no-herd</herd> in some cases but not everywhere

Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport
libflashsupport option with one use flag or multiple ones

Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation
many +1s, antarus has preview working

Last rites sys-apps/855resolution
915resolution is still needed


Last Rites:
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Last rites: dev-java/jswat
Last rites: app-vim/sudo
Last rites: app-emacs/preview-latex
Last rites: sys-apps/855resolution


So, that's it for this week, happy about suggestions/improvements for
next week ;)
-Jokey

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