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[arch-dev-public] Inactive for unspecified period of time
by Roman Kyrylych 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Hi all! I have <1 minute to write this email, so I'll be quick. I'm very sorry about my disappearance. My connection at job got down during Bug Day this Saturday and I got cable breakage somewhere on my street so I got no Internet at home as well. :-( The worst thing is that I am unable to follow Arch development until New Year (at least) because I've changed my job this Monday, and I don't even have a PC there yet (but I should in near future). Today is the first day I've got internet for a hour or so (I'm sitting at my ex-job now). If someone could update my packages in Extra/Community and keep an eye on bugtracker - that would be awesome and very appreciated. Bye all and Merry Christmas! -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xine-lib 1.1.8-2
by Aaron Griffin 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I know this package is in [extra], feel free to ignore me. I removed the dep on codecs, and want to get some testing for different formats WITHOUT codecs installed. I want to attempt to predict any formats we may lose (such as real media) so that I can react properly when people complain. All of my videos I have here work fine in both mplayer and xine, without codecs installed, so I wanted to get some outside opinions.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dialog 1.1_20071028-1
by Andreas Radke 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

new dialog pkg in testing for both architectures. nothing special. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Ion Announcement
by Jeff Mickey 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Just a quick review for me guys, I'm deleting ion today.. ----------------- Today I have removed the Ion Window manager from the official aArchlinux repositories. My initial thought was to keep the package inside it's license, but after further consideration, we the developers of Archlinux have decided that this is non-free software and will not be provided in our official repositories. ----------------- Sound good? -- . : [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] : .

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[arch-dev-public] disowning xcdroast
by Varun Acharya 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hi, I've disowned xcdroast, so if anyone is interested, its up for grabs. IMHO, we should move this to community though, simply cause, ->It needs quite a few patches to run with current cdrkit/growisofs/mkisofs/whatever ->It hasn't been updated in a year. ->I'm not sure anyone uses this anymore with nautilus/brasero/k3b and the others around. Varun P.S - Roman, I've de-assigned the bug in flyspray http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8844, and its currently not assigned to anyone.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libevent 1.3e-1
by Tom K 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

New upstream release, in testing for both architectures. T.

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[arch-dev-public] Absense
by Travis Willard 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hey everyone, My computer is freaking out- I think the power supply is busted. Frequently it'll "half-reboot" all on its own - the screen turns off, and the CD drives light up just like a reset, but then it locks up. I'm lucky for it to stay on for more than an hour or so doing regular work - when I stress the CPU/GPU it seems to happen more frequently, so I'm stuck not being able to build anything either. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a new PSU and test to see if that fixes the problems, so for now consider me 'absent' until I can get this sorted out. If I don't get it fixed before the 22nd, then I'll be truly away for Christmas Holidays until Jan 2nd. I'll keep you all posted. -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] Latest round of cleanup
by Eric Belanger 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

The following packages were removed from extra this week: aria aumix bchunk dclib dctc giftoxic gimp-perl idesk ijb km libgnomesu libidl libsvg masqmail mikmod mpcut netgo nextaw pdq powernowd sclient shorten sloth splitvt urlview valknut weex xautolock ============================ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] Bug Day announcement draft
by Roman Kyrylych 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hi! Here's a draft of bug day announcement (shamelessly copied most of it from my previous anouncement on 14th of April). Please find bugs in it and signoff. ;-) [begin] A Bug Day is scheduled on Saturday, 15th of December. The reason for this is to reduce the amount of old reports and feature requests. We will clear outdated reports, fix/implement those that already have patches provided or are trivial to fix/implement, discuss the pros & cons of implementing some feature requests, look at reports assigned to inactive/resigned devs, close/move reports for packages moved to Community/Unsupported. Join us at #archlinux-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net during 15th of December. As we live in different timezones not all devs will be available at the same time, but feel free to report your issues to any dev available online. Also please check your mailboxes that may contain notifications about comments made by devs and other users. [end] -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] ArchCon 2009, Take 2: Let's make a date
by Tom K 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

And we're back. :) Here's how I see this working: 1. We agree a date 2. We agree a location 3 and upwards. We organise some stuff This mail is about step 1. ArchCon's date is the single most important element to be confirmed, and probably the hardest as well. I suggested 2009 in the original proposal because it's likely that some people already have plans for 2008. Obviously, there are also people who already have plans for 2009, but probably not as many. If we're going to do this, we should regard ArchCon as a pre-existing commitment that is given priority over other activities, and not something that we try to squeeze into existing schedules. To kick this off, I'm making some provisional decisions here: * ArchCon will take place over a weekend * ArchCon will last no more than four days * ArchCon will take place in warm weather (Yes, I know, that's a date/location mix, but necessary for the next step) (James - see below) And now here are five randomly-chosen corresponding weekend periods in 2009: 29 May - 01 June 26 - 29 June 24 - 27 July 21 - 24 August 18 - 21 September I would ask everyone to indicate which of these periods would suit them. Please select as many as possible, to increase our chances of finding a good one, and set aside any other concerns, such as funding, travel arrangements, size of mugs, etc. If we don't come up with a date, none of that will matter anyway. If anyone has a particularly strong case for a different weekend that meets the same criteria, please post the details. I realise that individual weekends may be too specific at this stage, but I'm going for a shortcut here - it would be worthwhile if we didn't have to drill down from month to week to weekend. So fire up cal/remind/Google/Oprius/whatever, pencil in some weekends for ArchCon, and post them here. I'd appreciate a majority of responses before the next Status Report, which is due in just over a week. If we can get the date confirmed before Christmas, that would be great. James - I am also aware that my warm weather requirement, combined with my chosen dates, indicates a preference for the Northern Hemisphere, but our geographical distribution suggests that anyway, right? Regards Tom.

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