Announcements / Important stuff =============================== Announcing GLI ("the installer") 0.5 (by agaffney) -------------------------------------------------- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.installer/594 -------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/48936 --------------------------------------- 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: ========================= 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 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 tag in metadata.xml One sentence summaries on more active threads: ============================================== 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 tag in metadata.xml no-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: =========== Last rites: dev-java/jswat Last rites: app-vim/sudo Last rites: app-emacs/preview-latex Last rites: sys-apps/855resolution