Category: Gentoo

Firstly, Gnome users: I changed all instances of the ‘keyring’ USE flag in ebuilds to ‘gnome-keyring’, and as such, you should ‘keyring’ in your USE flag configurations with ‘gnome-keyring’. (In fact, I should go do this on my machines now :roll:).

In other news! If there are any Gentoo users (or for that matter, developers) out there who use Jabber, feel free to come along to the Gentoo chatroom on Jabber (xmpp:gentoo@conference.jabber.org?join). I’ll attempt to hang out in there as much as possible, and it would be nice to get a nice ‘lil community going in there 🙂

… as ‘gnome-keyring’.

Just a heads-up to all you Gnome (and possibly Xfce) users out there: There are currently around 9-10 packages in the tree which use the ‘keyring’ USE flag to enable support for the gnome-keyring package. As of this evening, this USE flag will become a global USE flag, and the name will be changed to ‘gnome-keyring’. See here for more details on the decision.

Hey,

As many of you are aware, I’ve been away from Gentoo quite a bit recently… Holidays, parents splitting, moving house, etc, etc. But! I have been attempting to slowly ease myself back into the Gentoo lifestyle, and I did some amd64 arch testing, fixed a few bugs and did some work for the GWN today. Tomorrow, I’ll likely be mostly AFK again, but should still be able to get something done. Looks like the amd64 team is again needing an extra hand to get the number of stable requests down to a sane number… From what I can tell, there are only 1 or 2 devs dealing with (or rather, attempting to deal with) the crazily large number of stabilization bugs. Looks like I’ll have to go on another couple of sprees B).

Anyway. Yesterday, I got messing around with the Gnome-2.20 update on my laptop, and somehow, one thing led to another, and I have now got NetworkManager working perfectly, pam_keyring and pam_ssh working perfectly, my email setup more or less perfectly with evolution, Gajim’s working beautifully, almost everything on this system is just how I want it… There are just a couple of little niggles, such as bug 188618 – the icon for gnome-power-manager doesn’t appear, so I have to manually restart the the program before I can get my battery life monitor >:(.

Next up on my todo list is to get my two Gentoo/FreeBSD machines up and running again, so I can get fixing bugs for that, and then… That’s about it. I think I want to get my hands on some form of server so that I can run my own Jabber server (I currently have an account on jabber.org – welpie@jabber.org – but would rather run my own Jabber server. Just ‘cos I like to admin stuff 🙂 ), but that’s somewhere closer to the bottom of my todo list for now.

Hopefully, you guys will be getting more regular updates from me over the next few months ;).

Yay for British Gentoo users!

Went to two different pubs this evening, with Naib, UberLord, igli and leio, played some pool, snooker, drank some stuffs, met up with edit_21, Hanni, taviso, christel, NeoThermic, NeddySeagoon, dertobi123, AllenJB, and a whole load of others! T’was all good fun! Now I’m at igli’s place. I’ve finished all my food, igli and leio are still eating their chicken n’ chips ^_-

As for leio’s blog post complaining about my lateness, I blame… Uh. The train. It was 4 minutes late *nod* That’s a good enough excuse for me. =)

And, now I’m off to start folding the programs for the event… Then I’m gonna try and get some sleep. Then I shall be heading off to meet edit_21 sometime this morning.

Right, so I’ve generally been slacking since my last blog post. :-/ Oh well, time for me to get back to work, methinks!

Firstly, today is Bugday! And it will remain so until 23:59:59 on Saturday in whatever timezone it is that it becomes that time the latest (if that makes any sense to you :P). (Also, I know I’m not supposed to start sentences with ‘And’, but meh).

Secondly, I mentored my second developer, keytoaster, so he could get CVS access and start his work on KDE stuff (what sane person would want to work on KDE? :crazy:), he was already a docs dev and an AMD64 AT so he didn’t have to do quite so much work as some of our current developers to get CVS access B)
Speaking of developers I’ve mentored, angelos has been doing a spiffing job of tackling the amd64 bugs, so we’re starting to get back under control of our buglist 🙂

I’ve also been working on an updated ebuild for tea, but it doesn’t seem to be liking me much, installing stuff to the wrong places, and so on. I blame debian. (No, really, I do, there’s an –enable-debian option so that the binary and other files get installed to the right places on debian-based systems, but it seems to break everything else, at least for me).

Also, it seems that I have been nominated for the Gentoo Council… Three times. I’m still in the process of deciding whether to accept the nominations or turn them down.

And last, but by no means least, the annual Gentoo UK conference is going to be taking place next weekend(!) We have a wide range of talks planned, and there should be around 10 developers attending, by the looks of things, should be great fun, all-in-all! 😀

So, I’ve been mentoring my first developer since, like, the 11th May, and today he officially became a developer! 😀 Obviously, I’m kinda pleased with myself (and obviously with angelos :P).

angelos is gonna be joining the amd64 herd, which will hopefully help reduce the strain on us folks 😀

(On a sidenote, angelos is from Germany, and thus the German Conspiracy is getting bigger ;))

Well, the HDD in my server failed, taking the blog down with it, ’til about a week ago, I never did anything about it… But! I ended up poking beandog for a nice shiny Gentoo blog 😀 (Which I now, obviously, have ;)).

Soo, anyway… Whilst I was blogless, I did a whole load of work (ish)… Did a couple of amd64 keywording/stabilization sprees, and with the help of a couple of other members of the amd64 team, managed to bring down the number of amd64 stabilization bugs from >100 to around 20. Success IMHO B). But! Since I’ve been away (due to exams and such), the bug number has shot up again… Looks like I’m going to have to do some more work…

Xfce-4.4.1 was released, and I stabilized it on Gentoo/AMD64. Great fun :). Whilst I’m on the topic, the Gentoo Xfce team are planning on revamping the project overlay in the near future, so keep your eyes on this space ;).

On the Gentoo/FreeBSD front, we welcomed back an old member, one who I’m sure that a lot of the Gentoo Planet readers will remember: the Legendary Flameeyes! 😉 So, yeah, he rejoined the Gentoo/FreeBSD project, and will hopefully sort out a whole load of stuff for us :).

Just a couple more things before I STFU 😉

Next Saturday is Bugday! And you’d all better join in! Or I’ll stop hugging you. ‘k? Excellent. So, #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net, Saturday 2nd. Be there or be square (Hrmm, maybe you’re all “square” anyway… *hides*).

Also, I’ve got myself an account on most of the IM networks (with the exception of Yahoo…):
Jabber: welpie@jabber.org
ICQ: 490140301
AIM: welp@01welp.co.uk
MSN: welp@01welp.co.uk

Feel free to add me 🙂