From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9hGv-00087m-GA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:21:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 245981C04F; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65731C054 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (jua06-1-82-242-159-241.fbx.proxad.net [82.242.159.241]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: miknix) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3E631B4018 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] no more time for SynCE From: Angelo Arrifano To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4DA31145.1000800@gentoo.org> References: <1302480109.6776.8.camel@orpheus> <4DA31145.1000800@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:35:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1302600907.15203.1.camel@blau64.ninho.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 28119a91b945aedb1b9a02caae8f54e8 On Seg, 2011-04-11 at 17:33 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/11/2011 03:01 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I posted about looking for help[1] I'm sad to say I've barely > > touched SynCE. Family commitments have changed, and I'm studying again > > for the degree I started 10 years ago! > > > > I'm therefore asking to be removed as the proxy for Synce. Hopefully > > this means it won't die in Gentoo :) > > > > Massive thanks to everyone who helped with my bad ebuild programming and > > testing along the way - volker, mescalinum, ssuominen, the SynCE team > > and everyone else. > > > > The original testing overlay remains here[2] for anyone who wants to > > take it over, just contact the SynCE dev team. > > > > If there are any questions please cc me directly as I may not be on the > > -dev list much more. > > > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69230 > > [2] https://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/dist/gentoo > > > > many thanks! > > np > > We should have all of SynCE in Portage again, except for the GNOME bits > like synce-trayicon (hardcoded depend on sys-apps/hal) and the KDE bits > (haven't even looked). > > Just by pulling synce-sync-engine as well as synce-connector the deps > should get pulled in -> No need for a meta package. > > The overlay was, when I last checked entirely uncompatible with the > packages in tree as well as has confusing amount of deprecated ebuilds. > I would love if someone could wipe it clean so people stop accidentally > shooting themself in the foot with it. > > I'll add the synce-trayicon to tree soon as upstream produces a HAL-free > version of it... > > And it's up the KDE team to add the KDE bits if they want. > Hello, I want to help in sanitizing the overlay and bring the ebuilds into portage. We can see that next weekend if you have the time. Regards, -- Angelo Arrifano (miknix) Developer / GPE maintainer http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix http://miknix.homelinux.com