[gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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In December last year Savannah changed their CVS from anonymous SSH to
pserver, causing quite a few of our live CVS ebuilds to need changes.

Back then, I opened bug #115327 listing the offending ebuilds and
mostly all, except the GNUStep ebuilds, have now been updated for this
change.

However, since the GNUStep herd is void, no one has stepped up to fix
those ebuilds - meaning we have a bunch of useless, non-functional,
live CVS ebuilds laying around in portage, see the list below.

Since no developer seems to have interest in fixing and maintaining
those ebuilds, I suggest we remove them from portage. Any objections?
Any volounteers?

Oh yeah, sys-cluster/gomd-cvs-0.2_beta1 is also affected, but
tantative/the cluster herd doesn't seem to care either...


gentoo-x86 $ find . -name '*.ebuild'|xargs grep '^ECVS_SERVER="savannah'|cut -d '/' -f 2,4|sed -e "s:\.ebuild.*::"
gnustep-base/gnustep-back-art-0.9.5_pre20050312
gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.10.2_pre20050312
gnustep-base/gnustep-make-1.10.1_pre20050312-r1
gnustep-base/gnustep-back-xlib-0.9.5_pre20050312
gnustep-base/gnustep-gui-0.9.5_pre20050312-r1
gnustep-apps/projectcenter-0.4.3_pre20050312
gnustep-apps/terminal-0.9.5_pre20050110
gnustep-apps/terminal-0.9.5_pre20050315
gnustep-apps/preferences-1.3.0_pre20050315
gnustep-apps/preferences-1.3.0_pre20050110
gnustep-apps/textedit-0.95_pre20050315
gnustep-apps/textedit-0.95_pre20050110
gnustep-apps/stshell-0.8.3_pre20050312
gnustep-apps/stshell-0.8.3_pre20050106
gnustep-apps/easydiff-0.3.1_pre20050312
gnustep-apps/easydiff-0.3.1_pre20050106
gnustep-apps/easydiff-0.3.1_pre20041203
gnustep-libs/gdl2-0.9.2_pre20050106
gnustep-libs/gdl2-0.9.2_pre20050312
gnustep-libs/gsweb-1.1.1_pre20050312
gnustep-libs/renaissance-0.8.1_pre20041203
gnustep-libs/renaissance-0.8.1_pre20050312
gnustep-libs/prefsmodule-1.1.1_pre20050315
gnustep-libs/prefsmodule-1.1.1_pre20050110
gnustep-libs/smbkit-0.0.1_pre20050106
gnustep-libs/steptalk-0.8.3_pre20050312
gnustep-libs/steptalk-0.8.3_pre20050106
sys-cluster/gomd-cvs-0.2_beta1

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Mark Loeser]

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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org> said:
> In December last year Savannah changed their CVS from anonymous SSH to
> pserver, causing quite a few of our live CVS ebuilds to need changes.
> 
> Back then, I opened bug #115327 listing the offending ebuilds and
> mostly all, except the GNUStep ebuilds, have now been updated for this
> change.
> 
> However, since the GNUStep herd is void, no one has stepped up to fix
> those ebuilds - meaning we have a bunch of useless, non-functional,
> live CVS ebuilds laying around in portage, see the list below.
> 
> Since no developer seems to have interest in fixing and maintaining
> those ebuilds, I suggest we remove them from portage. Any objections?
> Any volounteers?

A lot of ebuilds probably fall under this category, and we should figure
out how we want to handle all of them.  I say mask the GNUStep stuff for a
month or two, put something on staffing-needs saying we need someone to
maintain them, and see what happens.  You can put me down as the contact on
the staffing-needs page if you want.  I hate to see things that are useful
to our users taken from the tree, but there isn't much we can do when
there is no one to maintain them.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:36:46PM -0500, Mark Loeser wrote:
> A lot of ebuilds probably fall under this category, and we should figure
> out how we want to handle all of them.  I say mask the GNUStep stuff for a
> month or two, put something on staffing-needs saying we need someone to
> maintain them, and see what happens.  You can put me down as the contact on
> the staffing-needs page if you want.  I hate to see things that are useful
> to our users taken from the tree, but there isn't much we can do when
> there is no one to maintain them.

Those ebuilds are _not_ useful to our users in their current state as
they do not work. If you would hate to see them go, could you please
update them to work with the new upstream version control system?

Regards,
Brix
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:53:09 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen
<brix@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Back then, I opened bug #115327 listing the offending ebuilds and
| mostly all, except the GNUStep ebuilds, have now been updated for this
| change.

Are they all in package.mask?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Fabian Borschel]

Hi Devs,

On 2006-03-18 12:53:09 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org> 
wrote:

> However, since the GNUStep herd is void, no one has stepped up to fix
> those ebuilds - meaning we have a bunch of useless, non-functional,
> live CVS ebuilds laying around in portage, see the list below.

Did you look into bugs.gentoo.org? There are new ebuild (which don't 
use
CVS). Maybe not for all GNUstep ebuilds, but there are users who are 
interested
in GNUstep stuff (take me for an example). If you search a new 
maintainer
I would do the job. But I'm no Gentoo-Dev yet.

Regards,
Fabian


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Grobian]

Unless somebody else wants to do it, I am about to step in here to keep
GNUstep in the tree.  I already did some research on it, and it seems it
needs an update, and the previous maintainer masked a few of the CVS
ebuilds, so that eases things a bit.  Seems many of the packages can use
an upgrade, so I'll give it a try today to see if I can get it working
again.

I'm going to look into more detail to it today, so if someone has
objections, please state them now.

I would really like to see a new GNUstep maintainer, but I'm not in the
desktop herd or something, neither a frequent user of GNUstep any more.


On 19-03-2006 03:23:26 +0100, Fabian Borschel wrote:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> On 2006-03-18 12:53:09 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> >However, since the GNUStep herd is void, no one has stepped up to fix
> >those ebuilds - meaning we have a bunch of useless, non-functional,
> >live CVS ebuilds laying around in portage, see the list below.
> 
> Did you look into bugs.gentoo.org? There are new ebuild (which don't
> use CVS). Maybe not for all GNUstep ebuilds, but there are users who
> are interested in GNUstep stuff (take me for an example). If you
> search a new maintainer I would do the job. But I'm no Gentoo-Dev yet.
> 
> Regards,
> Fabian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:05:15PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Are they all in package.mask?

No, not all of them - but Halcy0n has agreed to take a look at it.

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
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[gentoo-dev] Gentoo wants YOU! (for GNUstep)

[Grobian]

On 19-03-2006 11:16:10 +0100, Grobian wrote:
> I would really like to see a new GNUstep maintainer
[...]

Gentoo is now officially looking for people interested to maintain,
expand (*and FIX* :) ) GNUstep applications on Gentoo.  We expect
interested persons to be willing to maintain GNUstep in a long lasting
relationship with the project.  ;)
Interested participants can have a look at our staffing needs page [1],
and continue from there.  Interest to get GNUstep apps compiling/running
on other platforms than GNU/Linux is a pre.


[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:16:10AM +0100, Grobian wrote:
> Unless somebody else wants to do it, I am about to step in here to keep
> GNUstep in the tree.  I already did some research on it, and it seems it
> needs an update, and the previous maintainer masked a few of the CVS
> ebuilds, so that eases things a bit.  Seems many of the packages can use
> an upgrade, so I'll give it a try today to see if I can get it working
> again.

I'd like to thank Grobian for fixing all the gnustep ebuilds regarding
bug #115327.

We're now down to one ebuild, sys-cluster/gomd-cvs-0.2_beta1, which
needs fixing to work with the new Savannah CVS setup. I trust the
cluster herd will step in and fix their ebuild?

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd

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