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Re: [users] MailScanner in rpmforge?
by Dag Wieers 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > > How long does one have to wait to get an answer to a simple question? So > > I took the time to make sure one can install MailScanner through yum > > without waiting any longer for a reply from rpmforge by setting up a > > small repository. > > I saw that you had been waiting for a reply - which is why I answered. But, no > I dont have commit access to rpmforge things. So I will most likely be > importing MailScanner into where I do have access. And yes, I do use it on two > domains. Karanbir, I thought you had commit access ? Or at least I offered it at some point. There is no problem giving you commit access though. > > PS: You are aware I have not seen anything on the Sparc front either? > > The issue with centos/sparc is blocked on the installer not having decent > sparc support - so well, it does not work. patches are welcome. > > However, as you might have realised there are only a few of us doing all this > work - so things can sometimes take a bit of time to get started off, and one > hopes that once people do join the effort they hang around and help spread it. > So far, the experience has been quite the opposite. The problem is that the group is small because everybody who asks about it does not know where to go and make herself useful, and do not participate. As long as people cannot feel part of something and can become effective in a short time, you loose momentum. I have been asked more than 3 times at events about s390 support and I forward people to the centos-devel mailinglist. There is no information on the wiki, or almost not satisfying information on the mailinglist. People If there was an s390 SIG with a TODO list, planning, person to contact, people would be more interested to help out or get involved. The fact there is no such thing makes people think there is no interest, no progress, nothing. People are less likely to help if they are the first to take up responsibility. Being part of a group helps. Sharing information helps. So where does one go for s390 development ? What can people do to help the Sparc effort (what has already been done) ? How far is the PPC effort ? At least a well-owned SIG brings information and people together. Maybe even do status reports and drive meetings. A SIG of course does not guarantee all of that, but if people take ownership it does not come down to you, Johnny or Pasi. I think it is important to not depend on the already hard working people. > And, I completely disagree with Dag on creating SIG's for core distro arch > work. Further splintering an already small group of people is both counter > productive and a waste of time. Its also one way to make sure that we loose > further inertia in the development process. A chicken-egg problem to me. As long as you don't give away ownership, you don't gain people. If you don't gain people, you cannot give away ownership. How it works now, does not scale very well imo. Any solution is welcomed. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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Update XFCE to 4.4.2?
by Heiko Adams 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Hello List, are there any plans to update XFCE and thunar to the latest bugfix releases 4.4.2 (http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.4.2) and 0.9 (http://thunar.xfce.org/news.html#2007-12-02)? Regards, -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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some forum posts
by Akemi Yagi 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Centos developers, Would someone please look at the following forum posts (accolade, question, complaint, demand, etc)? http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11591&forum=18 http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11578&forum=28 http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11579&forum=37 http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11598&forum=37 (this one has the name Russ Herrold in it) Thanks for reading, responding or even ignoring! Akemi

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Interest in assisting with the Centos s390 disto
by Hand, Ray 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started. Thanks, Ray Hand

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HTTP installation method and RELEASE-NOTES file
by Ray Van Dolson 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi all; ran this question by the anaconda list, and perhaps this is a CentOS specific issue. In any case, maybe someone here can clarify... I notice if I boot CentOS 5 with the askmethod param and choose HTTP and point to my CentOS directory which is just a copy of all the files from the CD's, it errors out, and I am forced to revert to the CD method. The error I see on the console and in my webserver logs indicate that anaconda is trying to look for the following files: RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8.html RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html RELEASE-NOTES-en_US Where the only files on the CD's are RELEASE-NOTES-en.html and RELEASE-NOTES-en. The anaconda folks seem to think that CentOS should be using the full en_US variant: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2007-November/msg00130.… I don't see a mantis bug on this issue -- has anyone else run into it? Am I just doing something dumb here? Ray

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A question on the CentOS forum
by Akemi Yagi 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

I'm forwarding this question posted on the forum. Perhaps someone wants to respond to it? http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11376&forum=42 Note: you can skip the <Off Thread> part. Akemi

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content / role overlap for the -docs and potential translators lists
by Karanbir Singh 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

hi guys, Just wondering what people think about creating another list for centos-translators and regularly requesting membership there from other sources ( like posting something on the wiki / website / other lists etc ) ? The one issue that I can see is that there will be loads of overlap in interest with the centos-docs list that already has most of the people doing the translation work, and if people want to help with the wiki translation as well - perhaps the -docs list is the best place for the translators a well ? Just thinking out loud at the moment, opinions welcome! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Release Notes translations
by Ralph Angenendt 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Morning guys, CentOS 5.1 is nearing its release. And we're going to have Release Notes for it. This time the release notes will live on wiki.centos.org, not on the ISOs itself. See <http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1> If anybody of you has some time over the weekend and is interested to translate these notes into a language which is *not* - German - Dutch - Romanian (though we maybe could need one more translator there) - Czech (same as for Romanian) - French - Brazilian Portuguese - Spanish - Japanese (same as for Romanian) then please say "here" today. (Somehow I completely forgot about languages other than those above - anyone willing to sell me a spare brain?). The translations should be done on monday, but as those are living documents, complete translation can take longer. So is anybody interested? If you are: Open an account for yourself on http://wiki.centos.org/ (FirstnameLastname, e.g. JoeyMiller) and send me the account name, as translation will happen on the wiki. I'll put you into the correct group then. So do I hear some "Here!"s? If yes - thank you in advance. Cheers, Ralph

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IcedTea
by Daniel de Kok 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hi all, IcedTea for CentOS 5/i386 is now available through the CentOS-testing repository. IcedTea provides a development platform/runtime environment based on OpenJDK[1]. It is basically OpenJDK, with the binary plugs replaced by stubs or GNU Classpath code. These packages were built upon the excellent work of the IcedTea and Fedora projects. To use IcedTea with some Java programs that are included in CentOS like Ant, you also need a new jpackage-utils package that is also available through the testing repository. Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Take care, Daniel PS. IcedTea for CentOS 5/x86_64 will soon be available. PPS. IcedTea may or may not work out of the box with Java applications included in CentOS 5. E.g. CentOS 5 Eclipse doesn't work here, but Eclipse from eclipse.org runs fine (after setting the compiler level to 1.5.0).

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Since there is discussion on s390
by Mats Hellman 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Since we are discussing a S390 port here I'm wondering about the SPARC port. Is there any plans on releasing a Sparc port anytime? Regards, Mats Hellman Systems Administrator Samfundet Folkhälsan Finland ########################################### This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the system manager.

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