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Aron_1rockstar: ping...01:59
AMDpenguinHow do i delete my account02:09
stgraberhttps://edge.launchpad.net/~stgraber/+deactivate-account02:10
stgraberhmm, https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+deactivate-account02:11
stgraberto have an url that'd work for everyone :)02:11
AMDpenguinI said linux sucks foir the reason =)02:13
AMDpenguinI said Linux sucks for the reason why i deactivated my account because it does02:16
wgrantThat's very thoughtful and pleasant of you.02:18
AMDpenguinYeah02:29
AMDpenguinI am going to do a tombstone piledriver to my linux box02:33
AMDpenguinI am going to do a tombstone piledriver to my linux box02:39
barry#/join launchpad-meeting03:01
Aron_rockstar: ping ....03:16
rockstarAron_, hi.03:16
AMDpenguinI am going to do a tombstone piledriver to my linux box03:16
Aron_rockstar: please check your email03:16
rockstarAMDpenguin, please stop spamming the channel.03:17
lifelessAMDpenguin: you've repeated yourself quite a few times. If you want to talk about ubuntu, I suggest #ubuntu; if you need help with launchpad, we'd be delighted to help you here.03:17
Aron_rockstar: see my private message window03:18
wgrantIf you want support with Ubuntu, #ubuntu is the place. If you want to complain about Ubuntu, /dev/null is the place.03:19
Aron_...03:20
Aron_wgrant: so interesting...03:20
lifelesswgrant: thats not really true; all feedback is useful - but #ubuntu is definitely the place for people to start03:20
Aron_rockstar: see it?03:21
wgrantlifeless: #ubuntu has enough traffic as it is; we don't want threats about people destroying their machines in there too.03:21
lifelesswgrant: if someone is feeling frustrated with their machine, they need someone to seek help03:21
lifelesswgrant: shutting them off means we don't find out about the issues03:21
lifelesswgrant: regardless; none of this is ontopic here.03:22
wgrantThat is of course true.03:22
rockstarAron_, I don't see an email from you, but I do know what you're looking for.03:22
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wgrantcprov: Excellent! Jaunty PPAs will be most useful soon.04:16
cprovwgrant: yup04:17
wgrantcprov: Do you know if there's a bug on the misleadingness of showing 'frozen' as a distroseries status on +ppas?04:18
wgrantA few people were confused by that this time, and it's irrelevant for PPAs.04:18
cprovwgrant: for jaunty ?04:18
wgrantcprov: Yes.04:18
wgrantAnd Intrepid, near the end.04:19
cprovwgrant: it was indeed frozen, what was the issue ?04:19
wgrantcprov: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas shows the distroseries status, and people were getting confused as to why Intrepid PPAs would be frozen.04:19
wgrantOr Jaunty PPAs.04:19
cprovwgrant: ISWYM, well, the status refer to the ubuntu distroseries and it's supposed to help users to choose which PPAs the want to search for.04:21
cprovwgrant: any idea for making it clearer ?04:21
wgrantcprov: Yep, it is useful, but showing 'frozen' isn't.04:21
wgrantI don't know, sorry.04:21
cprovwgrant: ehe, fine it will think about it. Maybe beuno will have an idea.04:22
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wgrantNight.04:22
cprov-zzztalk to you tomorrow, good night.04:22
gnomefreaki thought PPAs were supporting Jaunty. my uploads are not showing in build records or my PPA page06:56
wgrantgnomefreak: Have you waited at least 5 minutes?06:58
gnomefreakwgrant: about that but i will wait some more if needed06:59
gnomefreakTue Nov 11 01:53:06 2008 EST  its not 1:5906:59
gnomefreaks/not/now07:00
gnomefreakthe repo drop down doesnt show jaunty either07:00
wgrantThat's because you have no Jaunty packages accepted.07:00
wgrant"#  qt4-qtruby 1.4.10-1 in jaunty in PPA for Dan Colish  30 seconds ago "07:01
wgrantSo Jaunty PPAs are working.07:01
wgrantBut your upload was buggy.07:01
gnomefreakhow was it buggy? it says it had no issues07:01
gnomefreakfiregpg_0.6.2-0ubuntu1~jjv_source.changes: done.07:01
gnomefreakSuccessfully uploaded packages.07:01
gnomefreakNot running dinstall.07:01
wgrantdput doesn't do much checking.07:01
wgrantYou're sure you uploaded to the right place and haven't received a rejection email?07:02
gnomefreakUploading to ppa-gnomefreak (via ftp to ppa.launchpad.net):07:03
gnomefreaki will check email now07:03
gnomefreakits telling me that the version i have uploaded already cant be used in new upload. the one now is intrepid in PPA i uypdated changelog to jaunty and they wont lert it in because version #s are same07:05
gnomefreaki think thats a bug in LP/PPA07:05
wgrantNo.07:05
wgrantThat's how Debian archives have worked for years.07:06
wgrantYou need to change the version.07:06
wgrantOr copy it from Intrepid.07:06
gnomefreakk ill change version and dee what happens07:06
gnomefreaks/dee/see07:07
wgrantChecking for emails of rejection is generally a good idea if things don't show up...07:07
gnomefreakuploading new versions ill check in morning its already 2:20 am07:22
wgrantNight.07:22
wgrantI normally refrain from using my OpenPGP key after 1am.07:22
gnomefreak:)07:23
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Hobbseekiko-afk: what are 'lpnet oopses'?10:00
HobbseeThe first two were ones I got from edge10:01
HobbseeUrsinha: thanks10:03
wgrantHobbsee: He probably assumed, like I did initially, that the links you provided were the same as the non-links.10:05
wgrantBut the non-links were for edge, while the links were for prod/lpnet/whateveritisnow10:06
Hobbseewgrant: ah, right.  They weren't - it was just that ubottu found some links for some, but not the original ones10:06
* wgrant is mildly amused at the last sentence of bug #6597.10:18
ubottuLaunchpad bug 6597 in soyuz "Buildmaster has performance issues" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/659710:18
bigjoolsheh10:18
Hobbseeah yes, it's still timing out10:23
HobbseeError ID: OOPS-1046EB7110:23
* Hobbsee adds to the bug.10:24
bigjoolsthanks10:24
bigjoolsthat page is the bane of my life10:24
bigjoolsHobbsee: is it timing out *every* time?10:25
Hobbseebigjools: 2/2 so far.  OOPS-1046EB7210:26
bigjoolsHobbsee: can you try lpnet instead of edge10:26
* Hobbsee tries a few more times10:26
bigjoolsand you're accepting a new upload I presume?10:26
wgrantOOPS-<day><instance><server><sequence number>?10:26
Hobbseeunapproved10:26
bigjoolsk10:26
Hobbseeoh, *damn*.10:27
HobbseeSomeone just accepted the two packages I could have taken.10:27
Hobbsee(I was using 1 to test)10:27
wgrantHobbsee: I'm sure NCommander will consent to running some more backports for you :P10:28
Hobbseewgrant: was just thinking that...I'm sure that I can convince someone to do some more crackports.10:28
NCommanderwait, what?10:28
NCommanderwhat did I break now?10:28
wgrantNCommander: You didn't. Yet.10:29
HobbseeNCommander: nothing.  I just want something that's a decent backport, so I can try accepting it.10:29
NCommanderHobbsee, you can accept things?10:29
HobbseeNCommander: ...yes10:29
NCommanderHobbsee, do you need a source level backport, or an automatic backport?10:29
wgrantUploaded backports, yes...10:29
NCommanderthat answers that10:30
HobbseeNCommander: source backport, please.10:30
NCommanderLet me find something10:30
Hobbseecool, thanks10:30
NCommanderI did most of the soul ones10:30
NCommanderHobbsee, why do you want to accept something now?10:30
HobbseeNCommander: because i'm hitting a launchpad bug, and bigjools wants to know if it happens on lp.net.  However, I can't use the backport I was testing with before, as someone else has gone and accepted it10:31
NCommanderI don't have any outstanding source backports I can upload10:31
NCommander(source backports require two acks)10:31
NCommanderBut I can do what would normally be an automatic one by hand10:31
Hobbseeretroactive acks from jdong?  :P10:31
Hobbseeoh yes, that'd work10:32
NCommanderOk10:32
NCommanderlet me find a good candiate10:32
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NCommanderHobbsee, ok, I got a candidate10:34
NCommanderIts a library with no rdepends, so if something breaks, nothing actually gets damaged10:34
* Hobbsee mutters something about crackports10:35
Hobbseeso why does someone want that backproted,then?10:36
* NCommander shrugs10:36
NCommanderI don't ask why in cases like this10:36
NCommanderHobbsee, crackport uploading10:41
NCommanderhttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/26032510:41
ubottuLaunchpad bug 260325 in hardy-backports "Backport libgee 0.1.3 to Hardy" [Wishlist,In progress]10:41
NCommanderso what's this bug?10:41
HobbseeNCommander: can't accept from the queues.  Timeout.10:42
* NCommander waits for the accept email10:43
bigjoolsHobbsee: I have your oops in front of me10:43
bigjoolsaccepting kde4libs?10:43
Hobbseebigjools: yes10:43
NCommanderStill no accept email10:44
HobbseeNCommander: it's in the queue, so....10:45
HobbseeNCommander: thanks10:45
NCommanderI should have gotten an ACK email10:45
NCommandereven if its unaccepted10:45
Hobbseebigjools: should I try accepting another one, or should I wait?10:47
bigjoolsHobbsee: I have the data I need, so don't wait on my account10:47
Hobbseebigjools: hmmm....okay.  That one works10:48
bigjoolsHobbsee: it seems kde4libs in particular is a PITA10:48
Hobbseebigjools: i know the other one started with a K, but i didn't think it was kde4libs (the one on the weekend), if that helps.10:49
Hobbseelaunchpad just hates KDE?  :P10:49
bigjoolsHobbsee: I think that one was kde4libs as well10:49
Hobbseeoh10:49
Hobbseefair enough :)10:49
bigjoolsHobbsee: just KDE4 I think, 4.1.2 still sucks :)10:49
Hobbseebigjools: hah.  You'd better not say that with KDE people in here..10:50
bigjoolsHobbsee: I am one of them10:50
Hobbseebigjools: you do kde stuff, or you run it?10:50
bigjoolsI use it10:50
Hobbseeoh.  I meant those who do development / packaging of the stuff :)10:51
bigjoolsloads of regressions from 3.5 frustrate me10:51
LaibschHi.  Can I easily add hardy-backports to the packages available in my PPA for compile-time deps?10:51
NCommanderLaibsch, no :-/10:51
NCommanderNot unless there has been progress in this respect10:51
Hobbseebigjools: that's one of the reasons i stopped running it, too :)10:52
bigjoolsHobbsee: still on hardy then?10:52
Hobbseebigjools: nah.  I run gnome, and have done so since gutsy.10:52
bigjoolsah10:52
HobbseeI still see edgy kubuntu every once in a while, and am reminded.10:52
wgrantbigjools: Since the archive dependencies are no longer hardcoded, are we going to see a pocket-enabling UI soon?10:56
bigjoolswgrant: -ish, yes10:56
wgrantExcellent.10:57
wgrantThen all that's needed to make PPAs very useful is multiple PPAs per user.10:58
bigjoolswgrant: that will happen later next quarter10:58
wgrantbigjools: Ooh. Excellent.10:58
bigjoolsI am also toying with the idea of allowing upload rights set outside of the owning team10:59
wgrantI fail to see how there can be a smooth migration path, unless people have primary PPAs, just to add to the primary/PPA confusion.10:59
wgrantThat would be good.10:59
wgrantLots of projects do really strange things now.10:59
bigjoolswgrant: yes, the migration will be a pain10:59
wgrantbigjools: Do you have a solution?11:00
bigjoolswgrant: we have some ideas, no firm solution yet11:00
wgrantbigjools: Ideas are better than nothing, at least.11:00
wgrantAnyway, it's good to see it's back on the cards and scheduled.11:01
bigjoolsit will hurt somewhere I expect11:01
kirklandi created a team, "ecryptfs-devel" in launchpad;  you guys created a mailing list (thanks!);  now I'm trying to direct a community member to join that mailing list ...  it's not obvious how to do this from https://edge.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-devel11:01
kirklandhelp?11:01
wgrantkirkland: Only team members can join lists, for some horrible (and probably not particularly good) reason./11:02
wgrantGiven that anybody can see the archives, at least read-only subscriptions should surely be possible by anyone.11:02
awilkinskiko-afk: PIng?11:03
kirklandwgrant: hrm, that's annoying ... ecryptfs-devel has commit access, as the "driver" of our project11:03
kirklandwgrant: okay, i may need to create yet another team then :-/11:03
wgrantkirkland: Yes... Launchpad ensures that each project needs like a dozen teams.11:03
wgrantOne for the PPA for devel, one for the PPA for stable.11:03
wgrantOne for the users mailing list.11:03
wgrantOne for the people who should have access to the branch as well as PQM.11:03
wgrantOne for the developers.11:04
wgrantOne for the developers mailing list.11:04
wgrantOne for driving.11:04
wgrantOne for release management for each series.11:04
wgrantOne for bugs.11:04
wgrantOne for security.11:04
bigjoolsthis is getting addressed in a sprint currently taking place in the US11:05
wgrantbigjools: Which bit? The huge number of teams?11:06
bigjoolsbetter roles11:06
wgrantThank goodness.11:06
wgrantThis has been a problem forever.11:06
* wgrant wishes the sprinters luck.11:06
mrevellawilkins: Is there anythign I can help with while kiko-afk's not here11:08
NCommanderHobbsee, you didn't properly mark the bug Fix Released!11:09
HobbseeNCommander: don't we have launchpad-auto-closes-changelogs for that?11:10
wgrantHobbsee: Not for "Automated backports upload; no source changes"11:10
NCommanderNot for backports11:10
wgrantOh.11:10
wgrantAnd that, too.11:10
NCommanderwgrant, not in general.11:10
wgrantBecause we use a horrible LP workaround for backports...11:10
Hobbseewgrant: oh, i thought he'd had to modify it, so it landed in that queue.11:10
wgrantDistroSeries bugtasks need a pocket selector.11:10
NCommanderwgrant, sorta funny, the ubuntu (libgee) bug got changed :-)11:11
Hobbseeah, right, i see11:11
NCommanderso it works11:11
wgrantHobbsee: Yes, by adding the changelog entry.11:11
NCommanderJust not in the hardy-backports project11:11
wgrantThe *-backports projects are awful hacks.11:11
NCommanderThat's true11:11
wgrantYou can't expect Soyuz to respect them.11:11
NCommanderAnd Soyuz can't expect me to respect it :-) *smacked*11:12
Hobbseewgrant: my bad.11:12
* Hobbsee wasn't thinking.11:12
* wgrant sends Hobbsee to the +queue corner.11:13
awilkinsmrevell: I was wondering if he got some email from me or whether he was just ignoring me :-)  Was hoping to start a more active dialogue on the possibility of getting my hands on the Launchpad sources under NDA.11:13
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awilkinsmrevell: I understand that he's probably tucked up in bed at this hour.11:13
* Hobbsee breaks it, then breaks wgrant11:13
* Hobbsee sends wgrant to her isys lectures.11:14
mrevellawilkins: Ah, right. He won't be ignoring you :) I think he lives under a permanent mountain of email. He is the right guy to speak to, though, about that sort of thing.11:14
wgrantHobbsee: Now that's just harsh.11:14
awilkinsmrevell: It was rather a long email, maybe it got spamcanned :-)11:14
awilkinsmrevell: lifeless waskind enough to provide an intro11:15
mrevellcool11:15
mrevellawilkins Feel free to send me a copy if you're concerned your mail may have been lost in the system11:15
awilkinsmrevell: That's most gracious of you sir.11:17
mrevellnp :)11:18
bigjoolsHobbsee: do you have any more packages you can accept or is that it?  Did you get kde4libs to work?11:18
Hobbseewgrant: *grin*11:33
Hobbseebigjools: I don't at the moment.  Someone else got kde4libsto work11:34
bigjoolsHobbsee: ok thanks11:34
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kiko-afkI sort of am here though.12:02
* wgrant ties kiko-afk to his keyboard.12:04
* Hobbsee solders the keyboard to the machine.12:05
wgrantAh, good point.12:05
Hobbseewgrant: no point tying someone to an unpluggable object.12:05
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UrsinhaHi Hobbsee12:44
Hobbseehey Ursinha12:45
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savvaser.. how do I include orig.tar.gz to be uploaded in my PPA with dput?13:21
savvasI add it in the changes file?13:21
Hobbseeuse debuild / dpkg-buildpackage with -sa13:23
savvasah -sa.. I was using -sd :P13:23
Hobbseethat'll do it13:23
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savvasHobbsee: thanks, you were right :)13:35
Hobbseesavvas: :)13:35
savvas(as always heh)13:35
Hobbseenot quite always, unfortunately :)13:36
savvastisk tisk, modest :p13:37
savvashm.. it's kind of big package for a ppa, I hope launchpad won't mind13:38
savvas59mb, the secret maryo chronicles (1.6 release)13:38
Hobbseeit probably won't13:43
Hobbseebut i hope you have a decent uplink, so dput/tool_of_choice doesn't fall over13:43
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savvasHobbsee: I kind of wish the same thing - it's 128k, but it is somewhat stable (surely hope so!)14:02
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RainCTHi14:58
RainCTI've got a FTBFS for a jaunty upload to my PPA with "FATAL: kernel too old" during the dependency installation. Is this a known problem?14:59
mrevelcprov: Can you answer RainCT?15:10
cprovmrevel: no, I'm sorry.15:10
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bigjoolsRainCT: is this a build failure or an upload failure?15:12
RainCTbigjools: build15:13
RainCThttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/19567192/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-amd64.sim_0.9.5~svn20080806-1ubuntu1_CHROOTWAIT.txt.gz15:13
bigjoolsmmm that's not good15:15
bigjoolsRainCT: can you file a bug please15:17
sorenYikes.15:18
sorenThat looks like something that would affect all Jaunty PPA builds. :(15:19
bigjoolssoren: or just amd6415:19
sorenbigjools: point15:19
sorenhttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/19567193/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-i386.sim_0.9.5~svn20080806-1ubuntu1_CHROOTWAIT.txt.gz15:19
sorenExcept not.15:19
soren:(15:19
bigjoolsbleh15:19
bigjoolslooks like glibc is fuxored15:20
* soren eyeballs the Xen kernel on the PPA's...15:20
* cody-somerville stabs Xen.15:22
* soren joins the stabfest15:23
RainCTbigjools: Sorry, missed your answer. Sure I can. Are PPAs part of Soyuz or against what should I file the bug?15:47
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bigjoolsRainCT: file all bugs against "Launchpad" please, they get triaged and put in the right place15:52
RainCTbigjools: OK, thanks15:56
RainCTdone, bug #29682915:58
ubottuLaunchpad bug 296829 in launchpad "PPA failed to build Jaunty package with "FATAL: kernel too old"" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29682915:58
bigjoolsthanks RainCT15:59
bigjoolssoren: do you think that's a Xen problem then?15:59
sorenbigjools: Indirectly.16:00
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LaibschHi, why is https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/+build/726653 failing?  As far as I can see liblpsolve55-dev is available in a recent enough version from my PPA.19:31
rockstarLaibsch, it looks like it's also trying to find lp-solve19:35
rockstarLaibsch, and it's also looking for a different version of liblpsolve, one without the rofl1 at the end.19:37
Laibsch>= 5.5.0.10-10 should be satisfied19:38
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gourevening20:48
jo_hello! I went to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/files/3830, clicked on 'bzrlib' and got that 'Please try again' page. Reloaded like the error page told me. And posted here...20:49
gouris there any hope for https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+bug/44455 ?20:49
ubottuLaunchpad bug 44455 in launchpad-bazaar "Support for darcs" [Wishlist,Confirmed]20:49
jo_http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/files/3830?file_id=bzrlib-20050309040749-4ac9a0e21160284620:49
jo_is launchpad restricted to ubuntu?20:52
spmjo_: hmmm- am seeing the same thing, chasing21:06
intellectronicajo_: absolutely not. it's free for any free software project, and can be used by proprietary projects for a fee21:08
spmjo_: try now; just restarted that service21:10
jo_intellectronica: has it support for debian? eg the sourlces.list entries display on the webpage does not seem to support debian dists21:12
jo_spm: cool.21:12
intellectronicajo_: you mean PPAs? no, they only build for ubuntu (of course, in many cases you'll be able to use the resulting packages in debian anyway)21:13
* wgrant looks suspiciously at intellectronica.21:16
wgrantWe're not necessarily compatible.21:16
wgrantNot a good idea to recommend it.21:16
Ursinhawgrant, guess he's not recommending it, just saying one truth21:17
intellectronicai did not say necessarily. i said "in many cases", and put it in parenthesis. thinking about it again, though, i should have been more careful21:18
Ursinha:)21:18
intellectronicai'd go further and say that i'd recommend switching to ubuntu and solving the problem that way :D21:18
Ursinhahahaha21:18
jo_haha21:19
jo_just switched back to debian ;)21:19
intellectronicajo_: really? how come (just out of curiosity)21:19
jo_btw: is the launchpad web application available to use on an own server?21:20
intellectronicajo_: no, it's a hosted service21:20
jo_intellectronica: hm, just consuetude...21:21
jo_i see a project page on https://launchpad.net/launchpad but no code21:22
wgrantI suppose, now that lpnet is importing sid and lenny, it wouldn't be too hard to have Debian PPAs.21:22
intellectronicafair enough21:22
intellectronicajo_: launchpad is not (yet) open source21:22
wgrantDo we have a roadmap for that yet?21:23
intellectronicawgrant: a roadmap for what?21:23
jo_for Debian PPAs hopefully ;)21:23
wgrantintellectronica: The open sourcing.21:23
jo_even better21:24
wgrantWe have a badly publicised upper bound, but nothing else.21:24
jo_in which language is it written?21:24
wgrantPython.21:24
intellectronicawgrant: i don't think there's a public roadmap yet, but things are happening all the time to advance this. for example, did you notice that we moved our wiki from our internal server to dev.launchpad.net?21:24
wgrantintellectronica: I knew that was being done, but didn't know it had been.21:25
wgrantYou guys *really* need to publicise things better.21:25
wgrantintellectronica: There doesn't seem to much anything useful there yet.21:27
intellectronicawgrant: but it's a start. be patient, and you're in for a string of very pleasant surprises over the next few months :)21:28
wgrantRight, it's certainly a promising start.21:28
jo_jup.21:29
jo_guess the world needs software project management tools21:30
jo_(I am the world)21:31
rockstarwgrant, we're taking large steps to get LP open sourced.  We have a public wiki now, and are migrating data to there from our internal one.21:56
rockstarjo_, Much of the value add in Launchpad comes from it being a central source for many projects.  Installing it on your own server is not recommended.21:57
wgrantrockstar: I hope a launchpad-launchpad plugin (similar to {bugzilla,trac}-launchpad) will be written before the code is released, or things aren't going to end well.22:01
rockstarwgrant, why won't the end well?22:01
wgrantThere will be other LP instances set up. You can be pretty much sure of that.22:02
wgrantThere needs to be some way to communicate between them, or the point of LP is lost.22:02
rockstarwgrant, maybe.22:03
rockstarI think parts of a full LP instance will be set up, but running your own LP instance would require a lot of infrastructure methinks.22:04
wgrantA lot of people just want the bugtracker.22:04
wgrantOnce you exclude soyuz, things must get much simpler.22:05
rockstarAnd what's wrong with the bugtracker on Launchpad.  Why don't they want to use it here.22:05
wgrantrockstar: Because people see Canonical as another big evil corporation.22:05
wgrantThat feeling will probably dissipate somewhat once it's free, but not entirely.22:05
rockstarwgrant, refelect on that for a second.  Canonical is a big evil corporation that produces software that these people WANT to use?22:07
rockstars/refelect/reflect22:07
rockstarI think people will be doing themselves a disservice by setting up their own Launchpad instance.22:08
wgrantrockstar: Canonical is a big evil corporation that produces software that these people can review and run independently from a big evil corporation.22:08
wgrantOh, they will be.22:08
LarstiQrockstar: that doesn't stop people from thinking that way I'm afraid.22:11
* LarstiQ does encounter it.22:11
rockstarLarstiQ, thinking what?22:11
LarstiQrockstar: that Canonical is evil and/but running Launchpad themselves would be fine.22:12
wgrantLarstiQ: Exactly.22:12
wgrantI'm not in that camp, but lots of people are.22:12
rockstarLarstiQ, those people are not our users.  We care about our users.22:12
wgrantrockstar: You don't have users.22:12
wgrantNot many, anyway.22:12
elmowgrant: pardon?22:13
LarstiQrockstar: mja, I wouldn't be too sure of that.22:13
wgrantelmo: Compared to things like SourceForge, and generally within the Free software world, LP has very few projects using it.22:14
elmowgrant: users != projects22:14
wgrantOh, and I would like to see stats about how many LP accounts have ever actually been used on LP, and not just for ShipIt.22:14
rockstarwgrant, I don't have users?22:15
elmowgrant: also, I'd think you'd be surprised how many projects useLP22:15
elmoI know I was22:15
LarstiQelmo: silent majority?22:15
rockstarLarstiQ, yes, for the most part.22:15
elmoalso, if you get to discount shipit users, I get to discount the quagmire of a million unmaintained, unused, dead projects on SF :-P22:16
* LarstiQ knows one question he gets as a bzr person is 'so, do any (significant) projects actually use bzr?'22:16
wgrantelmo: Good point on the dead projectss.22:16
rockstarelmo, I have at least three sourceforge accounts.  :)22:16
wgrantLarstiQ: That's another big one, yes.22:16
elmoLarstiQ: you have an answer for that now :)22:16
elmoof course the next questions "ok, who else" :(22:16
LarstiQelmo: yeah :/22:17
wgrantIs there a way to see which projects on Launchpad are actually real and not fakes produced by Ubuntu devs?22:17
LarstiQand then when I mention Launchpad that also doesn't count as an external project, sigh22:17
rockstarwgrant, we try, for the most part, to keep project space clean.22:17
wgrantLarstiQ: Launchpad isn't a project. It's a big black box without a freaking changelog.22:17
LarstiQwgrant: do you mean registered by other people to keep track of things? I do that too and am not involved with Ubuntu.22:17
wgrantrockstar: There are still lots of fakes. They're simply placeholders for us to stick bugwatches on.22:18
LarstiQwgrant: if you're evaluating if a large codebase is workable with bzr, that doesn't matter. Nor need things be free software.22:18
wgrantLarstiQ: True.22:19
wgrantBut this reminds me - why doesn't Launchpad have a changelog visible any more? There used to be one sent out at releases.22:19
wgrantYears ago...22:19
wgrantNow we just have to guess at when things might be fixed.22:19
elmohuh?22:20
intellectronicawgrant: launchpad is a bug tracker. anything that gets fixed has a bug that goes into Fix Released22:20
elmowgrant: doesn't mrevell send those out still?22:20
wgrantelmo: No..22:20
wgrantelmo: We get a few big features that are irrelevant to distros.22:20
wgrantelmo: The early 2006 changelogs were excellent.22:20
wgrantNot everything is covered by milestoned bugs. The milestone lists have a very low signal:noise ratio, as things inevitably don't get finished. The bug summaries aren't always great.22:21
wgrantThey're not a replacement for a changelog.22:22
intellectronicawgrant: we stopped with the changelogs because we felt that they are of little value to users, considering that the bugs that are being fixed are out there for you to look at, and anything really earth shattering is being announced anyway22:22
LarstiQhmm22:22
LarstiQI did enjoy reading them.22:22
rockstarLarstiQ, you are probably a minority.22:22
LarstiQrockstar: as always :P22:22
intellectronicawgrant: but if you think that they are useful please raise the subject. i don't think there's any serious objection to them, other than that they are more noise than most people are interested in22:22
gmbI don't see any reason why we couldn't publish a changelog separately from the release announcement.23:00
* gmb catches up a zillion years after the conversation ended.23:00
* LarstiQ grins23:01
wgrantgmb: That would work.23:01
LarstiQgmb: as someone who is known to carry out multi-day latency conversations with replies being on different irc channels, I think you're still on time ;)23:02
wgrantDropping changelogs because of a perceived lack of interest after you didn't ask for expressions of interest isn't entirely rational.23:03
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LarstiQwgrant: as for me, I admit to not following LP as closely as I did, so there might have been a request for feedback I missed.23:04
wgrantLarstiQ: I never saw one.23:04
wgrantAnd I don't think I'd miss something like that.23:05
intellectronicawgrant: as i said, go ahead and raise this on launchpad-users. i'm certain that if there's enough interest the changelogs can and will make a comeback23:08
wgrantintellectronica: OK, wasn't sure where to raise it. I'll send an email after my exam in a couple of hours.23:09
intellectronicawgrant: great. and good luck with your exam23:10
wgrantThanks.23:10
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