libera/#devuan-dev/ Wednesday, 2018-06-13

fsmithredKatolaZ, are you here? Before you upgrade refracta8, you need to remove the pin on *systemd* to allow libsystemd0.01:46
AlexLikeRockdear maintainers :07:03
AlexLikeRockpleas  MIGRATE  from M$/GITHUB  to  git.devuan.org07:05
AlexLikeRockhttps://github.com/devuan/jenkins-debian-glue07:05
AlexLikeRockplease, think about  M$   its  evil  and  take ALL CONTROLL OF  Github  :'(07:06
KatolaZAlexLikeRock: uh?07:58
KatolaZall devuan packages are on git.devuan.org07:58
AlexLikeRockbut this not !08:11
AlexLikeRock https://github.com/devuan/jenkins-debian-glue08:11
KatolaZagain, look at git.devuan.org08:17
KatolaZthere is nothing in Devuan that s not in git.devuan.org08:17
KatolaZI don't know if project are also hosted on github08:17
KatolaZbut anything related to devuan is present and uptodate in git.devuan.org08:17
Centurion_DanAlexLikeRock: It's an early version of it... the real thing is in git.devuan.org ;-)08:44
AlexLikeRockdear maintainer :  could  you delet  , before  M$  say: " this its my code, i am the owner "08:45
AlexLikeRockor some like that08:45
AlexLikeRock:-P08:45
AlexLikeRockyou now  what i mean ...08:47
obeardlyHello all!  Sorry I haven't been around.20:12
AlexLikeRockhi20:17
golinuxWelcome homs20:19
golinuxhome20:19
KatolaZhi there21:10
KatolaZI might be able to briefly appear at the meeting21:11
KatolaZjust to say hi :)21:11
fsmithredare we having a meeting today?22:01
KatolaZfsmithred: dunno22:02
KatolaZI thought we had one22:02
fsmithredok, I have to finish eating then take a shower22:03
fsmithredshould be done in time22:03
jaromilcool. i'm editing the pad22:13
golinuxI'm on jitsi if anyone wants to join me.22:28
msiismgolinux: still need to sort out issues with my sound setup, sorry.22:32
jaromilthe pad is very nice22:32
jaromili have added all my notes to it22:32
jaromiland already acted on one point (linuxquestions)22:33
jaromilcanont join the video call sry22:33
jaromilwill wait that fsmithred is back then start a bit to go through here22:34
fsmithredback. will be in chatroom soon.22:38
KatolaZsorry guys22:42
KatolaZwill not join22:42
KatolaZpoor bw and other commitments22:42
KatolaZwill work on the pad in the next few days22:42
KatolaZhave a good one22:42
KatolaZ;)22:42
msiismso, is the text part also happening on jitsi?22:43
jaromilno its happening here22:46
fsmithredtwo of us are talking22:46
jaromilthe text part22:46
golinuxTwo of us are on jitsi22:46
msiismso?22:47
golinuxWe're having a nice chat22:48
jaromilwe can start a round of discussion here on text as planned but feel free to join jitsi22:48
msiismgolinux: glad to hear that.22:48
KatolaZI might be around here for a while though22:48
jaromil1. outreach22:49
jaromilproposal to have a weekly / monthly blog and doubts on maintainability22:49
msiismok, i have a comment on this, but i don't have to go first.22:49
* jaromil wrote comment on pad, available to elaborate22:50
msiismok, well i think that golinux has a fair point there. and my suggestion or idea would be this:22:50
msiismthe progress of things in devuan is already being documented in several places, isn't it? like changelogs and such?22:51
msiismi mean, development has to be documented in some way anyway. so, why not rather point people who are interedted to these sources?22:51
msiismit's less work for devuan and a nice kind of educating users, i'd say.22:52
golinuxLast newsletter was https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/past-issues/volume-02/issue-02822:52
golinuxDoing those was an exhausting marathon.22:52
jaromilmsiism: i like your point but still think there are different languages, formats and lengths for news22:52
golinuxDoes Devuan have a blog set up (not in git)22:53
msiismjaromil: ok, i totally forgot the languages part.22:53
jaromilnope22:53
golinuxCan that be done on the ephemeral mediawiki?22:53
msiismgolinux: it was even planned.22:54
golinuxWell, that seems like the solution.22:54
msiismto have a news and announcements section22:54
golinuxThat's different from a blog22:54
msiismbut media wiki does not have an ETA yet22:54
golinuxI've noticed22:54
golinux(typing sucks)22:54
msiismgolinux: ok, well a wiki is different from a blog then.22:55
jaromili guess a core feature of such a "blog" really is the availability of an rss for aggregation22:55
jaromili am aggregating some feeds here https://planet.dyne.org/devuan/22:55
* msiism bookmarks that22:56
msiismwell, i think the easiest way would be to have an e-mail newsletter at this point in time.22:56
golinuxVery slow to open.  and22:56
golinuxYour connection is not private22:57
golinuxAttackers might be trying to steal your information from planet.dyne.org (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID22:57
golinuxNot ready for primetime22:57
jaromili'm not suggesting to use that aggregator as blog. its for my own use...and yours if you like22:58
jaromilit aggregates google searches, devuan's reddit and a few other things which may or may not be anymore online22:59
msiismok, well, as i've said, i think having a newsleter is the least work technically. if there should be a blog, it would be nice to have that integrated with the website somehow.22:59
jaromilif anyone plans to have an aggregator i can provide the list of rss i've got together so far22:59
KatolaZI think a blog might be honorous22:59
KatolaZbut dunno23:00
KatolaZwe should also acknowledge leloft23:00
* jaromil thinks (website integration -> rss) (newsletter -> wiki page and someone sends weekly)23:00
KatolaZwho is doing a terrific job with DSAs23:00
jaromilyep23:00
golinux<msiism> ok, well, as i've said, i think having a newsleter is the least work technically.23:00
* golinux remembers the nightmare of preparing the newsletter23:00
msiismgolinux: i mean in comparison to setting up a blog. maybe i'm wron there.23:01
msiismgolinux: what was the problem (if i may ask)?23:01
KatolaZmsiism: perfectionism ;)23:01
msiism:)23:02
golinuxYou get hellekin, joerg and golinux together and . . .23:02
KatolaZ...and you never get a newsletter ;D23:02
golinuxSomething like that23:03
jaromillol23:03
msiismgolinux: but that's not a "technical" problem, is it?23:03
jaromili can see that happenind :D23:03
KatolaZI understand being accurate and precise and everything for announcements23:03
golinuxIn the end it's always a people problem23:03
KatolaZbut a newsletter should be easier23:03
KatolaZand lighter23:03
jaromilI think a very short "newsletter item" could be posted every week or month23:03
KatolaZit could also incorporate something from the feeds23:03
jaromilto: dng, reddit and twitter (somehow with a solution allowing comments)23:04
jaromilits about making up 2-3 paragraphs and links to news in a short and plain form23:04
golinuxSounds so simple . . .23:04
golinuxIt's not23:04
KatolaZgolinux: it has to be simple23:04
msiismmaybe it doesn't have to be a letter, just sort of a publicly accesible changelog of what's going on.23:04
golinuxif there is to be any quality.23:04
KatolaZwithout playing too much with words23:04
KatolaZshort and to the point23:05
jaromilnot many hands on deck. one writes, others just point out possible items23:05
KatolaZthis might be also a way to help people help devuan23:05
KatolaZyep23:05
golinuxWhy can't this just be done on the wiki?  A space where any one can post to a news thread23:05
jaromiloneliners with link, not telenovela23:05
jaromilbecause then quality is an issue and quantity too23:05
jaromilIMHO23:06
KatolaZgolinux: because newsletter gotta be pushed in yout letter-box :)23:06
golinuxA devuan twitter23:06
golinux?23:06
KatolaZs/yout/your/23:06
jaromildevuan is already on twitter :^)23:06
KatolaZthere is twitter already23:06
jaromilwith quite an active following23:06
golinuxYou missed my point23:06
golinuxit was subtle23:06
jaromiland all what gets there is also pushed on (hold fast) facebook23:06
jaromili think putin paid us a couple boosts23:07
jaromilJOKIN23:07
golinux(this is going downhull fast)23:07
msiismgolinux: the wiki is not the right tool for this, i think.23:07
golinuxIt's a tool that we have set up23:07
msiismalso, the wiki is currently not in the best state.23:07
msiismi mean structurally...23:08
jaromilok so the communication architecture cannot be vague23:08
jaromilin case of a "blog by devuan" then we need an editor in charge23:08
jaromilif we want to aggregate anyone willing to say something weekly about devuan, the solutions are different23:09
jaromilnot about putting everyone on the same wiki page, rather aggregate any interesting channel from RSS23:09
jaromilso if you like to open a space on gnusocial, diaspora, mastodon, twister, you nameit, that's fine23:09
msiismi kind of like how redox devs do their news (https://redox-os.org/news/)23:10
jaromili am not a big fan of grouping people on one platform, rather aggregate from their own choices23:10
jaromilbut that doesn't ends up being a "devuan blog" or newsletter23:10
KatolaZmsiism: that's pretty lean23:11
jaromilan OS in rust. wooow. :^X23:11
KatolaZjaromil: I meant the page, not the actual thing :D23:11
msiism:) (i don't know a bit of rust...)23:12
msiismalso, i think it does not have to be in a strict weekly or monthly cycle.23:12
msiismthat only creates unnecessary pressure to push something out, i'd say.23:12
jaromilyee :^) I agree the design is great and also the content organisation and the many links23:13
jaromilfeels a bit TMI but well designed23:13
msiismjaromil: yes, the actual entries wouldn't even have to be that big.23:13
jaromilfor that purpose I found the twitter format ideal so far. at least commisurate to the effort, helped keeping the heartbeat23:14
KatolaZI mean they (redox) have "This week in redox ##" but have got only about 30 weeks in 3 years23:14
KatolaZ:)23:14
jaromilyes also overestimating23:14
jaromilok well this discussion is looong23:14
KatolaZeheheh23:14
jaromilwe are only on the first point :^)23:15
KatolaZdefinitely23:15
jaromili think irc is slower than vdc23:15
KatolaZthat's only because you haven't timed the discussions on jizzi23:15
KatolaZ;)23:15
msiismso, we could have something like "this wwek in devuan" aggregated in a similar format and maybe call it "devuan log $date" or sth.23:16
jaromili like their concept of a blog https://hacpai.com/b3log23:17
* golinux is have connection issues. No quite sure what's happening.23:17
jaromilbut i'm not proficient enough in chinese :P23:17
jaromilgolinux: oh :(23:18
golinuxJust ftr, I am not going to be involved with a newsletter or blog or whatever in any editorial capacity.23:19
KatolaZgolinux: you don't have to if you don't want23:19
KatolaZI guess the idea is to get more people on board23:19
jaromilgolinux: ack and yes i think you are the best at what you do right now already23:20
KatolaZnot only more work23:20
msiismwell, maybe discussing the technical aspect of it is trying to do the second step before the first.23:20
msiismanyway, one thing that should be taken care of (as far as a blog goes) is to keep it basically functional without having to enable javascript.23:21
KatolaZyep23:21
jaromilyes. my question is: do we want a collective blog, an aggregator or a newsletter? I vote the latter23:21
KatolaZI would prefere a newsletter, TBH23:21
KatolaZeven an irregular one23:21
golinuxI think we should expand the resources we have not fragment further.23:21
KatolaZgolinux: the forum is fantastic23:22
KatolaZbut it's just not for all tastes23:22
jaromilthe newsletter would be posted on d1g, dng and linked on reddit and twitter23:22
KatolaZand serves a different purpose23:22
msiismnewsletter or blog, i'd be ok with any of those.23:22
golinuxWe are already stressed out in so many directions do we really need another?23:22
KatolaZgolinux: you don't need to take care of it23:22
jaromilnoone will unless noone volunteers :^)23:22
golinuxNo one in this discussion has time to take is on23:22
msiismbut: people who are on the malinglists are more likely to already recieve info about what's going on in devun through the meet notes.23:23
KatolaZgolinux: have you askes msiism ?23:23
jaromilbut well, putting it out there on the pad item then is a conclusion23:23
KatolaZ;)23:23
msiismKatolaZ: i hate to say it, but i won't be able to do that.23:23
jaromilok done23:24
jaromilWe seem to agree with a newsletter and with the fact that we need volunteers23:24
golinuxAny new volunteers will need training.23:24
KatolaZwe can call on DNG23:24
KatolaZgolinux: ?23:24
KatolaZtraining?23:24
KatolaZfor writing a newsletter?23:24
KatolaZ:D23:24
KatolaZcome on23:24
KatolaZ:)23:24
jaromilno we need people good at writing that's easy to spot on any list or fora23:24
KatolaZyou can't train anybody to be like you23:24
golinuxThere need to be some guidelines to format of a newsletter.23:24
KatolaZit's just impossible23:24
jaromilnews-item perhaps is the right word23:25
KatolaZwe can't control everything, remember ;)23:25
Centurion_DanI think we need an editorial team and a workflow that will result in us providing consistent output.23:25
golinuxLOL!  We need a consistent format for presentation.23:25
fsmithredplain text is a good format23:25
Centurion_DanI'd rather a news feed that is RSS subscribable23:25
golinuxStructure than23:25
golinuxthen23:25
KatolaZI prefer something that goes online simple and straight and soon, rather than something that MIGHT go online pefect in three years23:25
KatolaZdreaming is cheap23:25
golinuxHeader content  etc.23:26
KatolaZactually doing things is another story :)(23:26
jaromilRSS is mandatory yes please23:26
jaromilelse is not reusable23:26
jaromilok then wrote the conclusion to the item23:27
Centurion_Danexactly... that's why a workflow is important and a team of editors so there should always be someone around to bump news items as they happen.23:27
jaromilanything in infrastructure we really want to discuss now using IRC?23:28
KatolaZnope23:28
Centurion_Danjaromil: don't forget gab.ai - it's an up and coming twitter like forum...23:28
jaromilI feel like we spent 1h on blog. gosh23:28
golinuxDon't we have more important things to discuss like lurker, jenkins etc?23:28
KatolaZinfra is a longer story23:28
golinuxBut more important that trying to get sonething going that no one has stepped up to do in three years23:29
jaromilCenturion_Dan: gab.ai looks nice23:29
Centurion_Danindeed... that's a curly one, probably worth splitting off a working group for infra... actually I thought we did already...23:29
KatolaZdid we?23:29
golinuxWe have asked for volunteers more than once.  We had on who came to a meet and was never heard from again.  I think we chased him away.23:30
Centurion_Danjaromil: I have more followers there then I ever did on twitter... I'm trying to get API's so I can build a python/linux client...23:30
jaromilmay also have been someone with low motivation, or so23:30
jaromilis the source of gab.ai open?23:30
golinuxPlease ping me when this moves onto the next item23:31
Centurion_Danjaromil: no, and it's built on azure... - supposedly using open source, but I'm talking a bit now with their core dev team - who are actually really responsive.23:32
jaromilok anyway looks like a social media to me23:32
jaromili may be wrong. but then this is also suggesting we may want to have a diaspora of sorts for devuan. my thought then is that maintaining a social media platform is beyond the scope of devuan... however23:33
jaromilthe aggregator proposition is a solution of sorts for it23:33
jaromili think its late for me to continue onto next items23:34
Centurion_Danwith regards to contributors, I found during the jessie cycle there were plenty that wanted to do drive by contributions - ie patch a few packages and then they got busy or distracted.23:34
jaromiltrue this is important to reflect upon, the package contribution flow23:34
jaromileven drive-by contributions can be useful if we manage them well23:34
Centurion_Danhowever if we make it easy enough for people then they are likely to get involved and keep coming back to scratch another itch...23:35
jaromilthis is somehow related with the gitlab point which IMHO is the most pressing in the infra section (altough the last one)23:35
KatolaZyeah but packaging is not easy23:35
Centurion_Danbut again we have to be careful of the security support side of things..23:36
jaromilwe need someone of us to give gitlab some lovance, rather urgently23:36
KatolaZjaromil: I commented23:36
KatolaZrrq is taking care of the new gitlab instance23:36
KatolaZit should be up and running soonish23:36
KatolaZanyway, I confirm there are no deadly bugs on the current version23:37
KatolaZwhile there are many of the few latest versions....23:37
KatolaZ:D23:37
KatolaZs/of/in23:37
Centurion_DanKatolaZ: packaging is not that hard, it's the workflow that is still a bit painful.23:37
KatolaZno Centurion_Dan23:38
KatolaZpackaging is not easy23:38
KatolaZand we have seen how things can easily explode23:38
jaromilACK yes rrq now i remember23:38
KatolaZe.g. with elogind23:38
jaromilthanks23:38
jaromiland hilarious old version has no deadly bugs23:38
golinuxpackaging requires feather and toads and incantations23:38
KatolaZit's not hard if you did it before23:38
golinuxMaybe 10 times.23:38
KatolaZunfortunately most of the people who want to contribute have no experience of packaging23:38
KatolaZand no knowledge of git23:39
KatolaZwhich makes it impossible23:39
KatolaZI have tried in a couple of occasions to hold their hands23:39
KatolaZbut it's not easy23:39
jaromilwe need to balance our effort there. we cannot train people to git and packaging23:39
jaromilpackaging can have a dedicated documentaiton23:39
KatolaZagain, especially if they have no knowledge of git23:39
KatolaZat all23:39
jaromilgit is a blocker yes23:39
jaromilwell we can take it as a benchmark23:40
KatolaZI am not saying it's a blocker23:40
jaromilright now it is23:40
KatolaZI am saying it's necessary to make useful contributions wrt packages23:40
Centurion_Danpart of the solution is to enable private package building - this would allow people to build packages in their own space and get a feel for it before trying to push into our official workflow.23:40
KatolaZand, TBH, we might not need that many packages now23:40
jaromilCenturion_Dan: people can already do that locally23:40
jaromilusing pbuilder23:41
KatolaZplease see the point written by parazyd23:41
KatolaZif we manage to have a proper libnosystemd23:41
KatolaZwe don't need to fork packages depending on systemd23:41
Centurion_Danjaromil: yes, but what builds on pbuilder locally doesn't always build on our infra.23:41
KatolaZthis would solve a lot or problems23:41
KatolaZs/or/of23:43
KatolaZanyway, gotta go to sleep23:43
KatolaZwill continue work on the pad in the next few days23:43
KatolaZit would be good if we could decide something about the conference23:43
KatolaZas suggested in the pad23:43
jaromilyes the conf needs planning ahead23:44
KatolaZespecially if we want to have it before the end of the current year23:44
jaromili've written an hosting proposal. if other venues are an option we need hosts to step forward23:44
Centurion_Danjaromil: allowing people to test their builds fully on our workflow as private packages helps them to get familiar with our workflow and also allows us to see where their builds are failing easily and help perfect their techniques... apprenticeship style.23:44
Centurion_DanGoodnight KatolaZ.  Sleep well!!23:45
jaromilgnite KatolaZ23:45
KatolaZCenturion_Dan: the problem is that setting up a proper local build infra is even harder than just building something on pbuilder23:45
jaromili'll go to sleep too.. but i see your point dan23:45
KatolaZthat is something that only a few of us are currently doing regularly23:45
jaromiljust wondering... we dn't have enough capacity now23:45
KatolaZalso, we might not need that many packagers23:46
jaromilthe room at our office where most builders are is somehow warm already :/23:46
jaromilI like the perspective of not needing many packagers :P23:46
Centurion_DanKatolaZ: I had a proposal to allow for a PPA setup using our gitlab jenkins, to allow use of spare builder time.23:46
KatolaZCenturion_Dan: I had a proposal about that too, remember? :D23:46
KatolaZit was called scorsh23:46
KatolaZand is actually working :D23:47
Centurion_DanIt's been discussed almost as long as we had jenkins...23:47
KatolaZgotta go23:47
KatolaZreally23:47
KatolaZo/23:47
jaromilgnite23:47
KatolaZgood night23:47
Centurion_Dan\o23:47
msiismgood night23:47
KatolaZo/23:47
jaromilwhat i get from this is just that we need more builders :P23:47
jaromilparazyd set them up all nicely in our office but they cannot be under heavy load23:48
jaromilor even worst exposed to ddos attacks23:48
jaromili mean people firing up unlimited builds23:49
jaromilor if someone comes with capacity then we can redirect the "ppa builds" on a specific farm that can take it?23:49
jaromilright now our build farm is quite important and includes the only functioning ARM 64bit softiron machine23:50
jaromili think two are in .ch but need to be activated23:50
Centurion_Danjaromil, I did want to raise the broader comms strategy, and try and avoid the spat we had just before ascii release.23:50
Centurion_Danjaromil: I'm hoping to stabilise my internet and get a few builders running here..23:50
Centurion_Danwon't be unlimited builds - definitely metered - weighted towards those that are contributing more getting more builds.23:50
Centurion_Danin most cases we'd only allow amd64/i386 builds unless there is reason to allow a specific arch..23:51
golinuxBefore everybody goes any feed back on this?23:51
golinuxA request posted on irc:23:51
golinux   Could you guys add Artix https://artixlinux.org/ to the list in:23:51
golinux   https://devuan.org/os/init-freedom/23:51
golinux   It currently offers OpenRC and runit23:51
golinux   It spawned from some Arch and Manjaro users/maintainers who wanted 'init-freedom'...23:51
jaromilok so ppa only for x8623:51
golinux   Also, Arch doesn't really support using 'openrc' anymore, so that info is slightly wrong23:51
Centurion_Dangolinux: I thought Arch has pretty much gone full systemd now...23:53
jaromilgolinux: go for it, artix seems pretty legit to me23:53
golinuxI thought so too but not at the time that page on the site was written23:53
golinuxWe wabt to have current accurate info there.23:53
jaromili will also leave now... midnight here23:54
jaromilgnite!23:54
golinuxSo I'll add artix and remove arch.23:54
Centurion_DanGoodnight jaromil!!23:54
golinux\o23:54
golinuxWho is typing on what line?23:55
msiismgolinux: i'll have another look at the website contents and sort out that pad once i get to it (maybe next week).23:57

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