Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects

2022-09-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Sep 16 2022 at 04:16:33 PM +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens via desktop-devel-list wrote: Arch changes prerelease versions as well, but we have to remove the period (40.rc -> 40rc) so that it orders before 40 or 40.0. A tilde is handled the same as a period and would not help us. Oh,

Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects

2022-09-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Sep 16 2022 at 10:03:49 AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: I think we could save everyone some work by just making the tilde style official instead of periods for pre-releases. That sounds good to me. I like the tilde better anyway. ___

Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects

2022-09-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Sep 16 2022 at 07:41:10 AM +0200, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: 3.47.0.90 ... GNOME's .alpha 3.47.0.91 ... GNOME's .beta 3.47.0.92 ... GNOME's .rc ... here's a gap for urgent development releases up to .99 3.47.1... GNOME's .0, aka the

GNOME 42.3 released

2022-07-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, GNOME 42.3 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for GNOME 42. All operating systems shipping GNOME 42 are encouraged to upgrade. If you want to compile GNOME 42.3, you can use the official BuildStream project snapshot:

GNOME 43.alpha tarball deadline extended

2022-07-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi developers, TL;DR: tarball deadline for 43.alpha is extended by one week to Saturday, July 9. Tarball deadline for 42.3 and 41.8 remains tomorrow, July 2. GNOME 43 is currently in bad shape for a couple reasons: * The freedesktop-sdk 22.08 update that landed yesterday broke glibc due to

Re: GNOME 42.3 stable tarballs due, GNOME 41.8 oldstable tarballs due (and more) (responsible: alatiera, abderrahim, jjardon)

2022-06-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Jun 29 2022 at 11:00:13 PM +, Release Team wrote: Tarballs are due on 2022-07-02 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 43.alpha newstable release, which will be delivered next week. In order to ensure adequate testing, core modules should try to release according to the unstable schedule

Re: [heads-up] evolution-data-server is libsoup3 now

2022-06-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Jun 22 2022 at 09:36:06 PM +0200, Marcus Lundblad via desktop-devel-list wrote: One option I think is to drop the contact address lookup in Maps (we use e-d-s via libfolks to match searches on contacts who have addresses). That's what I would do for the time being; otherwise, Maps is

GNOME 42.1 released

2022-04-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
and uneventful upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 42. Enjoy, Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

GNOME 41.6 released

2022-04-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
and uneventful upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 41. Enjoy, Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: gnome-shell.main.pot is incorrect

2022-04-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Reading through the linked issues, nobody has bisected gettext yet to identify what changed. That's probably the next step towards getting this fixed. Michael ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Possible code freeze exception request for Maps 42.1

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, feel free to request a freeze break here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/freeze-breaks/-/issues Seems worth it to me. Michael ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

GNOME 40.9 released

2022-03-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
of life, and will receive no further updates. It's time to upgrade to GNOME 41 or GNOME 42 (to be released tomorrow). Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Soft translation deadline

2022-03-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Mar 13 2022 at 11:00:10 PM +, Release Team wrote: Soft translation deadline is 2022-03-16 at 23:59 UTC. Translations committed after this point may be too late to be included. Maintainers should not release stable tarballs until after this day. Hi all, Just wanted to remind you

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

2022-03-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi Andrea, I've pushed all the screenshots here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/static-web/-/commit/d205056a93ab19e53afbb1fe53310d71d7f0afd1 so it should be easy to set up a redirect now. I've also submitted MRs to all affected apps to transition them from using the people.gnome.org

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

2022-03-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 06:07:18 PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can push those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make sure stuff won't break. Let me know whether that works for you, thanks! Oh OK, yes

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

2022-03-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with a good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March. Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a good idea back in 2014,

GNOME 40.8 released

2022-02-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.8/sources/ GNOME 40.8 is designed to be a boring bugfix update for GNOME 40, so it should be safe to upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 40. Enjoy, Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: GNOME 40.5 released

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Nov 5 2021 at 09:10:18 AM +0100, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: Hi, the NEWS file says the gnome-autoar had been downgraded, while there had been a new release almost a week ago. Is that a bug or it was intentional downgrade? Bye, Milan I think we

GNOME 40.5 released

2021-11-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
to upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 40. Enjoy, Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Last call for 41.0 tarballs

2021-09-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi maintainers, It looks like our usual release reminder mail did not go out this week for some reason. Please remember that tomorrow is the deadline for 41.0 tarballs in order to allow release managers sufficient time to prepare the release. Thanks for your hard work during this release

Re: GNOME 41.rc newstable tarballs due, Hard Code Freeze (responsible: jjardon)

2021-09-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Sep 1 2021 at 11:00:08 PM +, Release Team wrote: Hello all, We would like to inform you about the following: * GNOME 41.rc newstable tarballs due * Hard Code Freeze Tarballs are due on 2021-09-04 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 41.rc newstable release, which will be delivered

GNOME 40.2 released!

2021-06-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
confidence that it is a safe upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 40. Enjoy, Michael Catanzaro ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

GNOME 3.38.6 released

2021-05-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
stable release in the GNOME 3 release series. It is succeeded by GNOME 40. Michael Catanzaro ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

GNOME 3.38.5 released

2021-03-23 Thread Michael Catanzaro
stable release in the GNOME 3 release series. It is succeeded by GNOME 40. Michael Catanzaro ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME 40.rc released!

2021-03-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Mar 19 2021 at 01:33:06 PM +, Javier Jardón wrote: GNOME 40.rc is now available. Remember this is the end of this development cycle; enjoy it as fast as you can, the final release is scheduled for this coming week! (and It's looking beautiful) Please also remember that 40.0

Re: Can we enforce beta release for the freeze

2021-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:35 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: And it turned that bad plumbing was at fault (Turns out bad things happen when drain pipes slope upwards instead of downwards) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel

Re: Can we enforce beta release for the freeze

2021-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 7:42 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: It's like giving your mate a key to your place so they can do laundry while you're away. You don't expect them to have flooded the place when you get back. In fairness, the one time I flooded a laundry room, I caught it pretty quickly

Re: Can we enforce beta release for the freeze

2021-02-23 Thread Michael Catanzaro
FWIW I agree that freeze should apply to tarballs, i.e. any features or UI changes not in a tarball release by the beta tarball deadline ought to be delayed until the next release cycle. Dropping major changes a week later isn't fair to Shaun and anyone else working on documentation. But

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-02-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:04 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: I don't think you quite understand just how much trust was lost when a member of the release team can't follow the goals we set ourselves as a project. You broke that trust, then bumbled into breaking it again, fixed the code, but never

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:13 pm, Jordan Petridis wrote: There's also c) include a temporary patch in gnome-build-meta till the MR is merged, though git will complain about the patch being already applied once merged and break the build. There's also d) pin the module to your branch/fork of

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:04 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: I don't think you quite understand just how much trust was lost when a member of the release team can't follow the goals we set ourselves as a project. You broke that trust, then bumbled into breaking it again, fixed the code, but

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:04 am, Philip Withnall wrote: I don’t know anything about what the release team is doing with all these modules, or why, but perhaps rather than the default being “pull in all the modules into an OS build and urgently push fixes to the modules if something

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:16 pm, Jonas Ådahl wrote: FWIW, mutter and gnome-shell (and others too I suspect) only allow maintainers to merge to master (due to a lack of better granularity in the community edition of GitLab), but that is primarily due to us using marge-bot, so while

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm, Philip Withnall wrote: Given that you’ve just committed to submitting MRs and waiting for CI to pass, rather than pushing directly to master, perhaps this rule should be rethought? Hm... as long as we have permission to merge the MR after CI has passed, or

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: > "I need to remember not to [push commits directly to the main branch] > for your modules, sorry" I was trying to be sincere, not dismissive: mcatanzaro: "I need to remember not to for your modules, sorry" "Can hardly complain about

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Yesterday, after I committed the typo to Calendar, I promised to use merge requests from now on when committing build fixes. Previously, I had promised to do this only for your projects, but yesterday I forgot, and not for the first time. I understand that's frustrating. From now on,

Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:31 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: We've had at least four separate breakages from four separate projects Make that seven breakages from six projects. Thanks to everyone who helped with getting these back under control. With a little luck, maybe we'll get a successful

Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

2021-01-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi developers, Please remember that action is required when updating your dependencies or build options. You need to either make sure gnome-build-meta is OK with your changes, or ask release team to investigate on your behalf. We've had at least four separate breakages from four separate

Re: GNOME 3.38.3 stable tarballs due, GNOME 3.36.9 oldstable tarballs due (and more) (responsible: mclasen, alatiera, abderrahim)

2021-01-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:30 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: We have a fix that I think is ready, but not yet deployed. The tarball deadline for 40.alpha tarballs will be extended until at least Monday. (Additional extension may be necessary depending on when the fix gets deployed.) OK

Re: GNOME 3.38.3 stable tarballs due, GNOME 3.36.9 oldstable tarballs due (and more) (responsible: mclasen, alatiera, abderrahim)

2021-01-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:02 pm, Michael Catanzaro wrote: We forgot to ensure that ftpadmin is compatible with the new versioning scheme. In short, it's not. So you cannot actually make 40.alpha releases yet. Please hold off on 40.alpha until further notice. We'll figure this out. :) We have

Re: GNOME 3.38.3 stable tarballs due, GNOME 3.36.9 oldstable tarballs due (and more) (responsible: mclasen, alatiera, abderrahim)

2021-01-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi maintainers, We forgot to ensure that ftpadmin is compatible with the new versioning scheme. In short, it's not. So you cannot actually make 40.alpha releases yet. Please hold off on 40.alpha until further notice. We'll figure this out. :) GNOME 3.38.3 and 3.36.9 can proceed as planned,

GNOME 3.38.2 released!

2020-11-25 Thread Michael Catanzaro
are now beginning work on our next release, GNOME 40, which will be released in March. Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.38. Michael Catanzaro ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop

GNOME 3.38.1

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
are now beginning work on our next release, GNOME 40, which will be released in March. Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.38. Michael Catanzaro ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop

Let's improve our communication: Discourse

2020-09-25 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, We have been trialing Discourse as a potential replacement for GNOME mailing lists in order to modernize our communications infrastructure and make contributing to GNOME more attractive to newcomers. If this goes well, then we should be able to shut down most of our antiquated mailing

Re: Soft translation deadline

2020-09-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
I'll look into what's wrong with this automated mail. It's trying to tell you that the soft translation deadline is Wednesday, September 9. In order to give translators time to fully translate GNOME 3.38, please don't release 3.38.0 tarballs until Thursday this week. (Reminder: tarballs are

Hard code freeze

2020-09-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi devs, Please remember that hard code freeze is starting in just under two hours. If you need to break the freeze to improve the quality of GNOME 3.38, please report an issue at our new freeze break tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/freeze-breaks/-/issues Michael

GNOME 3.37.91 released!

2020-08-26 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, GNOME 3.37.91 is now available! This is the second beta release of GNOME 3.37. Please note: we are now in string freeze, so be kind to translators and stop changing strings! :) The corresponding flatpak runtimes have been published to Flathub. If you'd like to target the GNOME 3.38

New procedure for most freeze break requests

2020-08-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, We're planning to turn off the release team mailing list. That means sending freeze break requests to the mailing list will no longer work. Instead, you can report issues here to request UI, feature, API, or hard code freeze break:

Re: Freeze reminders

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:08 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I'll investigate to see what went wrong when generating the schedule and get that fixed. This is fixed. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https

Re: Freeze reminders

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:47 am, Shaun McCance wrote: Back when we did Monday releases, I rememeber we were asked to wait until closer to the deadline, to give translators more time. Is that still the case? Hi Shaun, Good question! There's no need to worry about translations except for the

Freeze reminders

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi devs, Please remember that UI freeze, feature freeze, and API freeze for the 3.38 release begin this Saturday, August 8 at 23:59 UTC. That's also our tarball deadline for 3.37.90 releases. Please aim to release your 3.37.90 tarballs before then: no need to wait until the deadline.

Re: GNOME group membership expired

2020-07-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, this is now fixed. But somehow, my GitLab notification settings got reset and I've been missing mails. Be careful! Check your notification settings for the projects you care about. Michael ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

GNOME group membership expired

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, If you've just received an email about being removed from GNOME group due to two years of inactivity, you can follow: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/380 GitLab migration was roughly two years ago, so I hazard to guess that's probably related. Happy

Version numbers

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Several developers are interested in moving away from our confusing even/odd versioning scheme. Emmanuele has proposed a new version scheme on Discourse: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/straw-man-proposal-changing-the-gnome-versioning-scheme/1964/57 It seems possible that GNOME 3.38 might

GNOME 3.37.3 released!

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, GNOME 3.37.3 is now available. This is our third unstable release leading to the 3.38 release in September. If you want to compile GNOME 3.37.3, you can use the official BuildStream project snapshot: https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.37.3/gnome-3.37.3.tar.xz The list of updated

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-06-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:58 pm, Michael Catanzaro wrote: It seems all privileged runners have disappeared. All my glib-net CI pipelines are stalled. :( Looks like this was some sort of temporary infrastructure problem last night, because it's fixed again now

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-06-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
It seems all privileged runners have disappeared. All my glib-net CI pipelines are stalled. :( ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sandbox all the WebKit!

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Good questions! Under flatpak, WebKit will actually use flatpak-spawn to create a flatpak subsandbox, instead of using its own bubblewrap sandbox. So yes, WebKit's bubblewrap sandbox does not get used, but there is a flatpak "subsandbox" instead. It effectively does: $ flatpak-spawn

Sandbox all the WebKit!

2020-06-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Please help GNOME sandbox all its uses of WebKit! We're about halfway done: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Initiatives/-/issues/19 If you maintain an application using WebKit that hasn't yet enabled the sandbox, it usually only requires one or two lines of code. Applications that use a

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-06-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:42 pm, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: Is GJS really the only project that tests merge requests using ASan and LSan? If not, please speak up so we can have a better idea of how many projects are affected. No, glib-networking also requires asan for every merge

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-06-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 8:14 pm, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: Previously uploaded cache was still being used. Jobs reliably pass now, or fail for reasons unrelated to infrastructure. The infrastructure seems to be fixed now, thanks! ___

GnuTLS update may be required to access GIMPNet

2020-06-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
3.34 and 3.36 runtimes out soon for flatpak users. On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 9:03 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Hi distributors, By now, you're likely to already have at least one bug report about this, but an important root CA expired yesterday, leading to a large number of certificate

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:35 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Still failing, now on a different runner: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/jobs/744761 Can you please try triggering a new CI run to make sure it actually passes...? I just triggered seven pipelines and five of them failed

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 5:43 pm, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: I don't see a good explanation why this particular runner is unhappy at this point. Distributed and local cache are disabled and some flatpak jobs pass just fine. I paused it for now. Still failing, now on a different runner:

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Catanzaro
It's still broken as of right now, see e.g. https://gitlab.gnome.org/Vanadiae/epiphany/-/jobs/744498 Or: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/jobs/744499 Or: https://gitlab.gnome.org/jbrummer/epiphany/-/jobs/744537 It seems like nearly 100% of jobs are still failing. :(

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-05-30 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:46 pm, Zander Brown wrote: Good luck sysadmining, sure it'll all be fine So I also thought this would be low-risk maintenance, but half our CI runs are still failing and that halts development on projects that require successful CI. Definitely not a good situation

Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

2020-05-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Looks like CI jobs are now failing when trying to download from GitLab registry: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-robots/-/jobs/741566 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: How to detect a gtk desktop programmatically

2020-04-30 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:16 pm, Tres Finocchiaro via desktop-devel-list wrote: As an aside -- as a Java developer, I've personally never forced the Gtk theme in my applications -- because back when I used KDE the Gtk theming wasn't very good. From the comments above it sounds like the

Re: How to detect a gtk desktop programmatically

2020-04-30 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:33 pm, Simon McVittie via desktop-devel-list wrote: Debian's gnome-session package carries a patch to revert that commit, unfortunately. We'd like to stop doing that, but as you say, there are at least 225 instances of packages doing it wrong. Only way to guarantee

GNOME 3.34.6 released

2020-04-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, GNOME 3.34.6 is now available. This is our second "oldstable" release, intended to benefit distributions that have not yet upgraded to GNOME 3.36, and also flatpak applications that are still using the 3.34 runtime. If you want to compile GNOME 3.34.6, you can use the official

Re: GNOME 3.38 release schedule

2020-04-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:13 pm, Florian Müllner wrote: Is it just me or are the April 25th releases missing? Definitely just you... they're in there! Just tested adding it in Evolution. This URL should work in GNOME Calendar: https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/schedule.ics

GNOME 3.36.1 released

2020-04-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
/NEWS The source packages are available here: https://download.gnome.org/core/3.36/3.36.1/sources/ Best wishes, Michael Catanzaro GNOME Release Team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: GitLab migration: Thursday, March 26, starting 23 CET

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:59 am, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: I also moved to release on Friday, instead of Monday (weekend is out of question here), Tarballs are always due on Saturday. We don't have Monday deadlines anymore. I agree the timing is pretty unfortunate. I guess

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-03-21 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:21 pm, Christian Hergert wrote: Those words sound incompatible to me in the same way that if you have access to Linux's perf, you can sniff pretty much any data you want on the system. We're talking about CI runners... we only need privileged access inside the

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-03-21 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:20 pm, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone managed to get lsan/asan to work without CAP_SYS_PTRACE yet or otherwise have any suggestions on what would need to be done to support it in an unprivileged setup? I marked my CI as privileged:

Re: Too hard to get org.gnome.Sdk.Debug from flathub

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:23 am, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: My question is: is there anything one can do to get to those bits, or it's just a lost battle? Maybe, could the .Debug be split into smaller parts, thus it's bearable when the download fails (due to the server error)?

3.36.0 release reminder

2020-03-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Our automated reminder is experiencing technical difficulties at the moment, so here's your heads-up that 3.36.0 tarballs are due this Saturday, March 7 by 23:59 UTC. The translation deadline for 3.36 was yesterday, so now is a great time to release your 3.36.0 tarball. Thanks for all

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-03-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 9:41 pm, Philip Chimento via desktop-devel-list wrote: Also, has anyone successfully gotten a CI job that uses lsan or asan to work in the unprivileged setup? (See my previous question about CAP_SYS_PTRACE.) Hm, looks like my glib-networking CI is broken due to this. I

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 6:46 pm, Jordan Petridis via desktop-devel-list wrote: No there isn't, it was working properly when it was first rolled out. I've started seen this issue today and looks like it only affecting some runners, so I am guessing something got updated or new runners where

Re: .92 tarball deadline and hard code freeze

2020-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:25 am, Mart Raudsepp wrote: This sounds more like a "problem" with the distribution, not that such releases shouldn't happen. If a minor release upgrade prompts for a full system reboot, then maybe that update shouldn't be packaged up on such distros - it shouldn't

Re: .92 tarball deadline and hard code freeze

2020-02-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:39 pm, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Schedule: * Saturday, Feb 29: 3.35.92 tarball deadline and hard code freeze * Saturday, March 7: 3.36.0 tarball deadline * Wednesday, March 11: GNOME 3.36.0 release day Another important date is Wednesday, March 4. For the first time

Re: More proposed release schedule changes

2020-02-26 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 5:51 pm, Iain Lane wrote: any thoughts on why we might have quality issues with .0 releases or is it really mostly about the schedule? I don't think it's *mostly* about schedule... it's mostly about lack of upstream QA. But schedule plays a significant role, too,

.92 tarball deadline and hard code freeze

2020-02-26 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Just a reminder that we are getting very close to GNOME 3.36 [1]! The tarball deadline for 3.35.92 is Saturday at midnight (UTC). If you release on weekdays, please be sure to release either Thursday (tomorrow) or Friday. Normally we have a bunch of late releases on Monday and Tuesday;

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:08 am, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I have two failed builds on flatpak-gcc176 (also broken) and two failed builds on flatpak-gcc150.fsffrance.org (also broken). My plan is to keep retrying until I get flatpak-progress again. I need a successful build urgently because

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:48 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Ran it 3 separate times, on 3 different runners, to no avail. I'm struggling with this currently. From yesterday: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/pipelines/10/builds I have a failed build on flatpak-gcc175 (broken), then a

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:11 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: It uses the flatpak_ci_initiative.yml template and throws this error: bwrap: Creating new namespace failed, likely because the kernel does not support user namespaces. bwrap must be installed setuid on such systems. I'm seeing this

Re: GNOME 3.34.4

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:00 pm, Alexandre Franke wrote: Once you reach a decision on that term, can you please explain the change on the i18n list so that coordinators know what branches are worth working on? I believe we had decided on 12 months. That said, it shouldn't affect translators

Re: GNOME 3.35.91 released!

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:26 am, Isaque Galdino wrote: Where do I find instructions to do so? Thanks. Hi, see: https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildSystemComponent ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:00 pm, Sam Thursfield wrote: We've been using podman successfully to build the Tracker CI images. The exact build instructions are here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-oci-images/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml These containers are working fine in GitLab CI,

Re: GNOME 3.34.4

2020-02-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:57 am, Matthias Clasen via release-team wrote: There next (and last) stable 3.34 update is planned for end of March, see https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirtyfive Small correction: we're going to be doing something new and continuing 3.34 releases through the

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:50 pm, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: If your project's pipeline is using Docker to build an image from Dockerfile, consider switching to podman or buildah as they should work unprivileged. Have you tested this? I've tried many times and afaik GitLab is simply

GNOME 3.35.91 released!

2020-02-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, GNOME 3.35.91 is now available! This is the second beta release of GNOME 3.36. Please note: we are now in string freeze, so be kind to translators and stop changing strings. The corresponding flatpak runtimes have been published to Flathub. If you'd like to target the GNOME 3.36

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:35 pm, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Here is my suggestion: fellow Matrix proponents, let's turn off the IRC bridge ASAP. All we've accomplished by running the IRC bridge is convincing GNOME devs that Matrix is awful. I'm pretty sure that all of this negative feedback

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:52 pm, Matthew Hodgson via desktop-devel-list wrote: 1. The original issue that Michael Catanzaro reported (Matrix->IRC PM going missing) was a legitimate bug in the bridge. The bridge is meant to display an error if you try to talk to an absent IRC u

More proposed release schedule changes

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, We're going to release GNOME 3.35.91 next week. (Tarball deadline is Saturday! Please release your tarballs now!) Only problem is, nobody is really testing 3.35.90 yet, defeating the purpose of having the beta release. A couple years ago, we've pushed our releases earlier just a bit

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:15 pm, Britt Yazel wrote: Attached is an image of the compact mode + dark theme. Just for the record. The thing is, it really comes down to personal preference. I suspect we have a lot of people who like web clients, and a lot of people who just don't. With open

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:14 am, Benjamin Berg wrote: One could do this comparison properly. But it would need setting up a private Matrix server for GNOME (possibly without Federation) and then checking how well it holds up when compared to Rocket.Chat. gnome.modular.im is already our

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:09 pm, Britt Yazel wrote: I have had horrible experiences with Matrix/Riot.im. I'm not sure which of those is due to the IRC bridge or which is due to Matrix itself, or which is due to the clients, but I really shouldn't 'have' to know the chat system at that level.

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:23 pm, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto via desktop-devel-list wrote: The Riot application is hard to use. It took me days to figure out how to connect to a GNOME room. It doesn't allow me to log out of the servers. These are all problems with the IRC bridge, not with

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:07 pm, Zander Brown wrote: My concern would be the "federal" nature of matrix where people don't need a gnome.org specific chat account to join a room. Whilst there are a lot of arguments for this I'm increasingly convinced it's an anti-feature especially if we want

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