Re: Wrapping up Bugzilla migration

2021-05-22 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 2:49 PM Andre Klapper via desktop-devel-list wrote: > I'd prefer adding a heads-up comment[1] and mass-close remaining open > tickets as a courtesy to reporters, before turning Bugzilla read-only > and then converting it to static HTML. Happy to help with that. That would

Re: Let's improve our communication: Discourse

2020-09-28 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:34 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > But there is too much activity on > Discourse to expect everybody to watch all activity there. Rather than > attempt to drink from the firehose, I'd like to encourage developers to > at least subscribe to the announcement tag [2][3].

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-03-03 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:36 PM Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > I've poked around yesterday and it's apparently not as trivial to run > buildah unprivileged in a container as it was the last time I tried. I > don't see better way than tagging jobs privileged at the moment. Thanks, tagging the job

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-03-03 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 6:42 AM Philip Chimento via desktop-devel-list wrote: > Does anyone have any advice on what to do with this? I followed Sam's helpful > hint about Tracker's CI images working to [1], copied the things that looked > like they might be relevant from there into my own

Re: Changes to GitLab runners configuration

2020-02-19 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:53 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Have you tested this? I've tried many times and afaik GitLab is simply > incompatible with podman images. I don't remember the exact error > message offhand, but GitLab fails to detect podman containers as valid > containers, even when

API stability for Meson configuration options

2019-02-17 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
Hi, Every so often I look at a change like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/merge_requests/58 or https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/issues/49, which change or remove the behaviour of Meson configuration options. Do we have a policy for if/when we can do breaking changes to Meson

Re: Clarifications regarding GNOME Online Accounts

2019-02-17 Thread Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list
On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 7:58 PM wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:58 AM, Michael Terry > wrote: > > “Developer credentials (such as passwords, keys, and client IDs) > > are intended to be used by you and identify your API Client. You will > > keep your credentials confidential and make

Re: GNOME 3.27.90 released

2018-02-15 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi Michael, Thanks for all the hard work on what sounded like a particularly tricky release! On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:23 PM, wrote: > If you want to compile GNOME 3.27.90, you can use the official BuildStream > project snapshot. Thanks to BuildStream's build sandbox, it

Re: Release team now using gnome-build-meta repository, not JHBuild

2018-01-22 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Instructions for using the gnome-build-meta BuildStream project can be > found at: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildSystemComponent We found a bug in BuildStream which is triggered by

Re: Building GNOME in restrictive network environments

2017-07-31 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 7/31/17, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > I'd also ask the GUADEC 2018 hosts to keep in mind the importance of > having a good network connection for the unconference days. I'm told > the MMU network is blocking email and IRC in addition to git. It's also > blocking my

GUADEC 2017 is nearly here

2017-07-06 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi all, The talk schedule for GUADEC is now available at: https://www.guadec.org/schedule You can also arrange BoF sessions during the unconference days: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Unconference/ If you are planning to attend GUADEC please make sure you have registered! You can do so

Re: Meson feedback as a user

2017-07-02 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Out of curiosity, let's look at other GNOME-related modules that use > gtk-doc. What is the name of the option that enables gtk-doc? > - pango:enable_docs > - gtk+: enable-documentation > - graphene:

Re: GUADEC 2017 call for talk submissions

2017-04-24 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi again, The GUADEC papers deadline has been extended until 11:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday 25th April). Sam On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The GUADEC 2017 call for papers closes this Sunday, 23rd April. > &

Re: GUADEC 2017 call for talk submissions

2017-04-18 Thread Sam Thursfield
://registration.guadec.org/ website. The full announcement is below: On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com> wrote: > The GUADEC papers committee is looking for interesting, high-quality, > talks for this year’s conference (being held in Manchester, UK, on 28 > Jul

GUADEC 2017 call for talk submissions

2017-03-23 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hello, The GUADEC papers committee is looking for interesting, high-quality, talks for this year’s conference (being held in Manchester, UK, on 28 July to 2nd August). This is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community. You don’t

Re: Help building Gstreamer 1.10

2017-02-11 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 2/11/17, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote: > thanks for the quick answer, unfortunately make uninstall did not > resolve the issue. When I searched for files with gstreamer in their > name or path I still found a lot of files. In the end I removed several > header files and so

Re: Help building Gstreamer 1.10

2017-02-11 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi Lanoxx On 2/11/17, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to build gstreamer 1.10 today with jhbuild using the 3.22 > module set, and I got the following error: ... I've seen problems like this before which were caused by: a new symbol being added in the

Re: Tracker as a security risks

2016-12-05 Thread Sam Thursfield
[cc'ing tracker-l...@gnome.org] Hi Hanno On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: > I wanted to point out a recent blogpost by IT security export Chris > Evans: > https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.dk/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html Thanks for the

Re: Proposal for Gnome Goal (was Re: Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products)

2016-10-13 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 05/10/16 15:39, Michael Biebl wrote: >As much as I hate autotools and its arcane syntax, it does bring >uniformity and consistency. >Atm I'm counting waf (for some non-core modules), autotools, cmake and >some are discussing to use meson/ninja. >So while I'm not tied to

Re: Some dudes opinion on Ctrl-Tab

2016-10-13 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 9/17/16, Daniel Beecham wrote: > + All major web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, > Midori and others) use ctrl-tab to switch tab. Neither nor > consumes tab in any of these browsers, it's just used to change > focus. Cool, I never realised because

Re: Gnome "opt-in" functionality.

2016-09-16 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi! On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Alvaro Kuolas wrote: > The only downside I found it is the software that I do not use, but, cannot > be "opt-out" and be left out of the installation. > > Specifically, I do not use and do not want Tracker and Evolution. > > Even more, they

Re: GTK-Doc and CMake

2015-10-12 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 10/12/15, Gergely Polonkai wrote: > If I were you, I would submit this as a patch for GTK Doc via > bugzilla.gnome.org. I expect replies pretty soon :) Done, I just forgot to notify the list! https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756297 Sam

GTK-Doc and CMake

2015-10-07 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hello I've been porting a project that uses GTK-Doc to use CMake as its build system (it previously used GNU Autotools). I discovered that GTK-Doc and CMake don't really integrate with each other as is. A few projects seem to have solved this in their own way. So far I've found: Firtree:

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable alternative. How about pleased? Any other

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 06/02/11 02:02, Robert Ancell wrote: A huge +1 on this.  IRC is much more productive, but it's crucial that it's logged for people who can't attend.  (I'm always hitting this problem in GNOME trying to work out what

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-21 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Neary wrote: snip Leaving aside because that's the way it is as a reason for a second, what are the potential issues we'd have using Launchpad? * Bug reporters would have to have an easy way to report bugs against

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Terry wrote: Hi, Allan.  Thanks for your past and continuing help with design!  :) Answers below. On 11 May 2011 11:33, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: This looks like an improvement on the UI that you

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-17 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 05:17 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : Other people want it because suspend doesn't work on their hardware. Adding a

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-17 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Dodji Seketeli do...@seketeli.org wrote: Sam Thursfield sss...@gmail.com a écrit: Suspend and hibernate are both hacks around the fact that power on and power off take a long time and that our session manager doesn't save session state. This seems

Re: GSettings and you

2010-04-20 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jody Goldberg j...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:04:22AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Xavier Claessens xclae...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. Just a question: where can I find the code for the Several fully

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org wrote: So, right now GtkNotebook allows you to change tabs by using the mouse wheel.  Once I noticed this and the more I thought about it, it really seems like a terrible feature and one that may be detrimental to usability.

Re: Module Proposal: PDF Mod

2010-02-19 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Gabriel Burt gabriel.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not exactly excited to enter a possible flame fest when I'm happy doing my hacking and having users find me and tell me they like the results.  But, in case others agree GNOME could benefit from this, I'm

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:29 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 13:12 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Ryan is a bit sad to not get feedback on his proposal, so a bit more seriously: I think what we

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Johannes j...@jsschmid.de wrote: * It is definitly important to keep the user settings over the transition. So at least any setting that is mentioned in a schema file has to be migrated (others are buggy, right?). I cannot say how to do this but I think it is

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hello! On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org wrote: No, but the point is that if you edit some code and someone else has made changes to some code elsewhere in the repo, and you merge their work into yours.. then maybe you have to fix some conflicts, but maybe not.