Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 15:32 -0800, Britt Yazel wrote: > Can you explain to me what the big issue with web clients are? I keep > hearing over and over again that developers don't want to use web > clients, either in browser or with Electron, but I don't recall ever > hearing a "why" in there.

Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

2020-02-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 14:09 -0800, Britt Yazel wrote: > this is not going to be an academically backed response, just my > personal take. > > I have had horrible experiences with Matrix/Riot.im. Too bad you missed out on actually mentioning what your experience was. So it's very hard to

Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

2019-04-26 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 11:12 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > Shall we install our own inclusive symlink for git now, to avoid > potentially-unpleasant connotations? Would we be in the position of doing so? My feeling is that we can control the branch names more easily than the

Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

2019-04-26 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Adel, On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 04:29 +0200, drago01 via desktop-devel-list wrote: > Assuming there is a problem in the first place which I doubt. I never > heard of a case where someone refused to contribute to a project just > because the default branch is called master. > > I'd suggest to

Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

2019-04-26 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 11:07 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > Which is the crux of the matter really: whatever you're going to pick > will have different connotations in other languages. Many ESL > speakers > will primarily think in their own language and substitute the words > to > English.

Re: [GitLab] Gravatar vs libravatar

2018-09-04 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 11:24 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote: > I'm surely not > the only one that isn't going that extreme in keeping control over > couple of my pictures flying around and won't go that far. This is much less about you than it is about other people visiting our Web site.

Re: [GitLab] Projects moved and 'tips of the week'

2018-01-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 00:09 +0800, 藍挺瑋 wrote: > Is it possible to get a private bug migrated to GitLab? I have a bug > report which was marked as private by a libgtop developer, but there > is > no confidential information in the bug and I don't know why it became > private. > >

Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

2017-09-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mi, 2017-05-17 at 14:21 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:49:21PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > By attaching a patch to a bugtracker ticket, we loose the information of > > the parent commit: where the commit has been initially created in the > >

Re: GitLab migration status and roadmap

2017-08-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fr, 2017-08-11 at 14:37 +0200, Carlos Soriano wrote: > Also I hope in the time frame of 3-4 months the pilot program is successful For completeness sake: Are we still considering to *not* move to Gitlab if that pilot is not successful? How do we measure "success"? Cheers,   Tobi

Re: Pilot GitLab program

2017-06-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2017-06-27 at 14:23 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Please, let's stop this fetish about non-ff merges. Thanks for writing this. I've been confused by people insisting on "linear history" and the relatively strict configuration of GNOME's git servers. I hope that modules will be able

Re: Pilot GitLab program

2017-06-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2017-06-27 at 10:54 +0200, Carlos Soriano wrote: > However, understand that participating in the pilot program means a > commitment of moving to GitLab with your project for the time being How does that affect translations? Will the module not receive translations then? Cheers,  

Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

2017-05-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. I welcome the proposal to modernise our development infrastructure. On Di, 2017-05-16 at 10:38 -0400, Carlos Soriano via desktop-devel-list wrote: > You can take a look at their "changelogs" between releases (one each month). This seems to be the most risky part about moving to GitLab:

Re: Stackexchange community for GNOME/GTK+

2017-05-10 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mi, 2017-05-10 at 08:04 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Looks like if you want to do this, we'd have to host it Or use Stackoverflow. Sri's motivation was: > We need to have a search engine index-able library of knowledge on > our platform. Modern programmers today frequently use

Re: GitHub Development Platform for GNOME

2017-04-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On So, 2017-04-09 at 15:44 -0400, Walter Vargas wrote: > > Canonical's recent decision about not maintaining unity for Ubuntu makes it > quite clear that Desktop is not the priority anymore, IoT and Mobile are the > priority now, Hah. Before it was the Cloud™, SOA, IVI, other form factors,

Re: Tracker as a security risks

2016-12-05 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mo, 2016-12-05 at 16:42 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > And I should add... Tracker is not alone here, if it's not Tracker > stumbling on infected content, with varying but still rather low > levels of interaction it may be a thumbnailer, a previewer like sushi, > or the web browser itself

Re: Tracker as a security risks

2016-12-05 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Hanno. Thanks for bringing it up. On Mo, 2016-12-05 at 14:03 +0100, Hanno Böck wrote: > The core problem here is that tracker automatically parses files of > potentially unknown origin with parsers that haven't been built with > security in mind. This happens without any sandboxing. Right.  

Re: Testing for memory safety issues with Address Sanitizer

2016-09-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mi, 2016-09-21 at 11:27 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Then, setting LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libasan.so worked for me. > > For some reason, Fedora doesn't seem to have a libasan-devel package, hm. On my system, I have: $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/libasan.so

Re: Testing for memory safety issues with Address Sanitizer

2016-09-21 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:17:03AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > undefined symbol: __asan_option_detect_stack_use_after_return > > Is anything special needed for dlopened modules? Try LDFLAGS+=-lasan Another source of inconvenience is when compiling any library that GCC needs itself,

Re: To GSoC mentors, period for selecting proposals open until the end of next week

2016-04-04 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! :-) On Fr, 2016-04-01 at 13:16 -0400, Carlos Soriano Sanchez wrote: > You have a comment box there, which is only visible to other mentors > and admins, in case you want to discuss the validity or quality of > proposals. Ah. Just to make sure: Discussions with the students are supposed to be

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-28 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 07:31:19PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > Is there an existing (hosted) solution alternative to hangouts? Pretty > much as simple as: "go to this URL"? I know talky.io, appear.in, opentokrtc.com, appr.tc, meetme, japkin, and others. I think all of them are not Free

Re: Atomix maintenance

2015-01-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Robert Roth wrote: In lack of active maintenance (last release 9 years ago, namely 2.14.0) I intend to take over the maintenance of the Atomix [1] game from gnome git[2]. Cool, thanks! Tobi ___

Re: GNOME HIG: Feedback Wanted

2014-08-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:47:50AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: A new version of the HIG is in the works, to be released along with GNOME 3.14 [1]. I'm currently looking for feedback. I've pushed an HTML version here for your convenience: http://people.gnome.org/~tobiasmue/hig3 Please note that

Re: Status of privacy features in GNOME

2014-03-06 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:41:32PM +0100, Stef Walter wrote: Andreas or Tobias would know definitively ... but I don't think that any implementation has been undertaken by GNOME as of yet. that is correct. Cheers, Tobi ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On 25.08.2013 10:54, fr33domlover wrote: which is why I suggest a switch: Let maintainers turn off the mirroring. I think it is safe to assume that your suggestion was heard. You are free to implement that. And in case it wasn't clear: You are very welcome to implement the relevant logic

Re: BugBuddy uselessness

2009-02-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
Ahoi, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 12:00 -0500 schrieb Hubert Figuiere: Is there any plan to remove Bug Buddy now that it has been made useless? Your reasoning is strange. Wouldn't it make more sense to fix crash.gnome.org? Or did we gave up on software quality?