Intro & Sponsor Request

2022-02-15 Thread Steve Cossette
Good day to you all! My name is Steve Cossette, I work in IT for a small company in Springfield VA (From Quebec, Canada) and also code integrations in .NET (c# and VB.NET -- working on parting with VB though). I started using Linux as my main desktop in November of last year after managing CentOS

Re: Unretiring Icedtea-web

2022-03-10 Thread Steve Cossette
Ah, didn't see that on the page. Thanks! Le jeu. 10 mars 2022, à 09 h 24, Fabio Valentini a écrit : > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:20 PM Ben Beasley > wrote: > > > > Since icedtea-web was orphaned for 6+ weeks, it was retired. You must > > therefore follow [1]. Note that: > > > > Retired

Unretiring Icedtea-web

2022-03-10 Thread Steve Cossette
Good morning all, First, I apologize if dumb questions are in this post -- still wet behind the ears when it comes to packaging. I was wondering what was needed to unretire a package, this one specifically: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/icedtea-web It seems to still be developed (

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-12 Thread Steve Cossette
I just tried it myself, the only dependency errors I got was from VS Code (Dotnet package dependency errors, I use MS's repos so I'd prolly have to upgrade it or remove it temporarily) and OpenRGB (Which I don't really use). So pretty much good on my end! Le ven. 11 mars 2022, à 12 h 43,

Re: Self-Introduction: Steve Cossette

2022-02-16 Thread Steve Cossette
Hello Matthew! Thanks for the reply! Looking forward to contributing in several ways! Le mer. 16 févr. 2022, à 14 h 08, Matthew Miller a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 07:11:48AM -0500, Steve Cossette wrote: > > It only recently dawned on me that, unlike Windows, Linu

Re: Self-Introduction: Steve Cossette

2022-02-17 Thread Steve Cossette
s package. > > Welcome, and happy packaging! > > [1] https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors/issue/522 > > [2] > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Get_Sponsored_into_the_Packager_Group/#become_a_co_maintainer > > On 2/14/22 07:11, Steve C

Self-Introduction: Steve Cossette

2022-02-14 Thread Steve Cossette
Good morning, Fedora Developers. My name is Steve Cossette, I am a Developer/IT Manager at a small HVAC company in Virginia who also happens to be a real computer nerd. I started using Linux as my main OS in November, starting with Manjaro and migrated over to Fedora 35 in December, craving

Re: Self-Introduction: Steve Cossette

2022-02-14 Thread Steve Cossette
Oh I did see those links, I do understand I do have to ask existing maintainers if they need help. But I'm not really aiming to help maintain a specific package (I don't really mind which), is there a place where maintainers look for co-maintainers? I don't really wanna go through the 30 000

Re: FESCo wants to know what you use i686 packages for

2022-03-23 Thread Steve Cossette
I know for a fact you need at least a few i686 packages to run games on Lutris as well (Blizzard Agent/Overwatch being one) On 3/23/22 08:03, Germano Massullo wrote: All these are somehow related to Steam and x86 32 bit games # rpm -qa | grep 686 | sort alsa-lib-1.2.6.1-3.fc35.i686

Re: Mesa in F37- vaapi support disabled for h264/h265/vc1

2022-09-29 Thread Steve Cossette
Yeah same here. Worked for months to get video acceleration working on an nvidia card, then decided to switch to AMD, and now this. I get there's other codecs, but for the user who's been expressly needing those now-removed codecs finding out things no longer work is very annoying. Really

Review request: Python-pypresence

2022-12-05 Thread Steve Cossette
Good afternoon/morning everyone, I'm a co-packager for Lutris, and the newest version (0.5.12) had a couple more package requirements, one of which is pypresence, which isn't packaged with Fedora. I created a review request here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150506 if anyone

Re: FESCo wants to know what you use i686 packages for

2023-01-17 Thread Steve Cossette
Same here. To be honest, most older games still use 32-bit binaries (even some more recent ones). That's one of the reasons why Windows will prolly never remove WoW64. Or at least for an extremely long time still. Le lun. 16 janv. 2023, 18 h 13, Arthur Bols a écrit : > On 17/03/2022 10:49,

Re: Self Introduction: Neil Hanlon

2023-01-27 Thread Steve Cossette
Welcome! I'm a newer packager myself, it's a nice thing to know you are contributing to a project such as fedora! Enjoy! Le jeu. 26 janv. 2023, à 16 h 45, Michel Alexandre Salim < mic...@michel-slm.name> a écrit : > Hi Neil, > > On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 16:34 -0500, Neil Hanlon wrote: > > Hi

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-22 Thread Steve Cossette
Yeah I'd say +1 from here too. Was just wondering about this yesterday. Le mer. 22 févr. 2023, 05 h 52, Kamil Paral a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 9:48 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: > >> But, I think it's time to move on. We have ostree and various >> container-delta approaches. We should

Re: Test upgrades from F37 to F38 - it will take you just a minute

2023-02-22 Thread Steve Cossette
Same here, lower version numbers for the following packages: Downgrading: fwupd x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38 fedora 1.8 M fwupd-plugin-flashrom x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38 fedora 26 k fwupd-plugin-modem-manager x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38

Re: Test upgrades from F37 to F38 - it will take you just a minute

2023-02-22 Thread Steve Cossette
I just tried on a second PC, and I see this too on this one: Lmodx86_64 8.7.18-1.fc38 fedora258 k Seems Lmod is of a lower version on Fedora 38 as well, compared to Fedora 37. Le mer. 22 févr. 2023, à 04 h 30, Miroslav

Timeshift on Fedora

2023-04-03 Thread Steve Cossette
Good morning all, I had a strange experience with Timeshift last week. For those that don't know, Timeshift is a software that allows you to make a backup of your system (As a snapshot) and restore it in case you need to. I installed it a couple weeks ago and made a backup. I couldn't make a

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-07 Thread Steve Cossette
That’s just kmail though. I have a similar issue, but kmail is just plain broken in plasma 6 right now. On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 11:08 PM Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 08:07:25 EST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:47:44PM +, Sérgio Basto wrote:

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-08 Thread Steve Cossette
I On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 9:51 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 20:43 +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM Sérgio Basto > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2024-02-07 at 16:03 +0100, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: > > > > We are not banning nor deleting anything.

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-07 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-07 7:21 a.m., Peter Boy wrote: I don't really want to get involved in this discussion. I don't use KDE, I don't even use Fedora Desktop anymore. But there is one argument resp. strategy that triggers me: Am 07.02.2024 um 10:44 schrieb Michel Lind : - KDE SIG likely also want

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-07 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-06 8:20 a.m., Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 2/3/24 22:11, pgnd wrote: Is there a way to see what gaps remain, which ones are being worked on, and which ones will be declared "not a gap - won't fix"? I have a list of things I'm tracking. I've been reluctant to publish it because people

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-01 8:18 a.m., Sérgio Basto wrote: On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 07:08 -0500, Steve Cossette wrote: So, if you all don't mind, I'd like to steer this discussion in a slightly different way: What is the definition of a Fedora Change Proposal? Proposal was not accepted by many members

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-01-30 8:04 a.m., Germano Massullo wrote: What does it mean that FESCo is applying an injunction? -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-01 10:27 a.m., Peter Boy wrote: Sorry, a bit off-topic here, but nevertheless: Am 01.02.2024 um 15:14 schrieb Steve Cossette : Hello Pgnd, I honestly do appreciate your point of view. Especially from a business owner standpoint. I do manage small business servers, and I feel

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
So, if you all don't mind, I'd like to steer this discussion in a slightly different way: What *is* the definition of a Fedora Change Proposal? I was under the impression it was an announcement of intent by the maintainers of a specific subset of the fedora project to "change" something. Once

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-01 11:21 a.m., Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 2/1/24 14:29, Steve Cossette wrote: And yes, that /is/ the whole point: We want to foster the use of Wayland, to increase it's adoption, to force people using it to hit snags along the road and fill tickets so those issues can be fixed

Re: Self Introduction: Leo Sandoval

2024-02-01 Thread Steve Cossette
Welcome to Fedora! Drop by matrix, we don't bite (hard)! Le jeu. 1 févr. 2024, à 19 h 48, Leo Sandoval a écrit : > Dear Fedora Community! > > My name is Leonardo Sandoval, a software developer living in Guadalajara, > Mexico. I have been in the industry since 2006, most of the time close to >

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-01-30 Thread Steve Cossette
eply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue That about sums it up, yes. By the way, my name is Steve Cossette and I'm also one of the members of the KDE SiG. If the packages are accepted under the sole condition that it does not block the main KDE releases, t

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-03 Thread Steve Cossette
On 2024-02-03 9:01 a.m., Björn Persson wrote: Neal Gompa wrote: It's extremely obvious that people want to use it. It's extremely obvious that *some* people want to use Wayland. It's equally obvious that some other people want to use X. It's also obvious that certain people want to make

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Steve Cossette
Putting aside that i heard from Neal Gompa that anaconda cannot accommodate a « multi-flavor » media, can you imagine how big that iso would be? Forget 4gb, it’d probably be closer to 20gb! On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 09:49 Leslie Satenstein via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Perhaps

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Steve Cossette
It is not an april fools joke. On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 04:37 Peter Boy wrote: > > > > Am 02.04.2024 um 22:06 schrieb Steve Cossette : > > > > ... The overall spirit of the CP is that we think KDE, and to some > extent the other spins too, need a bit mor

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Steve Cossette
Hello Michael, and thanks for replying. (a) Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop becomes a Fedora edition. We'd need to be careful about how we do it. I would still promote Fedora Workstation as the main/recommended "leading" desktop, would call Plasma an "alternative desktop option," and would strongly

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
Well, we did submit this yesterday around 2:30-3:00PM EST, guessing it was a bit too late. But the proposal is 1000% serious. On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 19:44, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 10:40, Aoife Moloney wrote: >

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-05 Thread Steve Cossette
We didnt withdraw it because, well to be completely honest, we are afraid that, if we do that, in the eyes of the community at least, we will abandon the idea completely and any subsequent effort would be undermined as a result. It’s kindof a case of « damned if you do and damned if you don’t »…

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-04 Thread Steve Cossette
Problem with extensions is, while they are *technically* supported by gnome, they can break with any update (It has happened to me in the past). Heck, it kinda reminds me of hacks people use to get around the junk people put in Windows 10/11... On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:09 AM Leslie Satenstein via

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-04 Thread Steve Cossette
" fights. On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:34 AM Steve Cossette wrote: > Problem with extensions is, while they are *technically* supported by > gnome, they can break with any update (It has happened to me in the past). > Heck, it kinda reminds me of hacks people use to get around the junk p

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
Oooo I could go for some Yak meat! On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 17:37 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > > > I am a happy KDE user, since the good old days of version 1.0. I > celebrate > > this decision! My recognition goes to the enormous and

Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
I personally would very much agree with enforcing the use of 2fa on the Fedora Account System. Maybe take that opportunity to make it a bit more user friendly? (Such as the fkinit prompt requiring the 2fa code being added at the end of your password -- to be clear I think the 2fa code should be

Re: Self Introduction: Matthew Kosarek

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
Hello Matthew, and welcome to Fedora! You'll find alot of good people in here eager to help you. Feel free to also drop in on matrix for a more real-time conversation! On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM Matthew Kosarek via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > My name is

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
lco wrote: > On 4/2/24 03:50 PM, Steve Cossette wrote: > > Well, we did submit this yesterday around 2:30-3:00PM EST, guessing it > was a bit too late. > > > > But the proposal is 1000% serious. > > I'm glad to hear you say that, as I switched to KDE around th

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:06:45PM -0400, Steve Cossette wrote: > > Alright, so a substantial amount of information changed since the > original > > submission of the change proposal. We aren't necessarily thinking of > > demoting Gnome. The overall spirit of

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Cossette
Sorry, that's pretty much how things are right now, is that what you were trying to demonstrate? I'm not really following. Personally, if we were to promote both KDE and Gnome on the website, I'd make it dead simple. I really suck at making graphics so I'll try to put it in text: I imagine a

Re: Switching XZ for ZSTD?

2024-04-04 Thread Steve Cossette
I have definitely not read 75% of the comments and articles about the xz issues but I understand the general reason why this happened. Issue here is, let's say we do switch to an alternative, whatever it is. Who's to say that one doesn't have the same basic issue? Same with any other project in

Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

2024-04-12 Thread Steve Cossette
What about simply blocking access to the git repos/koji/bodhi for those without 2fa? On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:49:27PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 00:09 +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > > > > > What is the best