Happy 10th Birthday UserBase

[Anne Wilson]

In August 2008 Userbase was born.  Much has happened in the 10 years
sine then.  A huge thanks is due to Niklas, for giving us the
translation tool, and to all who contributed, at any time.

It's exciting to think of what the next 10 years could bring.

AnneW

Re: [kde-community] Bikeshedding - our strength apparently *sigh*

[Anne Wilson]

On 19/09/2015 15:24, Eike Hein wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/19/2015 02:12 PM, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Some of you wanted the mirror on Github because apparently there
>> are developers out there who are too lazy (or too dumb) to learn to
>> use new tools. Are those developers we want?
> 
> Developer recruitment should be our #1 problem for the next two
> years, and along those lines "GitHub might get us contributors" is by
> far the strongest argument that side's come up with.
> 
Hehe! Only on a KDE list could an exhortion to stop bikeshedding become
the latest bikeshed!

Anne
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Re: [kde-community] KGpg

[Anne Wilson]

On 30/08/2015 15:54, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2015-08-30, Jeremy Whiting  wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I may have found another candidate for unmaintained. KGpg is a ui for
>> gnupg. I've never used it, but have used kleopatra. Anyway, here's my
>> reasoning. Please fix any false assumptions I may have made if you
>> know kgpg or kleopatra better than I:
>>
>> 1. KGpg does gnupg. Kleopatra also does, but is maintained.
>> 2. KGpg has not been ported to Qt5/kf5, Kleopatra has.
>> 3. KGpg isn't part of kdepim nor is it maintained by the PIM team, Kleopatra 
>> is.
>>
>> Is there anything that KGpg does that Kleopatra doesn't/can't do? Or
>> is there any reason to port KGpg to Qt5/kf5 and keep releasing it?
> 
> I personally prefer the kgpg ui to the kleopatra ui for gpg key
> management.
> 
> /Sune

+1

The UI is just so much simpler, pleasanter to use.  Kleopatra is
undoubtedly designed to handle more than kgpg, but personally I find it
less than pleasant to use.

Anne
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Re: [kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

[Anne Wilson]

On 13/09/2014 19:22, Carl Symons wrote:
 
 
 On 09/13/2014 10:53 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On 13/09/2014 16:02, Carl Symons wrote:
 David Weinberger is one of the authors of The Cluetrain
 Manifesto. Influential techie.
 
 Earlier today, he tweeted: Just spent 3 of my first 5 hours with
 my new Windows computer removing redirect malware. It was 1/3
 price of a Mac. Worth it? Hmmm.
 
 I replied: @dweinberger Just spent ~1 hour installing Linux + KDE
 on my new Windows computer. Biggest hassle: dealing w/MSFT
 security stuff
 
 Half an hour later, he tweeted: Suggestions for a linux-able
 netbook? Cheap, great battery life, 500gb HDD (or
 user-upgradable). Wimpy CPU/GPU is fine.
 
 
 Suggestions?
 
 Not sure what's available at the moment, but an Acer Aspire One
 (approx 3 years old) accompanies me on holidays - and I had a very
 similar older model of the AAOne previous to that.  I have used
 them both as dual-boot systems and also as stand-alone Linux
 systems.  Installation is no problem.
 
 Hardware specs could be the problem, but with large USB sticks as 
 temporary storage and USB storage drives and DVD writers for use
 when more convenient, even the most wimpy models can cope.
 
 Anne
 
 
 Thank you Anne.
 
 Ironic.
 
 The first response to his request was... Acer Aspire One with Mint
 
 Mine was... Acer Aspire One with KDE
 
I forgot to mention - probably took it for granted :-) - that my Linux
desktop was always KDE.

Anne

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Re: [kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

[Anne Wilson]

On 13/09/2014 16:02, Carl Symons wrote:
 David Weinberger is one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto. 
 Influential techie.
 
 Earlier today, he tweeted: Just spent 3 of my first 5 hours with my
 new Windows computer removing redirect malware. It was 1/3 price of a
 Mac. Worth it? Hmmm.
 
 I replied: @dweinberger Just spent ~1 hour installing Linux + KDE on
 my new Windows computer. Biggest hassle: dealing w/MSFT security
 stuff
 
 Half an hour later, he tweeted: Suggestions for a linux-able netbook?
 Cheap, great battery life, 500gb HDD (or user-upgradable). Wimpy
 CPU/GPU is fine.
 
 
 Suggestions?
 
Not sure what's available at the moment, but an Acer Aspire One (approx
3 years old) accompanies me on holidays - and I had a very similar older
model of the AAOne previous to that.  I have used them both as dual-boot
systems and also as stand-alone Linux systems.  Installation is no problem.

Hardware specs could be the problem, but with large USB sticks as
temporary storage and USB storage drives and DVD writers for use when
more convenient, even the most wimpy models can cope.

Anne
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Re: [kde-community] Code of Conduct violations

[Anne Wilson]

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On 05/08/13 12:29, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Some time ago a user started a page on http://community.kde.org on 
 which he detailed things that he considered to be wrong with KDE 
 software.  The comments were largely subjective, and in many cases 
 demonstrated things that were not the general experience.  At that 
 point he was asked to substantiate his complaints by pointing to
 bug reports.
 
 That strategy backfired, as he then began creating a barrage of
 bug reports, creating a good deal of work for triagers who have to
 decide whether the report is a duplicate of some other, or invalid
 for any reason.  Up to now people have been very patient with him,
 but it has come to our notice that he has crossed a line.
 
 He has now begun defacing other pages, adding links to his
 comments page and/or his bug reports.  This basically results in
 what should be official information, posted by developers of the
 application in question, being questionable, in that the reader
 cannot easily differentiate his input.
 
 This contributor's input has repeatedly violated the Code of
 Conduct ( http://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/). In view of this we
 have reached the point where we believe that he should be banned
 from posting on the wikis, and his comments completely removed.
 This will now take place.
 

A 2-week ban has been put in place and the contributor has been
invited to discuss the problem and possible resolution.  If resolution
is reached the ban will be immediately removed.  If no resolution
appears to be possible we will go ahead, make the ban permanent and
remove his content.

I think this is the first time in 5 years that we have had to take
such a step.  We don't do it lightly, and still hope that the
contributor will talk to us and enable suitable conclusion to the story.

Anne
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[kde-community] Spam attack on wikis

[Anne Wilson]

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We are experiencing a severe spam attack on the wikis.  As a temporary
measure all new registration has been blocked, while we work out the
best way of dealing with this.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Anne
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Re: [kde-community] Spam attack on wikis - comments needed!

[Anne Wilson]

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On 24/07/13 13:04, Luigi Toscano wrote:
 On Wednesday 24 of July 2013 12:42:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
 One proposal is that we should require contributors to supply a 
 valid email address when registering. We acknowledge that some 
 people don't like to register email addresses where they may be 
 found by others, but that is not an issue on the wikis.
 
 If you register your email address on any of our wikis
 
 * It is not visible to other users * Other contributors can
 (though rarely do) contact you, but only through the wiki. They
 do not see your address unless you choose to reply by email.
 
 Now the questions:
 
 What would be your concerns if we implemented this?
 
 Would this stop you from registering as a contributor?
 
 Please add any other relevant comments.
 
 I'm an old time contributor (hi list! I'm mostly an Italian 
 translator), and I think that: - an email is the really minimum 
 amount of information required, also as point of contact and for 
 accountability. When we translate PO files, we always put an email 
 address. I was surprised (I discovered it during Akademy) that it
 was not required for wikis.
 
 - why don't require identity registration? I understand that the
 idea is to lower the threshold for new contributors, but identity
 is used also for other services (and it will be used more and
 more), and on the other side the registration shows a bit of
 interest in the community.
 
 PS. The email was sent also to kde-devel. Should I reply also
 there? Following a split discussion could be a bit complicated.
 
Don't worry about that.  When I've gathered comments I'll summarise to
each of the three places I posted the message (just trying to make
sure I catch everyone who needs to know about it).

Anne
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