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]. It

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 a

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 gitlab-

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 c

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 reasona

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 should build > reliably

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 those instructions. It's reported at ht

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 Private Internet Access VPN.

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: enable-gtk-doc > - a

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 wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The GUADEC 2017 call for papers closes this Sunday, 23rd April. > > We have excellent submiss

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 wrote: > 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 i

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 have

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 files related to g

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 source tree, an older

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 link. ... > While th

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

2016-10-27 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:23 PM, 藍挺瑋 wrote: > 於 週三,2016-10-05 於 09:33 +0200,Milan Crha 提到: > Can we have a common way to enable GTK-Doc installation in modules > using CMake? In modules using Autotools, we have --enable-gtk-doc which > is recognized by every module supporting generating documentat

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 auto

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 those that I use

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 are very difficult

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: ht

Re: Backend design advice

2014-01-02 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:05 PM, fr33domlover wrote: > Hello, > > This question is quite general but I'd like to know how things in GNOME were > designed, in addition to any general advice you have. > > Assume a GUI application uses a central data backend, e.g. Tracker. > Currently Tracker is

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: >> On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras >> writes: >> >>> That's a reasonable alternative. How about "pleased"? Any other people >>> have an opinion? >> >> You present yourself as

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 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 happen

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-21 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Dave Neary wrote: > >> 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 >> Deja Dup th

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Allan Day 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 wrote: >> > This looks like an improvement on the UI that you presented the last >> > time you

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-17 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > Sam Thursfield 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 se

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-17 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Josselin Mouette 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 configuration option is ju

Re: GSettings and you

2010-04-20 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jody Goldberg 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 >> wrote: >> > Nice. Just a question: where can I find the code for the "Several fully >> > functional backends"? Especi

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Cody Russell 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. Seems like it wou

Re: Module Proposal: PDF Mod

2010-02-19 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Gabriel Burt 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 > proposing PDF Mod for inc

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Alexander Larsson 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 probabl

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Johannes 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 possible. > >

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hello! On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Cody Russell 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.  If you have alr