Konversation terminated! (was: Introduction and (full?) body)

2021-05-22 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Greetings, Given that this discussion started a while ago, I hope none of the other participants will be offended that I took the liberty to conclude: https://www.philippecloutier.com/blogpost141 Le 2019-12-28 à 13:57, Philippe Cloutier a écrit : Dear community, [...] And I installed Kubuntu

Re: ISCAS and openEuler are launching an alternative to Google Summer of Code

2021-05-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
could evaluate participation earlier and use feedback from other organizations to judge if it's smooth and reliable. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-26 Thread Philippe Cloutier
as the kde-devel mailing list) before. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: This list is now on emergency moderation

2021-04-18 Thread Philippe Cloutier
valoriez> - pronouns: she/her -- This mail's original content (non-quoted parts) is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com import HumanEmulation.Feeling; import HumanEmulation.Judgment; import Life.*; im

Message filtering on this forum (was Re: Apology)

2021-04-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
me/valoriez> - pronouns: she/her -- Niccolò Venerandi -- http://about.me/valoriez <http://about.me/valoriez> - pronouns: she/her -- This mail's original content (non-quoted parts) is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Apology

2021-04-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
I am truly sorry. I for one appreciate and very much accept. [...] -- This mail's original content (non-quoted parts) is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the FSF

2021-03-30 Thread Philippe Cloutier
ape the Free Software movement of tomorrow. Best regards, Aleix Pol with the KDE e.V. Board of Directors -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-28 Thread Philippe Cloutier
so that these things that need to happen, and that we all want, can reach fruition faster?" You don't have to suffer in silence! :) Nate -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com import HumanEmulati

Re: Rebranding the release service

2021-02-21 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Paul, Le 2021-02-20 à 14:24, Paul Brown a écrit : On sábado, 20 de febrero de 2021 18:39:45 (CET) Nate Graham wrote: On 2/20/21 9:35 AM, Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2021-02-20 à 10:38, Luigi Toscano a écrit : In any case, "KDE Gear" sure is short and makes some sense if w

Re: Rebranding the release service

2021-02-20 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2021-02-20 à 10:38, Luigi Toscano a écrit : Philippe Cloutier ha scritto: Hi Jonathan, Le 2021-02-15 à 09:49, Christoph Cullmann a écrit : On 2021-02-15 15:36, Nate Graham wrote: On 2/15/21 6:01 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: Here at KDE we've always struggled a bit with branding

Re: Rebranding the release service

2021-02-20 Thread Philippe Cloutier
w file types. The corresponding KDE bundle would be KDE Frameworks. That being said, I shall stress that: * The gear is used in KDE's icon. So arguably, the gear means more than "backend" in KDE context. * English is not my native language. Greetings Christoph -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Targeted donations (Re: Fundraising in KDE)

2020-10-04 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2020-10-04 à 17:05, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : On Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 18:43:42 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2020-10-04 à 11:58, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : Currently we have a single big bucket for our money. All money that comes in (e.g. several thousand PayPal donations per year) goes

Targeted donations (Re: Fundraising in KDE)

2020-10-04 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Ingo, Le 2020-10-04 à 11:58, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : On Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 00:36:56 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2020-09-27 à 17:29, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : On Sonntag, 27. September 2020 22:54:07 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: El diumenge, 27 de setembre de 2020, a les 21:36:46

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-10-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
few people for doing important KDE stuff) is orthogonal to allocating money to specific projects. Complexity of book keeping would change from O(n) to O(n²). Can you clarify what you mean? Regards, Ingo -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-10-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
a donator specified a donation should only be used for an improvement to a specific product, and then that product is officially abandoned/EOL-ed, do we refund the same amount to the donator? [...] -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-09-26 Thread Philippe Cloutier
't go to waste. Please let me know if this is worth putting more effort into it or if the current system is good enough. I feel like this should be a community decision, since fundraising is everyone's concern. Also, any help is welcome :) Regards, Carl Schwan KDE Web lead developer https://carlsc

Re: Proposal: Mailing List owner policy

2020-08-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Ingo, Le 2020-07-27 à 03:58, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : On Sonntag, 26. Juli 2020 18:31:08 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote: An even bigger question, I'm afraid. When nobody steps up, what would we do? I wouldn't mind "moderating" this list today, for instance, since I found the ti

Re: Proposal: Mailing List owner policy

2020-07-26 Thread Philippe Cloutier
of the problem. Making systems more transparent tends to solve problems automatically - forum participants will detect issues fast and step up by themselves. Cheers, Albert [1] yes, i know they are not the same, but since one is a subset of the other, let's pretend they are. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Beginner-friendly projects

2020-07-20 Thread Philippe Cloutier
the list is supposed to state that the source code is easy to understand for beginners, shouldn't we add much simpler projects, such as KDE games, utilities, or simple QtQuick widgets? Right now, I would suggest to just remove this section. Someone who is really new to coding seems misguided.

Re: KDE Apps name trademarks

2020-07-12 Thread Philippe Cloutier
reen, for instance. 4. Who would own those trademarks? Jonathan -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Rectification/completion (Re: The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation)

2020-06-29 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi again, Le 2020-06-28 à 09:49, Philippe Cloutier a écrit : Hi Martin, Le 2020-06-12 à 16:49, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : [...] That being said, I am not saying KDEPIM (widely speaking) can't be improved. I personally gave up on KMail more a decade ago after seeing enough reports

The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation (was: Re: Showing respect)

2020-06-28 Thread Philippe Cloutier
rewrite is needed and to what degree such a goal should be prioritized. [...] -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
t_min_word_len https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_ft_min_token_size [...] Sincerely hoping to see this discussion remain nothing more than a not-so-Qt discussion, -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Help with KDE PIM and Google Privacy Policies needed

2020-03-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
satisfying Google's requirement for a privacy policy? No. I think KDEPIM could show a proper explanation if it has an incompatibility. But it is not clear what is the context for the issue discussed in this thread. [...] Best, -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-30 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2020-01-30 à 03:38, Vinzenz Vietzke a écrit : Hi Philippe, Am 29. Januar 2020 22:46:14 schrieb Philippe Cloutier : 2. What comes on these PC-s? Vendor-specific GNU/Linux distributions? It seemed to be a normal OpenSUSE installation (you can choose between a few distros, that's nice

Re: Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-29 Thread Philippe Cloutier
need further help please go ahead! Cheers, vinz. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-28 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2020-01-27 à 17:34, Alexander Neundorf a écrit : On Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 15:11:36 CET Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2020-01-25 à 02:47, Alexander Neundorf a écrit : On Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 15:42:15 CET Niccolò Venerandi wrote: Hi! I'm working on adding a kde.org/hardware webpage

Tuxedo's house (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-26 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Ingo, Nate, Le 2020-01-26 à 11:21, Nate Graham a écrit : On 1/26/20 9:16 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Freitag, 24. Januar 2020 15:02:24 CET Philippe Cloutier wrote: Ahem, wasn't that fast? The mail you quote is not phrased as a proposal, but as a request for comments. Just a quick first

Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-25 Thread Philippe Cloutier
a process to prevent this page from going outdated? At least items #1, #3 and #5 are presented in a highly time-sensitive way. Without frequent review, this will quickly reflect poorly not just on KDE, but on vendors. And how do you plan to integrate that page in kde.org? Alex

Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage

2020-01-24 Thread Philippe Cloutier
eers, Carl ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Le jeudi, janvier 23, 2020 2:42 PM, Niccolò Venerandi a écrit : Hi! I'm working on adding a kde.org/hardware <http://kde.org/hardware> webpage. You can see screenshot here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26711. What do you think? ~Niccolò Venerand

Introduction and (full?) body

2019-12-28 Thread Philippe Cloutier
me more respected, rewarding, efficient and ultimately attractive, so that more users will share the work? Or will we ensure KDE products are marketed in a way which better reflects their maturity? Thank you -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: New homepage for kde.org

2019-12-22 Thread Philippe Cloutier
e trying to view this on a 4K monitor? For this KDE site it might not matter, but for applications it can be really important. For example if most people that are going to your site have a 1366 x 768 monitor, you better make sure your application works well at that screen size. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

"Linux distribution" (Re: New kde.org/distributions)

2019-12-19 Thread Philippe Cloutier
perating system", which is: 1. more accessible 2. more accurate 3. more inclusive (and less controversial) 4. more correct, since one of the current entries (Neon) explains it is "not quite" a Linux distribution [...] Cheers, Carl -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Planet KDE posts not about KDE

2019-12-15 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Martin, Le 2019-12-10 à 21:55, Martin Klapetek a écrit : On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:01 PM Philippe Cloutier <mailto:chea...@gmail.com>> wrote: Le 2019-12-05 à 10:45, Nate Graham a écrit : > > > On 12/5/19 8:01 AM, Dominik Haumann wrote: >> On Thu

Planet KDE posts not about KDE (was: Re: Please don't make planet.kde.org into a politics feed)

2019-12-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
, that would require too much investment, unless this is implemented for more than Planet KDE, also for other KDE systems. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Finances (was Re: Issues (Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available))

2019-11-30 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2019-11-30 à 12:39, Paul Brown a écrit : On sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2019 17:11:07 (CET) Philippe Cloutier wrote: Thanks Paul, Le 2019-11-29 à 12:22, Paul Brown a écrit : On viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2019 13:39:26 (CET) Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2019-11-27 à 14:05, Aleix Pol

Re: Issues (Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available)

2019-11-30 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le 2019-11-30 à 12:39, Paul Brown a écrit : On sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2019 17:11:07 (CET) Philippe Cloutier wrote: Thanks Paul, Le 2019-11-29 à 12:22, Paul Brown a écrit : On viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2019 13:39:26 (CET) Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2019-11-27 à 14:05, Aleix Pol

Re: Issues (Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available)

2019-11-30 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Thanks Paul, Le 2019-11-29 à 12:22, Paul Brown a écrit : On viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2019 13:39:26 (CET) Philippe Cloutier wrote: Le 2019-11-27 à 14:05, Aleix Pol a écrit : Dear KDE community, Some of you already saw it at Akademy, but we wanted to make sure that you were all aware of all

Issues (Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available)

2019-11-29 Thread Philippe Cloutier
@kde.org>", but is it possible to determine if an issue was already reported there? [...] Best regards, Aleix Pol i Gonzalez, KDE e.V. President -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Subversion Infrastructure

2019-11-12 Thread Philippe Cloutier
notifications from those customised hooks within other systems such as our IRC Bots and Bugzilla) Regards, Ben -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-12 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi pusling, On 11/11/2019 01:02, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2019-11-04, Philippe Cloutier wrote: Over the last months, I requested the "severity" (importance) of several tickets to be adjusted: I'm not sure if you have grown up over time, but I kind of sense the same attitude from y

Re: Reducing the load on Sysadmin

2019-11-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
i think you took the wrong approach here, removing things we seem to be using because there's not enough sysadmins instead of trying to increase the sysadmins. Cheers, Albert P.S: Maybe there has been an attempt to increase the sysadmins, if so I apologize Cheers, Ben -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-10 Thread Philippe Cloutier
. If you have something to contribute here, even if that's criticism of what was said, feel free, but please be specific, and constructive (and avoid ad hominem attacks - as you can see, name-calling can be very easy, but is rarely productive). -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Subversion Infrastructure

2019-11-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
from the web. I would consider that issue as somewhat strategic, since many start contributing by getting involved in translations... and a web access to translation helps getting involved in translation. [...] Regards, Ben -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: General Infrastructure Maintainability: API and EBN

2019-11-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
on api.kde.org possible if a summer is too long for just that. Do we still have a list of api.kde.org issues (it seems issues moved away from bugs.kde.org and I can no longer find a list)? Regards, Ben Cheers, Elvis Cheers, Ben -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
nces that he does not suffer from burnout are even higher, but I have no intention to apologize just for bringing up a taboo topic. -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: General Infrastructure Maintainability: API and EBN

2019-11-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
, with a link to a page discussing the attempts you mention. Regards, Ben -- Philippe Cloutier http://www.philippecloutier.com

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-09 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Martin, On 2019-11-04 03:05, Martin Flöser wrote: Am 2019-11-04 02:11, schrieb Philippe Cloutier: Dear community, I am facing 2 issues with the ITS which I cannot solve myself currently. Over the last months, I requested the "severity" (importance) of several tickets to be adjus

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-05 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Harald, On 2019-11-04 07:03, Harald Sitter wrote: Hey. On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:12 AM Philippe Cloutier wrote: Dear community, I am facing 2 issues with the ITS which I cannot solve myself currently. Over the last months, I requested the "severity" (importance) of sever

Re: Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Christoph, On 2019-11-03 21:10, Christoph Feck wrote: Hello Philippe, let me only correct one of your claims: On 11/04/19 02:11, Philippe Cloutier wrote: As for the more delicate issue, many reports I filed recently against bugs.kde.org were mishandled. In fact, most of them were

Issues with the issue tracking system

2019-11-03 Thread Philippe Cloutier
58=79286 I have not performed a comprehensive review of his recent actions in KDE, and am hesitant to make any specific recommendation. Has this individual's case been under discussion, and if not, can others more aware of his full activities tell which remedies they find best? -- Philippe Clo