Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-22 Thread Carl Schwan
months release cycle for Plasma, this argument should also apply to Gear. > On Friday 19 April 2024 11:04:33 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > > > > * We end up with 3 different products which are released at different > > times > > but are connected together. Apps and Plasma

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-19 Thread Carl Schwan
On Friday, April 19, 2024 2:03:45 PM GMT+2 Luigi Toscano wrote: > We also have and we will continue to have applications which are not on this > schedule, and thus KDE will continue to be unfit as a general brand for > them. The work to reduce the dependencies improved with the move to Qt 6 >

Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-19 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello Community, I know this might be a controversial idea, but I would like to propose reunify our release schedules. I feel like splitting our releases schedules between Frameworks, Plasma and Gear is not working as well as we intended it to be when we split the releases schedules for Plasma 5.

New blogs.kde.org website

2024-03-03 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello, The blogs.kde.org which was powered by Drupal previously was switched to Hugo this week. This is mostly relevant to the people using or interested to use blogs.kde.org for their blogging need. I wrote a bit more info about this here: https://blogs.kde.org/2024/03/03/new-blogs.kde.org/

Fwd: KDE Plasma

2024-02-01 Thread Carl Schwan
Forwarding this nice message we got in the kde-www mailing :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: KDE Plasma Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:40:11 AM CET From: ben elliott To: kde-...@kde.org Back in 2001 was my first time ever using a GNU/Linux distro. A friend and I both

Re: [GSoC] org applications open from 22 January - 6 February (deadline at 18:00 UTC)

2024-01-23 Thread Carl Schwan
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:22:14 PM CET Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > == GSoC 2024 == > > It is time to start discussing among your teams what ideas will be great > to have for GSoC this year and who is willing to mentor. > > The organization application period began yesterday and the

Re: [discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

2023-10-02 Thread Carl Schwan
On Monday, 2 October 2023 14:05:25 CEST Johnny Jazeix wrote: > Hi, Hi, > The GSoC/SoK management team publishes blog posts on the Dot. Is there > an alternative where we can post? This is a good question :) season.kde.org would be the first candidate that comes to my mind but considering that

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-24 Thread Carl Schwan
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 08:57:31 CEST Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > Hello KDE community, > > apologies for cross-posting! Please let's stop doing that, it's generating a lot of duplicated emails for everyone. Most people interested in this discussion are in the kde-community channel

Re: Retirement of IRC Services and KDETalk.net (Jabber)

2023-05-24 Thread Carl Schwan
On Monday, 22 May 2023 00:26:09 CEST argonel wrote: Hi, > I would argue that the low usage is in part due to lack of awareness. > It has a one-line mention on the "Internet Relay Chat" community wiki > page (which wasn't added until 2019) that doesn't even explain the > benefits of using it. > >

Re: Where to get in touch with the Kirigami project?

2023-04-03 Thread Carl Schwan
Le lundi 3 avril 2023 à 4:39 PM, Halla Rempt a écrit : > Hi, > > Maybe a stupid question, but what's currently the best place to discuss > kirigami development? One of the Krita developers, Sharaf, has been trying to > use Kirigami to create a new welcome screen for Krita, but he's run into

Re : Re: State of Open Con 2023 review

2023-02-10 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi 9 février 2023 à 7:44 PM, Paul Brown a écrit : > On Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:27:36 CET Rohan Garg wrote: > > > Hi > > > Hello Rohan, > > First of all, thanks for doing this! Yeah thank Rohan for helping with the booth! > > > I've just wrapped up attending State of Open Con

Re : VDG application design sprint?

2023-01-24 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mardi 24 janvier 2023 à 12:43 AM, Nicolas Fella a écrit : > Hi, > > I think it would make sense for us to have a VDG sprint of sorts in the > near-ish future. This would allow to discuss some larger design topics > and set a vision for the longer-term future. I believe this is important >

Re: [GSoC Mentors] GSoC 2023 open for org applications January 23 - February 7

2023-01-22 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, I added 2 ideas for Kalendar. Cheers, Carl --- Original Message --- Le dimanche 22 janvier 2023 à 10:22 AM, Johnny Jazeix a écrit : > Hi, > > org applications start tomorrow and there is no idea at all in the page > (https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2023/Ideas). Are we interested

Re: KDE Gardening?

2023-01-05 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi 5 janvier 2023 à 11:02 AM, Halla Rempt a écrit : > Hi, > > I don't want to be a downer, but KDE Gardening is just making work for me, > instead of helping out. Randomly replying to bug reports or merge requests > without any knowledge of the project or how the team works only means

Re: Gitlab update, 2FA now mandatory

2022-10-25 Thread Carl Schwan
Le dimanche 23 octobre 2022 à 5:55 PM, Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) a écrit : > On 2022-10-23 08:32, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This afternoon I updated invent.kde.org [1] to the latest version of > > Gitlab, 15.5. > > Release notes for this can be found at > >

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-11 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi 11 août 2022 à 2:05 PM, Paul Brown a écrit : > On Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:49:58 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > > > Personally after having to deal with Wordpress at work, I think it offers an > > horrible developer experience with tons of plugin violating the spi

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-11 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi 11 août 2022 à 12:55 PM, Ben Cooksley a écrit : > Hi all, > > As mentioned in an earlier email, I was going to look at connecting our > Drupal sites to make use of Invent for authentication. > While at initial glance a plugin to handle this did appear to exist, upon > implementation

Re: Future of Web Single Sign On in KDE

2022-07-18 Thread Carl Schwan
on mobile so sorry for top posting fund.krita.org is using just plain oauth2 so it should be fine. Adding more auth options should also not be too hard for fund.krita.org and probably a good idea in any cases. What I wonder though, is how you plan to do the migration. identity uses the old

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-15 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi 15 septembre 2021 à 9:42 PM, Alexander Potashev a écrit : > Hi, > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > policy. > > Considering Apache-2.0 is similar to MIT, I don't see why it shouldn't

Re: Welcoming Eliza and Joseph to KDE e.V.

2021-07-06 Thread Carl Schwan
Le lundi 5 juillet 2021 à 22:54, Lydia Pintscher a écrit : > Hello everyone, > Today I'm happy to let you know that KDE e.V. has hired Eliza and > Joseph, two great people who will support our work around the > environmental sustainability of our software. This is part of the > grant we received

KDE Documentation & new Job

2021-07-05 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi folks, Starting next week I will be starting a new job at Nextcloud and will be leaving my current job at the KDE e.V. I added a small report of the stuff I did during my contract with the KDE e.V. and also a list of tasks I won't be doing anymore and would appreciate if someone step-up to

Spam wave in kde Matrix rooms

2021-06-28 Thread Carl Schwan
share block lists with gnome.org and matrix.org homeservers for example. Cheers, Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu [1]: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation#banning-servers-from-rooms-server-acls [2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/mjolnir

Re: Thoughts on the Plasma Mobile calendar

2021-06-21 Thread Carl Schwan
Le lundi 21 juin 2021 à 18:41, Dimitris Kardarakos a écrit : > Hello everyone, > > Back in 2018, the Plasma Mobile ecosystem consisted of just a handful of > apps. After a short discussion with Bhushan, I stepped forward to work > on Calindori, the calendar application for Plasma Mobile. >

Re: Announcing KDE e.V.'s two new contractors to work on KDE's technical documentation

2021-06-06 Thread Carl Schwan
worked on software development and writing documentation previously, he's > excited to dive deeper into KDE's documentation next. > > Carl Schwan has also been very active in the community for several years > already, greatly improving many of KDE's websites and building infrastructure

Re: The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

2021-05-19 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 7:45 PM, Martin Flöser a écrit : > Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 10:34:26 CEST schrieb Christian: > > > Dear KDE community, > > KDE has been using the free services of the freenode IRC networks for a > > little bit more than two decades, and hopefully happily and

Re: Telegram Bridge Migration

2021-05-14 Thread Carl Schwan
Le vendredi, mai 14, 2021 3:21 PM, Nate Graham a écrit : > On 5/14/21 2:19 AM, Kenny Duffus wrote: > > > Hi > > TLDR: If you are an admin in one of our channels you could help ease the > > migration by inviting @kdetgadmin to the channel and making them an admin > > with the power to add

Re: KDiff3 release

2021-05-03 Thread Carl Schwan
Le lundi, mai 3, 2021 2:30 PM, Adriaan de Groot a écrit : > On Monday, 3 May 2021 13:00:11 CEST kde-announce-apps-requ...@kde.org wrote: > > > 1. KDiff3 1.9.0 released (Michael Reeves) > > > > From: Michael Reeves reeves...@gmail.com > > KDiff3 1.9.0 is now released. > > It can be found at

Re: RMS and open letter

2021-03-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mardi, mars 23, 2021 11:11 PM, Luis Falcon a écrit : > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:49:36 + > Carl Schwan c...@carlschwan.eu wrote: > > > Hello all, > > like you probably heard already RMS was reinstatement to the > > Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundati

Re: RMS and open letter

2021-03-23 Thread Carl Schwan
no mar 23 mar 2021 alle ore 20:50 Carl Schwan > c...@carlschwan.eu ha scritto: > > > Hello all, > > like you probably heard already RMS was reinstatement to the > > Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation. RMS has > > always been a negative force to the Free

RMS and open letter

2021-03-23 Thread Carl Schwan
or by submitting a pull request at https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/pulls. Regards, Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu

Re: Prototype Fund

2021-03-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mardi, mars 23, 2021 3:43 PM, Jos van den Oever a écrit : > On maandag 22 maart 2021 22:56:33 CET cahfof...@tuta.io wrote: > > > Dear KDE community, > > for those of you living in Germany: 9 days are left for applying at the > > Prototype Fund (https://prototypefund.de

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Carl Schwan
Le vendredi, mars 12, 2021 7:49 PM, Ben Cooksley a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 3:39 AM Nate Graham wrote: > > > On 3/8/21 1:55 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:55 AM Nate Graham > >     I think doing GitLab stuff first makes sense in terms of usage of your > > >     

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mardi, février 23, 2021 11:25 PM, Nate Graham a écrit : > Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), > > I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up > as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the somewhat > moribund forums.kde.org

Re: ReCaptcha integration in an KDE application

2020-11-07 Thread Carl Schwan
Le samedi, novembre 7, 2020 10:46 PM, Nicolás Alvarez a écrit : > El sáb., 7 de nov. de 2020 a la(s) 18:22, Carl Schwan > (c...@carlschwan.eu) escribió: > > > Hello folks, > > Tobias and I are developing a KDE matrix client using Kirigami > > and other KD

ReCaptcha integration in an KDE application

2020-11-07 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello folks, Tobias and I are developing a KDE matrix client using Kirigami and other KDE frameworks called NeoChat. This is a fork of another QML and now unmaintained Matrix client named Spectral. Tobias is currently implementing the account registration API and we found out that even if it

Re: Announcing MyKDE

2020-10-03 Thread Carl Schwan
sitating of reverting overwriting the template :( I guess this needs a bit more discussion so I opened this invent task: https://invent.kde.org/websites/my-kde-org/-/issues/17 to brainstorm this. Cheers, Carl > > 2020년 10월 3일 토요일 오전 11시 56분 21초 CEST에 Carl Schwan 님이 쓴 글: > > > He

Announcing MyKDE

2020-10-03 Thread Carl Schwan
: https://my.kde.org/user/carlschwan/ Can I contribute to MyKDE? -- Yes, the source code is hosted in https://invent.kde.org/websites/my-kde-org and all the deployment information can be found here: https://sysadmin-docs.kde.org/services/mykde.html Cheers, Carl Schwan https

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-09-27 Thread Carl Schwan
Le dimanche, septembre 27, 2020 10:52 AM, Karl Ove Hufthammer a écrit : > Nicolas Fella skreiv 24.09.2020 11:42: > > > I would be cautious about creating a system that allows targeted > > donations for specific features/requests. I don't want the e.V. to be in > > a position where work is

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-09-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi, septembre 23, 2020 1:32 PM, Eike Hein a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > As Carl's email has lead to people reaching out to me with immediate worries > about KDE e.V.'s financial health, allow me to provide some additional > context. :-) > > KDE e.V.'s expenses in 2019 were higher than

Re: Fundraising in KDE

2020-09-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi, septembre 23, 2020 11:26 AM, a écrit : > > Yes, messaging -- for Blender it's easy because there are many companies > > > funding them for whom blender is a complement that replaces expensive > > alternatives. It's different for KDE, so that needs good thinking. > > Also... Just

Fundraising in KDE

2020-09-22 Thread Carl Schwan
everyone's concern. Also, any help is welcome :) Regards, Carl Schwan KDE Web lead developer https://carlschwan.eu

Website content licensing

2020-09-08 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello everyone, we just talked in the Licensing BOF about the license of the websites and I would like to discuss the possible preferred license for the content of our websites. Currently, for most of the websites, there is none and it's a kind of a problem because it's mean that the websites are

Re: KDE Developer portal

2020-07-12 Thread Carl Schwan
r solution we choose, you can count on me to help with > the content. And again, thank you so much for working on this! > > Cheers, > Ivana Isadora > > Den sön 12 juli 2020 kl 00:29 skrev Carl Schwan : > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Some of you probabl

KDE Developer portal

2020-07-11 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello everyone, Some of you probably saw the "First-class user & developer documentation centralized on a portal" goal proposal by Isadora one year ago (https://phabricator.kde.org/T11096). I shared Isadora's opinion, of having a good developer portal with all the information on how to use the

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

2020-06-12 Thread Carl Schwan
Le vendredi, juin 12, 2020 1:45 PM, Kevin Ottens a écrit : > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:17:46 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2020, 15:04:34 CEST schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau: > > > > > I am missing what this email thread here should achieve, despite being > > >

Re: The chat situation

2020-06-11 Thread Carl Schwan
, particularly when you consider identity, presence and persistence. Other open source projects are migrating to Matrix or Gitter, and soon or later KDE will need to make a decision. On 11/06/2020 09.09, Carl Schwan wrote: Hi, Strong +1 on this. The current situation is far from good. Currently

Re: The chat situation

2020-06-10 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, Strong +1 on this. The current situation is far from good. Currently to have a good communication application I need to either use a proprietary platform, use a platform who doesn't support images and for which I need to set up a bouncer on my server or use a platform which lags a lot and

Re: access to professional libraries etc

2020-05-18 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, I like the idea very much but it seems like O'Reilly's video and book library are very expansive. From the website for a team-up from 2 to 25 members, it is $499 per user and per year. I guess with more members and being an open-source organization we could negotiate a cheaper price but

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-29 Thread Carl Schwan
Ok after a small chat with the Bhushan I learned that the plan is to use gitlab-triage instead of project labels. This should be way more powerful :D Sorry for the trouble Carl ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Le mercredi, avril 29, 2020 2:37 PM, Carl Schwan a écrit : > Hi Sysadm

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-29 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi Sysadmins, since we are speaking about workboard for groups, what is the plan for groups that don't work on a single project but on all of the KDE projects (e.g. VDG, documentation, localization, websites)? I experimented a bit with project tags

Re: update on Akademy

2020-03-25 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, thanks for taking this decision and keeping us informed. With the current context, I think this is the right decision. Regards, Carl Le mercredi, mars 25, 2020 7:21 PM, Lydia Pintscher a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to give you an update on this year's Akademy. The Akademy > team

Re: New planet KDE

2020-03-15 Thread Carl Schwan
12 Mar 2020 14:19:26 + > > > Carl Schwan c...@carlschwan.eu wrote: > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > A new version of planet.kde.org is now available. From a technical > > > > point of > > > > view, this is a migration form

Re: Licensing Policy and modified Apache License

2020-03-12 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi, mars 12, 2020 4:18 PM, Luigi Toscano a écrit : > Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 15:41, L. E. Segovia > mailto:a...@amyspark.me> wrote: > > > > The modification in question is located here: > > https://github.com/wdas/SeExpr/blob/master/LICENSE >

New planet KDE

2020-03-12 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello everyone, A new version of planet.kde.org is now available. From a technical point of view, this is a migration form the rawdog planet agregator to the pluto engine and also reuse the Jekyll theme used in various other KDE website. The new Planet offers a bigger selection of language and

Re: A safe haven for the community's memories

2020-01-27 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello Piyush, I would love to see more photos of event collected in a central place. The idea behind having only 100Mb of storage per user is that people don't start using share.kde.org for personal use, instead we can have shared folders accessible for everyone and with a much bigger storage

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

2020-01-26 Thread Carl Schwan
Thanks for your work on this. Cheers Carl \ Original Message On 26 Jan 2020, 18:20, Andreas Cord-Landwehr < cordlandw...@kde.org> wrote: Hi, since no more comments came up, today I updated the licensing policy with the extensions to allow and even prefer SPDX markers in a way

Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage

2020-01-24 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, since there wasn't any opposition, I now landed this patch on behalf of Niccolo. Great work! Check it out at: https://kde.org/hardware Cheers, Carl ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Le jeudi, janvier 23, 2020 2:42 PM, Niccolò Venerandi a écrit : > Hi! > I'm working on adding a

Re: KDE Developer Documentation

2019-12-27 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi Jucato, Le vendredi, décembre 27, 2019 1:22 PM, Juan Carlos Torres a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > Thank you for the compliments and the pointers! Having the example code in > the git repo is definitely a great idea to make sure they will always > compile. In line with that, we also need to

Re: New website design

2019-12-25 Thread Carl Schwan
things easier for the sysadmin team. > > > > Since the new site has gone live today, I invite everyone to take a look at > > > > https://kphotoalbum.org > > > > > > A very special thanks to Simon Krull who did the initial port from PHP to > > Jekyll, and to

Re: KDE Developer Documentation

2019-12-24 Thread Carl Schwan
Salut Olivier, Having the tutorial next to the code and that they break the compilation if they are out of date is an excellent idea. There is already something similar in Rust[1] were the example in the api documentation are compiled and executed as test. This make it quite easy to write

Re: New homepage for kde.org

2019-12-22 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, sorry for the late answer, I was busy with other things. I saw multiple problems with the current page: + A carousel is a very poor way to represent information. There were multi studies proving that almost nobody bothers to read the slides + The explanation about KDE are terrible: I tried

New homepage for kde.org

2019-12-07 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello everyone, I started working on a new homepage for kde.org, the WIP result can be viewed at https://kde.carlschwan.eu/index-new. The text is still, boilerplate, but I wanted to know if the current direction of this webpage is a good showcase of our softwares and our community. Any early

Re: New kde.org/distributions

2019-12-03 Thread Carl Schwan
I'm on mobile right now so I can't fix it If you want to know how it looks, kde.carlschwan.eu/distributions still works If someone is up dor debugging 1557583 worked fine. https://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/distributions.php?view=log Carl \ Original Message On 3 Dec

New kde.org/distributions

2019-12-03 Thread Carl Schwan
Hello community, I just created a page with some Linux distribution recommendations. Check it out: https://kde.org/distributions A more complete list of distributions is still available at https://community.kde.org/Distributions The discussion to this task can be found here:

Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available

2019-11-27 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi, For me with after clearing the cache it took me 20 seconds and 134 HTTP requests to load the page. So significantly less than Kai but still too much to have a chance to be displayed in the Google search results. Best Carl‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 7:20

Licensing

2019-11-25 Thread Carl Schwan
I think from those issues the last one is the easiest to solve, since the source are available ;) How should we proceed? Cheers Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu publickey - carl@carlschwan.eu - 0x7F564CB5.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Code Related Services

2019-11-16 Thread Carl Schwan
Hi all, Can the gitlab api be of useful in the future? e.g https://invent.kde.org/api/v4/groups/7 Cheers, Carl ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, November 16, 2019 9:51 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 10:39 PM Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: > > > El

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Project Specific Sites

2019-11-13 Thread Carl Schwan
the breeze theme? the more the better ;) When this is done I can start the process to replace the current website (create sysadmin request to get repo with the correct namespace, create merge request to the ci tooling, and more). Cheers Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Project Specific Sites

2019-11-12 Thread Carl Schwan
breeze theme and icons and not from 2012). Let's try to update this website very soon since the mediawiki version is still 1.19 (EOL 2015) Cheers Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu [1]: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org [2]: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org/commit

Finding sponsors for kde ev membership application

2019-11-02 Thread Carl Schwan
to find 3 existing e.V. members to support my application. So if you are already an e.V. member and think I should become one too. Please contact me and support my application. Regards Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu publickey - carl@carlschwan.eu - 0x7F564CB5.asc Description: application/pgp