Re: Bugzilla Update Staged: Testing Requested

2016-10-23 Thread David Edmundson
I had a poke round. There's a new section on the show_bug page between the status summary and the attachments list, which shows a time tracker where you say how long a job should take/is taking. I don't think this makes any sense outside a coroporate environment, so we should turn this off. It's

Re: Changes to the bugzilla workflow: 2 proposals

2016-12-12 Thread David Edmundson
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose two changes to the Bugzilla workflow for our > instance > on bugs.kde.org. The two proposals are totally independent from each > other. > > a) use the "needinfo" flag instead of the NEEDINFO status. > > This i

Re: Applications Lifecycle Policy

2017-07-05 Thread David Edmundson
> 2. Remove playground > Lots of projects get started and die. I think it's important to have some flag (however you want to call it) that says; CI admins, translators and even packagers should not bother looking at this project yet. Otherwise we waste a lot of people's time. The review process

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

2017-08-09 Thread David Edmundson
>We should probably also ask the sysadmin team whether they would be willing to maintain our own chat server. That's "maintain a third chat server". They maintain both kdetalk (jabber) and Conpherence (phabricator) already. David

Re: KDE at Qt World Summit 2017 - let's make it the best yet!

2017-08-21 Thread David Edmundson
​If there's sitll space, I'm happy to come help out. David

Re: KDE exhibiting at freenode live in Bristol, maybe?

2017-09-13 Thread David Edmundson
​I can be there and help run a booth. I'll take leftover flyers from QtWs. David

Re: Shipping non-free drivers

2017-12-15 Thread David Edmundson
>Can we ship it on KDE's file server I would strongly say no. Partly because of the legalities of that code, but also because unless you want to allow everyone to do device specific Neon customisations upstream in Neon, Neon itself shouldn't be doing any. David

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-19 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Nate Graham > wrote: > > I've submitted an idea for System Settings: Improve handling for > touchpads > > and mice with Libinput > > Speaking of systemsettings, would be a good fit porting to qml some > mediu

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-19 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On venerdì 19 gennaio 2018 13:42:25 CET David Edmundson wrote: > > Note that they'll be finishing GSOC around the same time as 5.14, so that > > potentially means GSOC work released in 5.15. > > We shouldn't

Re: bugzilla, it's products, how they relate to projects. it's a mess...

2018-01-29 Thread David Edmundson
For existing stuff there's a problem that bugzilla names are hardcoded into apps. There's kdepackages.h in frameworks that provides a list of all products so that help->report bug works and there's data that drkonqi uses. All done by string not product ID. Renaming any referenced here is we can't

Re: Plasma sprint in Berlin, Germany: April 21st-27th 2018

2018-02-15 Thread David Edmundson
I've started a wiki page, please add yourself when you know you're coming. https://community.kde.org/Sprints/Plasma/2018 This is in addition to the reimbursments page if needed. I'm thinking given there's so many cheap hostels in Berlin we could book a couple of big dorm rooms together if we have

Re: Let's get rid of UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED

2018-04-10 Thread David Edmundson
We have a thread where someone proposes removing statuses, and a proposal which involves adding a status :/ That doesn't sound like we're unified on what we need at all. ​Personally I would use flags for this "reproducible" or not. Advantages are: - it visibly lists who could reproduce it in a w

Re: Twitter access

2018-07-19 Thread David Edmundson
> So that's a no then. Tell these higher-ups that partial blocking of a > proven contributor from completing a specific task when they have 15 > years of track record is demotivating and not how things should be > done in KDE. > Peer review is exactly how things should be done in KDE. I don't un

Re: Twitter access

2018-07-19 Thread David Edmundson
> Maybe someone can edit the wik page and remove my name. Done David

Re: Default bug editing privileges can't change Importance field

2018-09-03 Thread David Edmundson
It's not a mistake. From the thread where permissions are relaxed: >How about we make it so that normal users have full privilages except the following: > >- Can't bulk change >- Can't change Importance field >- Can't re-open bugs in the CLOSED state For a user user the bug that affects them is a

Re: Improving Bugzilla Status Names

2018-09-04 Thread David Edmundson
New/confirmed are more about before/after triage than focussing on reproducible or not. Reproducible or not isn't really a particularly useful thing to know from a dev side. I regularly fix things I can't immediately reproduce. If we want that information a flag solves it better. What's important

Re: Closing NEEDSINFO bugs after 30 days

2018-09-18 Thread David Edmundson
> One of the areas I've found that could use improvement IMHO it's really not a huge problem*. If a reporter doesn't answer back, then they clearly don't care. If its marked as needsinfo it's not in my lists, it doesn't affect me as a dev in the slightest. They're filtered out by default, I have

Re: help desk vs bug tracker

2018-10-29 Thread David Edmundson
>I'm also wondering whether other KDE projects have the seem need as we have for Krita, With my Plasma hat on: Surprisingly, we don't get too many end user questions on bugzilla. I think it tends to get loaded onto the distros instead. We do get quite a few where the user thinks they have a bug

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread David Edmundson
There are legal implications as the copyright is ultimately held by real people. Right now the linux kernel does not accept anonymous or pseudonyms for that reason. There was a thread a while back, it needs a real free software lawyer to give an answer. David

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread David Edmundson
We would need to ask a lawyer. I only know enough to know that I don't know enough.

Re: Invent/gitlab, issues and bugzilla

2019-07-02 Thread David Edmundson
> > Plasma Mobile projects are not included in bugzilla. So, gitlab issues > is the only "decent" alternative for bug tracking. If we disable > issues, then the only alternative I see is to report issues to > Phabricator, which, from my point of view, should be avoided. > Things can be added to bug

Re: General Infrastructure Maintainability: API and EBN

2019-11-10 Thread David Edmundson
For EBN, personally I don't find myself using it. I think clang / llvm warnings / new Qt warnings cover a large part of the source code section. I've made a task listing everything EBN currently checks. Then together can mark off what things have other replacement, and what remaining things are ac

Re: Please don't make planet.kde.org into a politics feed

2019-12-05 Thread David Edmundson
Let's avoid taking the politics to the mailing list as well please, that's even worse. David

Re: New homepage for kde.org

2019-12-23 Thread David Edmundson
>From that website, one thing I'd like to make clear (and I don't know how) is the different target audience/state of completion for plasma vs plasma mobile. Plasma is a ready-to-use user facing product that unskilled people can "just use" Plasma mobile is still aimed at the developers stage. I f

Re: Google Summer of Code Proposal (Draft)

2020-03-25 Thread David Edmundson
As a general rule, brand new programs do not make for good GSOCs. They stall after GSOC ends, and students don't get the real-world experience of working in a team on a project. I would also recommend being more conservative with your goals, so that any pending mentors see them as realistic. A ga

Re: reddit r_KDE uses KDE logo in LGBT colors

2020-07-13 Thread David Edmundson
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 11:14 AM sabayon11 wrote: > I have a question: > Is it legal for reddit moderators of r_KDE to use KDE logo in LGBT > colors. Is it consistent with logo license? > Like KDE itself, Oxygen Icons have a liberal copying policy. Anyone may, and is encouraged to, use Oxygen Ic

Re: Telemetry questions

2020-11-09 Thread David Edmundson
> - discover > - plasma (including plasmashell, systemsettings) Plasma has always had public review at every single step from at least two reviewers. David https://phabricator.kde.org/D24011 https://phabricator.kde.org/D5961

Re: Telemetry questions

2020-11-09 Thread David Edmundson
> - The telemetry policy says: « applications honor system-wide telemetry > settings where they exist (global "kill switch") » > > Is it documented? How can a system administrator prevent users from turning > telemetry on? > ``` /etc/xdg/KDE/UserFeedback.conf [UserFeedback] Enabled=false ``` Docu

Re: Qt goes "commercial only! - what now?

2021-01-07 Thread David Edmundson
That subject title is misleading. >From a user point of view, there will be no impact. David

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread David Edmundson
> Recently I made a minimum viable patch for the KDE Gear release tooling to > bump up the version numbers where those apps have snapcraft packaging files. > However I've been told I shouldn't "overstate the nature of the goal" with an > objection to integrating the packaging into the app repos

Re: Proposal: remove the restriction on normal Bugzilla users being able to change the Severity field

2021-06-19 Thread David Edmundson
>The reason for this change was to stop users with excessive ego from marking >their own tickets and tickets they care deeply about as having the "critical" >Severity level. So what will we do to avoid getting this situation back? I don't care if a user changes it once, but users who constantly

Re: Proposal: remove the restriction on normal Bugzilla users being able to change the Severity field

2021-06-19 Thread David Edmundson
> > I might recommend taking those on a case-by-case basis, by removing > severity-modification privileges for just the problematic users who > abuse the system. If we have the ability to do that, then I have no objections. David

Re: KDE's 6th Megarelease release parties

2023-12-05 Thread David Edmundson
> > > P.S: This is all David Edmundson's fault/responsibility I'm just the > messenger > Which means I should volunteer to organise something in England. Probably Cambridge. If anyone has thoughts or wants to help on that feel free give me a shout.

Re: KDE's 6th Megarelease release parties

2024-01-08 Thread David Edmundson
I will be organising a party in the UK in Cambridge. Details (or lack thereof) are on the wiki. Please let me know if you're interested. David

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-22 Thread David Edmundson
>> in that event I'd like for us to put it >> to a formal KDE e.V. vote > Is this an eV topic? Yes and no. The original decision had a big impact, changing things again will have a big impact. It's not something that should be decided by a few people, nor is it something that should be decided

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-22 Thread David Edmundson
> As a result I'll rescind my idea to slow down Frameworks feature > releases. Then I'll take over and fight for it! >that having a fast Frameworks release cycle allows > people developing apps with features in Frameworks to not have to live > on master like we do in Plasma. That was the motivat

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-08-14 Thread David Edmundson
There is a BOF session booked on the Monday to get some defined actions on how we move forward with this. David

Re: [kde-community] Why were there no talks about Ubuntu Mobile at Akademy?

2013-08-15 Thread David Edmundson
I don't understand the purpose of this email. It is not the job of the KDE community to attempt to bash Canonical at every turn. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Why were there no talks about Ubuntu Mobile at Akademy?

2013-08-15 Thread David Edmundson
I was directing my question to Jos, not Albert. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:39 PM, David Edmundson wrote: > I don't understand the purpose of this email. > > It is not the job of the KDE community to attempt to bash Canonical at > every turn. > ___

Re: [kde-community] KBibTeX

2013-11-05 Thread David Edmundson
As a KBibTex user I would happily welcome this. I imagine you'll be aiming to be in extragear, so unfortunately you're still on your own for release cycles - but there are some utilities that will make your life easier. Before we continue, can I ask you to go through the KDE manifest and check th

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread David Edmundson
There's a change from "_can_ be defended via the FLA" to "_will_ be protected defended via the FLA" (emphasis added by me) As I understand it the FLA is opt in (http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php) and does not automatically cover all projects. David ___

Re: [kde-community] High-quality apps in extragear - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5

2014-01-16 Thread David Edmundson
Given my project is explicitly mentioned, I should reply :) When KTp was moving out of playground, I was told: "It can't go into the SC because Kopete is there and we have a duty to maintain that as the official client for all of 4.x" I don't know if that is true or not, it may have been a commun

Re: [kde-community] QtCurve

2014-01-20 Thread David Edmundson
I think this makes a lot sense and I would welcome QtCurve into KDE. Can you read though http://manifesto.kde.org/ and confirm you would agree to all the commitments (http://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html) of a KDE project. David ___ kde-community m

Re: [kde-community] QtCurve

2014-01-20 Thread David Edmundson
Brilliant. So the next page to read is http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle. It explains the entrance process and the SC vs extragear. In short we leave this thread for a few days for anyone else to make positive or negative comments about the software entering KDE. Then if ever

Re: [kde-community] Thank you!

2014-02-12 Thread David Edmundson
> kde-telepathy team. Working tirelessly to bring us a nice chatting experience. Thanks :) My personal hero of the year is Diane Trout. We have had broken video calls for ages because we don't have Qt bindings for GStreamer 1.0, only the older version. People would always ask us, and I would alwa

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Wednesday 19. February 2014 12.58.57 Agustin benito bethencourt wrote: >> I must confess though that I am worry about the association between: >> * proprietary platforms = commercial >> * free platforms = non commercial >> >> that might be

Re: [kde-community] Jitsi Meet installation for KDE?

2014-08-01 Thread David Edmundson
AFAIK QTox doesn't have group video just 1-1. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Make the World a Better Place! - KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraising

2014-10-22 Thread David Edmundson
> > > Simple "Make the world better - link". Bugzilla mails always have at least > 2 lines footer anyway, like > > Better yet, only include it when it changes to RESOLVED - FIXED :D I liked my own idea so much I wanted to see how easy it would be. Should be just changing newchangedmail.txt.tmpl to

Re: [kde-community] Make the World a Better Place! - KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraising

2014-10-26 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2014 00:27:29 David Edmundson wrote: > > > Simple "Make the world better - link". Bugzilla mails always have at > least > > > 2 lines footer anyway, like > > > > >

Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?

2014-12-19 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > Hey folks :) > > 2014 is coming to an end. This gives us some time for reflection. What > are your KDE highlights of 2014? A team that kicked ass? A really good > release? An event where you made great new friends? Something entirely > d

Re: [kde-community] RFC: Announcing new mailing lists

2014-12-20 Thread David Edmundson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dissabte, 20 de desembre de 2014, a les 22:19:35, Ben Cooksley va > escriure: > >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > >> > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, Dec 19,

Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?

2014-12-23 Thread David Edmundson
On 23 Dec 2014 20:19, "Jonathan Riddell" wrote: > > > I moved to Barcelona so I could spend my days in the KDE office here *blue systems office > > Jonathan > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listi

Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?

2014-12-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 20.31:55 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Sign on the door says KDE > > Does it say "Blue Systems" on the door, or just "KDE"? > It says "1a" in large silver letters. We then added a gratuitous amount of stickers.

Re: [kde-community] retiring unmaintained modules?

2015-01-20 Thread David Edmundson
​I intend to close all systemsettings->kcm_randr It's obsoleted in the last cycles of 4.x by kscreen and completely dropped in Plasma 5. They're of no use to anyone now. David ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mai

Re: [kde-community] Community Inputs on KScreenGenie

2015-04-27 Thread David Edmundson
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > KScreenGenie actually works now, for daily use purposes (it probably > has a few bugs, but I'm handling them as reports come in), so I > thought I'd pop over to the KDE forums and make a request for a new > icon so that I co

Re: [kde-community] Updating TechBase Getting_Started pages

2015-08-17 Thread David Edmundson
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:53 AM, John Layt wrote: > Hi, > > I've started to update the old TechBase Getting_Started pages for the > new KF5 world [1]. > > My aim is to teach the one simplest quickest way to build KF5 for new > KDE contributors. There's a few key concepts I want this rewrite to >

Re: [kde-community] Phabricator: Make it happen already!

2015-08-27 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 20:57:25 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > +1 > > (I am using it as if it was official) > > Same here. The Plasma team is in the process of migrating to > phaaab! > already. > To clarify, the mobile only s

Re: [kde-community] Phabricator: Make it happen already!

2015-09-04 Thread David Edmundson
> that we'll be moving forward with Phabricator Can we confirm what parts we're moving forwards with right now i.e out of projects.kde.org reviewboard, bugzilla, etc. >Because a number of policy matters need to be decided, it would be nice if a small group of people would work with sysadmin to

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-16 Thread David Edmundson
I'm on it. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-16 Thread David Edmundson
I am great. https://github.com/kde is now ours. David ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-17 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:57 AM, David Edmundson > wrote: > > I am great. > > > > https://github.com/kde is now ours. > > Well done, that was quick. Anyone volunteers to write the script which > mirr

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-17 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Patrick von Reth wrote: > Hm I have an existing github mirror with some stars. Instead of > creating a new mirror I'd prefer to just set KDE to the new owner of > the Project. > I guess this is not the only project where that kind of migration is > preferable. > S

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-18 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Friday, September 18, 2015 2:14:00 PM CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > On 18 September 2015 at 14:00, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek > wrote: > > >> On 18 September 2015 at 13:42, Boudhay

Re: [kde-community] Have repo maintainers opt-in for github mirroring (was: Re: Official KDE mirror on github)

2015-09-18 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 17:12:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > > Ladies and gentlemen, as you read this mail github.com/kde is being > > populated by the initial sync of all repositories. > > Pardon for the late input

Re: [kde-community] Have repo maintainers opt-in for github mirroring (was: Re: Official KDE mirror on github)

2015-09-19 Thread David Edmundson
> > > > I was under the impression they were disabled by the options we had > > selected. Unfortunately that is not the case. > > Thanks for clarifying on this. > > I hope they can still be disabled. > > They can't. I had spent some time looking before. Sorry. However, we have solid hard data that

Re: [kde-community] Write our own pull request bot?

2015-09-20 Thread David Edmundson
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Bhushan Shah wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Martin Klapetek >> wrote: >> > >> > Gnome in their years history of github mirroring had 4 pull requests >> > (it was mentioned in the other thre

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread David Edmundson
I have two main questions. I'll make them as new threads. KDE as a community currently has a clear unique selling point for new projects; Qt libraries, Qt expertise, and connections. A common thread that makes it worth being a community. We've seen this work in the past with existing Qt projects l

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-15 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > A while ago Albert gave a talk at Akademy about collecting some data > on our users. This got me thinking and with Neon I wanted to see how > many installs we had. Our package install software will check for new > versions being availab