Re: Change to Mail Infrastructure - SPF and DKIM verification will now be enforced

2015-12-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Can we please lower the temperature on this discussion a bit? On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote: >> On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:09:43 CET, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >>> >>> It is irrelevant what our personal preference about d

Re: Change to Mail Infrastructure - SPF and DKIM verification will now be enforced

2015-12-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I just submitted a request to Ubuntu to upgrade their list infra. I showed Ben a sample email header and they were not compliant. I included a link to Ben's explanatory post: http://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144956641505429&w=1 It took less than five minutes to file the ticket. All the best,

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016 - C# bindings for Qt

2016-03-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi all, On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi Joao, > > On Thursday, March 03, 2016 19:36:05 Joao Matos wrote: >> Hi Sebastian and the rest of the KDE community, >> >> I'd like to propose to mentor Dimitar but I have no idea what the policy of >> the KDE project >> is regar

Re: KDE file dialog

2016-03-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I realize I'm slightly orthagonal to the original topic, but On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Hi, > >> Distributions set up distribution-wide "Sans", "Serif" and "Monospace" >> aliases for a reason. The fonts are carefully selected by the distribution >> based on a

Ranking and mentors needed for GSoC student

2016-04-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello to all readers. I'm writing to you to ask you to mentor this student who needs a primary mentor. The Dolphin maintainer and community can't step up and do this, although the maintainer can help. Pinak Ahuja has offered to be backup co-mentor already. Anyone somewhat familiar with Baloo and/or

Mentoring, student programs coming up

2016-09-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I have no announcements, but was thinking about our Season of KDE and how we can enlarge and improve it. I believe we've been thinking of it too much like GSoC, when it can be so much more. For instance, I've seen a few announcements from maintainers wanting to step back from a large pie

As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

2017-01-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous ideas on it. If you or your project plan to present a former idea again, click on the 2016 Ideas link, and copy/paste it into the 20

Re: As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

2017-01-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas > > It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous > ideas on it. If you or your project plan

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

2017-02-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications are

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Now. Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so now is the time for organizations to apply[1]. We have begun to write our

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
to it for the last email. Valorie On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, > > TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read > https://community.kde.org

Tipping the apple cart?

2019-06-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the reviewers by

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

2019-07-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 11:47 PM Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Hi, > > > In our move to Gitlab, we can do better. > > Given Gitlab emails contain even less information and context than > Phabricator which themselves contained even less information and context > than Reviewboard back then, I don't see

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

2019-07-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
2019 at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our > code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get > missed, and submitters get confu

Re: Work Branches

2019-10-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hey Ben and developers, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:11 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently we had a discussion (which I think may have ended up spread > over a couple of mailing lists in the end) concerning branches and the > ability to force push to them. > > Current policy forbids force

Re: Less time for KDE... :-)

2013-12-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Hi, > > for very happy personal reasons (since Tuesday, named David :-) ) I'll have > significantly less time for KDE in the future. > Still I'll stick around and try my best. > > Alex > > P.S. no, it is not because of dfaure ;-) Congra

Thinking together

2014-12-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, I've been reading the very intense discussion about the future of our infrastructure, and the passion is good to see. I hope all of the participants will keep in mind that we are thinking together about the future of KDE, not supporting products or positions. Already I've heard one p

Holes in KDE (fork of "Changes in Git Infra" thread)

2015-01-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Comment often heard: we've lost $person / we're missing people to maintain/lead/do $project. This is understandable, and to be expected in a large, mature project such as KDE. However, in #kde and #kde-devel IRC channels we have new people almost daily trying to find some way to get involved with

Finding the Unloved

2011-09-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
loved applications, teams, or areas in KDE. Please add to the list here: http://community.kde.org/KDE/Finding_The_Unloved . All the best, Valorie Zimmerman Member, Community Working Group http://about.me/valoriez -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Check out our Guide for new KDE developers

2011-11-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, last month a team of three young developers and one non-devel were sponsored by Google to Google's first documentation sprint, along with 3 other teams: OpenMRS, OpenStreetMaps, and Sahana Eden. Each team wrote a book that week which was publ