Fwd: 24.04 Kubuntu problems

2024-04-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ght-locker to remove the re-login after a session goes to sleep The above also seems to have cured my problem of audio going to sleep as well. On 4/16/24 00:27, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: Hello Bmarsh, have you filed a bug and put the bug report # into the QA tracker? This sounds important, and I w

Re: More 5.27 Releases

2024-02-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
These replies about a certain amount of bug-fix releases make me very happy as a Kubuntu user. Our next LTS will be released in March 2024, and thus can't be based on Qt6, but we really look forward to the October 2024 release based on a stable Qt6-based Plasma, Frameworks and apps release. Many

Fwd: Plasma 6 beta version numbers

2023-10-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
-- Forwarded message - From: David Edmundson Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 2:23 PM Subject: Plasma 6 beta version numbers To: Plasma There is a thread at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/112 with a proposed change in the planned version numbers of 6. If any

Fwd: BUG IN KUBUNTU WEBSITE

2023-06-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
KDE WWW team asked that the reporter speak to us, but I don't know that they will. Staying on an LTS would be understandable, but 22.10 is about out of support. -v -- Forwarded message - From: gopi krishna Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:41 PM Subject: BUG IN KUBUNTU WEBSITE To:

Re: Brainstorming

2023-01-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Tony, nice to hear from you. Much of the day-to-day conversation around development takes place in IRC/Matrix, so it would be good if you joined in there. #kubuntu-devel or the equivalent in Matrix/Telegram. All the best, Valorie, for the Kubuntu Council On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 6:59 AM Tony

Fwd: KUbuntu folks please update the "How to create useful crash reports" wiki page

2022-11-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
-- Forwarded message - From: Albert Astals Cid Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 11:57 AM Subject: KUbuntu folks please update the "How to create useful crash reports" wiki page To: In https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461258 I asked the reported to provide a backtrace and he

Re: Kubuntu Council Elections 2022 - Call for nominations

2022-08-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
gt;/ > ( )\( ) Darin | 208-283-1574 > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 2:36 PM Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, my time to volunteer has been short, lately. I am willing to >> stand for election if we do not have others step u

Re: Kubuntu Council Elections 2022 - Call for nominations

2022-08-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ing Council members are due to expire on the 2nd > September 2022: > > Myriam Schweingruber > Simon Quigley > Valorie Zimmerman > > I hereby call for nominations for the Kubuntu Council to elect three (3) > members and hope that current members will continue to serve until we

Congratulations returning Kubuntu Council members!

2021-09-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Thanks to timely help from other KC members, our election was successfully held, and all candidates are back for another 2-year term. So welcome back to Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis, and Rik Mills. Thanks for stepping up to vote, Kubuntu Members! Valorie, for the KC --

Council Elections - sorry, I botched this up.

2021-09-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I need to figure out how to cancel this poll, and create a new one, or maybe 3 new ones? Please contact with advice if you know. Valorie Zimmerman, valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Valorie Zimmerman (https://launchpad.net/~valorie-zimmerman) to each member

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Council Elections

2021-09-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I think the poll is set up correctly; voting commences in 17 hours. Sorry for the delay. Valorie On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 12:12 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, Aaron, Rick and Rik have all confirmed that they will stand again, > so I declare the

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Council Elections

2021-09-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Mills, wrote: > >> On 28/08/2021 20:09, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> > Woopsie, we forgot to run an election for our expiring Council Members, >> > so Rik just extended them for another month, to give us time to run the >> > election. > Please speak up if you are

Council Elections: Deadline for Nominations

2021-08-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Zimmerman (https://launchpad.net/~valorie-zimmerman) to each member of the Kubuntu Members team using the "Contact this team" link on the Kubuntu Members team page (https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople -

Council Elections

2021-08-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Timmis |2017-09-11 - 2021-09-30 Rik Mills| 2017-09-11 - 2021-09-30 Simon Quigley| 2018-09-01 2022-09-01 Valorie Zimmerman| 2013-05-20 - 2022-09-01 Tldr; Aaron, Rick and Rik are all expiring at the end of the year. Please speak up if you are going to stand again! I would like to nominate Marco

Council Elections

2021-08-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
*Rick Timmis* |2017-09-11 - 2021-09-30 *Rik Mills*| 2017-09-11 - 2021-09-30 Simon Quigley| 2018-09-01 2022-09-01 Valorie Zimmerman| 2013-05-20 - 2022-09-01 Tldr; Aaron, Rick and Rik are all expiring at the end of the year. Please speak up if you are going to stand again! I would like to nominate

Re: New PPA for Backports + Qt

2021-02-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
This is great news, Erich! Talk about win-win-win! Win for Kubuntu, win for Ubuntu Studio, and win for the Focus team! Valorie On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 9:07 AM Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > Many of you already know me. I've been working on Ubuntu Studio for the > past 3 > years,

Fwd: Possible Calamares BoF at Akademy

2020-09-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Some of you are not subscribed to the new list for Ubuntu-flavors, at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-flavors. Please subscribe if you are interested in working on packaging or other joint efforts with the other flavors. I hope many of you are already registered to KDE Akademy

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Councillor re-appointments

2020-09-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ears. > > Thank you to all those who took part in the polls, and apologies to those > who could not as the poll was restricted to Kubuntu Members only. > > Myriam Schwiengruber, Simon Quigley and Valorie Zimmerman terms are > extended until September 2022 > > Best Wishes &

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council reappointment polls

2020-08-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
announce the poll information to the community mailing > lists, an oversight on my part. > > > Kubuntu Council members Myriam Scheingruber, Simon Quigley, and Valorie > Zimmerman end their terms of service with the council on 2nd September > 2020. Calls for nominations revealed

Re: Stepping down as Qt 6 maintainers

2020-08-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I agree, Rik -- it could be a problem. On the other hand, neon manages to package Qt -- is there any discussion about using that packaging in Debian? It seems crazy to package something so massive *twice*. Valorie On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:31 AM Rik Mills wrote: > Could pose us a problem. > >

Testing needed for 20.04.1

2020-07-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
See the Discourse thread: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-1-lts-point-release-status-tracking/17604 As usual, log bug reports and successful tests at https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/414/builds Thanks, Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her --

Kubuntu Council Nominations

2020-07-29 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
The notice that nominations are open lacked an end date. Since it was issued on the 23rd of June, 6 days ago, it's a bit abrupt to close it tomorrow -- and we still have one open position. So nominations will close August 3rd, which is a good 10 days. If you are a Kubuntu Member, please consider

Re: Test images are up

2020-07-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
gt; > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:56 PM Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Test images are up: >> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/414/builds/217725/testcases >> >> Please link bug report numbers in the test cases there. >

Test images are up

2020-07-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Test images are up: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/414/builds/217725/testcases Please link bug report numbers in the test cases there. Thanks, Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Elections

2020-07-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Thanks, Rick! On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:16 AM Rick Timmis wrote: > Dear Kubuntu Community > > Three of our serving Kubuntu Councillors are coming to the end of their > current term in office. > Of course we sincerely hope that Myriam, Valorie and Simon will stand for > re-election. > > More

Re: BoF Sign-Ups

2020-07-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
18, 2020 at 12:45 AM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi y'all, shall we have a Kubuntu BoF at Akademy this year? It's always > been great fun, even when some were missing. Has everyone registered? > > Valorie > -- Forwarded message -

Coming up: KC elections - #VolunteerOpportunity

2020-07-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Some terms end in September and we need the call for nominations at least two months before. Who would like to run this election? Myriam, Simon and I will all expire September 1, 2020 so none of us can do this unless we're retiring. All the best, Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez -

Fwd: BoF Sign-Ups

2020-07-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi y'all, shall we have a Kubuntu BoF at Akademy this year? It's always been great fun, even when some were missing. Has everyone registered? Valorie -- Forwarded message - From: Allyson Alexandrou Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:26 PM Subject: BoF Sign-Ups To: There are still

Re: Kubuntu Website Template Options

2020-07-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Carl, I love it! Thanks for getting us moving on this even more quickly. All the best on American Independence Day, Valorie On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:35 PM Mike Mikowski wrote: > Oh, very nice! > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 06:05 Rick Timmis > wrote: > >> Hey, how cool is that  >> I love it 殺 >>

Test Groovy with Plasma 5.19

2020-06-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, Rik just posted: https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-19-testing-in-groovy-gorrila/ Also tweeted, please retweet: https://twitter.com/kubuntu/status/1277978377815646208 Congratulations to Rik and the team for a lot of great work. This cycle upgrading Plasma involved getting the newest Qt

Re: Refactoring kubuntu. org

2020-06-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:50 AM Rick Timmis wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I have a proposal to address our out of date WordPress website and its > infrastructure. Building a dynamically generated site makes maintenance and > administration an important task, and keeping everything secure even

Re: Bug in Muon Package Manager (muon) in 20.04

2020-04-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Paul, this sounds like a packaging bug, so please `ubuntu-bug muon` in the commandline and put what you've got below in the bug report. You can mention in the title or description that a required dependency has not been declared. Thanks! Valorie On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:34 PM Paul Loughman

Re: kubuntu daily broken

2020-04-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I'm CC'ing the devel list on this, Peter. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:09 AM Peter Teuben wrote: > > My beta (from april 1) is booting/installing fine, the incremental one > that updated every few hours, was broken this morning (the filesystem > went R/O and a reboot threw me into some boot

Testing for the Beta – help needed!

2020-03-26 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Kubuntu 20.04 Testing Week The Kubuntu team is delighted to announce an ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 2nd to April 8th with other flavors in the Ubuntu family. April 2nd is the beta release of what will become Kubuntu 20.04 and during this week, there will be a freeze on changes to features,

Fwd: Release Candidate (and testable!) Eoan Ermine builds ready to test

2019-10-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Ahoy ahoy! Time to test! -- Forwarded message - From: Simon Quigley Date: Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:25 PM Subject: Release Candidate (and testable!) Eoan Ermine builds ready to test To: Cc: Hello, It's that time again. Eoan Final builds should now be available on the ISO QA

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Election 2019 results

2019-08-31 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Yay for the Kubuntu Community, and congratulations to Aaroon, Rik and Rick! May you serve us well. :-) Valorie, off to Akademy in a few hours. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 3:08 PM Rik Mills wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The Kubuntu Council 2019 polls closed a short while ago. > > Aaron Honeycutt >

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Election 2019 voting

2019-08-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Wow, this was super-easy! Thanks for thinking of this, Rik, and making it happen. <3 Valorie On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:59 AM Rik Mills wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The call for nominations in the election has now closed, and the > following 3 candidates have been nominated: > > Aaron Honeycutt >

Re: Installing kopete-data removes all kde-l10n packages

2019-08-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Mark, did you get any help with this? Did you file or find a bug report about this? Because it seems like a packaging error, in my amateur opinion. The best and easiest way to file a bug report is in the commandline (terminal or Konsole): `ubuntu-bug kopete-data` (without the ticks) and then

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Elections 2019 - Call for Nominations

2019-08-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Greetings to all of you. On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:33 AM Rik Mills wrote: > Hello Kubuntu community! > > The terms for the following Council members are due to expire on the 1st > September 2019: > > Aaron Honeycutt > Rick Timmis > Rik Mills > > I hereby call for nominations for the Kubuntu

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Elections 2019 - Call for Nominations

2019-08-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Super to hear that Rik and Aaron will be standing again. Please feel free to mention what you do in Kubuntu and what you plan for the next while Rick Timmis, are you standing again, I hope? I'm going to be very busy the next few week with preparing for and attending Akademy. Is anyone available

Re: KDE Partition Manager - do we need to add this to our packaging? or is this a KDE bug

2019-08-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
alorie: I know about sudo ;-) but kdesu does not work actually [00:01] running gui applications using sudo will make hash of your permissions [00:01] have you tried pkexec? [00:02] if that works but inputting your passw doesn't, then i would file a bug report > > > On August 10, 2019 5:

KDE Partition Manager - do we need to add this to our packaging? or is this a KDE bug

2019-08-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Yesterday (or so) in #kubuntu: [01:15] pkexec is a PolicyKit tool that allows an authorized user to run (graphical) applications as another user. To run a graphical application (e.g. gedit) which can write to the entire filesystem, use e.g. "pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY

Question on https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372160

2019-08-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I reported this to KDE some time ago, and am following up, because I still experience the bug, which is that size no longer shows in the info panel about images. File size is reported, but not the actual size of the image. One developer said that Dolphin was not responsible, because "the metadata

Re: Time for KC elections!

2019-08-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Thank you! On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:36 AM Rik Mills wrote: > On 06/08/2019 07:50, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hello folks, my caledar tells me that soon it will be time for > > elections. We need someone to step up and *run* the election, which > > means asking for no

Time for KC elections!

2019-08-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, my caledar tells me that soon it will be time for elections. We need someone to step up and *run* the election, which means asking for nominations, setting up the poll, sending ballots to all Kubuntu Members, remind people to vote, close the poll and announce the results. Thanks in

Fwd: Invitation for KDE contributors to attend Ubucon 2019, 10-13 October, Sintra, Portugal

2019-07-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Ooooh! Who can go? Valorie -- Forwarded message - From: Neofytos Kolokotronis Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:58 PM Subject: Invitation for KDE contributors to attend Ubucon 2019, 10-13 October, Sintra, Portugal To: Kde community Hello everyone, Diogo Constantino from Ubucon's

Fwd: Krita 4.2.3 released

2019-07-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
-- Forwarded message - From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:08 AM Subject: Krita 4.2.3 released To: , We've just officially released Krita 4.2.3, another bug fix release. Fun fact: we've once again managed to release the work of a gsoc student, Sharaf Zaman this

Re: kubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 172, Issue 7

2019-04-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 6:07 AM James Cain wrote: > On 2019-04-22 08:00, kubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > > As the newly released Kubuntu 19.04 makes it's way into the world, > inevitably other things come to their end. > > Kubuntu 14.04 LTS was released in April 2014, and reaches

Please test the "test it and fix stuff now, FFS" pre-RC

2019-04-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
There are some problems that still need testing, bug-reporting and fixing before the hopefully-final RC of Disco Dingo (19.04) on Monday, according to the #ubuntu-release channel. Please log into http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/403/builds, download the Kubuntu image (and others if

Testing help needed: Beta candidate ISOs available

2019-03-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, please visit http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/402/builds/190334/testcases and see what's needed, and help out. The little CD icon leads you to the ISO for downloading/zsyncing. Please report bugs and link them by number, such as https://launchpad.net/bugs/1821847 is

Trusty point release

2019-02-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, at the time Trusty became 14.04 and then the LTS, Kubuntu pledged support for 5 years. While that 5 years is nearly up, there is a pending point release: "we will be respinning new point-releases for trusty and xenial in the nearest days because of the apt vulnerability that was

Kubuntu Social team

2018-11-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello Council, developers and other interested people: After some discussion about how to manage our social accounts, we're made a secret team. The reason it's secret is that the mail list can that way be secret as well, and thus we can share passwords and other login information. If you would

Kubuntu social media accounts - help needed

2018-11-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, We have a social media presence on Mastodon again: https://mastodon.technology/@Kubuntu . If you are on mastodon, please follow us and boost our toots! If you aren't, you might try it out. It is a different experience than twitter; much more friendly. That said, we have a twitter

Re: question about QA'ing 19.04

2018-11-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:38 AM charlie wrote: > I'm in the middle of testing 19.04 and I found the list of mandatory tasks > on iso.qa.ubuntu.com and when testing, say the live session, which is > what I'm testing at the moment, do I need to actually need to perform a > task with each of the

Cosmic Beta just around the corner!

2018-09-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, this is a bit late from me, but: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2018-September/001251.html Now is the time to login to http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/396/builds and test, test, test! Please report bugs when you find them and note those bug

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Elections 2018 - Call for Nominations

2018-09-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Rik Mills wrote: > Hi Kubuntu community! > > The Poll for the 2018 Kubuntu Council elections closed a short while ago. > > I have the pleasure of announcing the three elected members to the > Kubuntu Council. In order of voter preference: > &

Re: Kubuntu Council Election 2018 voting

2018-08-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
PS: Vote! On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Rik Mills wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The call for nominations in the election has now closed, and the > following 5 candidates have been nominated: > > Jose Manuel Santamaria Lema > Darin Miller > Simon Quigley > Myriam Schwei

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Council Elections 2018 - Call for Nominations

2018-08-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ity! > > Unfortunately, we overlooked that three (3) of our Kubuntu Council > members are expiring shortly! > > The terms for the following Council members are due to expire on the 2nd > September 2018: > > Myriam Schweingruber > Philip Muškovac > Valorie Zimmerman

Re: Canonical's Point of Contact on KDE's Advisory Board.

2018-08-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 16:32, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> >> Ah Gerry, I was hoping to see you at Akademy in a bit over a week! >> Popey or Wimpress, are either of you planning to be there? >

Re: Canonical's Point of Contact on KDE's Advisory Board.

2018-07-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Ah Gerry, I was hoping to see you at Akademy in a bit over a week! Popey or Wimpress, are either of you planning to be there? Valorie On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Gerry Boland wrote: > Hi all, > I wish to announce that I am passing on the position of Canonical's > Point of Contact on KDE's

Re: Help test 18.04.1 Release Candidate images!

2018-07-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
In the directory where you store your ISOs: cp kubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso bionic-desktop-amd64.iso && zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/bionic/daily-live/20180724/bionic-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync Tip of the hat to Marco Parillo for writing that! Valorie On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:16

Re: Fwd: Interest in a KDE Distro BoF?

2018-07-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Valorie > On 07/05/2018 05:19 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> >> Hello folks, I'm going to Akademy! Tickets are bought, accomodations >> are booked, and funding is applied for. Now it's time to plan how to >> support Kubuntu there. Who else is going? If you have reg

Fwd: Interest in a KDE Distro BoF?

2018-07-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, I'm going to Akademy! Tickets are bought, accomodations are booked, and funding is applied for. Now it's time to plan how to support Kubuntu there. Who else is going? If you have registered, you are on the attendees list and got the below. If not, please register now:

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Backports PPA policy for 18.04 LTS

2018-05-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 1:12 AM, Rik Mills wrote: > Our default PPA policy for LTS releases states that [1] > > "Monthly KDE software release backports are made available through the > Kubuntu PPA for as long as supported by the native LTS software stack > but no longer than

Fwd: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, I'm forwarding the following email to Ubuntu-devel ML to explain the thinking on the part of the Ubuntu developers as to why they are discontinuing the i386 images. For us, this would mean that the 18.04 LTS is the last i386 ISO that we will be publishing. I'm reluctant to do this,

Re: thanks for kubuntu 18.08

2018-05-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello Michael, it's good to hear from you. Thanks for the praise and kind words! It feels absolutely great to hear that our users like our work. Valorie On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From:

Kubuntu on a usb drive

2018-05-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
John, got your email: Subiect: kubuntu Dată: miercuri, 25 aprilie 2018, 03:14:55 EEST De la: john johnson To: Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN I have very slow internet because I live in the foothills of California and was wondering if there was a way I

Re: It wasn't the last Final Bionic -- new spin needs brief testing if at all possible

2018-04-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Clemmons <wkclemm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Valorie Zimmerman, > > Why is there a minimize button on the Kubuntu installer window? I > accidentally clicked on it and the installation was hosed. > > Thanks > warren > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Valorie Zimmerm

It wasn't the last Final Bionic -- new spin needs brief testing if at all possible

2018-04-26 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks there were a couple of last minute bugs found and fixed, which required one more respin. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds Please rsync and check: the live session and the slideshow at least. Thanks, one more time! Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez --

Final final FINAL Bionic RC images are available for testing

2018-04-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Final -- we hope! Test the heck out of this, folks. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds <--- only test results reported on the tracker count! And please file bugs if necessary. There probably isn't time to fix anything but critical bugs, but we can definitely make the

Re: Last Bionic Final testing -- we hope!

2018-04-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ine running on PVE. > > > Franklin Then in your opinion, is it worthwhile to offer them? I was thinking of you in particular when I argued for continuing to provide them. Testing would be a great deal easier with only amd64! > 2018-04-25 13:25 GMT+08:00 Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimme

Re: Last Bionic Final testing -- we hope!

2018-04-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
By the way, there are i386 tests done (thanks, crimsun!) but non on i386 hardware. I hope you i386 users can get this done soon. Remember to note what environment you are using to test. Thanks, Valorie On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote

Last Bionic Final testing -- we hope!

2018-04-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, new ISOs are again available. Zsync really saves time if you already have a Bionic Final image saved. Just remember to cd to that folder first. :-) One more time, please! Especially you lovely i386 users. All the best, Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez -- kubuntu-devel mailing

Second RC spin available to test

2018-04-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, some bugs are fixed although more are still in train, so we could (and probably will) see Yet Another Spin. But this is what we have right now, so if you have a bit of time, please test! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds And of course a special call-out to

Wow, you testers overwhelm with awesomeness!

2018-04-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I just looked at the qatracker, and we have done ALL our RC tests and some more than once! Some bugs reported have already been fixed, and it is possible that the ISOs will be respun tomorrow or Monday. If so, we may need some more testing, but for now, we are sitting pretty! Feel free to help

Bionic Release Candidate milestone approaching

2018-04-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, we had such a good Beta 2 testing, I'm hoping for testing awesomeness for the RC. The schedule says * April 19th: FinalFreeze,  ReleaseCandidate,  LanguagePackTranslationDeadline * April 26th: FinalRelease,  Ubuntu 18.04 We'll see the images (as usual) at

Re: Kubuntu website requests

2018-04-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Nice to hear from you Ovidiu-Florin. Jon isn't responsible for the website anymore. We should investigate changing that email address and also evaluate the requests! Valorie On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN wrote: > > -- Forwarded message

Congratulations on a great Beta 2 milestone! Next up: BANNER

2018-04-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, We had a lot of help testing Beta 2 candidates, thank you so much! It was Hell week for me and the extra testing -- especially the i386 testing helped sooo much. Our next testing push will be the Release Candidate scheduled for 19 April, so put that on your testing calendar. Of course,

Re: amd64 Beta 2 candidate testing going well; i386 testing -- none?

2018-04-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
it today as much as possible. > > (just woke up) > > Franklin > > -- > Sent from my phone > > Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> 於 2018年4月5日 週四 07:35 寫道: >> >> I didn't write to the list yesterday about the candidate ISOs >> droppi

amd64 Beta 2 candidate testing going well; i386 testing -- none?

2018-04-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I didn't write to the list yesterday about the candidate ISOs dropping, because of computer problems here. I lost a SSD (I think) but created a Bionic upgrade on another disk. So that was a success, but it takes time to provision a new install, as you know. Anyway, i386 users, now or never! I

Kubuntu Bionic Beta 2 candidate images spinning soon

2018-04-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, just a bit of advance notice for everyone who would like to help us test the heck out of this, to make Kubuntu 18.04 the best ever LTS! To get a jump on this, create a login on the quatracker if you don't have one: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds Download a

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Dev Meeting 3/24/18

2018-03-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
: > Hi Valorie > > Isn't this Saturday March 31 ? > > Hoping, (looks good so far) I can be there for it > > Best Wishes > Rick > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:08 Valorie Zimmerman, <valorie-zimmer...@kubuntu.org> > wrote: >> >> OK, Aaron wrote a reply t

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Dev Meeting 3/24/18

2018-03-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
at 12:50 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie-zimmer...@kubuntu.org> wrote: > Hey Aaron, I'm sorry to say I missed the meeting. Did it happen? If > so, what was the result? > > If not, are we rescheduling? > > Valorie > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Aaron Honeycutt >

Re: Membership application meeting Fri 15 Dec - Andrea Del Sarto

2018-03-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Pinging about this again. Andrea, are you still interested? Valorie On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Rick Timmis wrote: > Hello everyone > > We will be holding a member application meeting in our main #kubuntu IRC > channel @21:00 UTC on Friday 15th December to

Re: [Kubuntu-council] Kubuntu Dev Meeting 3/24/18

2018-03-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hey Aaron, I'm sorry to say I missed the meeting. Did it happen? If so, what was the result? If not, are we rescheduling? Valorie On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote: > I'm going to choose March 24 this saturday at 2pm for this meeting to clear >

Re: Becoming a Kubuntu member

2018-03-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Nate Graham wrote: > Hello Valorie, > Simon recommend that I ask you about becoming a Kubuntu member, so here I > am! > > Nate Hey Nate, this would better be answered on the Kubuntu-devel list so I'll add them to the send line.

i386 ISO tests

2018-03-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi all, I completed the i386 tests I could complete, and filed bugs about the problems I encountered. Of course all these tests were done on 64-bit machine, so I don't know if they are worthwhile at all. We need tests on 32-bit software. Even still, there are some tests I could not complete: *

Re: Please test the beta candidate -- especially i386 users

2018-03-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
<frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw>: >> >> Hi Valorie, >> >> 2018-03-08 14:16 GMT+08:00 Valorie Zimmerman >> <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Franklin Weng <frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw> >&

Please test the beta candidate -- especially i386 users

2018-03-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, half the required tests have been done for amd64, and NONE have been done for i386. This is simply not acceptable nor sustainable. Please test as the previous emails have instructed, and report your results: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/387/builds Thanks. Valorie

Time to test! Kubuntu beta 1 Bionic images available on the qa tracker

2018-03-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Please see https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-beta-1-testing/ for details. Remember: we need people to test on so-called bare metal - real computers rather than VMs - if possible. This is crucial for the i386 images. The Xenial dot release situation was terrible for i386 with

Fwd: Kubuntu seeding snaps

2018-03-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Not sure why Will sent this directly to me, but is anybody interested in making this happen? Valorie -- Forwarded message -- From: Will Cooke <will.co...@canonical.com> Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:46 AM Subject: Kubuntu seeding snaps To: Valorie Zimmerman <valor

OEM installer, amd64 16.04.4

2018-02-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Anyone better able than I am to provide feedback on this bug I experienced? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752478 It was sad to get all the way to the end, have reported success, and not only have to report a failure, but be unable to provide the needed logfiles. Thanks to whoever can help

Re: Kubuntu 16.04.4 Testing needed!

2018-02-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
26:40 CET schrieb Valorie Zimmerman: >> Thanks for asking. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says April 2021. > > That's the end of life of Ubuntu, not Kubuntu. For Ubuntu, the time period is > five years, for Kubuntu only three years. This means that it's April 2019. > > Bye >

Re: Kubuntu 16.04.4 Testing needed!

2018-02-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Thanks for this, Aaron. Remember folks -- i386 test cases especially needed, especially on actual 386 hardware. The testcase at the bottom, "Non-English Live Session & Installation; Full Network Support" is especially important for i386, although it is marked as Optional. Click on the little

Looking forward to Bionic Beta 1

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, for various reasons there was no Alpha 1 or 2 this cycle, but now we're on the march to Beta 1, which will be on March 8 [1]. Now is the time to get your VMs ready, or dust off that old 32 bit machine in preparation. Rik has got Plasma 5.12.2 uploaded to the Archive, so this is gonna be

Re: Discover in Neon LTS

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 3:37 AM, Harald Sitter wrote: > FYI, given the bug duplicates, this also affects Kubuntu 16.04 > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Aleix Pol > Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:11 PM > Subject: Discover in Neon LTS > To:

Re: My membership

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Oh gosh, Andrea, I totally overlooked this email in the mad rush towards the holidays. The first step towards membership is making your wiki page. This is mine: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ValorieZimmerman Look around at a few of them and steal the formatting you like. :-) This page is a nice place

Re: install debug packages with "list-symbols-packages-v2.1" sh script needs update....

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Has this issue been solved? Valorie On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:58 AM, Verwijs1969 wrote: > install debug packages with "list-symbols-packages-v2.1" sh script needs > update. at least (k)ubuntu 17.10 compatible > and how to install "../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c" .. >

Re: Error after adding Kubuntu's backports Repo

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hey Josh, On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Joshua wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question but I'm not sure if this is the appropriate channel to > report it though. I was trying to install Latte-Dock but when I added the > "ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports" repository I got a prompt

Fwd: Plasma 5.13 dependencies

2018-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
For those of you who have not seen this yet: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan Riddell Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:22 AM Subject: Plasma 5.13 dependencies To: plasma-devel , KDE release coordination < release-t...@kde.org> Plasma

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