Scarlett Gately Moore

Author: sgmoore

  • KDE Snaps, snapcraft, Debian packages.

    Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona
    Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona

    Another busy week!

    In the snap world, I have been busy trying to solve the problem of core20 snaps needing security updates and focal is no longer supported in KDE Neon. So I have created a ppa at https://launchpad.net/~scarlettmoore/+archive/ubuntu/kf5-5.99-focal-updates/+packages

    Which of course presents more work, as kf5 5.99.0 requires qt5 5.15.7. Sooo this is a WIP.

    Snapcraft kde-neon-extension is moving along as I learn the python ways of formatting, and fixing some issues in my tests.

    In the Debian world, I am sad to report Mycroft-AI has gone bust, however the packaging efforts are not in vain as the project has been forked to https://github.com/orgs/OpenVoiceOS/repositories and should be relatively easy to migrate.

    I have spent some time verifying the libappimage in buster is NOT vulnerable with CVE-2020-25265 as the code wasn’t introduced yet.

    Skanpage, plasma-bigscreen both have source uploads so the can migrate to testing to hopefully make it into bookworm!

    As many of you know, I am seeking employment. I am a hard worker, that thrives on learning new things. I am a self starter, knowledge sponge, and eager to be an asset to < insert your company here > !

    Meanwhile, as interview processes are much longer than I remember and the industry exploding in layoffs, I am coming up short on living expenses as my unemployment lingers on. Please consider donating to my gofundme. Thank you for your consideration.

    I still have a ways to go to cover my bills this month, I will continue with my work until I cannot, I hate asking, but please consider a donation. Thank you!

    GoFundMe

  • KDE Snaps, Debian uploads and much more in the works!

    Witch Wells, AZ Snow
    Witch Wells, AZ Snow

    It has been a very busy few weeks as we endured snowstorm after snowstorm!

    I have made some progress on the Mycroft in debian adventure! This will slow down as we enter freeze for bookworm and there is no way we will make it into bookworm as there are some significant issues to solve.

    • lingua-franco uploaded and accepted
    • pako uploaded and accepted
    • speechpy-fast uploaded
    • fitipy ready to upload

    On the KDE side of things:

    • Plasma-bigscreen uploaded and accepted
    • skanpage uploaded and in NEW

    In the Snap arena, I have made my first significant contribution to snapcraft upstream! It has been a great learning experience as I convert my Ruby knowledge to Python. Formatting is something I need to get used to!

    https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/4023

    Snaps have been on hold due to the kde-neon extension not having core22 support and the above pull request fixes that. Meanwhile, I have been working on getting core20 apps ( 22.08.3 final KDE apps version for this base. ) rebuilt for security updates.

    As many of you know, I am seeking employment. I am a hard worker, that thrives on learning new things. I am a self starter, knowledge sponge, and eager to be an asset to < insert your company here > !

    Meanwhile, as interview processes are much longer than I remember and the industry exploding in layoffs, I am coming up short on living expenses as my unemployment lingers on. Please consider donating to my gofundme. Thank you for your consideration.

    GoFundMe

  • Debian: Coming soon! MycroftAI! KDE snaps update.

    https://mycroft.ai/about-mycroft/

    I am excited to announce that I have joined the MycroftAI team in Salsa and working hard to get this packaged up and released in Debian. You can track our progress here:

    https://salsa.debian.org/mycroftai-team

    Snaps are on temporary hold while we get everything switched over to core22. This includes the neon-extension, that requires merges and store requests to be honored. Hopefully folks are returning from holidays and things will start moving again. Thank you for your patience!

    I am still seeking work if you or anyone you know is willing to give me a chance to shine, you won’t regret it, life has leveled out and I am ready to make great things happen! I admit the interviewing process is much more difficult than in years past, any advice here is also appreciated. Thank you for stopping by.

  • Debian uploads, Core22 KDE snap content pack and more!

    I have been quite busy! I have been working on several projects so my cover image is a lovely sunset where I live.

    Debian:

    I have updated and uploaded several packages and working on more.

    • Umbrello
    • Squashfuse with the help of Scott Moser ( Thanks! )
    • libappimage
    • plasma-bigscreen WIP

    KDE Snaps:

    I have reworked the CI to now do Core22 snaps! They will publish to the beta channel until we get them tested. First snap completed is the ever important KDE Frameworks / QT content snap + SDK! Applications will start after I tackle the kde-neon extention in snapcraft.

    GUI-Testing:

    I have begun learning/writing some GUI tests using python and https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi/, inspired by one of my favorite people, Harald. See https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ for more info and I hope to get these in repos near you soon!

    In closing, I am still seeking employment/sponsor amidst this terrible layoff season. If anyone knows of anyone with my diverse skill set please let me know.

    In the meantime if you can spare anything to keep the lights on I would be ever so grateful.

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore

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    Thank you,

    I want to wish everyone a very merry < insert your holiday here > !!!

  • Representing KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague

    Representing KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague

    First, I would like to send a big Thank you! to Canonical for sponsoring my trip to Prague for the Ubuntu Summit! It was a great success. I saw some great talks and valuable workshops. I now know how to snap our applications the have daemons and services thanks to the Snapping Daemons and Services workshop. Prague itself is an amazing city. Wow. Just wow. I got to see old friends and meet many new ones. I will take away some wonderful memories. Did I mention a river cruise? Yes! It was great fun.

    I did a lightning talk with Jonathon and a Snapping Desktop Applications workshop with Olivier. The talk was “lightning” fast! But good practice for my speech giving skills ( a challenge for a shy person such as myself!) The workshop was great presentations of different ways snaps are done for different projects. The audience was smaller than I had hoped ( it was the end of the summit and many folks were wrapping up to leave.) I still left with a feeling of accomplishment.

    Snapping Desktop Applications Workshop @ Ubuntu Summit
    Snapping Desktop Applications Workshop @ Ubuntu Summit

    This week I will apply my new found knowledge and push out some more snaps!

  • KDE snaps at Ubuntu Summit 2022, see you in Prague!

    I am pushing out a few more snaps as I prepare for the Ubuntu Summit next week! At the summit I will be co-hosting a snap workshop where I will dissect and explain what goes into snapping KDE apps. I am very excited! Some of the main goals to accomplish while I am there include:

    • Start knocking out our wonderful PIM suite.
    • Sort out apps that want access to system-files and give it to them.
    • Calligra office suite.
    • Access to the neon extention so I may update some issues I am running into.
    • A few apps that require daemon ability ( I believe there is a workshop for this 🙂 )
    • See old friends that I haven’t seen in forever it seems!

    Todays releases are as follows:

    • Kig
    • Kreversi
    • Kruler
    • Kshisen
    • Kigo
    • Killbots
    • Kiriki
    • Kiten

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  • KDE Gear Snaps fixes and new releases

    Another continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-3 ! This week I solved a few more problems.

    • Lokalize: Dictionaries are now available via the hunspell content snap! To enable:

    sudo snap install hunspell-dictionaries

    sudo snap connect lokalize:hunspell-dictionaries-plug hunspell-dictionaries:hunspell-dictionaries

    • Ktorrent: First time release on both amd64 and arm64! Closes bug 412734
    • Kdenlive: Glaximate animations are now available! Closes bug 459338
    Kdenlive with Glaximate animations!
    • Okular
    • Kgeography
    • Kpatience
    • Palapeli: Now launches! Closes bug 426177
    • Krdc: Now on arm64!
    • Kdiamond: Now with sound!

    More coming tomorrow!

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  • KDE Gear snaps round 3!

    While trying to stay warm in our first snow of the year, I got several apps tested and released in round 3 of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re ) tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the release is going slower than it will in the future. Thank you for your patience.

    • Kalzium ( again ) Molecule editor works. Known bug downloading molecules. Just go to Home/Documents and rename the file hotsuff-access.xml to themolecule.cml and load molecule as a temporary work around until a permanent fix comes about. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461027
    • Ktuberling
    • Kbounce
    • Kmplot
    • Kbreakout
    • Knavalbattle
    • Kubrick ( Not on chromebook unfortunately, opengl errors need looking into. )
    • Kbruch
    • Knetwalk
    • Kwordquiz
    • Knights ( Sound is fixed! )
    • Kollision
    • Lokalize
    • Kfourinline

    More rounds of bug gardening has been done, if you find bugs, or know one of your bugs is related to it being a snap, please assign to me. https://bugs.kde.org

    Please consider a donation so I may bring many more apps your way.

    https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore

    I am working on one time donations.

  • KDE Gear Snaps round 2

    As a continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/new-kde-gear-snaps-in-the-works/

    Todays releases, tested on both amd64 and arm64, are:

    • Falkon
    • Umbrello
    • Step
    • Kompare
    • Rocs ( First time release on arm! )
    • Kgoldrunner
    • Gwenview

    This week has also been a busy week gardening snap bugs in bugs.kde.org. They are all over the place 🙁 I am trying to sort out getting them there own section. I have assigned all snap bugs I have found to myself and requested that this is default. If you have bugs, please report them at bugs.kde.org , for now under neon / Snaps.

    More coming next week!

  • New KDE Gear snaps in the works

    KDE Extras 22.08.2 was released! https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.2/

    So… I am working on new snaps! This release also includes a new content snap I made with frameworks 5.98 and Qt 5.15.6. With all the new goodness, I am (Re) testing all snaps to make sure they are working as expected.

    You can find a link to all of my snap releases from the KDE Snap Store Releases on the menu above.

    Some notable releases that have new fixes and improvements are:

    • Kalzium: Molecular editor now works!
    • Artikulate: Now works on arm64 ( eg. Rasberry Pi )
    • Dragon: Now works on arm64
    • Minuet: Now works on arm64

    New 22.08.2 releases re-tested on arm64 and amd64:

    • Picmi
    • Kturtle
    • Ksudoku
    • Konquest

    More coming soon!

    Please consider donating! I am seeking employment, but until then, I need assistance with gas to power my generator to power my laptop. Solar doesn’t work great in these coming winter months 🙁 Thank you for your consideration! https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore