KDE Neon

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KDE Snaps! Oh so many released! Debian update

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It has been another very busy couple of weeks! I have released many snaps, fixed a few bugs, started the documentation, and have many snaps in progress. So without further ado here is my status update for KDE snaps: Fixed two very important Krita bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465307 Fixed several other minor bugs and triaged all the snap bugs I could find on bugs.kde.org. Remember to assign snap bugs to me! It makes my life easier and I see them quicker. I have started some documentation for developers that want to assist in getting their KDE app snapped here: https://invent.kde.org/teams/neon/-/wikis/Snaps I have released around 40 snaps! This would make for a very unruly blog post to list, so I have created a list here of my releases: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/snapcraft-kde-applications/-/issues/30 I am happy to report there are several first time releases including a very kool music app called Elisia ! I have many more snaps in various stages and many more to come. My goal is to get them all by the end of this 3 months ( 1.5 left to get it done ), a lofty goal I know. What can I say, I am ambitious. Now on to Debian. I am excited to announce that soon I will become contributor status for Freexian ( and hopefully, after time, a collaborator ). I am waiting for my mentor to upload my first security update(s) for Buster LTS. This will be a new type of contributions for me, but I am confident I will do well and I have new hope that I have found my new forever home. I will be very useful in many areas and I look forward to growing with the company. In closing, if you can spare some change we have a few unexpected expenses ( doesn’t everyone?! ) Anything helps, thank you! https://gofund.me/2c7b1808

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KDE Snaps! Many new releases, more to come.

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I have been extremely busy the last 2 weeks churning out KDE snaps! All of the have been tested and released on AMD64 and Arm64 architectures. If you run into any problems please file bugs @ http://bugs.kde.org and feel free to assign me. Thanks! Krita Version 5.1.5 https://apps.kde.org/krita/ Parley Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/parley/ Kate Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/kate/ Okular Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/okular/ Haruna Version 0.10.3 https://apps.kde.org/haruna/ Granatier Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/granatier/ Gwenview Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ GCompris-qt Version 3.2 https://apps.kde.org/gcompris/ Bomber Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/bomber/ Falkon Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/falkon/ Ark Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/ark/ Blinken Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/blinken/ Bovo Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/bovo/ Artikulate Version 22.12.3 https://apps.kde.org/artikulate/ There are many more snaps coming your way! As usual, I hate to ask, but if you can spare anything we appreciate it, even if they are just kind words, thank you! https://gofund.me/d73342c3

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A Big Thank You Community! KDE Snaps resumed and More.

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After my last post a few things have happened. First, I want to thank all of you for your support, monetary and moral. The open source community is amazing and I love being a part of it. We are surviving thanks to all of you. Despite my failed interview, a new door has opened up and I am happy to announce that Canonical is funding me to work part time for a period of 3 months on KDE Snaps! While not the full time role I was hoping for, I’ll take it, and who knows, maybe they will see just how awesome I am! 🙂 I started back to work on these last Tuesday. So far I have made good progress and even have a working Core22 snap! Work done on upstream snapcraft ( tool used to make snaps ): New content pack version, fixed an issue with snapcraft remote-build choking on part with /sdk, fixed regex as our naming scheme has changed: https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/4069 Ran into a new bug with snapcraft expand-extensions and so I must now enter all of this information manually into snapcraft.yaml until fixed, bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/2011719 And without further ado, our first core22 snap is Dragonplayer Version 22.12.3 available in the snap store. Many more coming soon! With a new month upon us, I must ask for help again, I will not see any money for this work until next month. Please consider a dontation. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. https://gofund.me/c9cc02ed

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Snowstorms, Kittens and Shattered dreams

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Long ago I applied for my dream job at a company I have wanted to wok for since its beginning and I wasn’t ready technically. Fast forward to now, I am ready! A big thank you goes out to Blue Systems for that. So I go out and find the perfect role and start the application process. The process was months long, but was going very well, the interviews and I passed the technical with flying colors. I got to the end where the hiring lead told me he was submitting my offer… I was so excited, so much so, I told my husband and parents “I got the job!” I know, I jinxed myself there. Soon I receive the “There was a problem”.. One obscure assessment called GIA came back not so good. I remember that day, we were in the middle of a long series of winter storms and I when I took the test, my kitten decided right then it was me time. I couldn’t very well throw her out into the snowstorm, so I continued on the best I could. It is my fault, it clearly states to be distraction free. So I speak again to the hiring lead and we both feel with my experience and technical knowledge and abilities we can still move forward. I still had hope. After some time passes, I asked for an update and got the dreaded rejection. I am told it wasn’t just the GIA, but that I am not a good overall fit for the company. In one fell swoop my dreams are dashed and final, for this and all roles within that company. I wasn’t given a reason either. I am devastated, heart broken, and shocked. I get along with everyone, I exceed the technical requirements, and I work well in the community. Dream door closed. I will not let this get me down. I am moving on. I will find my place where I ‘fit in’. With that said, I no longer have the will, passion, or drive to work on snaps anymore. I will leave instructions with Jonathon as to what needs to be done to move forward. The good news is my core22 kde-neon extension was merged into upstream snapcraft, so whomever takes over will have a much easier time knocking them out. @kubuntu-council I will do whatever it takes to pay back the money for the hardware you provided me to do snaps, I am truly sorry about this. What does my future hold? I will still continue with my Debian efforts. In fact, I have ventured out from the KDE umbrella and joined the go-team. I am finalizing my packaging for https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum and it’s dependencies: roff, mango, mango-kong. I had my first golang patch for a failing test and have submitted it upstream. I will upload these to experimental while the freeze is on. I will be moving all the libraries in the mycroft team to the python umbrella as they are useful for other things and mycroft is no more. During the holidays I was tinkering around with selenium UI testing and stumbled on some accessibility issues within KDE, so I think this is a good place for me to dive into for my KDE contributions. I have been approached to collaborate with OpenOS on a few things, time permitting I will see what I can do there. I have a possible gig to do some websites, while I move forward in my job hunt. I will not give up! I will find my place where I ‘fit in’. Meanwhile, I must ask for donations to get us by. Anything helps, thank you for your consideration. https://gofund.me/a9c36b87

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KDE Snaps, Security updates, Debian Freeze

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Much like our trees, Debian is now in freeze stage for Bookworm. I am still working on packages locally until development opens up again. My main focus is getting mycroft packages updated to the new fork at https://github.com/orgs/OpenVoiceOS/repositories. On the KDE Snaps side of things: My PPA is not going well. There is a problem in Focal here qhelpgenerator-qt5 is a missing dependency, HOWEVER it is there… as shown here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+package/qhelpgenerator-qt5 a fun circular dependency for qtbase. It also builds fine in a focal chroot. I have tried copying packages, source recipe builds, adding another PPA with successful builds, to no avail. My PPA does not seem to use its own packages, or universe for that matter. I have tried all of the dependency settings available and nothing changes. If any of you launchpad experts out there want to help me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated ! This PPA is mandatory for our core20 snaps moving forward, as they currently have no security updates, and I refuse to have my name on security riddled snaps. As for the kde-neon extension for core22, I have fixed most of the tests and Sergio is wrapping it up, thank you!!!! I am still looking for work!!! Please reach out if you, or anyone you know is looking for my skill set. Once again, I ask for you to please consider a donation. We managed to get the bills paid this month ( Big thank you! ) but, March is quickly approaching. The biggest thing is Phone/Internet so I can keep working on things and Job hunt. Thank you so much for your support! https://gofund.me/a9c36b87

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