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KDE: Post Akademy Snap Wrap Up and Future

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It has been a very busy couple of weeks in the KDE snap world! Here is a rundown of what has been done: An update to the “Very exciting news coming soon”: While everything went well, it is not (yet!) happening. I do not have the management experience the stakeholders are looking for to run the project. I understand completely! I have the passion and project experience, just not management in this type of project. So with that said, are you a KDE/C++ developer with a management background and have a history of bringing projects to the finishline? Are you interested in an exciting new project with new technologies? Talk to me! I can be reached via sgmoore on the various chat channels, sgmoore at kde dot org, or connect via linkedin and message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarlettgatelymoore If you know anyone that might be interested, please point them here! As this project gets further delayed, it leaves me without an income still. If you or someone you know has any short term contract work let me know. Pesky bills and life expenses don’t pay themselves 🙁 If you can spare some change ( anything helps ) please consider a donation. https://gofund.me/5d0691bc A big thank you to the community for making my work possible thus far!

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KDE Akademy 2023, Sunburns, and KDE Snaps

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A big thank you goes out to the Ubuntu Community for making my attendance to the KDE Akademy 2023! This was a very successful conference for me. I had very positive feedback for my speech on “A million reasons why snaps are important. I also had a productive BoF on snapping KDE applications. Most importantly I got to catch up with many old and new friends and got to put faces to the new. There were so many great talks and BoFs, but one of my favorites was the Goals as all three compliment each other. The keynote was amazing, I had no idea open source has made its way into space! How cool is that!?! Despite the high temperatures ( something I am used to, but not that humidity! ) I had a wonderful time and was able to visit many cool sites in Greece. What an amazing place. In the snap world I haven’t had much time this month as previous months as my part time gig doing them expired a few months ago and I had to focus on some paid work which has now run out. However, I did finish a new content pack containing KDE frameworks 5.108 and Qt 5.15.10 and most of KDE release applications 23.04.2. I also got Konsole working! I have some fixes merged into snapcraft that will fix some strange build errors reported on the forums and for myself as well. I will be creating a new PR for the new content pack as soon as testing is complete. We will have some very exciting news coming as soon as the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted. Until then I must reach out to the community for help to “Keep the lights on” until more paid work comes in. If it wasn’t for all of you I couldn’t make all of this possible and I thank each and every one of you. This is the greatest software community ever! https://gofund.me/018ddb06

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KDE Snaps, Gear 23.04.0 available in snap store

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It has been another crazy busy couple of weeks. There are too many snaps released to list here, but you can track my progress here: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/snapcraft-kde-applications/-/issues/30 Some notable releases are: I updated our Frameworks/QT5 content pack to kf5 105 and qt5 5.15.9. I have added more documentation at: https://invent.kde.org/teams/neon/-/wikis/Snaps I am finishing up the last of 23.04.0 snaps and will tackle KDE PIM suite next week. I will also work on more apps that have their own release cycle. Several snap bugs have been resolved and closed! Please remember if you have issues, to file them at bugs.kde.org as I have a hard time finding them at <insert random forum / social network here> On the Debian front, I successfully closed two CVE’s for ruby-rack in Buster! I will be doing more ELTS/LTS security updates next month! Thanks for stopping by! If you enjoy my work, consider a dontation. https://gofund.me/2c7b1808

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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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