Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian.
UBports: Packaging of Lomiri Operating Environment for Debian (part 05)Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian.
Bye bye, Freenode!This is a very short notice that I am not available via Freenode anymore. You can now reach me and the projects I am involved in (#x2go, #arctica, #ayatana-indicators) via the libera.chat IRC network. Of course, I am also available and hanging out on OFTC IRC for all Debian related topics. For details on the reasoning, I noticed that I am fully aligned with Antoine Beaupré's statements in his recent blog post on the same matter [1]. A recommended read. light+love
Upcoming brainstorming discussion about Debian for the EnterpriseRecently, Raphael Hertzog published ideas [1] about how to make Debian more attractive for big enterprises. One missing key stone here is the possibility to sign up for an enterprise support subscription scheme. Another question tackles how to provide such a support scheme within Debian, without disturbing the current flow of how Debian is developed these days. And, there are likely more questions to asks, riddles to solve, and hurdles to overcome. We want to discuss this topic, brainstorm on it, collect new ideas and also hear your concerns on a public channel. Over the past weeks there already have been mail exchanges off-list. We want to reboot this privately started discussion now in public (as that's where it belongs) starting +/- at the end of the coming week via the currently quite inactive Debian mailing list 'debian-enterprise' [2]. Please join the discussion (and the mailing list) [3] if interested in this topic. light & love [1] https://raphaelhertzog.com/2021/03/30/challenging-times-for-freexian-1/
UBports: Packaging of Lomiri Operating Environment for Debian (part 04)Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian. Since 27th Feb 2020, Unity8 has now become Lomiri. Things got delayed a little recently as my main developer contact on the upstream side was on sick leave for a while. Fortunately, he has now fully recovered and work is getting back on track.
Welcome, Fre(i)e Software GmbHLast week I received the official notice: There is now a German company named "Fre(i)e Software GmbH" registered with the German Trade Register. Founding a New CompanyOver the past months I have put my energy into founding a new company. As a freelancing IT consultant I started facing the limitation of other companies having strict policies that forbid the cooperation with one person businesses (Personengesellschaften). Thus, the requirement for setting up a GmbH business came onto my agenda. I will move some of my business activities into this new company, starting next year. Policy IdeasThe "Fre(i)e Software GmbH" will be a platform to facilitate the growth and spreading of Free Software on this planet. Here are some first ideas for company policies:
UBports: Packaging of Lomiri Operating Environment for Debian (part 03)Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian. Since 27th Feb 2020, Unity8 has now become Lomiri. Recent Uploads to Debian related to LomiriOver the past 4 months I worked on the following bits and pieces regarding Lomiri in Debian:
My Work on Debian LTS (August 2020)In August 2020, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 16 hours (of 8 hours planned, plus another 8 hours that I carried over from July). For ELTS, I have worked for another 8 hours (of 8 hours planned). LTS Work
ELTS Work
No Debian LTS Work in July 2020In July 2020, I was originally assigned 8h of work on Debian LTS as a paid contributor, but holiday season overwhelmed me and I did not do any LTS work, at all. The assigned hours from July I have taken with me into August 2020. light+love,
Ayatana Indicators / IDO - Menu Rendering Fixed with vanilla GTK-3+At DebConf 17 in Montreal, I gave a talk about Ayatana Indicators [1] and the project's goal to continue the — by then already dropped out of maintenance — Ubuntu Indicators in a separate upstream project, detached from Ubuntu and its Ubuntu'isms. StallingThe whole Ayatana Indicators project received a bit of a show stopper by the fact that the IDO (Indicator Display Object) rendering was not working in vanilla GTK-3 without a certain patch [2] that only Ubuntu has in their GTK-3 package. Addressing GTK developers upstream some years back (after GTK 3.22 had already gone into long term maintenance mode) and asking for a late patch acceptance did not work out (as already assumed). Ayatana Indicators stalled at a level of 90% actually working fine, but those nice and shiny special widgets, like the calendar widget, the audio volume slider widgets, switch widgets, etc. could not be rendered appropriately in GTK based desktop environments (e.g. via MATE Indicator Applet) on other distros than Ubuntu. I never really had the guts to sit down without a defined ending and find a patch / solution to this nasty problem. Ayatana Indicators stalled as a whole. I kept it alive and defended its code base against various GLib and what-not deprecations and kept it in Debian, but the software was actually partially broken / dysfunctional. Taking the Dog for a Walk and then It Became all Light+LoveSeveral days back, I received a mail from Robert Tari [3]. I was outside on a hike with our dog and thought, ah well, let's check emails...
My Work on Debian LTS (June 2020)In June 2020, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 8 hours (of 8 hours planned). LTS Work
Other security related work for Debian
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