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 o

Re: [GSoC Draft proposal] Redesign system settings modules by porting them to QtQuick

2022-04-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
My feedback as an admin who has seen many proposals is: your timeline is inadequate. Your timeline should be complete enough that both the mentor(s) and applicant can use it as a roadmap to the summer. That does not mean that it can't be adjusted over the coding period -- some things are easier t

Re: [GSoC Draft proposal] Redesign system settings modules by porting them to QtQuick

2022-04-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
If you are interested in mentoring, *now* is the time (I mean today) to ensure that you are subscribed to the private ML for mentors, kde-soc-men...@kde.org, and write to kde-soc-managem...@kde.org asking to be added as a mentor to the GSoC webapp. Please provide your google-connected email if you

Re: Plasma and a bachelor thesis

2020-10-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Ilya, On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:26 AM Ilya Bizyaev wrote: > Hello! > > I'm currently in my last year of bachelor studies, and I'm now looking for > a topic for my bachelor thesis. I've had a wild idea of doing a KDE-related > engineering project since it sounds fun, would give me a good occas

Re: Looking for GSoC 2020 mentor

2020-04-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
TL:DR: If you are willing to mentor please: 1. write to kde-soc-managem...@kde.org and ask to be invited to the GSoC webapp 2. subscribe to kde-soc-men...@kde.org ML if you are not now subbed. Valorie On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 4:05 AM Marco Martin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:13 PM Debarpan

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

2019-07-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
2019 at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our > code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get > missed, and submitters get confu

Tipping the apple cart?

2019-06-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the reviewers by

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2018-12-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, a few teams have added their ideas to https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas but many have not yet done so. Those of you reading this plea have participated in the past but do not have ideas posted yet. PLEASE get this done before the end of the year! We need to submit our application

Google CodeIn

2018-10-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, we (KDE Student Programs) are still trying to recruit mentors for the upcoming Google CodeIn contest for 14 to 18 year-olds. We've written to KDE-Community ML and KDE-devel, but don't want to nag. Still, we have too few mentors and not enough tasks to begin the contest. What works bes

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
for a project so big in size. So it might be that the quality of >>> last year proposals discouraged people from doing this work again. >>> >>> The only way how we can solve the issue is to prepare very scope-limited >>> tasks, such that the students would no

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
to it for the last email. Valorie On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, > > TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read > https://community.kde.org

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Now. Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so now is the time for organizations to apply[1]. We have begun to write our

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

2017-02-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications are

Google Code-in tasks -- we need them NOW

2016-11-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, November 28th looms, and we are below our needed task count. * If you have already been invited to the GCi webapp, please get your tasks into the system now. We especially need beginning tasks, which can be the same as tasks last year, and they can be reused as often as we need them.

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

2016-10-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello developers, Do you have a project in mind which will help KDE? Season of KDE might be for you. KDE Student Programs has announced the 2016-2017 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects which enhance KDE in some way. Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new

Re: Plasma Wayland ISO updated

2016-02-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I've updated the Plasma Wayland ISO > > http://files.kde.org/snapshots/plasma-wayland-201602101746-amd64.iso > > It's using the latest packages from Kubuntu CI. But Kubuntu CI being > poorly maintained many are out of date or incomplete i

Common purpose for the Plasma team, and VDG

2015-11-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, this afternoon my time, a discussion started in #plasma with some rather upset designers, who said that they felt they are treated by the Plasma devels as children. I waded into that discussion, and am reluctant to write to the list about it, but I think there are some issues here tha

Re: [kde-promo] Plasma naming scheme

2015-01-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > BTW, as this page isn't updated in last 4 years, I volunteer to update > it regarding app names; KOffice and some of its apps do not exist > anymore. Oops, I didn't see this before doing some of that. However, I hesitate to change any of t

Some feedback from an anonymous new user/devel

2014-12-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, some friends on another network were asking about KDE development, and basically googling around. When I got online, I asked for specifics when there was some grousing about finding relevant information. Here's what I got: A newbies review of the plasma 5 tutorial. Goal: Figure

KDE Books

2014-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, some months ago Mario Fux spoke to me about heading up a book sprint at the Randa meeting this summer [1]. Some of you might be aware of the KDE Developer book which we wrote a couple of years ago at a book sprint hosted by Google. You can read it or download it as a PDF or ebook here: h

Re: Plasma Next Naming

2014-01-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Saturday 18 January 2014 15:53:16 Mark Gaiser wrote: > >> I don't see anything wrong with naming the next plasma as just "Plasma >> 2". and subsequent releases should follow the name: "Plasma >> 2." so "Plasma 2.1". There is nothing wron

Re: Notes from "Tooling for Plasma2"

2014-01-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2014 18:38:49 Martin Klapetek wrote: >> Plasma bug situation >> - Martin Graesslin wanted me to put "Best practices" here > with that the series on bugzilla usage I did on my blog [1] was meant and > other best pract

Plasma team social health

2014-01-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I'm writing to the Plasma devel list on behalf of the CWG because worries from lots of individual team members and former members have come our way. Another person came to me today and pasted part of the IRC backlog from earlier today. Disagreements always happen; what matters is how th

Re: naming the next major release

2013-08-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Plasma folks, This thread has been fascinating reading. I hope that after you reach a tentative conclusion, that you make a proposal to a list with a wider KDE audience, such as the KDE-Community list. KDE-devel, KDE-core-devel and KDE-Promo are some of the other possibilities to at least ping

Re: Team meeting today

2012-06-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > Hi all, > this is a very raw synopsis of the meeting, i hope we can now transform it in > something very productive (i think the meeting especially the last part  was > useful) I found the meeting somewhere between great and excellent. It ma

Team meeting today

2012-06-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello Plasma team, I've heard that this group is experiencing some difficulties, and the Community Working Group has been asked to intervene. We usually are asked to come into crises, while we would really prefer to work with groups to improve community. We've been developing a tool to help with t