Re: Can we consider bumping up the Plasma 5.23 release by one week?

2021-06-08 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:59:37 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > Hello release folks! > > Plasma 5.23 is currently scheduled to be released on 7 October. I've > been talking with the Fedora packagers about this, and been informed > that if we bump up the release by one week--shipping on 31 > September--

Re: Plasma 5.24 is LTS

2022-01-24 Thread Paul Brown
On Monday, 24 January 2022 17:46:58 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > At the meeting today we decided to make Plasma 5.24 the LTS supported > branch until we branch for Plasma 6 at which point the most recent Plasma 5 > release will become the Plasma LTS release. This means we can't say how > long the

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-09-01 Thread Paul Brown
Dear All, Sorry for being a pain in the neck about this, but the more I read the plan to migrate, the less it seems a plan at all. It just boils down to a deadline. There is no contingency, nobody has considered what the people who use Telegram to interact with us want, nobody has opened any ki

Include the names of fundraising donors into Plasma 6 somewhere

2023-09-20 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, The Promo team is organising a fundraiser campaign to try and boost the number of support members that donate to KDE on a regular basis. The theme of the fundraiser is "Support Plasma 6", and the campaign will run from more or less now to just before Plasma 6.0 is released. As a perk,

Re: Include the names of fundraising donors into Plasma 6 somewhere

2023-09-21 Thread Paul Brown
It seems I have lost David's email in the internets, but I can see it in the Archive, so I will copy it here to contextualise my reply: > I would be strongly opposed to having it somewhere the user hasn't > explicitly opened, like the first-run wizard. It's more important that > we come across as

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

2024-01-30 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:59:15 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Adita tells me that Plasma Bigscreen is ready Qt 6 and KF6 happiness. I've > not tried it yet and and he's still working on the apps. It was released > as part of Plasma for the later 5 releases, but it's too late to add it > into

Re: Plasma 6.1 announcement

2024-05-24 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday 24 May 2024 00:51:07 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > Hi, > > I won't be able to work on the Plasma 6.1 announcement. I am too exhausted > from the recent gear announcement and working on other KDE stuffs and also > I will also be traveling the weeks before the release, so even if I was not >

Re: Shipping Plasma 6.1 wallpaper in Plasma 6.1.1

2024-06-17 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday 18 June 2024 00:27:56 CEST David Edmundson wrote: > I'm not convinced it has a net benefit. > > People who update on the day will be already surprised. People who > update later will have forgotten all about the background of a > webpage/tweets they already saw. > > By the time 6.1.1 i

Re: Plasma Beta Review Day

2020-09-20 Thread Paul Brown
On domingo, 20 de septiembre de 2020 11:23:31 (CEST) David Redondo wrote: > Hi, > > during the last kickoff meeting we decided to hold a public Plasma Beta > Review day on BBB to get more feedback on the beta release. The date in > the wiki is Thursday next week (exactly one week after the beta).

Deadline to submit a talk to ELC EU is nearly upon us

2018-06-28 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, A brief reminder that, if you are working on anything related to mobile or embedded, the ELC EU, conference (organised by the Linux Foundation) would like to hear from you. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/last-chance-to-speak-at-open-source-summit-and-elc-openiot-summit-europe-submi

Re: 5.12 release: congratulations and post-mortem

2018-02-06 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:54:19 CET Nate Graham wrote: > Congrats on a fantastic release of Plasma 5.12 everybody! People are > really gonna love it. > > The release process was a bit rockier than expected, and I thought I > might do a post-mortem to see how we can make the next one smoother:

Re: 5.12 release: congratulations and post-mortem

2018-02-06 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:49:41 CET Luigi Toscano wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:34:34 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > - Establish strict deadlines for suggested changes to media (texts and > > videos) and strictly stick to said deadlines. > > > > [EDIT: Ivana h

Looking for KDE/Qt developers to participate in ELC EU Conference

2018-06-19 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, This may not be relevant to a lot of you, but we have managed to become Community Partners of the Linux Foundation's ELC EU conference: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/elce-2018/ We are pushing to have a booth to show off mobile and embedded KDE technologies to a receptive cr

Re: Looking for KDE/Qt developers to participate in ELC EU Conference

2018-06-19 Thread Paul Brown
On martes, 19 de junio de 2018 12:28:47 (CEST) Paul Brown wrote: > Hello, > > This may not be relevant to a lot of you, but we have managed to become > Community Partners of the Linux Foundation's ELC EU > conference: > > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/el

Re: Videoconference between KDE community and Purism regarding Librem5

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:48:13 CEST Jeff F. wrote: > Sebastian Kügler wrote : > > let's pin down Thursday, 19:00 CEST (9.00am PDT), in any case. > > Works for me, added to my calendar tentatively, I'd like to hear > confirmation of Todd's availability. Works for me also. Cheers Paul --

Re: Videoconference between KDE community and Purism regarding Librem5

2017-09-13 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 16:32:15 CEST Zlatan Todoric wrote: > On 09/07/2017 04:29 PM, Paul Brown wrote: > >> I just talked with Paul, he'll be able to make it as well, so from the > >> KDE side, we get a rather complete set of people together to be useful, >

Re: Videoconference between KDE community and Purism regarding Librem5

2017-09-13 Thread Paul Brown
> I just talked with Paul, he'll be able to make it as well, so from the > KDE side, we get a rather complete set of people together to be useful, > technical, UI, and promo people involved. I'll ask Jens, our design > lead to join in as well, but let's pin down Thursday, 19:00 CEST > (9.00am PDT),

Status Report on Purism/Librem 5 situation

2017-09-29 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Everybody, From an email Todd Weaver, CEO at Purism, sent us recently: >We are planning on hiring staff in November, and that is where we have the plan of spearheading KDE on our hardware. > > We have a few early production development boards, we plan to get into the hands of

First bridge status: crossed

2017-10-09 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Todd, Jeff, Matthias, Ken, and everybody else at Purism, Congratulations for the successful crowdfunding. Still a lot to do, but, as long as we keep up the same enthusiasm and pool our resources as we have done up until now, everything will work out fine. I look forward to working on the n

Re: First bridge status: crossed

2017-10-20 Thread Paul Brown
nically knowledgeable niche, is how Purism has managed to bypass Intel's Management Engine. That has added even more credibility to the Purism brand. Cheers Paul > > Todd. > > On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 22:43 +0200, Paul Brown wrote: > > Dear Todd, Jeff, Matthias,

Re: New Plasma release person needed

2025-03-12 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 12 March 2025 08:52:44 Central European Standard Time David Redondo wrote: > Hi, > > Jonathan announced that he will step back from doing Plasma releases. > This means for 6.4 and forward we need someone else to do releases > or multiple persons that share the work (didn't quite wo

Re: Plasma Sprint 2025 - Start organizing!

2025-02-21 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 21 February 2025 15:59:12 Central European Standard Time David Redondo wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2025, 01:46 schrieb Harald Sitter: > > Hello again, hello! > > Hi, > > > [snip] > > We graciously get the meeting rooms provided by the people of Grazer > > Linuxtage, a FOSS event

Re: Proposal: Adding a Plasma Login Manager

2025-03-28 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:25:30 Central European Standard Time David Edmundson wrote: > As discussed in Plasma meetings and Akademy's, Oliver Beard and I have > been working on incubating SDDM into Plasma whilst also providing a > more coherent Plasma experience. > > This has been implemente