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KDE: Akademy, Bug Triaging, Packaging Work by Norbert Preining, and Krita on Simplifying Grammar Checks for Manual

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  • Akademy 2021 at Home

    Once again I plan to be at Akademy. I almost silently attended last year edition. OK… I had a talk there but didn’t blog. I even didn’t post my traditional sketchnotes post. I plan to do better this year.

    I’ll try to sketchnote again, we’ll see how that works out. Oddly enough, I might do the 2020 post after the 2021 one.

  • KDE's Nate Graham: Bug triaging is the foundation of quality and we need more of it

    Bug triaging is a largely invisible and often thankless task. But it’s the foundation of quality in our software offerings. Every day, our users file between 30 and 50 bug reports on https://bugs.kde.org, and often up to 100 right after a big release! Many will be duplicates of pre-existing issues and need to be marked as such. Quite a few will be caused by issues outside of KDE’s control and this also needs to be marked as such. Many will be crash reports with missing or useless backtraces, and their reporters need to be asked to add the missing information to make the bug report actionable. And the rest need to be prioritized, moved to the right component, tagged appropriately, and eventually fixed.

  • Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now

    Norbert Preining, the maintainer of the Cinnamon desktop packages for Debian is quitting as he no longer uses it - though others have volunteered to take his place.

    The origins of the Cinnamon desktop go back to 2011 and the release of the controversial GNOME 3 desktop, which introduced radical changes. Some Linux users preferred the desktop metaphor offered by GNOME 2.x, including the Linux Mint team. The MATE desktop was a fork of GNOME 2, while the Linux Mint folk made Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME 3 designed to retain the design of GNOME 2, using the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE). Cinnamon later became a full fork of GNOME 3.

    Cinnamon remains the default desktop for Linux Mint (which also offers MATE and Xfce editions), but is also available for other distributions including Debian. Mint itself is based on Ubuntu, though there is also a Linux Mint Debian edition (LMDE).

  • Simplifying Grammar Checks for Manuals.

    Like most online manuals, the Krita manual has a contributor’s guide. It’s filled with things like “who is our assumed audience?”, “what is the dialect of English we should use?”, etc. It’s not a perfect guide, outdated in places, definitely, but I think it does it’s job.

    So, sometimes I, who officially maintains the Krita manual, look at other project’s contributor’s guides. And usually what I find there is…

Debian GNU / Linux: Cinnamon Desktop Future (For Now) Preserved

  • Debian GNU / Linux: Cinnamon Desktop Future (For Now) Preserved

    Debian GNU / Linux has traditionally lived off the commitment of its developers. Many packages are now managed in teams – programs like KDE or GNOME may not be prudent to handle regardless of their size. Individuals are still responsible for other packages.

    This would have disabled the popular Linux mint based cinnamon desktop. Like the current package manager Norbert Braining Announced on his blog, He currently maintains the desktop for Debian. However, according to his own report, Breening has been using KDE for a few months, and now Debian has been using KDE. He did not want to spend too much time on cinnamon.

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