tde-devels October 2014

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QuickBuild update
by Timothy Pearson 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

All, I have put a significant amount of work into the QuickBuild system over the past week in an attempt to stabilize it and increase performance. While I am aware that there were some outages in random components (most notably the PPA mirror redirects) while I was doing this, all issues should be resolved at this point. As of this writing four build machines are online, one for each architecture. As we have reached the chiller fund goal (see prior messages) the remaining x86/amd64 build machines will be brought back online over the next couple weeks. Please let me know what you think, and definitely let me know if anything is still malfunctioning! Tim

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R14 hard freeze for RC1
by Timothy Pearson 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, As you can probably see from the activity on the trinity-commits list there have been multiple updates to both the common cmake/admin modules and the icons across the entire tree over the past week or so. This ongoing activity has forced essentially a full archive rebuild for Debian/Ubuntu, our primary supported distributions. I am announcing a ***hard freeze*** for R14 to allow the Debian/Ubuntu rebuild to start generating our RC1 package sets. There are currently three open bug reports blocking Bug 2014; patches that do not relate to those three reports must be discussed on this list and approved by me before being committed to GIT. Additionally, only patches that do not affect the common cmake/admin modules will even be considered at this time. After the RC1 rebuilds are complete this soft freeze will thaw to accept patches for bugs discovered before and during RC1 testing. This thaw will be short lived to allow time for RC2 rebuilds, so all patches should be ready within a week after RC1 release. Each rebuild cycle takes around 2-3 weeks due to the multitude of distributions supported. If no common cmake/admin modules are updated for RC2 the resultant rebuild will take less time. Onwards to the much-fabled R14 release! :-) Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlQ9WJAACgkQLaxZSoRZrGEBQgDdFjmryG8MwYCFIAb+KP5tpzPQ AnbFoau0HP5VAgDfY+1PLlqolGwxLrYhrr06lSQuKbViZ0VpD5vMHg== =GzuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Contributor License Agreements
by Timothy Pearson 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, After much consideration I have decided it would be safest to require our developers to formalize their open-source contributions with a CLA. The CLA on the main TDE site does not transfer copyright or do anything objectionable like Canonical's old CLA did; it simply formalizes the long-standing intuitive agreement between open-source contributors and open-source projects. Specifically, contributors grant a license to use, redistribute, modify, etc. the contributed work under our approved open-source licenses (sadly this formalization is required even though most people would think contributing to an open source project automatically granted those rights!), waive any patent rights they may otherwise hold for the contribution (some people contribute then sue for high damages), etc. Fairly standard stuff but in the increasingly litigious environment of the United States the risks are just too high to continue without a CLA. I have not arrived at this decision lightly, but have tried to keep the CLA as minimal as possible while protecting the project. I don't believe the CLA grants any further rights to the project than already intuitively granted when people contribute to an open source project; if I am in error please let me know ASAP! Until I get feedback from the core team this is not mandatory for anyone who has already contributed to the project. Above all I do not want to alienate the core development team without whom this project would not be possible. The agreements (and rationale) are available here: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/cla/ Thank you for your consideration, Timothy Pearson Trinity Desktop Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlQ//XAACgkQLaxZSoRZrGH4YQDeIfueuXHs5kOZWWs8cvkeQgPJ jOJmkwmyVHMNPwDgtittrcLJjTacpbAEnRaCagrlBEZWSQkyzGLoSQ== =ppdv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CMake CMP0046 changes
by Timothy Pearson 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Slavek, all, When building TDE on Debian Jessie I have run into several instances where tdebase FTBFS due to the recent changes in CMake policy CMP0046. Setting the OLD behavior repairs the problem. Are there any drawbacks to setting CMP0046 OLD globally? If not can one of the CMake gurus here please push a proper patch to the cmake module ASAP? Thanks! Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlQyFioACgkQLaxZSoRZrGET/wDeLn3j3AwlGR+gzz6UfWh54BqD twCjpFoz79D+nADcD99Wj3aPT1LjXpsry4upoilcdxShhVi39nYSPQ== =F97K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Divided libtool × libtool-bin
by Slávek Banko 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi all, we have another unwelcome message: libtool (2.4.2-1.11) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. * Drop libtool's dependency on libtool-bin. * Add libtool-bin dependency on libtool. * Make libtool Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #682045. * Bump standards version to 3.9.6. -- Matthias Klose <doko@.........> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:21:11 +0200 This means that the packages that need to building libtool will need to have a set to variant dependency: "libtool-bin | libtool". I suggest to wait for a change in tde-packaging before we know what all packages will be affected. Now I ran into this problem with pytdeextensions and bibletime. We will see what will follow. We'll see whether it will be appropriate to wait for the change after RC1. -- Slávek

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Improvements to the "Patches from GIT" web page
by Michele Calgaro 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

The new "patches from GIT" page looks good and so does the search field at the bottom. Anyhow IMO there are still a few things to fix: 1) email addresses are shown in full, which is not that good being a page available without any login. It would be advisable to remove them, both from the committer column and the Log message column (for signed-off commits). 2) I believe the correct name of the committer column should be "Author" 3) The page still displays with problems if the width of the browser window is small enough (the blue left side menu overlaps the page contents) 4) The search field would probably be better if it was at the top, since it does not take up much page space. At the moment we need to scroll the whole page if we want to search for a particular commit 5) the 'page navigation' (the one saying 'Now viewing patches...') would be better if it had links to the next and previous adjacent pages as in most search engines (something like [1], [2], [3], .... to make it clear) 6) IMO, the name "Patches from GIT" is misleading for new users, as I already said in a previous email. Would be better to call it "GIT Commits" or "Commit history" or something with "commit" in it Hope this is useful. Cheers Michele

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[cross-post] TDE website update and R14 status
by Timothy Pearson 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Cross post from the users list: All, The new TDE website has been updated to incorporate feedback received from both users and developers; it is hoped that this design strikes a proper balance between aesthetics and functionality. Many thanks to the TDE Web team, especially E. Liddell, for their work on the new site! R14 Release Candidate 1 is currently being built. This process should be complete somewhere around Nov. 10 2014 barring unforeseen difficulties. RC1 will take the form of a package set for Debian/Ubuntu along with an Ubuntu LiveCD that can be used for testing. The TDE project needs your financial support! If you can, please donate towards our operating costs at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php . In particular, due to the large size of the R14 binary package set we needed to increase the available Internet bandwidth temporarily until R14 is released; this change increased TDE's operating costs substantially and has put severe strain on the project's finances. Thank you for your support! Timothy Pearson Trinity Desktop Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlRPtLwACgkQLaxZSoRZrGG0aADgxHK8klKhMx/AidxoVWGhYRvu DAyC+RK+jJSmgwDggNUE39Zyr1uWujhyHhS0U8oPBok398QoPBOjFw== =o2v2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Status of OpenBSD?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi all! I'm courious, is there any progress on the *BSD-front? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.

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Re: [trinity-users] New TDE site released
by Timothy Pearson 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > Am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2014 schrieb Timothy Pearson: >> All, >> >> Thanks to the efforts of the TDE web development team we proudly announce >> the debut of our new website (https://www.trinitydesktop.org)! >> >> The new site provides a cleaner and easier to use interface without sacrificing availability of any information. In fact, several items were >> added, including a new FAQ page and application documentation. >> >> Additionally, per popular request we have transitioned from our old FOSWIki installation to a new MediaWiki installation, with all old content >> having been migrated over the course of several months. This should make >> it much easier to add new content to the TDE knowledge base. >> >> Let us know what you think! >> >> Timothy Pearson >> Trinity Desktop Project > > Looks really nice in firefox, but the left menu tree breaks in konqueror ;-) > > Nik Thanks for the info; hadn't thought to check it in Konqueror. I'm not sure I can fix it; Konqueror's broken HTML rendering is a known problem but I haven't gotten around to seeing what would be required to replace KHTML with Webkit. That process will be lengthy and won't happen for R14 in any case. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlQ+xgMACgkQLaxZSoRZrGEeXwDfdENzNvqkl5slOVNzhCb8l8Uu eJSf2oCnnbu+gADcD48XOjPyxXqIkq+sRdNepr5ANdX1UcKSkJUi1w== =62F1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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new website - patches
by Calvin Morrison 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Hi guys, It would be really cool to drop a 'smart' table into the patches page, or have an alternative page that provided that support. Datatables is a great example of this. It's a pseudo excel style table, backed by some javascript. it would make it easy to search through commits, export data to excel, sort of date, etc. Just a thought, Calvin

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