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KDE: Snaps, KDEneon, Debian and my future.

Posted on December 15, 2023 by sgmoore

First I want to thank KDE for this wonderful write up on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kde_akademy-2023-over-a-million-reasons-why-activity-7139965489153208320-PNem?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop It made my heart explode with happiness as I prepped for my interview on Monday. I didn’t get the job ( Just the usual “we were very impressed with your experience, but we went with another candidate” ). I think the cosmos is determined for me to hold out for the ‘project’ even though it is only part time work, it is work and if I have learned nothing else this year, I have learned how to live on a very tight budget! It turns out

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KDE: KDE Snaps 23.08.4, PIM! KDE neon, Debian

Posted on December 10, 2023 by sgmoore

KDE Snaps: This weeks big accomplishment is KDE PIM snaps! I have successfully added akonadi as a service via an akonadi content snap and running it as a service. Kaddressbook is our first PIM snap with this setup and it works flawlessly! It is available in the snap store. I have a pile of MRs awaiting approvals, so keep your eye out for the rest of PIM in the next day. KDE Applications 23.08.4 has been released and available in the snap store. Krita 5.2.2 has been released. I have created a new kde-qt6 snap as the qt-framework snap has

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KDE neon and snaps, Debian Weekly report.

Posted on December 1, 2023 by sgmoore

While the winter sets in, I have been mostly busy following up on job leads and applying to anything and everything. Something has to stick… I am trying! Even out of industry. Debian: This weeks main focus was getting involved and familiar with Debian rust-packaging. It is really quite different from other teams! I was successful and the MR is https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/merge_requests/566 if anyone on the rust team can take a gander, I will upload when merged. I will get a few more under my belt next week now that I understand the process. KDE neon: Unfortunately, I did not have

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A Season to be Thankful, Thank You!

Posted on November 22, 2023 by sgmoore

Thank you
Here in the US, we celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow. I am thankful to be a part of such an amazing community. I have raised enough to manage another month and I can continue my job search in less dire circumstances. I am truly grateful to each and every one of you. While my focus will remain on my job hunt, I will be back next week at reduced hours to maintain my work. I have to alter my priorities to keep my hours reduced enough to focus on my job search so I will be contributing as follows: Again, thank you

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Farewell for now, again.

Posted on November 15, 2023 by sgmoore

I write this with a heavy heart. Exactly one year ago I lost my beloved job. That was all me, I had a terrible run of bad luck with COVID and I never caught up. In the last year, I have taken on several new projects to re-create a new image for myself and to make up for the previous year, and I believe I worked very hard in doing so. Unfortunately, my seemingly good interviews have not ended in a job. One potential job I did not put as much effort into as I should have because I put

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KDE: Krita 5.2.1 Snap! KDE Gear 23.08.3 Snaps and KDE neon release

Posted on November 10, 2023 by sgmoore

Krita 5.2.1
Today https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.3/ ! I have finished all the snaps and have released to stable channel, if the snap you are looking for hasn’t arrived yet, there is an MR open and it will be soon! I have finished all the applications in KDE neon and they are available in Unstable and I am snapshotting User edition and they will be available shortly. Krita 5.2.1 Snap is complete and released to stable channel! Enjoy! I fixed some issues with a few of our –classic snaps, namely in Wayland sessions by bundling some missing wayland Qt libs. They should no longer go

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KDE: Big fixes for Snaps! Debian and KDE neon updates.

Posted on November 3, 2023 by sgmoore

A big thank you goes to my parents this week for contributing to my survival fund. With that I was able to make a big push on fixing some outstanding issues on some of our snaps. KDE neon: No major blowups this week. Worked out issues with kmail-account-wizard thanks to David R! This is now in the hands of upstream ( porting not complete ) Worked on more orange -> green packaging fixes. Debian: Fixed bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054713 in squashfuse Thanks for stopping by. Please help fund my efforts! Donate https://gofund.me/b8b69e54

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KDE: KDEneon Plasma Release, Unstable BOOM, Snaps, and Debian

Posted on October 27, 2023 by sgmoore

KDE snap Kamoso
While Yang our cat tries to lure in unsuspecting birds on the bird feeder, I have been busy working on many things. First things first though, a big thank you to all that donated to my Internet bill. I was able to continue my work without interruption. KDE neon: A busy week in KDE neon as https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.9/ was released! We have it ready to update in User edition or if you would like to download the new ISO you can find it here: https://neon.kde.org/download I highly advise the User Edition as Unstable is volatile right now with Qt6 transition and

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KDE: Debian: Hopefully a short goodbye for now.

Posted on October 16, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells Az
I have been working around the clock and over the weekend trying to get the transition for snapcraft files in their respective repos. What does this mean for users? Faster releases for Snaps and closer collaboration between snapcrafters and application developers so bugs get resolved much quicker. Unfortunately, I have 2 days to finish before my internet gets cut off. I did not make enough to pay the bill. Seeing as this is the first time in a year, I am absolutely, positively grateful for all of you and your support over the past year. I know my work is

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KDE: Snaps move, KDE neon unstable broken OMG! Fixed, and Debian updates

Posted on October 13, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells Az
It’s that time of year already! We have hit our first freeze of the year. While the kitties keep warm by the wood burning stove, I have been busy with many updates and fixes in a variety of projects. KDE neon: It’s true, Neon unstable has been very unstable. Due to a few factors including a builder being out of space, timed with a new Qt release. There is a cost with living in unstable land with bleeding edge releases. It takes time and finesse to get everything happy, especially with major transitions such as Qt. The drive issue was

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