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Packaging

A Big Thank You Community! KDE Snaps resumed and More.

Posted on March 16, 2023 by sgmoore

After my last post a few things have happened. First, I want to thank all of you for your support, monetary and moral. The open source community is amazing and I love being a part of it. We are surviving thanks to all of you. Despite my failed interview, a new door has opened up and I am happy to announce that Canonical is funding me to work part time for a period of 3 months on KDE Snaps! While not the full time role I was hoping for, I’ll take it, and who knows, maybe they will see just

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Snowstorms, Kittens and Shattered dreams

Posted on February 24, 2023 by sgmoore

Icy morning Witch Wells Az
Long ago I applied for my dream job at a company I have wanted to wok for since its beginning and I wasn’t ready technically. Fast forward to now, I am ready! A big thank you goes out to Blue Systems for that. So I go out and find the perfect role and start the application process. The process was months long, but was going very well, the interviews and I passed the technical with flying colors. I got to the end where the hiring lead told me he was submitting my offer… I was so excited, so much so,

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KDE Snaps, Security updates, Debian Freeze

Posted on February 16, 2023 by sgmoore

Much like our trees, Debian is now in freeze stage for Bookworm. I am still working on packages locally until development opens up again. My main focus is getting mycroft packages updated to the new fork at https://github.com/orgs/OpenVoiceOS/repositories. On the KDE Snaps side of things: My PPA is not going well. There is a problem in Focal here qhelpgenerator-qt5 is a missing dependency, HOWEVER it is there… as shown here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+package/qhelpgenerator-qt5 a fun circular dependency for qtbase. It also builds fine in a focal chroot. I have tried copying packages, source recipe builds, adding another PPA with successful builds, to

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KDE Snaps, snapcraft, Debian packages.

Posted on February 3, 2023 by sgmoore

Another busy week! In the snap world, I have been busy trying to solve the problem of core20 snaps needing security updates and focal is no longer supported in KDE Neon. So I have created a ppa at https://launchpad.net/~scarlettmoore/+archive/ubuntu/kf5-5.99-focal-updates/+packages Which of course presents more work, as kf5 5.99.0 requires qt5 5.15.7. Sooo this is a WIP. Snapcraft kde-neon-extension is moving along as I learn the python ways of formatting, and fixing some issues in my tests. In the Debian world, I am sad to report Mycroft-AI has gone bust, however the packaging efforts are not in vain as the project

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KDE Snaps, Debian uploads and much more in the works!

Posted on January 28, 2023 by sgmoore

It has been a very busy few weeks as we endured snowstorm after snowstorm! I have made some progress on the Mycroft in debian adventure! This will slow down as we enter freeze for bookworm and there is no way we will make it into bookworm as there are some significant issues to solve. On the KDE side of things: In the Snap arena, I have made my first significant contribution to snapcraft upstream! It has been a great learning experience as I convert my Ruby knowledge to Python. Formatting is something I need to get used to! https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/4023 Snaps

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Debian: Coming soon! MycroftAI! KDE snaps update.

Posted on January 8, 2023 by sgmoore

I am excited to announce that I have joined the MycroftAI team in Salsa and working hard to get this packaged up and released in Debian. You can track our progress here: https://salsa.debian.org/mycroftai-team Snaps are on temporary hold while we get everything switched over to core22. This includes the neon-extension, that requires merges and store requests to be honored. Hopefully folks are returning from holidays and things will start moving again. Thank you for your patience! I am still seeking work if you or anyone you know is willing to give me a chance to shine, you won’t regret it,

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Debian uploads, Core22 KDE snap content pack and more!

Posted on December 23, 2022 by sgmoore

Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona
I have been quite busy! I have been working on several projects so my cover image is a lovely sunset where I live. Debian: I have updated and uploaded several packages and working on more. KDE Snaps: I have reworked the CI to now do Core22 snaps! They will publish to the beta channel until we get them tested. First snap completed is the ever important KDE Frameworks / QT content snap + SDK! Applications will start after I tackle the kde-neon extention in snapcraft. GUI-Testing: I have begun learning/writing some GUI tests using python and https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi/, inspired by one

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Representing KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague

Posted on November 16, 2022 by sgmoore

KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague
First, I would like to send a big Thank you! to Canonical for sponsoring my trip to Prague for the Ubuntu Summit! It was a great success. I saw some great talks and valuable workshops. I now know how to snap our applications the have daemons and services thanks to the Snapping Daemons and Services workshop. Prague itself is an amazing city. Wow. Just wow. I got to see old friends and meet many new ones. I will take away some wonderful memories. Did I mention a river cruise? Yes! It was great fun. I did a lightning talk with

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KDE Gear Snaps fixes and new releases

Posted on October 31, 2022 by sgmoore

Another continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-3 ! This week I solved a few more problems. Lokalize: Dictionaries are now available via the hunspell content snap! To enable: sudo snap install hunspell-dictionaries sudo snap connect lokalize:hunspell-dictionaries-plug hunspell-dictionaries:hunspell-dictionaries Ktorrent: First time release on both amd64 and arm64! Closes bug 412734 Kdenlive: Glaximate animations are now available! Closes bug 459338 Okular Kgeography Kpatience Palapeli: Now launches! Closes bug 426177 Krdc: Now on arm64! Kdiamond: Now with sound! More coming tomorrow! Please consider donating! Helps keep the lights on so I can get more Kool software out to you. https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore Cash App $ScarlettMoore0903 Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/28o16y3PHcISfaE8ww

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KDE Gear snaps round 3!

Posted on October 26, 2022 by sgmoore

First Snow! Witch Wells Arizona
While trying to stay warm in our first snow of the year, I got several apps tested and released in round 3 of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re ) tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the release is going slower than it will in the future. Thank you for your patience. Kalzium ( again ) Molecule editor works. Known bug downloading molecules. Just go to Home/Documents and rename the file hotsuff-access.xml to themolecule.cml and load molecule as a temporary work around until a permanent fix comes about. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461027 Ktuberling Kbounce Kmplot Kbreakout Knavalbattle Kubrick (

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