#maintainerlife — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #maintainerlife, aggregated by home.social.
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It'd be great if #GTK & #libadwaita's About dialogs had a property for "Months of support per version", which would check the app's running version against its "date" field in the AppData metainfo.xml and hide the "Website" & "Report an Issue" buttons if it's too old.
Thus upstream devs could avoid being the externalized cost of free "LTS" distros (users reporting issues about ancient versions) without being accused of being anti #FLOSS (like in https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1)
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As someone trying to keep fellow FLOSS maintainers from burning out, I believe I speak for many Free & Open-Source software folks out there when I say that this scene from John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) reflects the current vibe towards non-trivial inbound merge requests from people we don't already know…
#MaintainerLife #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GenAI #LLM #AI #Copilot #Claude #ChatGPT #AIslop #DeadInternet #capitalism #enshittification #TheThing
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To celebrate the new year, I, too, have decided to partake in the traditional GNOME bugfixing technique of… deleting code to make things work :blobmiou: (it turns out that some parts of calendaring standards specifications are pretty weird, and most other apps couldn't even render the alarm types we created)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/680
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FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar
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Decided to finally step off the "zero point something" versioning scheme treadmill for Amberol, and released 2024.1.
Fixed up a bunch of small issues that were tied up in my attempt at getting "1.0" out of the door, before realising that version numbers are complete fiction, and there's no reason whatsoever for an application to start out of "zero point" and reach the fabled "one point oh" status.