Re: Tipping the apple cart?

2019-07-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
2019 at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our > code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get > missed, and submitters get confu

Tipping the apple cart?

2019-06-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the reviewers by

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2018-12-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, a few teams have added their ideas to https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas but many have not yet done so. Those of you reading this plea have participated in the past but do not have ideas posted yet. PLEASE get this done before the end of the year! We need to submit our application

D16588: Change package manager icons to emblems

2018-11-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
valorie added a comment. Could not Muon be updated in this way as well? It now uses a package icon for all packages which seems a waste of space. REPOSITORY R266 Breeze Icons BRANCH package-manager-icons (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D16588 To: nd

D16395: Update the "About KDE" text

2018-10-31 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
valorie added a comment. My only suggestion: KDE creates the efficient, powerful Plasma desktop environment, hundreds of high-quality applications and the many software libraries that support them. Past tense makes the present version seem static. REPOSITORY R263 KXmlGui REVISION DET

Re: Frameworks release schedule?

2017-10-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
t, I thought that frameworks-devel was being deprecated but I guess I'm out of the loop. So thanks. >> Le mercredi 25 octobre 2017, 09:29:58 CEST Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >>> Hello folks, with my Kubuntu release manager hat on, I was filling in >>> the calendar for th

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

2017-02-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications are

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

2016-10-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello developers, Do you have a project in mind which will help KDE? Season of KDE might be for you. KDE Student Programs has announced the 2016-2017 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects which enhance KDE in some way. Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new

Re: Review Request 126078: [OS X] modernising the KIdleTime plugin (WIP!)

2015-11-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
.* Instead, I'm seeing defensiveness, exasperation, and finally anger. Please, everyone step back, calm down, and let's reconsider the issue afresh. Surely we can do a better job in providing great software to our users. - Valorie Zimmerman On Nov. 18, 2015, 4:35 p.m., Re

Re: Books BoF

2015-07-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hello folks, > > Our Frameworks Cookbook is good, but incomplete. Let's figure out how > to improve what we have, and complete what we don't. We can meet later > in the week to hack if necessary. > > I

Fwd: Books BoF

2015-07-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, Our Frameworks Cookbook is good, but incomplete. Let's figure out how to improve what we have, and complete what we don't. We can meet later in the week to hack if necessary. I've scheduled a BoF at 17:00 Monday, following the Future Frameworks Releases BoF that Ervin is hosting, in

Re: Qt DevDays is coming; do we want to print up some Frameworks Cookbooks to give to attendees?

2014-10-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
here into links) If not what's needed to make it from the git >> repo? I saw one or so tasks on the kanboard about generating a book, >> is that to generate the epub/pdf/html from the git repo? or to print >> the actual hard copy once we have the epub/pdf/html ? >> >>

Re: Qt DevDays is coming; do we want to print up some Frameworks Cookbooks to give to attendees?

2014-10-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ting a book, > is that to generate the epub/pdf/html from the git repo? or to print > the actual hard copy once we have the epub/pdf/html ? > > thanks, > Jeremy > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> https://www.qtdeveloperdays.com/europe sa

Fwd: Qt DevDays is coming; do we want to print up some Frameworks Cookbooks to give to attendees?

2014-10-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
https://www.qtdeveloperdays.com/europe says that Qt DevDays happens October 6 – 8, at the Berlin Congress Centre in Berlin. If we want to print up some books to give away, we need some more chapters. See https://books.kde.org for more details. Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez ___

Re: Attention KDE Frameworks 5 Cookbook authors

2014-08-26 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi Valorie, > > is there already a PDF somewhere accessible, or does one need to build it > locally still? > > Greets, > Marko Hi Marko, Please read Mirko's recent blog: http://creative-destruction.me/2014/08/25/how-to-contribute-to-the-kd

Attention KDE Frameworks 5 Cookbook authors

2014-08-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, if you intend to get a chapter or section into the first edition of the cookbook, please commit as soon as possible. We need to get this all put together and out to a printer in time to have copies in hand at Akademy. I hope we'll have a copy for each contributor. If you were not at Randa

Re: [kde-promo] need flyer content and design for Qt DevDays

2014-08-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > Qt DevDays is coming up and we have the opportunity to add a flyer to > the welcome bag. I think we should do this. It should be a flyer about > Frameworks 5. Ideally we can re-use the same flyer later for other > events li

I think you should join 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake's private website

2014-08-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello, Valorie Zimmerman invites you to join your 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake neighbors on Nextdoor. Nextdoor is a free and private social network that your neighbors are using. Valorie wrote: "Our neighborhood is using a private online network called Nextdoor 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake. O

Books.kde.org!

2014-08-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Greetings again from Randa. https://books.kde.org is now live. It redirects to a Techbase page, where we'll keep all the relevant information and links. Most important: proper repo, at kde:kf5book . Our ToDos are here: https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=15 . If you can'

Re: Kitemviews

2014-08-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 17:42:24 Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> El Dimarts, 12 d'agost de 2014, a les 08:18:40, Valorie Zimmerman va > escriure: >> > Martin Klapetek suggested that Kitemviews would be a useful

Kitemviews

2014-08-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Martin Klapetek suggested that Kitemviews would be a useful framework to include in our book. However, I can find no documentation *anywhere.* I found this on a Mandriva page: "The ItemViews framework contains data views on top of QAbstractItemView that help in common tasks, such as sorting, proxy

Re: For Book Sprint team: Frameworks Cookbook

2014-08-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Even more basic: for right now, we've created a scratch git repo: kde:scratch/garg/book On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > New URL: http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/kde-frameworks-5/ > > You should be able to use your same login as for Booki. Please

Re: For Book Sprint team: Frameworks Cookbook

2014-08-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
something! Valorie On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi folks, I've started a book for you to play with. Load up > http://booki.flossmanuals.net/kde-frameworks-cookbook/_edit/ and have > fun. > > Make a login, make some chapters, drag them around, and se

For Book Sprint team: Sample Frameworks Cookbook

2014-08-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I've started a book for you to play with. Load up http://booki.flossmanuals.net/kde-frameworks-cookbook/_edit/ and have fun. Make a login, make some chapters, drag them around, and see what everything looks like. Unfortunately the editor won't save for me tonight; I actually did add con

Frameworks Cookbook book sprint

2014-07-31 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Our time together is coming close! It would be good to decide on what writing platform we'll use. Rohan and I are both familiar with Booki at Flossmanuals. I found a book (available as an epub too) about Booki itself: http://www.flossmanuals.net/booki-user-guide/ Flossmanuals also has a nice guid

Please blog about Randa Meetings

2014-06-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, You all know about the upcoming Randa spints, and the book we'll be writing. Whether or not you are coming, Frameworks as a whole will benefit from the spints. Please support the meeting with your money, in your blogs, and on your social media. We'd love to have hundreds of small contri

Re: Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-05-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:56:53 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> I know I said >> >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Valorie Zimmerman >> >> wrote: >> > Time is short, so this is the last time I&#

Re: Re: Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-05-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I know I said On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Time is short, so this is the last time I'll write. Think about what > you want in your Frameworks book and commit to making it happen. > > Valorie > > 1. https://sprints.kde.org/sprint/212 but

Re: Re: Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-05-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:23 PM, David Narvaez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> we might have here a chicken-egg problem. Good API documentation would >> significantly help for writing the book. That is if the API documentation is >> good someone without deep dom

Re: Re: Re: Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-04-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2014 00:23:26 David Narvaez wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> > we might have here a chicken-egg problem. Good API documentation would >> > significantly help for writing the book. That

Re: Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-04-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014, at 6:05, Kevin Funk wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 02:25:18 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> > Hello folks, I know that August is months away, but if you want your >> > Frameworks book, now

Writing a Frameworks book at Randa

2014-04-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, I know that August is months away, but if you want your Frameworks book, now is the time to step forward. Here are some things to think about: Most of this book is already written somewhere. When the words have already been written down, all we need do is gather and arrange them. Whe

Re: Frameworks book

2014-03-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:50 AM, David Faure wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2014 02:08:52 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> Hello frameworks developers, >> >> It has been discussed on the KDE-Community list that some of you would >> like a Frameworks book. > > I would

Frameworks book

2014-03-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello frameworks developers, It has been discussed on the KDE-Community list that some of you would like a Frameworks book. While I've co-authored a book for KDE, the Developer Guide for our GSoC students, I'm no coder. So I need co-authors. Mario has asked me to head up the book sprint at Randa