Green fields and wind turbines scroll past my window at 160 km/h as I slowly put together power-management in #Calamares#Linux installer -- thanks to @AleixPol for pointing me at #KDE Discover for a reference implementation.
In the light of xz, I went back and checked if I could reproduce the tarballs (ok, ok, n=1 tarball) of #Calamares#Linux installer releases and verify that they match what is in the git repository.
Just a tuesday in #Calamares#Linux installer Matrix room: KDE neon (Ubuntu-family) reports a problem, KaOS (er .. Debian-Arch-ish) confirms, #EndeavourOS (Arch) suggests a fix, Ubuntu upstream checks.
This is the fun-collaborative part of software development!
Wrote code (there's a longstanding feature request for #Calamares#Linux installer from the @lubuntu folks), made dinner, wrote tests for the code from before dinner, had more tea.
Also merged two PRs from the KaOS distribution, who are very bleeding-edge Plasma6 folks, threw a PR over the wall for some Fedora folks to look at .. this is the epitome of happy collaborative Free Software development for me.
@tripplehelix@9to5linux Huh, I don't even recognize that page at all, must be something custom downstream. (Which is cool, because the point of #Calamares#Linux installer is to be customuzable for many distro's)
I've been away on a skiing vacation for a week, so my mind is filled with only snow and trees and the rushing of the wind and Almdudler. Without the pressure of work-work CMake and C++ and Qt stuff, the whole of the train trip München-Düsseldorf by ICE has been pleasant #Calamares#Linux installer work instead (it's also CMake and C++ and Qt stuff).
I improved some CI stuff, some contributors documentation, the ABI-stability checking scripts, and fixed a long-term annoyance in partitioning.
A German ICE ( inter-city express ) can be a remarkably effective mobile office, if you bring krapfen and tea and a laptop. Fixing #calamares#linux installer issue 2283, ahead of a planned release (tomorrow)
There is now a #Calamares#Linux installer release 3.3.1. My hope is to get back to somewhat-regular community-driven releases, only partly dependent on my available energy (which isn't much, TBH, simply because most of my software-engineering energy goes into work-work where I do very similar C++ / CMake / Qt / Python stuff on not-an-installer-at-all).
Heya, folks! We want to start the new year off right, and what better way to do that than a new Solus release? That's right, Solus 4.5 Resilience is now available to everyone! A ton of work has gone into this release, including a new installer with #Calamares, and a new #XFCE Edition!