Mused and Bemused
Recently, Tobias Bernard posted a retrospective of his (and our) experience engaging with the GNOME Foundation regarding the removal of Sonny Piers from our community, followed by a response from Allan Day. I know it's difficult and stressful to talk about; a lot of people just want it to go away. It took a long time to write this. The details regarding the removal of Sonny Piers will never be…
This is going to be a bit of a sporadic blog post covering XDG Intents, GSoC and few other updates from GNOME goings on. # XDG Intents Most end-user platforms have something they call an intent system or something approximating the idea. Implementations vary somewhat, but these often amount to a high-level desktop or application action coupled to a URI or mime-type. There examples of fancy URIs…
With GNOME 46.2 released, it seems like a good time to write a post about goings on in GNOME Online Accounts and other STF-funded initiatives. There's a lot to be excited about this cycle and most of it is leading to more improvements in the near future. # GNOME Online Accounts A lot happened in GNOME 46 for GNOME Online Accounts, including two new providers, a port to GTK4 and Adwaita,…
One of our goals for the Sovereign Tech Fund is to modernize platform infrastructure, in line with the mission to support security and resilience in open source software. For GNOME Online Accounts, this meant tightening up the code base and shifting focus to prioritize open protocols. A significant portion of the backend was refactored and tested in tandem with the GNOME Settings side of Online…
This year, I was invited by Sonny Piers to be a co-mentor for the GNOME Foundation, working on platform demos for Workbench. I already contribute a lot of entry-level documentation and help a lot of contributors, so this felt like a good step in a direction I've been heading for a while. # Internships Together, Sonny and I mentored three interns; two by way of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and a…