After we successfully released Xfce 4.16 as an early Christmas gift to all users last year I personally fell into the typical “post release fatigue” (PRF). On the one hand I was exhausted, on the other hand that’s how far our plans had taken us so there were no clear next steps we had settled … Continue reading "Post 4.16 fatigue and what’s next"
I quickly wanted to share an update to my previous post our leaving Bountysource behind (at least as platform for individual bug bounties). Bountysource support has informed us that “All bounties on Xfce issues have been refunded and backers notified.” If you are a backer of one of our issues registered on Bountysource and haven’t … Continue reading "Bountysource update"
TL;DR No more Xfce bugs on Bountysource.com (no support for GitLab) All remaining bug bounties returned to original backers Xfce Team account on Bountysource remains intact for now (including all donations so far) Some background When we kicked off Bountysource as one way to contribute to Xfce financially, this platform really seemed to be in … Continue reading "Why Bountysource? Why?"
As announced less than two weeks ago, the next steps in our GitLab migration are following. While we originally planned that the migration from Bugzilla to GitLab issues would be the next step we received generous support from the brand new fosshost project: They provided us with the virtual infrastructure to be able to set up our … Continue reading "GitLab CI is up and running"
GitLab is here! Starting today, May 1, we’re switching from our cgit/gitolite setup to GitLab. Our old server, git.xfce.org, is now a ready-only in-sync mirror (so you can still pull code). Our new server is gitlab.xfce.org. (The detailed version of this blog post can be read in my announcement on the Xfce Mailing List.) For … Continue reading "Xfce switches to GitLab"
Xfce 4.14 Maintenance As promised we’re trying to be much better at doing maintenance releases for Xfce 4.14. In part, we had a hard time doing maintenance for Xfce 4.12 because with all the porting work it was hard to focus on fixing Gtk+2 bugs and many bugreports/fixes didn’t apply to both 4.12 and 4.14. … Continue reading "Xfce 4.14 Maintenance and 4.15 Updates"
As promised we’ll try to stick to a tighter schedule this time, so without further ado: the development phase towards Xfce 4.16 has officially started! 🙂 This means that we have a list of features we will try to work on (that is not guaranteed though) and that is detailed on our roadmap page and … Continue reading "Xfce 4.16 development phase starting"
So finally – here goes the official post for the Xfce 4.14 release… Why is the release manager late to the party with his blog post? The explanation is simple: We prioritized sticking to the schedule and getting our releases out to everyone as planned, as our codebase was ready. What was not (entirely) ready … Continue reading "Xfce 4.14 released! (Yeah, like a week ago ;))"
The final pre-release before Xfce 4.14 stable is out since two days ago so here goes a quick look at the most notable bugfixes. While this release was optional, we decided to give ourselves a little more time for bugfixes and translation updates to flow in, which results in sticking to the original plan of … Continue reading "Xfce 4.14pre3 released!"
As scheduled, the team has released the second pre-release for Xfce 4.14, which is due later this summer, yesterday evening. As this release was mostly focused on bugfixing there are not that many highlights, but as with Xfce 4.14pre1 I’ll try to point out a few – as before, not completely unbiased. Some highlights xfce4-panel … Continue reading "Xfce 4.14pre2 released!"