Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse .
Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Updates – Monday 17th April 2023
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Attended the release sprint in London.
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Back to Vienna from LAS 2023, departing to the Canonical Engineering Sprint in Prague Sunday morning.
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Common Print Dialog Backends: Discovered some bugs during the testing when preparing the talk/demo on LAS 2023, received fixes from Gaurav Guleria, applied and tested in the hotel room on Friday night (midnight to 2am for me, must have been 3:30am - 5:30am for Gaurav in India), especially also for a crasher. Discovered another crasher during the demo (see video) and reported to Gaurav, received the fix today and applied it, rebuilt and re-uploaded all affected packages to the New Architecture PPA. Thanks, Gaurav, for quickly fixing the bug and making the demo possible.
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GNOME Control Center “Printers” module and the New Architecture: More testing and some more bugs in the listing of available printers found. Reported them to Mohit Verma but did not get fixes yet.
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Linux App Summit 2023 in Brno: Attended the conference with a Canonical Gang of 7 people, participated in the Canonical/Ubuntu Office Hours panel together with @hellsworth, @dloose, and @jbicha, met with Zdenek Dohnal (Red Hat printing maintainer) and Marek Kasik (printing GUI developer for GNOME) in a scheduled hallway session, and gave my talk with demo of the GUI support for the New Architecture. Recordings of the conference: Day 1, room 1, Day 2, room 1, Day 2, room 2. Direct links to all sessions are in the comments of the videos (thanks, Ban Jo @Enry211). See also Mastodon, #LAS2023 and #LinuxAppSummit.
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Google Summer of Code 2023: Ranked all the proposals for OpenPrinting and also assembled the final ranking by mixing the rankings of each sub-organization of the Linux Foundation in zipper style, as Google wants a ranking from each mentoring organization. Google will then assign a number of contributor slots to us, automatically accept the appropriate number of contributors who were ranked best and reject the others. Also continued mentoring the contributors.
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