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Comment · 5 months ago
A KDE developer commented: https://nocoffei.com/?p=451#comment-736

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>As a community, gather together, and successfully implement the entire API surface needed for Talon on GNOME, KDE, and wlroots,

Can you help find where we can work out this list?

An all or nothing probably isn’t going to work, but we can chip away at this.

There are definitely people who want to help.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
LibreOffice development will continue and TDF will keep hiring new developers.
Comment · 8 months ago
There is this command line option that you could add to your shortcut for launching LibreOffice: --norestore

It will skip the recovery dialog. I use it often when doing QA.

Comment · 8 months ago
Have you deactivated Tools - Options - Load/Save - General: Save AutoRecovery information...?
Comment · 8 months ago
> if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect

You can file a bug report from a crash report - it prefills all the relevant data. See an example crash report: https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/bac2...

"Bug reports for libc.so.6:

File a bug for: Calc Writer Impress Chart Base"

Here is what the dialog says about bug reports: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/svx/uiconfig/ui/cr...

> It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case

I believe most distros have this covered now, some by making use of debuginfod, which downloads symbols on demand: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Debuginfod

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
There are existing sites like https://www.goeuropean.org/

Based on the creator of EU Tech Map having an AI-powered advertising company and the mistakes in the entries, I assume the site was populated using LLMs. For example, LibreOffice is incorrectly listed as being closed source, SaaS and paid: https://eutechmap.com/company/libreoffice

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
The patches are not malicious, but the submitters are unable to explain them. We require submitting a non-trivial patch in order for someone to be considered for a FOSS internship. As there is money involved, this attracts scammers now more than ever.
Comment · 8 months ago
One solution is to have a screensharing call with the contributor and have them explain their patch. We have already caught a couple of scammers who were applying for a FOSS internship this way. If they have not yet submitted anything non-trivial, they could showcase personal projects in the same way.

FOSS has turned into an exercise in scammer hunting.

Comment · 9 months ago
Just a guess, but Jitsi having no governance structure outside of 8x8, Inc. might have something to do with it.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's fixed in https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.

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