Hello faithful readers!
Your attention, replies, and hardwork made 2019 a great year for this mailing list. There's been a huge increase in communication here and I'm grateful for the discussion, feedback, and guidance.
I'm dropping this link here to let those who read this list know that we've had a summary of the past year published; https://puri.sm/posts/2019-year-in-review-pureos/
With that posted, it is time to look towards 2020 and layout what the priorities are for the new year. Without question I think the number one priority from Purism management is the PureOS Store. In my discussions with Todd about the Store, it is clear not only that it is a high priority, but that the store can be a way to bolster PureOS and its large archive and get Free Software into the hands of users. This, I feel, is hugely important to our mission and so I'm going to prioritize it at the top of the list.
Fortunately, this has been an idea that has already been floated and there is work that's been done towards realizing a store or easily accessible archive in some form or another. I hope to be able to pull the disparate threads together; work done in Laniakea, frontend work from Rodolfo and Francois, as well as other infrastrucutre bits to realize the goal. I hope to organize this work in the coming weeks and try and set out a schedule so we can track and measure our progress and, most importantly, communicate the work that's been done by the team because I think it's quite amazing.
More regular releases for the folks who install PureOS on machines on the factory floor is also a high priority. We've come so far now with our releases - amber and byzantium - that it's time to support them with a bit more predictable release cycle and more Quality Assurance. To do that let's pick up the thread on releases, I'll try and revive that.
Matthias K. has mentioned OpenQA as a potentially useful tool for doing QA on our releases and I agree, I hope to set that up for us before FOSDEM so we can use it. I have a couple other small tasks to complete before that work can be started as well as some administrative housekeeping, but I'm really eager to get more QA for our releases since we've come so far the last year or so.
And yes, FOSDEM! I'm going to be there for about a week. I plan on attending the MiniDebCamp: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2020/MiniDebCamp It would be great if all got a chance to meet up in Brussels, I would really appreciate it. Just having the opportunity to speak face to face would benefit me tremendously and having a chance to outline all of our goals and plans for 2020 will be an added bonus.
Thanks for reading this far!
Best,
Jeremiah
Dear Jeremiah et al.,
First, thank you for your festive wishes. :)
And yes, FOSDEM! I'm going to be there for about a week. I plan on attending the MiniDebCamp: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2020/MiniDebCamp
It would be great if all got a chance to meet up in Brussels, I would really appreciate it. Just having the opportunity to speak face to face would benefit me tremendously and having a chance to outline all of our goals and plans for 2020 will be an added bonus.
Completely agree here — IRL meetups are great for aligning on vision and plans, particularly around getting agreement on our quality assurance moving forward, the PureOS store and perhaps increasing our release cadence, etc.
I currently intend to attend FOSDEM, SustainOSS and CopyleftConf and thus my availability is already becoming tight, but I would make a Purism/PureOS meeting the highest priority.
Indeed, Jeremiah, in my experience it is always best to get a date & time for FOSDEM-related meetups long in advance as there are so many distractions and so little time combined with sub-par physical logistics. Speaking directly to that, are you free the mornings of either 31 Jan, 1 Feb or 2 Feb in the Brussels centre, perchance? From past years, the evenings and the venue itself tend to get lost/ confused/conflated with huge social things.
Best wishes,
Am Sa., 4. Jan. 2020 um 00:57 Uhr schrieb Chris Lamb chris.lamb@puri.sm:
Dear Jeremiah et al.,
First, thank you for your festive wishes. :)
And yes, FOSDEM! I'm going to be there for about a week. I plan on attending the MiniDebCamp: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2020/MiniDebCamp
It would be great if all got a chance to meet up in Brussels, I would really appreciate it. Just having the opportunity to speak face to face would benefit me tremendously and having a chance to outline all of our goals and plans for 2020 will be an added bonus.
Completely agree here — IRL meetups are great for aligning on vision and plans, particularly around getting agreement on our quality assurance moving forward, the PureOS store and perhaps increasing our release cadence, etc.
Last year we also had dinner with everyone from Purism and attended an impromptu panel on phone development together. If there's more of us, we should definitely meet up for dinner or similar!
I currently intend to attend FOSDEM, SustainOSS and CopyleftConf and thus my availability is already becoming tight, but I would make a Purism/PureOS meeting the highest priority.
That's quite a schedule!
Indeed, Jeremiah, in my experience it is always best to get a date & time for FOSDEM-related meetups long in advance as there are so many distractions and so little time combined with sub-par physical logistics. Speaking directly to that, are you free the mornings of either 31 Jan, 1 Feb or 2 Feb in the Brussels centre, perchance? From past years, the evenings and the venue itself tend to get lost/ confused/conflated with huge social things.
Looks like I'll be at FOSDEM as well this year, and I'd definitely make any possible PureOS meeting the highest priority.
Cheers, Matthias
Hi Jeremiah,
On 02/01/2020 16:51, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
Without question I think the number one priority from Purism management is the PureOS Store. In my discussions with Todd about the Store, it is clear not only that it is a high priority, but that the store can be a way to bolster PureOS and its large archive and get Free Software into the hands of users. This, I feel, is hugely important to our mission and so I'm going to prioritize it at the top of the list.
I agree with that and have the integration of the design within Laniakea at the top of my priorities. I will work on that next week.
As the design is already there, it shouldn't be a huge task (just for me to understand how Laniakea templates work) so hopefully, we can have a beautiful web front end by the end of next week.
And yes, FOSDEM! I'm going to be there for about a week. I plan on attending the MiniDebCamp: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2020/MiniDebCamp It would be great if all got a chance to meet up in Brussels, I would really appreciate it. Just having the opportunity to speak face to face would benefit me tremendously and having a chance to outline all of our goals and plans for 2020 will be an added bonus.
I also agree with that, and it would be a chance for us to talk about UX design vs technical limitations and find the best compromises as well as discussing a roadmap.
That said, I didn't plan to go to FOSDEM before now so I will need to check my availability and confirm.
Thank you PureOS team for the amazing work you are doing! I wish you all a wonderful year 2020! :)
François
Am Sa., 4. Jan. 2020 um 11:45 Uhr schrieb François Téchené francois.techene@puri.sm:
Hi Jeremiah,
On 02/01/2020 16:51, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
Without question I think the number one priority from Purism management is the PureOS Store. In my discussions with Todd about the Store, it is clear not only that it is a high priority, but that the store can be a way to bolster PureOS and its large archive and get Free Software into the hands of users. This, I feel, is hugely important to our mission and so I'm going to prioritize it at the top of the list.
I agree with that and have the integration of the design within Laniakea at the top of my priorities. I will work on that next week.
As the design is already there, it shouldn't be a huge task (just for me to understand how Laniakea templates work) so hopefully, we can have a beautiful web front end by the end of next week. [...]
Quick interlude: Laniakea uses Jinja2 templates, so you can read how to generally use them here: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/templates/ As for the specific data Laniakea exports, the default templates are the best and possibly even easiest reference (just copy&paste from there, the adjust to your liking ^^).
Cheers, Matthias
On 04/01/2020 20:55, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
Quick interlude: Laniakea uses Jinja2 templates, so you can read how to generally use them here: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/templates/ As for the specific data Laniakea exports, the default templates are the best and possibly even easiest reference (just copy&paste from there, the adjust to your liking ^^).
Cheers, Matthias
Thanks for the details Matthias, that is useful!
I said that the design is done and I just have to implement it, but after comparing the current Laniakea pages with the design that I have, I realize that there are many missing part on the design and I will have to work on that.
That said, I still believe that I can complete this work within a week if I am not too distracted by other projects. I will try to keep this target.
Cheers,
François
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