Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 4

Sorry folks I meant to get this press release out sooner but it’s been a real struggle with current events. I’ve made a lot of progress on it though and should be done soon

Actual placeholder text in my draft rn:

> Pull quote about how elementary OS is the DEI distro. Take that fascists!

The latest early access stable build is now published! If you want to be one of the first people to install @elementary OS 8, you can grab it for a sponsorship of any dollar amount—including one-time sponsorships. Check it out https://builds.elementary.io/

Now for me to wrap up that press release and figure out the public release date. Maybe that’s Monday work 😅

Just waiting for gala package to publish to spin that iso. It’s taking a while today 😵💫

Got all those release branches approved. Building last 3 packages in launchpad rn. Once those publish, I’ll spin a new RC and send that sponsors update. Home stretch! OS 8 is imminent!

While I’m waiting for a few branch approvals, maybe this is the way to go for OS Upgrades in the future? https://github.com/elementary/os/issues/724

It seems like systemd-sysupdate and bootc are kind of the most popular atomic update paths here. At least trying to start the conversation so we can finally implement this in a reliable way

So @davidmhewitt is a boss and fixed the installer localization! I prepared a few releases this morning and when those are merged I’ll build a new stable ISO and send out an update to sponsors.

Gonna turn my attention back to wrapping up the press release. I need to poke a couple people about availability to pick a release date but I think we have no major blockers now. OS 8 is done*

I know I’m late on blog post this month. Therapy was really hard today. I think I might need to punt it

Proposing to rename sessions again because naming things is hard https://github.com/elementary/session-settings/pull/86

The anxiety I endure to test things for you

https://github.com/elementary/os/actions/runs/10908770033/job/30275498274

Greeter 8 is released and built. I have a branch to build docker images so we can populate appstream metadata. Can try a stable channel build as early as tomorrow tbh. Also Ryo fixed the GRUB timeout thingy that’s been an issue forever 🎉

And as a little bonus when you share our blog posts on mastodon it now links to our account. For example: https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-september-2024/

Branches merged! Greeter 8.0 is up for review. Happy Friday 🎉 https://github.com/elementary/greeter/pull/731

I have now have branches up for review for both of the big greeter/installer blocking issues! Feeling pretty damn good about that. Cross your fingers for speedy review and we’ll get RCs going :)

Don’t mind me just rewriting the entire custom install view in Installer to try to fix a bug I can’t find the cause of

Started drafting. I have most of the information on a page. Just gotta organize it into a story and make it readable and then add pictures and links etc

I gotta write a blog post now. It’s gonna be like a million words, fuck

In some other fun news though, @leolost added bottom edge swipe to reveal the dock which is fantastic and essential for multitasking on tablet and he’s got a branch to do window manager gestures natively instead of using Touchegg which is pretty neat and should open some new possibilities https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/2096

Literally blocked by one major regression right now and it’s driving me mad. I have no idea what the problem is or how to fix it https://github.com/elementary/installer/issues/775

Once this thing is solved, I can set a release date for OS 8

Almost there! https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/128/views/1