Notices by Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social), page 2

It's very kind, in these divisive times, of the Cheney family to provide a free, gender neutral public toilet

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/115429613083886645

Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9077
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/114
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/discussions/1839
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/236
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3253

#a11y #accessibility #gnome #gtk #xdg #portals

Why the FSF has ceded all influence on the general conversation about software freedom, in two screenshots:

@yearofthebug I'm not talking about "idealism vs pragmatism": I am talking about leading the conversation when it comes to software freedom. The FSF is not talking to actual people: it's just a circlejerk that is not meant to convince anybody except the already initiated

@yearofthebug that's a great way to become completely useless. I want the FSF to be a leading voice, not the moral justification on the back end of the movement.

The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists

@whitequark it is what it ought to be: a role that uplifts new contributors, and plans for its own obsolescence. Unfortunately, it mutated into a sort of "medieval lord controlling their fiefdom" kind of role, which may even work for singular projects, but it's a disaster for communal projects

@whitequark the role and its duties vary from project to project; a maintainer in GNOME has, historically, been the person rolling the releases and uploading the artefacts because they had access to the FTP server; but it also meant the person responsible for doing all the reviews, going through all the issues, and providing some institutional knowledge. It's basically a mix between a senior engineer and a release manager.

Embloggeration happened: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/governance-in-gnome/

For those who were unable to attend, or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a "change proposal" process, through the addition of a steering committee to evaluate those changes, and all the way down to the removal of the role of the "maintainer" for projects that exist under the GNOME umbrella.

#gnome

Happy 25th anniversary, GUADEC

#gnome #guadec2025

Congrats to @alice for winning the GNOME Pants! Absolutely well deserved for her work on the platform and libadwaita

#gnome #guadec2025

GitLab, I beg you: add moderation roles, so you don't need to be an admin to nuke spam accounts

I've said it before, but I have to say it again: my days of not taking the FSF seriously are certainly coming to a middle

Linux developers: we should improve the world, somewhat.

LWN commenters: not only a better world is not possible, a worst world is actually desirable. I am very intelligent.

@fesshole I'm sorry for your mum having to wash your sheets until you moved out

Buon 25 Aprile

Happy Earth Day

I’ve read the most dogshit gamer-with-a-capital-G take, today: “games should not cost 80 bucks because making games is dirt cheap these days”. These people truly think nobody making games ought to be able to eat, or have a family; devs, artists, testers: they should all be chained to their desks, in perpetual crunch, making new content for free, forever, so that gamers can complain about it

@carl we literally had to put a proof-of-work reverse proxy in front of the GNOME gitlab instance to mitigate AI scrapers leaving about 10% of the available resources to the people actually using gitlab. It's a disaster.

Happy GNOME 48 release day!

https://release.gnome.org/48

#gnome