4.11 Soft Feature Freeze in 7 days!

Remember the 4.11 Soft Feature Freeze is in 7 days so try to get your features ready for merging as soon as possible. If you add your features to the Feature Plan you get two weeks more until Hard Feature Freeze. Even if you don't need those two weeks you should add them anyway since it really helps other teams like promo, Q/A, etc. to have the features listed in one place.

gs 9.07 can't render ps files on comma-locales [fixed]

Okular and other libspectre based PostScript viewers can't render some ps files when using a locale that uses , instead of . for decimals.

This happens because of a bug in ghostscript 9.07 that has now been fixed.

I'm not a huge fan of distro-patches myself, but in this case it may make sense to have one, so feel free to ping your distribution if you are a PostScript user.

Specifications: Correct when writing, Gentle when reading

I got a BlackBerry Z10 a few days ago.

I had not tried to use it as my main phone until yesterday since it needed a MicroSIM and i had a regular one.

Yesterday I got myself a MicroSIM and put it on the device to find out I could not access the 3G data network.

No problem, my operator has a website where you put the make and model of the phone and they send a SMS to the phone that autoconfigures it.
I went there and was surprised to see there was no BlackBerry listed at all.

OK, time to write the APN settings by hand, so I went to the Settings and started to look where to write the APN details, found them and realized they were disabled(greyed out) so I could not write the correct values.

After lots of searching I have come to understand that the phone obeys a indicator of the SIM that can say "I know how to connect to 3G data, no need to letting the user edit it" and when that happens, the BlackBerry Z10 happily complies and locks you out from editing them.

Problem is, my operator SIMs are wrong, they say "I know how to connect to 3G data, no need to letting the user edit it" and then provide wrong data.

And BOOM! I have a nice paperweight worth 600€

BlackBerry fan forums are full of people that say "BlackBerry is just doing what the spec says, blame your operator".

I say to them "I've used that SIM in Apple devices, Samsung devices and Nokia devices and had never any problem connecting to the Internet". Because the manufacturers were smart enough to let me edit the APN settings and write there the correct values if I wanted.

And this brings us to one of the mantras of engineering, be Correct when writing stuff but be Gentle when reading. It's good the BlackBerry browser is following that mantra, otherwise you'd hardly be able to render any webpage.

So people at BlackBerry, please come of your senses and let people edit stuff. This way maybe I'll get to use your device and people around me will see it and will want to buy one.

Otherwise I'll just wait until the Ubuntu Phone is a bit more usable and start using it. It may not be as polished (at the moment) but at least it's open source and I can fix crazy stuff like this.

Update: With BB 10.1.0.1627 I've been able to edit the field and now my 3G data works again

builds.kde.org tests report for 4.11 release - 15 April 2013

We are 59 days away from Beta 1:
* kate has 1 tests that fails
* kde-runtime has 1 test that fail
* kdelibs has 1 test that fails
* kdepim has 8 tests that fail
* kdepim-runtime has 21 tests that fails
* kdepimlibs has 14 tests that fails
* nepomuk-widgets has 1 test that fails
* okteta has 1 test that fails

Everything else that belongs into the 4.11 release is green

You can find the up-to-date info at jenkins http://build.kde.org/view/KDE%20SC%20master/

Okular welcomes undo/redo for annotations

Thanks to the amazing work of Jon Mease Okular now has undo/redo for annotation editing in master. Give it a go, it's quite cool :)

Now let's see if we can get Jon to do the same for Form editing, everyone give him some love!

builds.kde.org tests report for 4.11 release - 1 April 2013

We are 73 days away from Beta 1:
* kate has 2 tests that fail (down 2-3 from 2 weeks ago)
* kde-runtime has 1-2 tests that fail (no change)
* kdelibs has 1 test that fails (up 1 from 2 weeks ago)
* kdepim has 7-8 tests that fail (stable from 2 weeks ago)
* kdepim-runtime has 19-22 tests that fail (up 0-3 from 2 weeks ago)
* kdepimlibs has 12-16 tests that fail (stable from 2 weeks ago)
* nepomuk-core has 1 test that fails (down 2 from 2 weeks ago)
* nepomuk-widgets has 1 test that fails (stable from 2 weeks ago)
* okteta has 1 test that fails (stable from 2 weeks ago)

Everything else that belongs into the 4.11 release is green

KDE Frameworks 5 day at Barcelona

This last Saturday, Alex Fiestas, Martin Klapetek, Miquel Canes, Aleix Pol and me spent the whole day acquainting ourselves with the KDE Frameworks 5 codebase and starting to work on some of the tasks described in the Qt 5.1 and kdelibs cleanup epics.

It was a great day but i still have to say I find myself a bit lost in Frameworks land, we'll have to repeat it soon to get more in the loop :-)



I'd like to thank Blue Systems for hosting us in their office in Barcelona.

builds.kde.org tests report for 4.11 release - 18 March 2013

We are 87 days away from Beta 1:
* kate has 4-5 tests that fail
* kde-runtime has 0-2 tests that fail
* kdepim has 7-8 tests that fail
* kdepim-runtime has 19 tests that fail
* kdepimlibs has 12-16 tests that fail
* nepomuk-core has 3 tests that fail
* nepomuk-widgets has 1 test that fails
* okteta has 1 test that fails

Everything else that belongs into the 4.11 release is green