planning to release gtk3 equake panel plugin

[Gaël Bonithon]

Uh, I realize now that I had to do "reply all". I always get fooled by those damn mail headers...

Cheers,
Gaël

------- Forwarded Message -------
From: Gaël Bonithon <trash.paradise at protonmail.com>
Date: On Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: planning to release gtk3 equake panel plugin
To: jeroen at mompl.net <jeroen at mompl.net>


> Hi,
> 
> > > Are you interested in upstreaming your changes to gitlab.xfce.org? If
> > > so please create an account there and let us so that we can restore
> > > the plugin's repository.
> > 
> > Yes I think that'd be a good idea and I'll do that once I have it
> > released. Still some cleaning up to do of compilation warnings and the
> > likes.
> 
> 
> Maybe it would be better to do it the other way round, so that we can enable CI build, which might catch errors you haven't seen. I'll also do some local testing to bring up any issues. It would also give us a more convenient place to discuss the plugin than the mailing list :)
> 
> Incidentally, the plugin should have a doc page on docs.xfce.org, as the release announcement emails are supposed to point to that (and the plugin code contains that reference in a few places). I'll ask for this on matrix/irc #xfce-dev.
> 
> For the release, we use the xfce-do-release script now, which is part of xfce4-dev-tools. You'll also have to make sure you're registered on the xfce and xfce-announce mailing lists (at least the latter) with the same e-mail address as your releases.xfce.org account.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gaël
> 
> On Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 at 12:38 AM, Jeroen van Aart jeroen at mompl.net wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2024-02-19 at 23:07 +0100, andre at andreldm.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Jeroen,
> > > Xfce's release manager is available at https://releases.xfce.org and
> > > I see that you see have an active user there with permissions for
> > > xfce4-equake-plugin.
> > 
> > Thank you, I must have forgotten the url. Once I have it ready I'll use
> > it to release it.
> > 
> > > Are you interested in upstreaming your changes to gitlab.xfce.org? If
> > > so please create an account there and let us so that we can restore
> > > the plugin's repository.
> > 
> > Yes I think that'd be a good idea and I'll do that once I have it
> > released. Still some cleaning up to do of compilation warnings and the
> > likes.
> > 
> > > By the way, the Debian packager for Xfce lurks at #xfce-dev (libera),
> > > maybe you have more luck asking there.
> > 
> > Great I'll inquire there. :-)
> > 
> > > Feb 19, 2024, 14:37 by jeroen at mompl.net:
> > > 
> > > > I finally got around to migrating my panel plugin to gtk3 and have
> > > > it
> > > > working on an up to date xfce environment (current debian sid). I
> > > > am
> > > > still working on cleaning things up and am wanting to release it
> > > > soon.
> > > > I used to be able to release a tarball through an account I had on
> > > > I
> > > > believe https://archive.xfce.org but that's now a directory
> > > > listing.
> > > > How would I release it these days? Is this the way to go:
> > > > 
> > > > https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/get-a-contributor-account
> > > > 
> > > > On an additional note I used to create my own debian package for
> > > > this
> > > > and use the debian mentors system to get it released on debian. Of
> > > > course since it was not gtk3 compatible it was removed from recent
> > > > releases. I believe one of debian the maintainers for xfce is on
> > > > this
> > > > list and emailed me a few years ago offering to help out in that
> > > > regard, but it's been a while so things may have changed and I
> > > > can't
> > > > find the email anymore. Any help or pointers in that regard would
> > > > be
> > > > appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > Older version of the plugin are stored here:
> > > > 
> > > > https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-equake-plugin/1.3/
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Jeroen
> > > > 
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