Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".
It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlBA
Are you Being Served by Free Software?
This is a off the cuff discussion which is a response to some other videos about the whole RedHat news more recently. But looking at it from a the thousand m...YouTube
Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Abandoned • • •What discussion? We are asking for help with our CI runner. If you want to help, we'd appreciate it; if you don't want to help, then why are you complaining?
We've had the macOS CI runner for years; we've asked GIMP devs to help out; we've asked people using/contributing to the macOS backend to help out; we haven't seen anything.
Honestly, it seems to me you want to whine for the sake of whining—and it wouldn't even be the first time. What do you want from the GTK team?
Abandoned
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Have I made a complaint?
I didn't put details in my toot because I thought it would be rude to call out specifics when there are more interesting and wider ideas for people to think about.
René will be in touch with your in a few days to talk more about the specifics.
Emmanuele Bassi
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •If this is the response I get from the Inkscape community you represent, then next time I won't even ask the Foundation to rent a macOS machine like I did four years ago; or *beg* for help when sysadmins want to decommission it because it's just sitting there without anybody caring.
This is not how you participate in a community, Martin. This is how you just use something other people do, and then turn around and complain when they don't jump high enough for you.
Abandoned
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Feel better?
Emmanuele Bassi
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