Note: This is a new thing I'm trying: write a monthly report of my contributions to Free Software. Let's see how long that lasts. (I'm surprised I've been able to do it two months in a row)

Unemployment is great so far, giving me a lot of time to contribute in different areas, depending on my wims and the problems I find in the software I use daily.

If you like what I did and want me to continue, feel free to tip me at Liberapay. I don't particularly need the money so don't ruin yourself over it, but it will be good to know that my work is appreciated. 🙂

GNOME

• Reported a glib/libsoup deadlock which made it very hard to work with flatpak-builder.

• Fixed the Flatpak build for Meld master

• Renamed the Meld app id

• Reported a bug in Fractal

Flatpak / Flathub

• Upgraded GNOME Calculator

• Upgraded GNOME Documents

• Upgraded Meld

• Upgraded GNOME Photos

• Made Polari use the GNOME 3.28 runtime

• Reported a cosmetic issue with Meld

• Figured out how to change languages in Blender

• Made the Freedesktop Platform and Sdk much smaller:

  • Removed the Python tests completely, as they just don't provide any value, even in the Sdk.

  • Moved some documentation to the .Sdk.Docs extension:

    • some general things

    • the openssl docs

  • Removed some dev tools from the Platform, keeping them in the Sdk

  • Removed Perl from the Platform, keeping it in the Sdk

  • Removed Yasm in favour of Nasm

Cangjie

• Improved the data clean up

  I had sent the pull request in April, but found some issues with it this month.

• I started playing with a Rust rewrite, which is a long way from being useful still, but it's pretty fun to do.

Miscellaneous

• Suggested a new feature for BuildStream