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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre: [nonsystemd] NetworkManager, dbus and display managers require manual intervention

Posted on by Michael G

We have recently began a repackaging of [nonsystemd] packages (see #3290). The displaymanager-openrc package has been removed and specific init scripts have been added for their respective display manager (e.g. sddm-openrc for sddm, gdm-openrc for gdm and so on with lxdm, xdm and lightdm)

Regarding NetworkManager and dbus, their nonsystemd builds used to ship with their corresponding OpenRC init scripts, but now they were separated into networkmanager-openrc and dbus-openrc. Please install these when upgrading those packages.

Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses

Posted on by Michael G
Work on this Fuchsia project within Android — dubbed “device/google/fuchsia” — stalled in February 2021, with no public indication of how things were progressing. This week, all of the code for “device/google/fuchsia” was removed from Android, formally signaling the end of this particular avenue. In its place, we have a lone “TODO” message, suggesting that Google may be building up something new in its place. The developer responsible for the change primarily works on Fuchsia’s “Starnix” project. First shared in early 2021 as a proposal, Starnix is designed to make it possible for Fuchsia to “natively” run apps and libraries that were built for Linux or Android. To do this, Starnix would act to translate the low-level kernel instructions from what Linux expects to what Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel expects. Fuchsia is still very much in flux, and stuff like this further illustrates that while I firmly believe it’s the future of Google’s consumer operating system efforts, it’s still got a long way to go.

health @ Savannah: GNU Health project to implement REUSE compliance

Posted on by Michael G

The REUSE initiative[1] is a Free Software Foundation Europe program that facilitates the documentation of licenses of Libre projects like GNU Health.

After several meetings with our friends from FSFE, we have decided to implement REUSE in all GNUHealth components, that is:

  • Hospital Management System
  • MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record
  • Thalamus
  • GH Federation Portal

We believe that for large projects like GNUHealth, with multiple files of different kinds (code, graphics, data, ..) REUSE will be a great companion.

1.- https://reuse.software/

Peoples BLOG: Read Data to Paragraph Template in Drupal Application

Posted on by Michael G
In this article we are going to see how to read the dynamic data of the node or entity or field values to the template file, which are specific to the paragraph template. Generally while the Paragraph module is used, default template suggestions given by the paragraph module or the template suggestions provided by the hooks are used and further template design is done. Here’s the article wh

Community Working Group posts: Code of Conduct team update: July 13, 2022

Posted on by Michael G

As previously reported, the Community Health Team has started to have regular, bi-weekly meetings in an effort to develop and update the Code of Conduct (CoC) for the Drupal community.

Community Health Team members present at this week’s meeting were

We began the meeting with a review and updates related to our community outreach plans. We also briefly discussed how best to collect feedback, especially from individuals who want to provide anonymous feedback. We also discussed some additional Drupal community groups we want to reach out to for this effort.

In an effort to continue familiarizing ourselves with other communities’ Codes of Conduct, we  decided that we’d ask our community members which Codes of Conduct they’d like us to review. If you have any thoughts on this, please let us know at drupal-cwg at drupal dot org. We will also utilize the @drupalcommunity Twitter account for this effort.

We discussed what the next few steps in this process should be. One option is to figure out the “categories” of Code of Conducts that exist for open source communities, review relevant examples and categorize them. With this research, we’ll be in a much better position to decide on the category(ies) of CoC we envision for Drupal. After that, we’ll draft a list of elements we feel should be included in our updated CoC.

Finally, we set a goal for the completion of a new, revised, ready-to-adopt CoC: December 14, 2022.

A number of Drupal-related groups and individuals have confirmed their willingness to provide feedback to this effort as the process proceeds. If you, or a Drupal-related group, is interested in being part of this process, please let us know at drupal-cwg at drupal dot org.