The Evolution maintainer announced a new release. This time the release fixes a significant security problem.
The problem is a remotely exploitable one. I strongly suggest everybody updating his or her Evolution setup. Even if your Evolution package is incredibly old. I think nearly all Evolution’s versions are affected.
Evolution-data-server: ===================== ... #447414: Security Fix - negative index of an array (Philip Van Hoof)
At LinuxTag Rob and I met and talked quite a lot to some Qt and KDE guys. We somehow came to the conclusion that a combined conference for our communities would be something positive. We concluded that the majority of people in both communities who truly matter (the people who do things, not the people who only talk about things), enjoy the competition between GNOME and KDE. That they love the other guys. That competing each other is giving both project’s members a reason for innovating their own project. Yet that the same competition should focus on being the best at what we do while that this competition should not make it difficult for the many companies and users that use our infrastructure.
Therefore we agreed that as much as possible of the D-BUS API should be shared between the KDE and the GNOME projects.
Our conclusion was that we need more social networking for this synergy to happen. We concluded that both Akademy and GUADEC share the same conference atmosphere and goals: they are both heavily oriented at meeting each other.
I would therefore, hereby, like to propose using the FOSDEM conference to pioneer the idea of perhaps in future having the GUADEC and Akademy conference to take place at the same time and location. Note that in this idea neither GUADEC nor Akademy change names nor that it would become one big conference. Note that it’s only an idea and that I think for it to succeed, it needs a pilot event. FOSDEM can be used for this.
We could play with the idea of having a few shared social events, like a game of soccer. Maybe making music together (as that was one of the greater ideas at GUADEC last year)? Social events with an emphasis on cooperating yet competing? Friendly competing!
I’m planning to ask the FOSDEM organisation to, in stead of two rooms, have one big room for both GNOME and KDE people. Or two rooms while mixing the presentations equally over the two rooms.
I hope I will be flooded by opinions coming from both sides, as this is probably a hard decision. Though I believe that both communities need to do this for our users and for the companies who get to deal with our differences.
I would like to state, clearly, that as a GNOME community member: I love KDE, I love the people who do KDE, I clearly disagree with a lot of their strategies and architecture ideas and I totally love the competition that got created by this disagreement. Let’s strengthen both and get them to share as much D-BUS API as humanly possible. Yet let’s keep competing each other by trying to provide the best implementation behind those APIs.
Let’s ignore the people who think that we are duplicating efforts, as we know we are not.
Let’s be friends who meet each other often and who have respect for each other. Let’s agree to disagree, but let’s agree on the things that we can easily agree on: D-BUS API.
Finally and most importantly, let’s not just talk and have good intentions but let’s also make it happen. Let’s compete in style.