Geary @geary@floss.social

Hi all, Geary is looking for a co-maintainer!

@mjog doesn't have enough time to to do it all by themselves any more, and so is looking for a hand in taking care of day-to-day tasks such as bug triaging and fixing, and working on improving the front-end side of the app in particular.

If you're interested, take a look at the issue tracker, and pitch on in!

If you have any questions, please thread them below or get in touch with @mjog 👇

Cheers!

#Geary #GNOME

For what it's worth, here's a likely very incomplete THANKS file:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/blob/mainline/THANKS

Geary is Free Software, being built by people, for people. ✌️ ❤️ 💻

Also to people who have been donating cash on Librepay (you know who you are), and the many people who report bugs and follow through with more information and testing when required.

All of the bug reporting, updating, and testing are just as essential as the development and translation work, and Geary wouldn't be as solid as it without that. So, thanks!

If you'd like to contribute, regardless of whether you can code or not, there's a bunch of helpful ways listed here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Contribute

While we have for a while been making sure that people who make code and translation contributions to Geary are acknowledged in the NEWS and THANKS files, we haven't really been acknowledging people who have been contributing in other ways. While we figure that out, here's a stop-gap list of people:

* Andre Klapper (bug triaging)
* Federico Bruni (bug reporting and fix testing, Discourse answering)
* Martin Mayer (bug wrangling and updating)
* Tobias Bernard (interface design)

Finally, the Geary Privacy Policy has been published, describes how Geary collects, uses, transmits and stores personal information.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/PrivacyPolicy

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the draft.

As usual, Geary 40 is the product of a large number of contributions from the community, including a number of people contributing improvements for the first time.

See the NEWS file for the complete list: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/blob/mainline/NEWS

🎐🎐 Geary 40 has been released! 🎐🎐

This new feature release features substantial interfaces updates to support half-screen and phone displays, search engine updates, and many interface, performance, translation and server compatibility updates and fixes.

Available to download from Flathub right now, and your favourite distribution as it gets packaged.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Geary

Geary 40 release candidate has been released, at long last! It is available to install as a nightly build for testing before the final release: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/GetIt

Please do test it out, and let us know if you find any show stoppers: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/ReportingABug

Thanks!

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Of course, if you have any questions about getting started, hit us up! Either here, or on the GNOME Discourse channel: https://gnome.element.io/#/room/#geary:gnome.org

Or if you are a bit more experienced with GNOME and/or Vala development, please see the Help Wanted issues in particular: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=4.+Help+Wanted&scope=all&sort=popularity&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Some good places to start includes the list of Newcomer issues if you're new to GNOME and/or Vala development: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=4.+Newcomers&scope=all&sort=popularity&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93

We've had had some good code contributions come in recently from first time volunteers, so if you have some software development experience, please feel free to dive in: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Development

Geary is maintained and developed by people from the community, nearly everyone volunteers their time. If you are keen to help out, there's a bunch of ways to contribute: triage bugs, translate the graphical interface, fix bugs or implement new features, and more: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Contribute

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PSA: Since there's been some questions around using Geary with MS Exchange (and Davmail) lately, the FAQ has been updated to describe best to do this: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/FAQ#Connecting_to_Microsoft_Exchange

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Geary 3.38.1 is out! 🎉

This is a bug fix and translations update release.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2020-October/msg00001.html

#Geary #GNOME

Geary packagers and hackers! We're considering requiring a build profile to be required for `meson setup` to succeed, can we get your input on this change?

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/rfc-requiring-a-profile-to-be-specified-when-building-geary/4405

Thanks! 🙏

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