[00:07] <mparillo> It looks as if it landed in backports-landing for 17.10
[00:07] <mparillo> 301 updates according to Discover.
[00:48] <mparillo> Not that I doubted acheronuk, but no dead kittens. I updated with Discover and re-booted my VM. Krunner invoked kinfocenter, which reports Plasma 5.12.1, FW 5.43, and Qt 5.9.1. The kicker application launcher successfully launched Dolphin, Kate, Konsole, ksysguard, and System Settings, and all seemed just fine.
[02:51] <valorie> upgrading now
[07:52] <valorie> after a restart, 5.12.1 is great! I have a cute new lil icon for dropbox
[07:52] <valorie> very nifty
[18:04] <tsimonq2> :D
[20:20] <acheronuk> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7xks5g/kubuntu_w_backports_has_gotten_really_good_even/
[20:21] <acheronuk> should do blog and social media to say 5.12.1 is in backports
[20:40] <acheronuk> https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-1-bugfix-update-lands-in-backports-ppa-for-artful-17-10/
[20:41] <acheronuk> IRCsomebot is currently poorly and down, BTW
[20:42] <valorie> ooo, was gonna tell Nate the diff between release manager and product manager
[20:42] <valorie> lol
[20:43] <valorie> thanks for the article, Rik
[20:43] <acheronuk> ummm. at the moment dunno who is what.
[20:43] <acheronuk> probably whoever gets there first :P
[20:43] <acheronuk> since we are not over blessed with people
[20:44] <valorie> well, sure -- I hope he will focus on product QA and I will certainly help with that
[20:44] <valorie> while I will focus on getting testing for our ISOs
[20:44] <acheronuk> we will work out a good workflow with him. his enthusiasms is great
[20:45] <acheronuk> and his ideas
[20:47] <valorie> agreed
[20:47] <valorie> and his latest is getting people enthused about getting the kde quality team going again
[20:47] <valorie> which would help us all a LOT
[20:47] <acheronuk> that will be good for all as well
[20:48] <acheronuk> hopefully with plenty of distro feedback
[20:48] <valorie> exactly
[20:48] <valorie> I've been trying to steer some conversation to the distributions list
[20:48] <valorie> which IMO should really be all the distros working with KDE to make things better for all of us
[20:48] <acheronuk> I love the plasma and KDE devs, but a little 'view from a distance' also helps
[20:49] <valorie> amen
[20:49] <valorie> which is why I like to see more KDE devels involved in distros and vice-versa
[20:49] <valorie> we all gotta work together to make things great for our users
[20:50] <valorie> it ain't all about flatpak/snap/appimage
[20:53] <acheronuk> indeed!
[20:57] <acheronuk> valorie: ah, I see what you mean with nate on reddit. I'm being slow
[20:57] <valorie> anyway, not enough time right now to hop onto telegram
[20:58] <valorie> trying to post as Kubuntu on twitter about our latest
[20:58] <valorie> :-)
[20:59] <acheronuk> :)
[21:04] <valorie> https://twitter.com/kubuntu/status/963881724462604288
[21:05] <valorie> I couldn't figure out how to logout, gosh