 thanks for the MoM (re @RikMills: Please all read: https://lists.launchpad.net/kubuntu-council/msg01142.html)
 cant wait for the upcoming LTS with plasma 6
[01:23] <arraybolt3> I think the upcoming LTS is going to be using Plasma 5.27.
[01:23] <arraybolt3> could be wrong
[01:24] <arraybolt3> but I'm pretty sure that's the plan
 *dayjob hat on* Kubuntu 24.04 shall use Plasma 5 and Calamares. That was the final decision from the Kubuntu Council.
 :)
[02:15] <valorie> @myfenris I'm sure that we'll have testing repos as soon as LTS work is mostly done
[02:15] <valorie> we alllll want it
[02:16] <valorie> 24.10 will be plasma 6 - a new qt/+entire ported KDE stack is too chancy for an LTS
 *dayjob hat on* Kubuntu 24.04 shall use Plasma 5 and Calamares. That was the final decision from the Kubuntu Council.
 ai ai 🫡
[07:59] <valorie> @myfenris we will def. want you as a tester soon!
[08:00] <valorie> if things go *very* well, perhaps in a "proposed" repos before the LTS is released
[08:00] <valorie> but there is a lotta testing between now and then
[08:18] <valorie> niters all
[08:51] <sgmoore> Morning all
[13:37] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[13:50] <sgmoore> hiyas
[16:24] <sgmoore> https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/some-exciting-news-kubuntu-im-back/
 😏 (re @IrcsomeBot: <valorie> @myfenris we will def. want you as a tester soon!)
 \0/ (re @IrcsomeBot: <valorie> if things go *very* well, perhaps in a "proposed" repos before the LTS is released)
[18:00] <arraybolt3> sgmoore: heya! How much longer are you intending to be around? I heard there was stuff to be done with Calamares - I don't know if that's a priority for you today or not, but I was hoping on getting started and wondered if you wanted to lead and I try to help, or if you'd like to tell me what you want to see in a Kubuntu Calamares and I can try to just do it and you review it later on.
[18:00]  * arraybolt3 syncs the Noble ISO in the mean time
[18:02] <arraybolt3> (for context Lubuntu already uses the Calamares installer so my idea was going to be to use our config as a base and port it to Kubuntu, similar to what was done previously with Ubuntu Studio back when it used Calamares. Then try to figure out OEM install mode.)
[21:00] <arraybolt3> mmikowski: ping
[21:01] <arraybolt3> mmikowski: pong
[21:01] <arraybolt3> (testing IRC client weirdness)
[21:59] <arraybolt3> ok, I've done a chaotic port of the Calamares config for Lubuntu over to Kubuntu just to get the beginnings of a base to build from. It looks like a Frankenstein's monster currently due to the branding still being all Kubuntu-based, but it looks like it's actually working, at least to begin with.
[21:59] <arraybolt3> https://i.imgur.com/LEZ4BLt.png
[22:01] <arraybolt3> ok so it crashed at the very end BUT it got almost all the way through!
[22:02] <arraybolt3> holy smoke it actually worked, it's booting the installed system now
[22:03] <arraybolt3> yep, I can boot after that
[22:04] <arraybolt3> feels like the time I "installed" a floppy disk using duct tape
[22:04] <arraybolt3> *floppy disk drive
[22:06] <arraybolt3> so now we just need an OEM mode, some technical adjustments, and a heaping helping of actually good branding.
[22:06] <arraybolt3> and some localization
[22:08] <arraybolt3> I guess next I'll download a Neon ISO and figure out how they implemented OEM mode, then try to hack that in