This Week in Spectrum, 2025-W19

This Week in Spectrum, 2025-W19

[Alyssa Ross]

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Sadly this week has mostly been a continuation of the last — I'm still
recovering from dental surgery.  I spent the early part of the week in
too much pain to think about much else, and the later part of the week
in less pain but now struggling with side effects from painkillers.
From what I understand there's not anything to worry about, but I've hit
some bad luck and ended up with much worse and longer lasting pain than
would usually be expected from this.

So this isn't going to be the type of comprehensive report I'd like to
be sending out every week, but I'll list some things I have been able to
get done in those moments where I've been able to focus.

 • Updated Spectrum's pinned Nixpkgs and made some small improvements
   (mostly not committed yet) as a result of improvements in updated
   packages.

 • Got the automated test I was working on to the point where it's
   actually testing something useful — that networking works.  Still
   want to polish it a bit more when I can focus better before I commit
   it.

 • Made a release of the Cloud Hypervisor virtio-gpu patches[1].

 • Some long overdue work on the server that among other things hosts
   the Spectrum website, git repos, etc.

 • Reported a GTK regression that has made testing Spectrum very
   annoying for the last few months[2].

 • Tested a crosvm update in Nixpkgs.

 • Worked on arranging continuing funding for Spectrum.

[1]: https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives/spectrum-discuss/877c2owzjl.fsf@alyssa.is/
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7544

Most of this stuff has been in the last 2-3 days, so hopefully I'm on a
good trajectory, but I don't know how long it's going to be before I'm
back to normal.

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