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Christian Hergert and Allan Day on GNOME
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GNOME ☛ Christian Hergert: Dedicated Threads with Futures
There are often needs to integrate with blocking Hey Hi (AI) that do not fit well into the async or future-based models of the GNOME ecosystem. In those cases, you may want to use a dedicated thread for blocking calls so that you do not disrupt main loops, timeouts, or fiber scheduling.
This is ideal when doing things like interacting with
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GNOME ☛ Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-09-05
Steven’s weekly Foundation updates were fantastic and, since I’m filling in the ED role as President, I want to keep them going. I’m still mulling over the frequency and scheduling of the posts, but for now I’ll stick to weekly on Fridays.
I’m trying to make this an update for the entire organisation, rather than for me personally, so a lot of this update is about others’ activities, rather than my own. Inevitably I can’t report on everything and will miss some items, so apologies to anyone if I don’t manage to cover your contributions. We can always squeeze omissions into a future update, so let me know if I missed anything.