GNOME.Asia Summit 2025

Last month, I attended the GNOME.Asia Summit 2025 held at the IIJ office in Tokyo. This was my fourth time attending the summit, following previous events in Taipei (2010), Beijing (2015), and Delhi (2016). As I live near Tokyo, this year’s conference was a unique experience for me: an opportunity to welcome the international GNOME …

Optimizing CI resource usage in upstream projects

At GnuTLS, our journey into optimizing GitLab CI began when we faced a significant challenge: we lost our GitLab.com Open Source Program subscription. While we are still hoping that this limitation is temporary, this meant our available CI/CD resources became considerably lower. We took this opportunity to find smarter ways to manage our pipelines and …