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GNOME Summary for June 10 - June 16, 2001Jun 20, 2001, 02:54 (5 Talkback[s])(Other stories by Steve George) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:18:11 +0100 From: Steve George <gnome-summary@gnome.org> Subject: GNOME Summary for June 10 - June 16, 2001 This is the GNOME Summary for June 10 - June 16, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Work on 2.0 Continues 2) XFree86 Technical Conferencei 3) Module bug notification 4) Eazel Hacking is backi 5) Talking with Jim Gettys by Christian F.K. Schaller 6) New new release of Bug Buddy 7) New developer documentation 8) Project of the week 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Work on 2.0 Continues -------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 continues to shape up with information being centralised on the 'dotplan' pages at developer.gnome.org. Concerns over how tight the deadlines are and the tough decisions that need to be made exploded into a major flamewar across a number of lists. Martin Baulig, one of the 2.0 Release Co-ordinators, felt he'd had enough and posted he wanted to step down: at the moment he is considering what to do for a week. Underlying this are a number of complex architecture decisions which have to be made so a lot of debate is needed. Hopefully things will be back to an even keel soon and Martin will come back refreshed and rejuventated. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-June/msg00120.html http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/ ============================================================== 2) XFree86 Technical Conference -------------------------------------------------------------- The X conference is an opportunity for people developing for X to get together and discuss the technology and learn about the developments. With so much development going on in this area during the last few years contributers are being sought for the various talks. For more information on how to submit talks read Jim Gettys post, or for more general information the conference link is below. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2001-June/msg00113.html http://www.usenix.org/events/xfree86/cfp/ ============================================================== 3) Module bug notification -------------------------------------------------------------- A call has gone out for module maintainers or people interested in bug tracking to add themselves to the notification list. Every time a bug report is associated with a particular module an email is sent to the maintainers listed in the notification list - so this is really the best way to stay on top of bugs with anymodule in GNOME CVS. The relevant file is halloween/bugzilla.gnome.org/maint-aliases.txt ============================================================== 4) Eazel Hacking is back -------------------------------------------------------------- The eazel-hacking automated build system is back up and running. This CVS module enables you to get bleeding-edge versions of nautilus for hacking or testing. If you're interested in working on Nautilus then this could make life much easier. http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-June/003872.html ============================================================== 5) Talking with Jim Gettys by Christian F.K. Schaller -------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Gettys is also in our news trawl with an interview by Christian on Linuxpoweer. They discuss a wide ranging set of topics including GNOME, handhelds and that age old topic of why X is such a resource pig - or is it! http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=211 ============================================================== 6) New new release of Bug Buddy -------------------------------------------------------------- Every hackers favourite application went through a super fast development cycle with two releses within days. Jacob continues to add features and improve it, this time by adding access to Ximians bugzilla. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-June/msg00017.html ============================================================== 7) New developer documentation -------------------------------------------------------------- Improvements to the developer documentation continue to appear, a hearty thankyou to everyone working on them. Hardly anyones idea of fun but an important task to enable people to use all the great GNOME technologies. I'm sure everyone would welcome more help and this is a great way to learn more about GNOME. ============================================================== 8) Project of the week -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Bart Cortooms for helping with last weeks project of checking the gnome.org weblinks. So for this weeks project I've selected an easy item and one that seems topical. Project of the week is for everyone that uses GNOME to write to the contributor of their favourite GNOME program/documentation/web-page or whatever and say thanks for the efforts - knock youself out and send two! From doing the Summaries I can tell you it makes a big difference at 1 in the morning to feel you've made a difference to someone. ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules 92 galeon 71 SashMo 71 evolution 49 mc 38 libgnome 34 libcompat 33 eazel-hacking 33 libgnomeui 31 gtkhtml 30 gnome-utils 28 web-devel-2 27 dia 25 gtk+ 24 gnome-i18n 23 gnome-db 22 gail 21 gtranslator 20 libxslt 19 gtkhtml2 18 libical [97 active modules omitted] Most active developers 127 martin 45 rodrigo 38 proskin 34 ramiro 32 mmueller 31 menthos 30 rodo 27 damon 26 veillard 25 chatham 24 aheitner 23 kabalak 22 olau 22 kmaraas 22 cyrille 21 atevstef 20 bcameron 19 jirka 16 maubury 16 christof [115 active developers omitted] ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software updated this week is as follows. GConf-- - C++ wrappers for GConf. gbonds - Savings bond inventory application. GMime - Utility library for dealing with MIME. rubrica - Addressbook application. glunarclock - Displays the current phase of the moon in a GNOME applet. gbuilder - C/C++ IDE. gASQL - Database administration frot-end using gnome-db. gnome-crystal - A visualiser for crystal structures gefax - GNOME front-end for Efax application. GHex - Binary file editor and viewer. B-Chat - Chat client for use with Yahoo! Chat. Guikachu - Resource file editor for PalmOS pocket computers. Citrus - Library for converting between different units. mpterm - Terminal application that enables multiple terminals in one window. Rocket - GUI configured and monitored web server. gtex-letter - Easy interface for using the LaTeX letter classes. Moleskine - Source code editor in pygnome. For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3 =========================================================================== Thanks, Steve gnome-summary@gnome.org Related Stories:
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