Date: 21 Jul 2000 18:50:22 -0400
From: Havoc Pennington <<a
href=”mailto:hp@redhat.com”>hp@redhat.com>
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME Summary May 30 – July 21
This is the GNOME Summary for May 30 – July 21, 2000.
Table of Contents
1) StarOffice to join GNOME
2) Join the initial GNOME Foundation membership
3) GTK+ Preview Release
4) Development tutorials and information
5) Evolution preview release
6) pkg-config
7) Inti preview release
8) WM Spec versions
9) Web browsers
10) Hacking Activity
11) New and Updated Software
You’re probably wondering where the summary has been; basically
I got busy, stressed, etc. and just wasn’t feeling up to it.
However I’ll try to do them regularly again going forward (though
it may not be once per week; I’m considering one per 10 days or 2
weeks or so).
In any case, there’s a lot of stuff that’s happened recently,
I’ll try to just hit some highlights.
1) StarOffice to join GNOME
The exciting announcement of the month is that Sun will be
joining the GNOME community with their newly-GPLed StarOffice
project. Most of the details remain to be seen; for example, we
don’t know how this will impact the various components of GNOME
Office. Certainly we’ll try to minimize duplicated effort when
possible.
Hopefully everyone will welcome the Sun engineers as they join
the project.
You can read more here:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/964019206/index_html
2) Join the initial GNOME Foundation membership
In order to create a GNOME Foundation, we need an initial list
of voting members. To be a member of the foundation, you only need
to consider yourself an active member of the GNOME community; if
you contribute translations, documentation, code, art, advice, or
whatever, and you keep up with GNOME happenings, we’d like you to
join the foundation.
To this end the steering committee decided to create a CVS
module “gnome-foundation”, containing the file “membership.txt”.
This is the canonical list of members of the GNOME Foundation.
Anyone with CVS access should feel free to add themselves to this
file; please include your full name, your email address, and a
short blurb about your role in GNOME:
Dan Mueth (GDP leader) Bart Decrem (Eazel, helping organize the foundation) Jim Gettys (original X author, spiritual advisor)
etc. If you use munging to avoid spam please use “no_spam”, so
everyone has the same anti-spam and we can easily remove it via
perl script.
If you don’t have CVS access, send mail to the ad hoc membership
committee (Dan Mueth and Maciej Stachowiak) including your name,
email address, and involvement with GNOME. They’ll add you to the
CVS module. You can reach Dan and Maciej at membership@gnome.org.
The initial membership of the foundation will be responsible for
electing the first board of directors for the foundation; we hope
to have a vote in the coming weeks.
3) GTK+ Preview Release
It’s been decided that the next version of GTK+ will be called
GTK+ 2.0 (not 1.4, which was the previously-planned version). The
unstable prerelease series will be 1.3.x, and the first in that
series is now available. Owen’s announcement includes details on
the features of GTK+ 2.0:
http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gtk-list/2000-July/022410.html
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963685850/index_html
The final release is expected in a timeframe on the order of
“2-3 months”. The feature list is more or less already frozen,
though all the features aren’t in place yet. Now is also a good
time to bring up small changes or enhancements on gtk-devel-list@gnome.org
4) Development tutorials and information
Glade/Python:
http://linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article160.shtml
Intro to GNOME programming:
http://www.linuxprogramming.com/news/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-12-001-03-ID-UU-UU
5) Evolution preview release
Another Evolution preview, see here:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963451511/index_html
This one is almost usable, Jonathan is using it daily to read to
his mail. He’s not using it to _send_ mail, because it segfaults,
but… you can’t have everything. 😉
6) pkg-config
We’re hoping to move most of the libraries we use to a new
“pkg-config” system in the near future. This is similar to
gnome-config, but will come as a separate package so we can use it
with glib/GTK+ without creating a circular dependency. Also, it has
some features gnome-config lacks.
You can find the pkg-config source code here:
http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net/
The CVS version has a rewrite of the shell script in C, which
makes configure run a lot faster, and makes it easier to add
features and maintain the program.
7) Inti preview release
I released a preview of the Inti C++ framework, you can find it
on the Inti web site:
http://sources.redhat.com/inti/
8) WM Spec versions
There are new versions of the Window Manager Specification
here:
9) Web browsers
People are into writing small web browsers. The Nautilus file
manager will embed either GtkHTML or Mozilla; then we have Galeon,
which embeds Mozilla, and Encompass, which embeds GtkHTML.
Encompass:
http://zephyr.webhop.net/encompass.html
Galeon:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963929254/index_html
10) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary)
1457 nautilus
979 evolution
353 gnome-vfs
274 gnumeric
233 gtkhtml
223 gtk+
221 balsa
220 gimp
203 gedit
193 gnome-libs
189 guppi3
189 gnome-db
159 gphoto2
128 medusa
127 gnome-i18n
126 pan
102 gnome-utils
101 bonobo
94 gernel
82 achtung
78 gnomeweb-wml
68 gnomeicu
66 gtranslator
65 gnome-core
62 gnome-admin-tools
62 glib
60 grapevine
59 gnome-applets
59 eog
59 dia
56 ammonite
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary)
603 darin
294 kmaraas
241 ettore
233 frob
203 jirka
201 danw
187 scottf
173 kabalak
159 minmax
157 rodrigo
156 trow
156 ramiro
151 clahey
143 fejj
138 chema
136 andy
131 sullivan
128 jody
126 pepper
125 owen
122 mstachow
118 peterw
117 eskil
115 rodo
110 mmeeks
109 pce
101 charles
85 rasta
82 federico
78 hp
73 gzr
72 fritz
71 bratislav
68 rebecka
11) New and Updated Software
Software since the last summary.
[elided due to huge time since last summary 🙂 ]
See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.
Until next time –
Havoc
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