This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-11-02 - 2002-11-09 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Tons of Evolution 2. New tooth in the GNOME bite 3. GNOME Foundation Candidates 4. GNOME Filesector Continued 5. Anjuta 1.0 6. More good medicine 7. Nautilus Bugzilla 8. Nautilus Media 9. Gtkmm 2.0 10. GNOME and Python 11. Translated GNOME summaries 12. Hacker Activity 13. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 14. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Tons of Evolution -------------------------------------------------------------- The fantastic team at Ximian has done it again. Not only is the higly anticipated Evolution 1.2 release available, but Ettore Perazolli also announced that the also much anticipated GNOME 2 porting has begun. Not strange then that Evolution rules this weeks CVS statistics. http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=evoluti on1_2 http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2002-November/005231.h tml ============================================================== 2. New tooth in the GNOME bite -------------------------------------------------------------- Edd Dumbill is working on adding Bluetooth support to GNOME. This is done by writing a Bluetooth device subsystem. Basically it's a Bonobo component that knows about the Bluetooth devices available to the computer, and brokers interrogation of this database to applications. It can also set up serial port connections to Bluetooth devices for clients. Early adopters should talk to 'edd' in #gnome on irc.gnome.org/ to help out with testing the code so Edd can do a first official release. Screenshot below. http://heddley.com/edd/2002/11/08/phonemgr.png ============================================================== 3. GNOME Foundation Candidates -------------------------------------------------------------- Once again it is time for us to choose the finest among us to spearhead the GNOME World Domination effort, through the GNOME Foundation Board. As always there are more great candidates that seats that needs to be filled, but I think we can be assured that whoever of these gets elected we will have a great GNOME board this year also. Check below for a full list of candidates. http://foundation.gnome.org/ballot-summary.html ============================================================== 4. GNOME Filesector Continued -------------------------------------------------------------- Last summary I claimed that we had a likely winner to be the new GNOME file-selector. This was not accurate. The code in libegg has a good chance of course, but the race is by now way over. It is also important to know that the fileselector seen in current GNOME 2 releases will be the one shipping for GNOME 2.2 also, so the fruits of these efforts is GNOME 2.4 material (which means 6-9 months away). Anyway Rodney Dawes has also made a proposal for the new fileselector, this one too with code behind it. Check out the Elysium libraries page for three screenshots of it in action. http://elysium-project.sourceforge.net/libraries/ ============================================================== 5. Anjuta 1.0 -------------------------------------------------------------- Naba Kumar with good help from Biswapesh Chattopadhyay,Andy Piper,Chris Woodruff,Johannes Schmid and Stéphane Démurget proudly announced the release of Anjuta 1.0 this week. Anjuta is a very nice integrated development environment for GNOME. If you haven't tried it in a while or not at all, you really should it rocks. The Anjuta team is now focusing their effort on Anjuta2. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-November/msg00028.html ============================================================== 6. More good medicine -------------------------------------------------------------- GNOME is all about providing our users with good medicine. To strenghten this effort Jens Finke made a new release of Apotheke this week. Apotheke is a CVS view for Nautilus which in this version lets you do things like get status, create a diff, make a commit and update. So read the full announcement and get your medicine. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-November/msg00017.html ============================================================== 7. Nautilus Bugzilla -------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME bugteam and the Nautilus hackers joined forces last weekend to clean up the Nautilus bugzilla. The result was more than 200 bug reports resolved. Hopefully more drives like this will be held as we go forward to bring the Nautilus bugzilla to a level where it reflects only current bugs and not historic ones. A great thanks to everyone involved, keep up the great work. (This week statistic don't properly reflect this as the bugcount reduction was split between this week and last weeks.) ============================================================== 8. Nautilus Media -------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Vander Stichele has done some wonderfull work to get the GNOME 2.2 multimedia effort on track the last few weeks. Not only did he write up a great summary of where we are and what we can/should do, he also got the nautilus-media module started which is a set of GStreamer based additions to Nautilus, like a much improved music view and a video thumbnailer. Future plans include video preview on hoover. Great work Thomas! http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-October/msg00651.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2002-November/msg00003.html ============================================================== 9. Gtkmm 2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------- Murray Cumming and the gtkmm team has managed to get the gtk+ 2.x C++ bindings ready in record time. The first non-development release of the popular gtkmm bindings for Gtk+ 2.x is now available to be enjoyed by C++ hackers everywhere. Check out link below for announcement and credits. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-October/msg00084.html ============================================================== 10. GNOME and Python -------------------------------------------------------------- Hilaire Fernandes delivered the third installment in his GNOME and Python tutorial series on Linuxfocus.org. While focusing on the GNOME1 bindings much of the knowledge learned from reading these tutorials can be applied to working with the GNOME2 Python bindings. Check out the tutorial to learn why Python is such a perl. http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2002/article266.shtml ============================================================== 11. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish - all the links below. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#news@gnome-de.org http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/ http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/ http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ ============================================================== 12. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 158 evolution 89 gnucash 88 gnumeric 69 gtk+ 53 sun-patches 45 gimp 44 gtkhtml 37 sawfish 33 rhythmbox 33 mc 31 beast 27 gtkmm-root 27 nautilus 26 gnome-panel 26 devhelp 25 web-devel-2 25 bonsai 24 gnome-xml 23 totem 23 galeon [127 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 143 dmitrym 52 yacob 47 toshok 43 fejj 41 cstim (gnucash) 40 rodrigo 39 owen 38 menthos 36 ettore 33 murrayc 32 jsh 29 warlord (gnucash) 28 timj 28 jdassen 28 mortenw 27 calum 24 hadess 24 lewing 23 neo 22 jbaayen [155 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 13. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list. Currently open: 7460 (In the last week: New: 663, Resolved: 770, Difference: -107) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 692 (In the last week: New: 43, Resolved: 177, Difference: -134) gtk+: 539 (In the last week: New: 21, Resolved: 90, Difference: -69) galeon: 355 (In the last week: New: 91, Resolved: 58, Difference: +33) GIMP: 281 (In the last week: New: 31, Resolved: 26, Difference: +5) gnome-vfs: 269 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 38, Difference: -32) gnome-applets: 194 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 8, Difference: +14) gnome-panel: 140 (In the last week: New: 39, Resolved: 42, Difference: -3) gnome-core: 110 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 6, Difference: +16) control-center: 100 (In the last week: New: 30, Resolved: 28, Difference: +2) medusa: 93 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 3, Difference: -3) libzvt: 90 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 1, Difference: -1) dia: 87 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 2, Difference: +14) sawfish: 84 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 28, Difference: -27) GnuCash: 82 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 7, Difference: +3) Gnumeric: 78 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 8, Difference: 0) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: bordoley msu edu: 66 bugs closed. dkennedy tinytoad com: 65 bugs closed. aschwin van der woude creanor com: 62 bugs closed. newren math utah edu: 58 bugs closed. yaneti declera com: 46 bugs closed. otaylor redhat com: 31 bugs closed. jsh pixelslut com: 28 bugs closed. teuf users sourceforge net: 27 bugs closed. heath pointedstick net: 27 bugs closed. andrew sobala net: 26 bugs closed. vincent vuntz net: 20 bugs closed. bfrantzdale hmc edu: 17 bugs closed. sven gimp org: 17 bugs closed. davef tetsubo com: 15 bugs closed. jfleck inkstain net: 14 bugs closed. ============================================================== 14. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- pkgview - gnome desktop component version tool. gnocl - A gtk / gnome extension for Tcl sawfish - Lisp-extensible window manager for X11. regexxer - nifty search/replace tool gsoftpad - Portable Application Description PAD Gamazons - Gnome implemenation of Amazons GTetrinet - Tetrinet client for GNOME gcompressor - compression decompression utility gnome-utils - collection of small applications. Devil's Pie - Tool to manage windows Gobject Factory - GObject code generator netspeed_applet - networkspeed monitor applet Coaster - Coaster - The Gnome Cd Burner Anjuta - Integrated Development Environment File Roller - Archive manager. Inti-GConf - An Inti binding for GConf gnome-mlview - xml editor for gnome Gnome Souls - Desktop Assistand - with Homer Terminal Server Client - a frontend for rdesktop Gwine - A wine cellar manager Meld - Meld: a diff and merge tool. gnome-games - Many games - gnothello, solitaire, tetravex and others apotheke - Nautilus CVS view For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php As mentioned in the previous summary we have had a difference between the number of open bugs reported on the bugzilla.gnome.org/ website and the statistics here in the Summary.That difference is now fixed and it turns out the statistics here in the GNOME Summary is the one that has been correct all the time. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller gnome-summary@gnome.org -- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org>