ken’s blog

Foresight Linux 1.3 and the road to 2.0

Thanks to all that helped get 1.3 done, this release went very smoothly. We have quite a organization now, from developers and writers to translators. We have an official news letter, user guides, and proper release notes and our translators have really stepped it up and coordinated working with the writers to get everything translated on time.

Check out the release notes, news letter, and as always you can download it for yourself from rbuilder.

Now for the road to 2.0, this will likely be our last major release before 2.0. What will be different in 2.0? Few big changes, completely rebuilt with gcc 4.x, x86 and x86_64 versions, new release process, and quite a bit leaner (probably about 1GB smaller installed size. And quite a bit more… just stay tuned!

GNOME Live images for 2.18.2

I have updated the live images for GNOME 2.18.2, they are available here. The LiveCD hasn’t been updated, I have hit what appears to be a unionfs issue… working on that now and hopefully will get that published soon.

There is now also an additional virtual image type, VMWare ESX Server.

Fun with themes

I was playing around with a darker theme based on UbuntuStudio, . So far. the only thing I changed was the blue to the Foresight Green.

Very nice work by the UbuntuStudio guys, keep it up!

Of course I packaged it so Foresight users can enjoy it as well:

sudo conary update gtk-theme-foresight-studio


tomboy-plugin-jira

After enjoying the nice short links for gnome bugzilla created by the bugzilla plugin in tomboy, it started to annoy me that my links to jira issues are so long. After all… most issues I link in my notes comes from rPath’s or Foresight’s Jira.

So I created a new plugin based on the Bugzilla plugin for Jira. Using the plugin, when you drag links to a Jira issue into a note, the url will be shortened to just the issue ID and have a little bug icon next to it.

It is available at http://code.google.com/p/tomboy-plugin-jira/ and of course it is packaged for Foreisight, foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-contrib.

This was my first time really using svn for development in over a year now, and I have to say I don’t miss it. I wish Google Code offered mercurial

Conduit

I have been waiting for an app like conduit for quite sometime. Mostly because I live and breath based on Tomboy notes, and hate not really having a backup besides the rsync of my homedir from time to time.

Conduit can sync notes to backpackit.com, as well as sync other things too. I did hit a couple problems with 0.3.0, #99 and #100. I am looking forward to be able to use this on a regular bases, currently I can only successfully sync one note then it fails which definately isn’t optimal

Tonight I hope to play with gmail syncing, hope that works

I did package conduit 0.3.0 and it can be found on foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-contrib

Commit mail archiving

I am trying out googlegroups for archiving foresight commit mail. Pretty cool service, nice web interface, and now I can have an rss feed for commits.

http://groups.google.com/group/foresight-linux-commits

http://groups.google.com/group/foresight-linux-commits/feed/atom_v1_0_topics.xml?num=50

Down side is I can’t seem to get the diff output in the rss feed. It is displayed properly via the web interface, just left out of the feed. If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.

The trick to properly archiving without actually subscribing the group to your mailing list is in the advanced settings for the group. Took me a little digging to find it, but once you get to that page it is obvious.

Update the GNOME LiveCD

I just published an updated build of the GNOME LiveCD 2.18.1. I found a rather ugly mono problem on the previous one, specifically mono not playing well with unionfs. Fixed now, get it from the usual places.

Torrent
rBuilder

Foresight is green

Here is how I came to this conclusion (courtesy of pscott).