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Finally took the time to get GNOME 2.8.3 out the door. Not too far behind schedule this time either. It has a whole bunch of bug fixes in almost every module in there.

I also filed reports with the patches for vte from fedora in GNOME bugzilla so we have them archived. Put up a test tarball at http://www.gnome.org/~kmaraas/vte-0.11.12.tar.gz so please test that one if you have issues with the current release. This tarball is really just current CVS + patches from Fedora.

Played 9-ball badly last night, but it was fun anyway. Just need to get in the zone for this weekend and I’ll be all set

Just mailed d-d-l and r-t a diff of the package list for 2.8.3 compared to 2.8.2. It looks like we’ll have another rocking release with loads of fixes etc.

There are still a few packages missing so I thought I’d post here too to get more visibility

– gnome-vfs and friends need a release

– evolution and friends need a release

– control-center needs a release

Anyone see anything else missing?

I’ll try to get the release out this weekend, but I’m not sure when I’ll find the time. Probably not until late sunday evening european time. We’ll see…

Another stable release on the horizon…

I’ve been doing a lot of valgrinding lately and I think we’ve gotten most of the important leaks fixed. Next step is to see if valgrind can shed some light on any of the crashes on the 2.10.0 milestone list. Tried running valgrind after enabling a11y today and that showed a lot of leakage in gok, gnopernicus, at-spi, and friends…I think there was close to 1 MB leaked after just logging in and out again…

Played another 9-ball tournament last weekend and got in 9th out of 50 or so. Pretty happy with that, but there’s definitely room for improvement. Time to fire up foobillard and play, play play, play…

I’ll nail those suckers next time…

Congrats to big N (I can see why Nat was persuaded now on the great hula launch. Definitely looking forward to seeing success in that camp…

Picking up the pace…

It’s been a while and a lot has happened since I last blogged.

On the GNOME front there was the 2.8.2 release before christmas, and since that there’s been a lot of work triaging bugs and fixing stuff for 2.10.0. People have kicked serious ass and gotten the bug count down to an almost managable level, but there’s clearly more triaging work left for anyone who’s interested. I got myself a copy of VMWare to use for work related testing, and I’ll be able to use that to test out a few of The New Kids On The Block

With regards to life in general it’s been a nice and warm winter, almost no snow and around 0 degrees C for a long time now. Christmas was nice, new years too. Still three pool tournaments left this season and I need to pick up the slack there if I want to have a chance of moving up to the next division next season.

Went to a couple of concerts the last couple of months too. If want to get the best of the Norway you need to check out these two, Magnet and Thomas Dybdahl. I went to see both in december and I was totally blown away by Thomas Dybdahl. Maybe because I had no expectations when I went there, but that doesn’t really matter.

And finally, let’s see if we can keep the frequency in this blog to something less than three months