Daily Archives: February 4, 2008

Patch wrangler

February 4, 2008 – 2:59 am

While I was committing release-wrangler.py, I thought I’d also include patch-wrangler.py, which (once given a patch number) downloads Metacity trunk, applies the patch, configures, and makes. It would be better if it could figure out the project name given the patch so that it was usable on other projects, which is possible through scraping bugzilla, [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Posted in Tools | Comments (2)

Release wrangler

February 4, 2008 – 2:54 am

I’ve written a basic release script for Metacity following the standard release instructions, since I have to go through them every week or so anyway and I thought it would be better to automate them. Of course, it took about five times longer to write the script than to do a release, but I look [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Posted in Tools | Comments (2)

2.21.8 is out

February 4, 2008 – 2:35 am

Thanks to Paolo Borelli, Iain Holmes, Havoc Pennington, Christian Persch, Thomas Thurman, and Alex R.M. Turner for improvements in this version. – Windows on other workspaces which need attention appear in the alt-tab list too (Alex ) (GNOME bug 333548) – Remove deprecated function call (Christian ) (GNOME bug 512561) – New release script (Thomas) [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Posted in 2.21, releases | Comments (1)