Monthly Archives: May 2007

Istanbul has been proposed to host GUADEC 2008. Some details: It is not as hot as I expected; average high temperature = 27 degrees celcius great place to be/party/enjoy the culture 4 star hotel: $30,- per night cheaper/free accomodation should … Continue reading →

SVN 1.5 dev can now check out a single file. This is important for translators who want to check out and commit a single file and not all the other languages. Requirements SVN 1.5 dev Usage svn co –depth=empty the-dir … Continue reading →

Guilherme de S. Pastore created an overview for some of the RequestTracker3 queues in www.gnome.org/rt3-stats. After some discussion with Federico I’ve enhanced these to show an overview of all new/open/stalled tickets. Before you could only see the totals; not what … Continue reading →

Christian Kirbach will now handle all product creation requests on GNOME Bugzilla. Hopefully he likes perl as well… for his sake. In other news, about 1500 people clicked on the porno spam link posted as a few HTML files in … Continue reading →

I was questioned by Vincent at UDS if the GNOME sysadmin team needed help as some tickets took a while to process. We (me,Vincent) didn’t have the time to discuss it, but I mailed my thoughts to him. He suggested … Continue reading →

Part of this was copy/pasted from the announcement. Here’s just a sampling of the major new features in version 3.0: Less ugly perl code (almost everything is readable&understandable now) Custom Fields mod_perl support for greatly-improved performance While sucking up loads … Continue reading →

In the near future I’m going to setup the build-brigade machine. This machine is currently known as tinderbox1. As we’ll be using buildbot, that machine name is wrong (the ’1′ also isn’t nice). I could just name it buildbot, but … Continue reading →