Monthly Archives: September 2007

The new system to request accounts (Mango) has gone live. Updated instructions for people wanting an SVN account are at: http://live.gnome.org/NewAccounts. The maintainers listed in the various MAINTAINERS files have received instructions on how the system works. This email also … Continue reading →

Mango will soon be the new way to request GNOME accounts (usually SVN). Mango was first written by Ross Golder, then enhanced by Baris Cicek during Summer of Code 2007 to handle requesting accounts. After that I also changed a … Continue reading →

Saw a mention of a blog with the following in it: Remember what today might be a funny and smart post, it can be tomorrow’s reason for an employer to not consider your application [...] I avoid blogging about certain … Continue reading →

Diego Escalante Urrelo proposed to drop <= GNOME 2.16 crash reports on desktop-devel-list. The reasoning (as discussed on bugsquad-list) is: They are really old and most of them are answered “well yes, try SVN/last-release it [might be] fixed there”, or … Continue reading →

It is now possible to create your own GNOME SVN repository for everyone having a GNOME SVN account. The full instructions are at: http://live.gnome.org/NewSVNRepos But, they are short enough to repeat: If you need to import the history of some … Continue reading →

Probably only interesting if you are (or should be) listed in a MAINTAINERS file In a few days (perhaps more…), people in /trunk/MAINTAINERS will receive new instructions on how to approve SVN account requests (via a system called Mango). These … Continue reading →

Last weekend, I replaced a few parts in my pc. This meant I needed to upgrade my distro from ‘i586′ to x86_64. However, this is unfortunately not supported by the distro (RC1 gives weird error messages, the development one tells … Continue reading →

Just copy/pasting an announcement by Ross Golder: Due to reasons beyond our control, we will shortly be changing the IP addresses for the GNOME subversion and L10N machines. I currently expect we will be doing this at some point on … Continue reading →

As zeenix wrote: OTOH, The discussion went very well until the biggest opponent of git, Olav Vitters admitted that “It translates to: I really care about not needing to learn an SCM.”. From that point onwards, I completely lost the … Continue reading →

If you see inappropriate content on GNOME Bugzilla, please report this to bugmaster@gnome.org or report in the #bugs channel on irc.gimp.net (use e.g. xchat). This for stuff like accidental information appearing in bug-buddy reports, spam, bad behavior, etc. Note that … Continue reading →