Three interesting things
January 14th, 2008
Noticed a few interesting things today:
- GNOME hackers ask things that are answered by the (very short) IRC topic
- Someone asked if the GTK 1.2 (1.2.0 was released on 27-Feb-1999) documentation could be put on a site somewhere again, as it is ‘extremely handy’
- Some spammer asked if his post could be removed from the archives at mail.gnome.org
Oh, and my addition of sftp to the releng convert-to-tarballs script wasn’t useless. It finally noticed a tarball before it was on the main mirror, ftp.gnome.org. This to ensure any release team member (with a properly configured setup) won’t be affected by any mirror lag. The script will try to d/l any tarball for up to 2 minutes with an appropriate waiting time in between (might need to increase the total number of tries though). It’ll also use resume (so in case of a partial d/l, it doesn’t d/l the whole file again, except if it is corrupt)
January 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Old GTK+ docs can be quite hard to find…
January 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Anders: Non-ancient docs are available on library.gnome.org (meaning 2.0 onwards). GTK 1.2 until a few months ago appeared higher in the search results than GTK 2.0. That was a crazy situation (people often referred to these docs).
Those 1.2 docs weren’t ‘removed’. What happened is that the current content on developer.gnome.org (which had all kind of old & outdated documentation) has been redirected to library.gnome.org. That site updates automatically.. e.g. new GTK docs should appear within max 15min or so after a tarball has been released.
The GNOME Library has software from ~ GNOME 2.8 onwards. There aren’t plans to put older stuff on there (well, unless someone does the work and it isn’t a hack).
Regarding the documentation GTK 1.2 documentation: it is included in GTK (meaning, fetch the tarball and you have it).
The post is more about that someone has a need for these docs.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I think the IRC topic would be much more useful, if the GNOME IRC network wouldn’t loose it for most servers all of the time. I typically just see that there is no topic at all. That said, I don’t know the specific topic and question that was meant, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because of the IRC network information syncing problems or whatever that plague the GimpNET.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Mart, In this case the topic was visible. Lack of services and that topic bug is annoying… but I am not an IRC operator, so can’t do much about it.