Monthly Archives: March 2008

GNOME 2.22

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Smoketesting 2.22.0

We are nearing another stable release. Some of you might use a distro that has already packaged the 2.22.0 tarballs. However, the official release occured after you received the email from Mr. Icecream to devel-announce-list (used for announcement to developers; … Continue reading

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Free as in Libre

Sometimes it is nice to pay someone to do something for you. But it is better to have a choice between either paying that someone, or just someone else or perhaps doing it yourself (plus loads of other possibilities). For … Continue reading

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Deciding on a DVCS

Elijah’s latest VCS blogpost is on LWN. Noticed the following addition: On a related note, it appears that Emacs will be moving to Bzr, not for a specific technical reason, but because Bzr is becoming a GNU project. I don’t … Continue reading

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Investigating Bugzilla performance with Cairo

Within GNOME we use Bugzilla a bit differently than upstream. GNOME has a lot more products and components than e.g. the Bugzilla used by Mozilla (which is also used to tracks the bugs of Bugzilla itself). More than 350 products, … Continue reading

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Release notes on GNOME Library

In a combined effort Frederic Peters and me moved the GNOME 2.12+ release notes to the GNOME Library. There have been various changes over the years in how these release notes were generated (only discussing GNOME 2.x). In the beginning, … Continue reading

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