Tea from the Celestial Teapot

Made a metacity release today! Though I’ve been a metacity hacker
through many a metacity release, this is the first time that I’ve
actually been the one to make a release. Hope I didn’t screw it up.

I ended up committing the changed po files. There’s some controversy
over whether these should be committed, but I think that as long as
distcheck modifies these files I’m going to go ahead and commit the
modifications. I hope nobody gets too terribly angry at me; I’m not
trying to make anyone’s life harder.

The GNOME bugzilla has a link now on the front page for searching
for “unreviewed” patches for a product. It would be nice if we
could customize the query a bit. How about all open bugs with
patches, or open bugs with patches in state
“accepted_commit_after_freeze”? As it stands I’m thinking that the
PATCH keyword was both more powerful and simpler to use, since you
can query on that in the interface.

I’ve decided to experiment with the whole blogging
thing. A lot of the GNOME folks seem to be down with it, so I’ll
give it a shot. I intend to document my GNOME work here, as well
as events in my life deemed more than trivially significant.

As far as GNOME work goes I’m currently helping Havoc handle
maintaining metacity, writing actual code for metacity whenever
possible, and generally making a nuisance of myself on GNOME
mailing lists. In particular, my hope is that this weekend I’ll
get a chance to maybe go through some applications like
gnome-terminal and epiphany and implement forwarding of
_NET_WM_USER_TIME timestamps from startup notification so that new
instances of old applications won’t pop up in the background
without focus.