Category Archives: gnome

gnome.org: release management, documentation, bug management and other adventures.

GIMP user documentation

Posted on 2025-04-24 by aklapper

Over the last two years I’ve worked a bit in my spare time on the user documentation of GIMP, a Free & Open Source Image Editor.While I personally still consider it pretty bad user documentation regarding style inconsistency, duplication of … Continue reading →

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No more open tickets left in GNOME Bugzilla

Posted on 2021-07-10 by aklapper

It’s already been impossible for a while to create new tickets in GNOME Bugzilla when GNOME moved to GitLab for bug reports and feature requests (and many other software development aspects, of course).In May 2021, Bart proposed to wrap up … Continue reading →

Posted in bugzilla, computer, gnome, lang-en | 2 Comments

Strike

Posted on 2020-11-11 by aklapper

✔ GNOME Gitlab achievement unlocked ✘ Write something about ‘life-work balance’ here

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GNOME 3.36 user documentation updates

Posted on 2020-03-12 by aklapper

Looks like since the release of GNOME 3.34.0 in September 2019 I made exactly 500 commits in GNOME Git. :) My main focus was on updating documentation. The user help of cheese, gnome-klotski, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-nibbles, gnome-robots, gnome-terminal, gnome-tetravex, iagno, lightsoff, … Continue reading →

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Updating some GNOME 3.32 user documentation

Posted on 2019-03-28 by aklapper

Apart from replacing many broken links to git.gnome.org or replacing links to GNOME Bugzilla with links to GNOME Gitlab in many code repositories and wiki pages, in the last months I spent some good time updating random GNOME user docs … Continue reading →

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GNOME Bugzilla closed for new bug entry

Posted on 2019-03-20 by aklapper

As part of GNOME’s ongoing migration from Bugzilla to Gitlab, from today on there are no products left in GNOME Bugzilla which allow the creation of new tickets. The ID of the last GNOME Bugzilla ticket is 797430 (note that … Continue reading →

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GUADEC 2018 (It’s a Gitlab world)

Posted on 2018-07-18 by aklapper

GUADEC in Almería was a great opportunity to catch up with some technologies in the GNOME world, hang out with lovely folks again, and spend time at the beach. Wrote stock answers / canned replies for GNOME Gitlab (to be … Continue reading →

Posted in bugzilla, gitlab, gnome, lang-en | 2 Comments

Statistics, Google Code-in, Gitlab, Bugzilla

Posted on 2018-03-24 by aklapper

Spending some good time to get Wikimedia’s code activity statistics (hosted by Bitergia) into better shape. Still some smaller bugs to iron out. Blogged in other places about Wikimedia’s successful participation in Google Code-in 2017. Impressive numbers and achievements. Posted … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome, lang-en, metrics, user-documentation, wikimedia | 1 Comment

GUADEC 2016.

Posted on 2016-08-13 by aklapper

Filthy attempts on the unconference session scheduling whiteboard by so-called “friends” trying to trick me into literally ‘something’. They won’t succeed. #makeandrenevertalkagain #noicecreamleftbehind

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Travel.

Posted on 2016-06-17 by aklapper

Middle East In late March 2016, I attended some Wikimedia gatherings in the Middle East: The WikiArabia conference in Amman (Jordan), a Technical Meetup in Ramallah (Palestinian territories), and the Wikimedia Hackathon in Jerusalem (Israel). I gave an introduction to … Continue reading →

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