Category Archives: gnome

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

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). Your browser cannot play HTML5 … Continue reading →

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Google Code-in 2015 has started!

Posted on 2015-12-08 by aklapper

Another round of Google Code-in started yesterday. Together with Nemo and Petr I am one of the organization administrators for the Wikimedia community. In this year’s edition of Google Code-in, students can choose from tasks provided by the following organizations … Continue reading →

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GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 (part 2).

Posted on 2015-05-10 by aklapper

Continuing with the first day: Shobha Tyagi elaborated on the acceptance problems when moving users from Microsoft Windows to Linux based systems at her university. That talk resulted in interesting follow-up discussions on regional differences. Later on, lightning talks took … Continue reading →

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GNOME.Asia Summit 2015.

Posted on 2015-05-08 by aklapper

It’s that time of the year again: GNOME.Asia Summit at Universitas Indonesia in Depok (Indonesia)! On Thursday some workshops took place how to contribute to GNOME translation and documentation and how to start coding. Today (Friday) is Day 1 of … Continue reading →

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GNOME Bugzilla: Your Bugs and your Product Overview.

Posted on 2015-02-23 by aklapper

The UNCONFIRMED bug status (which can be disabled per product) will be removed as it is mostly not used and confuses reporters. Tickets with UNCONFIRMED status will be merged into NEW status as announced on desktop-devel-list and at the top … Continue reading →

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On product design.

Posted on 2015-02-13 by aklapper

…and while I was playing with GNOME’s new Bugzilla instance trying to get rid of some upstream feature bloat, I looked at upstream’s Bugzilla front page and spend the next hours wondering where to add eight more Search buttons/links/forms so … Continue reading →

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GNOME Bugzilla upgraded to 4.4.

Posted on 2015-02-10 by aklapper

Dear GNOME community, you all owe Krzesimir Nowak, Andrea Veri, and Olav Vitters some icecream and drinks: The Bugzilla software running on bugzilla.gnome.org has been upgraded to the latest stable version available. First of all: No amazing new custom features! … Continue reading →

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GNOME Bugzilla and You.

Posted on 2015-01-25 by aklapper

GNOME’s Bugzilla instance is old. Too old. It will get upgraded in the next weeks. You should help by playing with the test instance. Go read these instructions and do it! Let me make one thing clear already: Dear GNOME … Continue reading →

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Business as usual.

Posted on 2014-07-21 by aklapper

No surprises: Looking forward to part-time holidays, beautiful Strasbourg, and the usual bunch of great people.

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