Category Archives: gnome
some (software) plans for 2008.
evolution at the beginning of the 2.23 cycle, i want to take a look at evolution’s user-visible messages. a lot of non-crasher bug reports (and especially support questions in forums) deal with error strings that are hard to understand for … Continue reading
2007.
czech republic: found out a few things about myself (i should continue that in 2008), for example that i am able to share my room with somebody (i had expected me to look for a flat on my own after … Continue reading
that short-term-thinking disease.
GHOP tasks: so far we have at least 59 fixed bugs by GHOP students (in fact it’s much more, but i’m too lazy to tag them in bugzilla). congratulations to all participating students and their mentors! a few maintainers have … Continue reading
the way to 2.22.
showstoppers. the latest list of GNOME 2.22 showstoppers is out: Epiphany: prompt service + tabs fix:accoding to chpe this is a must-fix for any release supporting xulrunner 1.9, so to be on the safe side this should get done for … Continue reading
consistency of translations
one of the translation aims is to provide consistency of terminology. some translation teams have glossaries to achieve this (german, french, for examples). however, reality bites. i’ve started to use the wonderful Open-Tran.eu project to search for inconsistencies – enter … Continue reading
Google’s Highly Open Participation – propose your task!
vincent already blogged about the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP). it is a contest similar to google’s summer of code, but for high school students and with much smaller tasks in any fields like documentation, translation and code. the … Continue reading
too popular, too buggy, too easy…?
first of all: i’m probably the 26th person posting this, but: thanks a lot Nokia for providing me a discounted N810! found an old posting of dave and finally realized that the stuff on developer.gnome.org is located in the svn … Continue reading
triaging, and how to spend less time on it.
at guadec, some people took a look over my shoulder to see me triaging (and Don told me about the correct pronounciation). of course the bugsquad sometimes teaches triaging to interested newbies in #bugs, but it was even more fun … Continue reading
freedom of speech. thanks.
so, to summarize and comment the complaints i have seen in the latest blog postings on http://planet.gnome.org and its comments: i DO want people to post about politics, if they want to. i DO want people to blog about vegetarianism, … Continue reading
holidays.
the next two weeks, steffi and me are going to travel a bit through belgium, north-eastern france and the netherlands (no fixed plans on anything though, so we’ll see which areas to visit and which folks exactly to meet and … Continue reading
