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bugday this wednesday!

dear GNOME project, all my best wishes to your 10th birthday! about 5 or 6 years ago we met for the first time: me, another stoopid user that could not get his modem to work under windows 98 anymore (and … Continue reading

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2.20’s internationalization; guadec results.

maintainers don’t forget to add new files with translatable strings to POTFILES.in/POTFILES.skip, otherwise those new strings will not be caught. quickly check http://l10n.gnome.org/module/$MODULENAME to get a list of those files (they are listed at the top of the “UI translations” … Continue reading

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at the bug front, fronting.

congratulations to the tracker crew – bug 403752 has now become number one in the all time statistics. though it has been fixed in svn for nearly 3 months now (2007-04-30), the maintainer(s) is unable to either release a new … Continue reading

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gnome, where’s my monitoring at?

guadec, birmingham. currently at birmingham for one week to attend guadec, the gnome conference. my plane from cologne to birmingham had a delay of more than four hours, and i dislike waiting for a long time at airports (i know … Continue reading

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guadec / back in D.

similar to ryan’s page for 2006, i quickly created a page for guadec participants to document their arrival times at birmingham, so that people can meet up and socialize even earlier(TM).just go to http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2007/ArrivalTimes and add yourself to the list. … Continue reading

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bug days. evo.

better late than never: the bug day on last wednesday was interesting. while there were many people at the beginning, it was very calm for the last hours, which perhaps was a bit frustrating for our motivated bugsquadders, but all … Continue reading

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bugday / politics schmolitics.

you’ve been a GNOME fan for some time now? you’d like to contribute somehow, but cannot/don’t want to write code? one possible way is helping the GNOME bugsquad to handle the incoming bug reports (the so called “triaging”). there will … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.18 is on your way, baby.

been working on writing (hmm… or “mashing up”?) guidelines for proposing new modules for the GNOME desktop, and translated for the first time a .po file, just to check out something totally new. :-) sent a last showstopper review for … Continue reading

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showstoppers.

pretty busy with real-life stuff as i’m going to move, hope to find much more time in february. there hasn’t been that much feedback on the GNOME 2.16.3 showstopper review, but since posting it, 349697 has been perhaps resolved and … Continue reading

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"install debug packages! now!"

still thinking of how to get better and faster feedback (and less useless reports – thanks to fer for rejecting empty stacktraces in bug-buddy), we’re still closing way too many needinfo bugs as incomplete. one idea: stock responses providing direct … Continue reading

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