Category Archives: gnome

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 →

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 →

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 →

taking a look at the weekly bugzilla summary, we see that the applications with the most bug reports filed per week are nautilus, evolution, totem and epiphany. many of those crasher reports will be set to needinfo state, because the … Continue reading →

(welcome, dear planet gnome. who i am? check bugzilla, or the evolution archives.) looks like luis was already scared by my previous chart, so here’s another one: the number of nautilus bugs filed per day, within the last months: (yes, … Continue reading →

played around with bugzilla.gnome.org’s reports.cgi and chart.cgi, and finally ended up in gnumeric. the chart should describe the situation pretty clearly – no more words, need sleep.

leaving evolution. we’ve come a long way, baby…: two weeks ago, i finally officially announced that i retire from being the evolution bug master, some weeks after already having retired internally. it really hurts to leave a project that you’re … Continue reading →

add a “please write in english.” sentence. perhaps evey seventh or eighth bug report is not in english. i know some languages, but not all of them. please request a string and ui freeze so we get this in for … Continue reading →

…so i thought i should respectfully take a break here (at least for one night), before moving on and overtaking luis:

I wrote this about a year ago, now it’s time to publish this so it becomes easier for any potential successors willing to do this. so before the last person that remembers some ximian bugzilla wisdom finally leaves the project, … Continue reading →