Category Archives: gnome
GNOME 3 Release Party in Prague
Last weekend we had a GNOME 3 Launch party in Prague (CZ) that was attended by 60 to 70 people. Some GNOME 3 flash disks provided by Red Hat were available for folks interested to test, and some interesting talks … Continue reading
GNOME 3 released!
Nine years after GNOME 2 we released GNOME 3 today. It is a different way to do things, and that is intended. GNOME 3 is not GNOME 2. It’s a new concept. Check the release notes and our videos for … Continue reading
Bring us all the icecream that you have!
I just made it back to Central Europe and hereby post some random bits and pieces on those last days that I spent in Bangalore/India on a software project that I like. Looks like we created some confusion on Friday … Continue reading
Моё судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей!
So it’s official: We’ve decided at the GNOME.asia hackfest that we’re going to postpone GNOME 3.0 a bit. As written, one of the reasons is that the amount of remaining issues is simply too high. While it’s disappointing to change … Continue reading
Now let me break stuff.
After a great flight I arrived in sunny Bangalore yesterday and am going to spend some days at the Intel office and at Dayananda Sagar Institutions with over a dozen of brave, friendly and good-looking folks to work on GNOME3 … Continue reading
GNOME 3.0 blocker bugs status
The GNOME release-team met yesterday and reviewed the blocker reports in GNOME Bugzilla by splitting them into “must-fix”, “should-fix” and “nice-to-have” categories. These are the results. 17 Blocker issues Data taken from Bugzilla (bug reports with GNOME Target field set). … Continue reading
Misc tech bits and pieces.
GNOME Bugzilla in 2010 As usual I posted a short activity summary for 2010. Also quickly wrote up the GNOME Q4 quarterly report for the Bugsquad. GNOME 3.0 blockers Posted a first GNOME 3.0 blocker report (based on GNOME Bugzilla … Continue reading
Evolution user documentation in Mallard
Two weeks ago I attended the GNOME Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest. Since then I’ve been working a bit on Mallard documentation for Evolution. It’s a complex task and I am happy that Barbara Tobias has offered her help. You … Continue reading
Google Code-In in GNOME
This is a short status report at half-time of Google Code-In 2010/11 contest (3 weeks have passed and another 4 weeks to go until January 10th). Most of the students do an awesome job! Just to highlight some of the … Continue reading
Fedora 13→14…
Decided to upgrade one of my machines this weekend. While Fedora’s PreUpgrade is intelligent enough to check the free diskspace on / before downloading the new packages (at least according to the terminal output, bug 649399 states differently) it does … Continue reading
