Category Archives: gnome
Google Code-In status
Google Code-In contest has started on Monday and things are going nicely apart from interpretating contest rules (solved on the gci-discuss mailing list), slowness in task list access (fixed by Google yesterday), and way less email notifications than expected (you … Continue reading
GNOME accepted for Code-In; Tasks needed!
Good news: GNOME has been accepted for Google Code-In that starts on Nov 22nd! Now we need your tasks for students, may they be about Code, Documentation, Outreach, QA, Research, Training, Translation, UI. Please take a moment and think about … Continue reading
Google Code-In: GNOME needs your tasks!
Some might remember Google’s GHOP contest in 2007/08. It will take place again under the name Google Code-In (GCI) from November 2010 to January 2011. GCI is a “small sibling” of Google Summer of Code for highschool students (13 to … Continue reading
GNOME 2.32 is out.
It was a hectic day. GNOME 2.32, the last 2.x version, is out now! Big thanks to all the hackers, translators, bugsquadders, documentation writers, artists, marketing folks, …. Personally I’m proud that our small translation team again managed to have … Continue reading
Jhbuild’ing GNOME 3.0: No fun.
Hadn’t compiled GNOME for a while so I gave it a shot yesterday evening. I ran jhbuild build evolution which should build everything required for Evolution. I had a fresh and empty install directory.I don’t post this to blame anybody … Continue reading
Identifying projects and localization teams in need / GUADEC 2010
The talk (at GUADEC). Apart from the usual Release Team service announcement and its charming follow-up street fights and the two short Bugsquad and Localization reports at the AGM meeting I also had the pleasure to present a talk about … Continue reading
GNOME 3.0 in March 2011
It’s 3 AM, GUADEC is big fun as usual, I’m in the hotel lobby, and as I have only seen one summary blogpost on planet.gnome.org yet I’d like to mention that GNOME 3.0 will be released in March 2011. Good … Continue reading
Stallman keynote‽
Having attended last year’s GCDS keynote one sentence in the latest GNOME Foundation board meeting minutes scared me: “GNOME.Asia/COSCUP: Richard Stallman will be doing a keynote”. As I was told that he has received a copy of GNOME’s new Speaker … Continue reading
GNOME modules that do not yet work with GTK3
Quick update of the list of modules (not necessarily complete) that do not yet work with GTK3. Note: The table does not cover porting apps to use both GTK2 and GTK3. Tickets with background color are blocked by missing GTK+ … Continue reading
Heads up: GNOME 2.31 soon to ship GTK+ 2.90
(copying from devel-announce-list) The GNOME Release Team plans to ship GTK+ 2.90 from GNOME 2.31.4 on. This requires module maintainers to port their modules now (if you don’t want an angry release-team mob soon in front of your house). We … Continue reading
