Category Archives: computer

Anything that has to do with machines, internet, open source and technology.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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My MeeGo bugtriaging experience so far

But it happened that it was early October and that I felt like diving into MeeGo bugtriaging. After some public whining, Carsten (who’s always a huge help) and Dawn were kind enough to point out the existence of the meego-qa … Continue reading

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bugs.maemo.org updated to 3.4

As some might have noticed, bugs.maemo.org was upgraded from ancient version 2.22 to 3.4 last week. This means we now have a version running that is maintained upstream, a design that fits to the rest of maemo.org, less noisy comments, … Continue reading

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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

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MeeGo Conference 2010

The enthusiasm at this conference was pretty impressive. It was probably the right boost for the MeeGo project at the right time as engineers of involved companies could get to know each other and hopefully now also understand a bit … Continue reading

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