Category Archives: computer

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

Моё судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей!

Posted on 2011-04-01 by aklapper

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 →

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Now let me break stuff.

Posted on 2011-03-28 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2011-03-04 by aklapper

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.

Posted on 2011-01-10 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2010-12-16 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2010-12-14 by aklapper

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…

Posted on 2010-12-13 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2010-12-08 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2010-12-01 by aklapper

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

Posted on 2010-11-24 by aklapper

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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