Category Archives: computer
GNOME’s GHOP Runner-Ups.
I’m quite late with this, but I like to mention a few more students that participated in Google’s Highly Open Participation Contest. I’m pleased to post our unofficial “runner-ups” here: Patrick Hulin (patrick.hulin) The GNOME Project has selected Patrick Hulin … Continue reading
The GNOME is out!
six months later… thanks to everybody who was involved in another nice release!
remaining 2.22 showstoppers.
translations adding “just one additional string” to a module two weeks before a major release does not sound bad at first sight. but keep in mind that most of the modules have about 20 completely translated po files. it means … Continue reading
Google Highly Open Participation Contest results.
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) concluded a few days back. Google had invited 10 Open Source projects, GNOME being one of them, to set up a list of tasks for high school students. GHOP was a great success … Continue reading
GNOME 2.22.0 will probably not be GNOME 2.22
well. KDE 4.0 is not KDE4. GNOME 2.22 will also have some regressions because of porting from gnome-vfs to GIO. two of them are listed in the latest GNOME showstopper review: the missing “network:” backend implementation and the missing ftp … Continue reading
some (software) plans for 2008.
evolution at the beginning of the 2.23 cycle, i want to take a look at evolution’s user-visible messages. a lot of non-crasher bug reports (and especially support questions in forums) deal with error strings that are hard to understand for … Continue reading
2007.
czech republic: found out a few things about myself (i should continue that in 2008), for example that i am able to share my room with somebody (i had expected me to look for a flat on my own after … Continue reading
that short-term-thinking disease.
GHOP tasks: so far we have at least 59 fixed bugs by GHOP students (in fact it’s much more, but i’m too lazy to tag them in bugzilla). congratulations to all participating students and their mentors! a few maintainers have … Continue reading
the way to 2.22.
showstoppers. the latest list of GNOME 2.22 showstoppers is out: Epiphany: prompt service + tabs fix:accoding to chpe this is a must-fix for any release supporting xulrunner 1.9, so to be on the safe side this should get done for … Continue reading
consistency of translations
one of the translation aims is to provide consistency of terminology. some translation teams have glossaries to achieve this (german, french, for examples). however, reality bites. i’ve started to use the wonderful Open-Tran.eu project to search for inconsistencies – enter … Continue reading
