Category Archives: computer
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
Google’s Highly Open Participation – propose your task!
vincent already blogged about the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP). it is a contest similar to google’s summer of code, but for high school students and with much smaller tasks in any fields like documentation, translation and code. the … Continue reading
too popular, too buggy, too easy…?
first of all: i’m probably the 26th person posting this, but: thanks a lot Nokia for providing me a discounted N810! found an old posting of dave and finally realized that the stuff on developer.gnome.org is located in the svn … Continue reading
triaging, and how to spend less time on it.
at guadec, some people took a look over my shoulder to see me triaging (and Don told me about the correct pronounciation). of course the bugsquad sometimes teaches triaging to interested newbies in #bugs, but it was even more fun … Continue reading
freedom of speech. thanks.
so, to summarize and comment the complaints i have seen in the latest blog postings on http://planet.gnome.org and its comments: i DO want people to post about politics, if they want to. i DO want people to blog about vegetarianism, … Continue reading
holidays.
the next two weeks, steffi and me are going to travel a bit through belgium, north-eastern france and the netherlands (no fixed plans on anything though, so we’ll see which areas to visit and which folks exactly to meet and … Continue reading
bugday this wednesday!
dear GNOME project, all my best wishes to your 10th birthday! about 5 or 6 years ago we met for the first time: me, another stoopid user that could not get his modem to work under windows 98 anymore (and … Continue reading
2.20’s internationalization; guadec results.
maintainers don’t forget to add new files with translatable strings to POTFILES.in/POTFILES.skip, otherwise those new strings will not be caught. quickly check http://l10n.gnome.org/module/$MODULENAME to get a list of those files (they are listed at the top of the “UI translations” … Continue reading
at the bug front, fronting.
congratulations to the tracker crew – bug 403752 has now become number one in the all time statistics. though it has been fixed in svn for nearly 3 months now (2007-04-30), the maintainer(s) is unable to either release a new … Continue reading
gnome, where’s my monitoring at?
guadec, birmingham. currently at birmingham for one week to attend guadec, the gnome conference. my plane from cologne to birmingham had a delay of more than four hours, and i dislike waiting for a long time at airports (i know … Continue reading
