Category Archives: computer
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
guadec / back in D.
similar to ryan’s page for 2006, i quickly created a page for guadec participants to document their arrival times at birmingham, so that people can meet up and socialize even earlier(TM).just go to http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2007/ArrivalTimes and add yourself to the list. … Continue reading
