Category Archives: lang-en

Entries in English language.

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

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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

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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

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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

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travelling pictures backlog.

france: amsterdam: erfurt: next: prague.

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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

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cheese & beers; no rain & lots of rain.

steffi and me spent the last two weeks driving through the north-eastern part of france, the not-yet-split states of belgium, and the netherlands, in order to visit friends and formerly unknown people, cities and beaches, places where it looked nice … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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