Nevolte Levici! Přemluv dědu a bábu.

Posted on 2010-05-03 by aklapper

Propagace

Ale kde jsou KDU-ČSL, KSČM, SZ a VV?
Pojď! Mám křížovky ráda!

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GNOME 3.0 cleanup status.

Posted on 2010-05-03 by aklapper

The first 2.31 release ahead and something you should do:
Cleaning up your module.

73 known issues left (three weeks ago: 93 issues).

GNOME modules:

Some external dependencies:

(Note that these lists obviously miss the conversion from gconf to GSettings and GTK+ single includes.
Data comes from the GSEAL wikipage, the overview stats and my brain. Hence it might be partially incorrect.)

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maemo.org Bugday: Tue, May 4th, 17:00-02:00

Posted on 2010-04-27 by aklapper

Last time was big fun, hence time for another maemo.org Bugday:

Tuesday, May 4th, 17:00-02:00 UTC
in #maemo-bugs on Freenode IRC

Bugdays are about hanging out together on IRC, triaging/discussing some reports in maemo.org Bugzilla, and introducing new people into triaging.

No technical knowledge needed, no obligations.

No specific topic – take a look here for some ideas.

Step by and say hello to the Bugsquad or become part of it. :-)

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GNOME 3.0 cleanup: Call to module developers

Posted on 2010-04-13 by aklapper

I was recently asked (Czech link) “On a scale from 0 to 10 for GNOME 3 as planned to be where would the development be now?” My answer was “From my limited point of view currently a 7: Lots of work done, lots of work still to do.” And I started wondering: How much work is left in the cleanup area?

Now that 2.30 is out module developers must spend some time now to get their module(s) ready for GNOME 3.0.
It might not be clear to everybody that there is quite some work left.
If you don’t start now it might be too late to properly fix issues (e.g. adding missing accessor functions in GTK+ for the uncommon usecase in your module).
I’ll list the known bug reports per module. (Obviously this is not a list of all outstanding GNOME 3.0 issues but only known cleanup tickets.)

Take a look at your module. Most of the open issues (like GSEAL or Deprecated GTK+ symbols) are trivial and will require less than an hour to fix. Just making your module compile with -DGSEAL_ENABLE for example will already help a lot. Or if you are a volunteer just contribute a patch for your favorite module.

Getting this done is a requirement to get the next major release out in time and in a good quality.

GNOME modules:

Some external dependencies (definitely not a complete list):

(Note that these lists obviously miss the conversion from gconf to GSettings/dconf and GTK+ single includes.
Data comes from the GSEAL wikipage, the overview stats and my brain. Hence it might be partially incorrect.)

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GNOME 2.30 released.

Posted on 2010-03-31 by aklapper

GNOME 2.30

Personally especially happy to see the first modules using topic based help (Mallard) and that Czech language has 100% UI translation for the first time in years, probably for the first time ever.
Big thanks to everybody who was involved.

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The life of others

Posted on 2010-03-29 by aklapper

Besides the usual paperwork there wasn’t much to do when my grandmother passed away one year ago. She only had a few belongings in her flat in the house of my family and they were quick to sort out. She was a clear family leader with quite some principles. While I agree with some of them, others were unintentionally funny to me. For example she once went for a walk in this small town where everybody knows each other and passed a person she knew without saying “Good afternoon” or at least nodding. So her daughter asked her “Why didn’t you greet her? You know her”. My grandmother answered “She is two years younger than me! She has to greet me first!”. Both ladies were in their late 80es already.
Same with using a walking stick. Unimaginable. It would have been a sign of weakness towards anybody who would have seen her.

My other grandmother was quite the opposite. No strict rules especially in the late years, at least from my limited grandson’s view. Probably the nightmare of parents when it comes to television and sweets consumption of their child, but great as I could stay up late and spend hours of watching MTV Europe back in those days when they were still playing music clips and speaking British English only. Neither my grandmother nor me understood a single word, but it was cool.

Until a few years ago she still rode the bike to get to the supermarket. At the beginning of this year we had to realize that everything comes to end though. The funeral took place one week ago.

This grandmother never threw away anything. Though her flat in our house wasn’t that big, we found lots of stuff. Lots. Imagine you buy everything twice because the first one could break, or that you always have lots of food in the storage room because you have seen two world wars, the huge inflation of 1923 and four currencies in your life. She knew well what “bad times” can really mean.

Though I’m sad (I have lost the person that I always went for dinner to whenever I was home, every evening) it was also kind of fun to go through clothes from the 60es that are trendy again nowadays. It was interesting to find old stuff like handwritten cookbooks written in Sütterlin or some personal documents from a long time ago. You really dive into the life of another person.

Still, going through all this felt weird as I care about privacy but went through all the belongings of another person. On the other hand there’s no other option anyway – You cannot simply put the complete flat into a big bag and throw it away.

I am very proud that both my grandmothers passed away at home, in the environment that they had lived in for decades, in their beds, while sleeping, most likely without pain, and that my family took care of them in the last months, sometimes to an extend that is hard to imagine (like getting up 13 times per night). I wonder if I can also be that strong and caring once my parents might need some help in the future, nor do I know if I will live nearby. Our time makes it way easier to leave the village that you grew up in and offers you more opportunities, but for example this also destroys the traditional family advantages like grandparents taking care of their grandchildren from time to time so the parents have some time for themselves.

My sincere and deepest respect to those who care about family.

“Compassion, loving, brotherhood, loyalty /
This is friendship and all its meaning is worth to me /
Patience, kindness, intensity, all about /
Never turn your back on your friends and family.”
(Ignite: “Call on my brothers”)

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maemo.org Bugday: March 16th, 18:00-03:00 UTC.

Posted on 2010-03-08 by aklapper

Announcing another maemo.org Bugday:

Tuesday, March 16th, 18:00-03:00 UTC
in #maemo-bugs on Freenode IRC

No specific topic set – see the wiki for some ideas.

Bugdays are about hanging out together on IRC, triaging/discussing some reports in maemo.org Bugzilla, and introducing new people into triaging. No technical knowledge needed, no obligations. Step by and say hello to the Bugsquad or become part of it. :-)

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GNOME 3.0 schedule proposal published

Posted on 2010-02-23 by aklapper

Today the GNOME release schedule proposal for 2.31/3.0 was published. Please keep discussion streamlined on desktop-devel mailing list.

It also lists high risk areas and potential showstoppers (please note the word “potential”) as I want to communicate them clearly to users, distributions and the community. Currently I personally don’t expect everything to work out as planned, as manpower is missing in crucial areas. Distributions and the community can help minimizing such potential regressions by providing more developer manpower, or at least help in testing. Please contribute if you can.

Another issue are of course those modules that are defacto unmaintained. Peer reviews could be arranged in such cases.

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Farewell.

Posted on 2010-02-22 by aklapper

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Kleiner Hinweis für Auslandsdeutsche

Posted on 2010-02-20 by aklapper

Gegenwärtige Anschrift: Kein Wohnsitz im Inland

Wer als deutscher Staatsbürger im Ausland lebt in welchem ein deutscher Personalausweis als Identifikation anerkannt/geduldet wird und wer genauso wie ich kein Interesse daran besitzt, dem deutschen Regime zwei seiner Fingerabdrücke für einen deutschen Reisepass zu geben, der kann sich als Adresse “kein Wohnsitz im Inland” auf seinen Personalausweis eintragen lassen. Wohl am einfachsten in der deutschen Gemeinde in welcher man als letztes gemeldet war (und für die verwirrten Mitarbeiter der Stadtverwaltung am besten zuvor den einschlägigen Paragraphen im jeweiligen Landesgesetz nachschauen), sollte aber auch in jeder anderen deutschen Gemeinde funktionieren.

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