Issue 13
January 4, 2009
This week… 1171 commits, in 146 projects, by 141 happy hackers (and 236 were translation commits).
- gedit got an internal message bus to let its plugins communicate.
- Epiphany updated from its own EphySearchEntry and EphyIconEntry to GtkEntry, it also uses the new “progress in entry” support to draw progress in the location bar.
- gconftool got a new –toggle option, to toggle a boolean key.
- gossip removed libgnomeui and libgnomevfs, and started to use libcanberra-gtk for sound support.
- Jonathan Matthew added some basic window management effects to gnome-shell. (GNOME bug 563844)
- A new version of l10n.gnome.org (damned-lies) went live, merging in the Vertimus translation tool that was already used by some teams. (announce).
- A low diskspace checker has been added to the housekeeping plugin of gnome-settings-daemon. (GNOME bug 557647)
- gnome-build that was a standalone module but only used by anjuta has been merged in anjuta.
- GtkEntry Caps Lock warning mode switched to using an icon.
- seed got a 0.3 (and 0.3.1) release and Robert Carr sent a summary of what happened since 0.1.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| gtk+ | 106 |
| gedit | 69 |
| seed | 67 |
| damned-lies | 51 |
| evolution | 48 |
| ooo-build | 45 |
| gimp | 42 |
| anjuta | 33 |
| sawfish | 25 |
| gegl | 24 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Matthias Clasen | 103 | gtk+, glib, jhbuild and others |
| Jorge Gonzalez Gonzalez | 56 | balsa, damned-lies, gimp and others |
| Tim Horton | 47 | seed |
| Jesse van den Kieboom | 43 | gedit, gedit-plugins |
| Kohei Yoshida | 35 | ooo-build |
| Christopher Bratusek | 35 | sawfish, rep-gtk, librep |
| Daniel Nylander | 30 | gimp-help-2, damned-lies, gtk+ and others |
| Claude Paroz | 27 | damned-lies, anjuta, gnome-main-menu and others |
| Sven Neumann | 27 | gimp, gimp-web, gegl and others |
| Andre Klapper | 26 | evolution, gnome-packagekit, dasher and others |
January 4, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Dude! I love the commit logs! I used to follow the release notes on the big pre-releases, but they’ve become a bit scarce in the last couple of years.
This is awesome. Great work.
January 14, 2009 at 9:51 pm
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