Issue 31

May 10, 2009

This week… 1980 commits, in 184 projects, by 244 happy hackers (and 281 were translation commits).

  • Alacarte switched from libglade to gtkbuilder (GNOME bug 577911) and Trevor Watkins published his work on a vala rewrite in the vala+gdesktopmenu branch.
  • Anjuta git plugin now features a “amend” option in its commit dialog. (GNOME bug 580340)
  • Eog gained a “set as background” command in its image context menu. (GNOME bug 581180)
  • Tomas Bzatek fixed the gvfs FTP backend to parse file sizes over 4 gigabytes correctly.
  • Robert Carr added a D-Bus module to Seed, he wrote about it in DBus, sandboxes, REPLs, Life.
  • Alexander Larsson went through the lowlevel part of gnio, fixing all the issues he pointed out in his initial review, making it work fully on win32, writing docs, plus fixing lots of other things he found. He posted a status report, with some open questions.
  • Jonh Wendell started refactoring Vinagre to make it a generic viewer, not just for VNC anymore.
  • Vino, XChat-GNOME, deskbar-applet, gnome-system-monitor and Evolution changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate. (GNOME bug 581204, GNOME bug 581094, GNOME bug 581207, GNOME bug 591099, GNOME bug 573830)

Top projects

Project Commits
tracker 91
evolution 72
gnio 67
seed 66
jhbuild 65
gnumeric 57
vala 52
brasero 50
gnome-games 49
pitivi 47

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Jorge Gonzalez 97 evolution, evince, tomboy and others
Alexander Larsson 69 gnio, glib, gvfs
Frederic Peters 64 jhbuild, library-web, planet-web and others
Jürg Billeter 57 tracker, vala
Morten Welinder 55 gnumeric, goffice, libgsf and others
Robert Carr 50 seed, planet-web
Philippe Rouquier 45 brasero
Matthias Clasen 38 gtk+, gconf, glib and others
Robert Ancell 36 gcalctool, gnome-games, totem-pl-parser
Michael J. Chudobiak 36 gthumb

One Response to “Issue 31”

  1. Philip Says:

    Totem also lost its xine backend, and is now entirely GStreamer-based. Hooray!


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