Issue 57
November 8, 2009
This week… 2027 commits, in 180 projects, by 252 happy hackers (and 403 were translation commits).
- Totem got (on-disk) buffering support for downloads, Bastien Nocera blogged about it: No more stuttering.
- The gvfs webdav backend has been changed to remember cookies while it’s running.
- Carlos Garnocho made the SPARQL API of Tracker fully asynchronous.
- Postr (the GNOME Flickr Uploader) has been improved to allow direct editing of title and description, when double clicking (or pressing the Return key) on the photo. (GNOME bug 562162)
- Xavier Claessens added support for some IRC slash commands to Empathy, the currently supported commands are /clear, /topic, /join, /query and /msg. (GNOME bug 573407)
- Also in Empathy Guillaume Desmottes added the display of an error message when codec negotation fails. (GNOME bug 581789)
- The GNOME screensaver got a D-Bus method to show a message on the locked screen, to be used for notification of auto logout.
- In GNOME Shell Dan Winship started a message-tray branch, with some minimal Telepathy support, it has a notification popup for messages and avatar icons.
- Brasero got gobject introspection support for its libraries. (GNOME bug 589073)
- libsoup has been fixed to not change HEAD to GET on 303 redirect.
- A new Google Translate plugin has been added to Kupfer (the command tool inspired by Quicksilver).
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| tracker | 206 ¹ |
| empathy | 157 |
| gedit | 116 ¹ |
| gnome-color-manager | 109 |
| banshee | 94 |
| kupfer | 61 |
| brasero | 60 |
| gtk+ | 58 |
| evolution | 57 |
| postr | 44 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Frécinaux | 95 ¹ | gedit, gnome-shell |
| Richard Hughes | 92 | gnome-color-manager, gnomeweb-wml, gnome-packagekit |
| Jorge González | 88 | evolution, brasero, epiphany and others |
| Gabriel Burt | 72 | banshee |
| Adrien Bustany | 70 ¹ | tracker |
| Jonny Lamb | 63 | empathy |
| Guillaume Desmottes | 52 | empathy, jhbuild |
| Ulrik Sverdrup | 50 | kupfer |
| Martyn Russell | 49 | tracker |
| Paolo Bacchilega | 47 | gthumb, file-roller, goobox |
¹: actually this commit count is wrong as the same branch is created and deleted several times, to get rebased, changing the commit identifiers along the way.