Issue 128
March 20, 2011
This week… 3142 commits, in 211 projects, by 294 happy hackers (and 1113 were translation commits).
- Translators were all hard at work, with more than one thousand commits this week.
- John Stowers pushed his GNOME Tweak Tool to the GNOME Git server.
- Mutter was changed to provide a single library, combining both libmutter-wm and libmutter-private. (GNOME bug 644565)
- Colin Walters added a “fail whale” dialog in gnome-session, to be shown on component failures; the name comes from Twitter error pages. (GNOME bug 642497)
- The same Colin Walters also rewrote a11y bus management in at-spi2-core, so it doesn’t fall back to the session bus. (GNOME bug 644851)
- Cosimo Cecchi added a first iteration of a dark variant of the Adwaita theme, in gnome-themes-standard.
- In libsoup Dan Winship implemented a GNOME proxy backend using te network proxy settings from gsettings-desktop-schemas, for automatic proxy configuration it uses the D-Bus service provided by the libproxy plugin. (GNOME bug 644211)
- Shaun McCance added mouseovers on topic links of Mallard documents, in yelp-xsl.
- In gnome-devel-docs Johannes Schmid updated or added guitar tuner demos in different languages.
- And also at the documentation hackfest many pages were written for the user help, by all participants.
- Claude Paroz added support for “reduced stats” in damned-lies, making it possible to have statistics on “important” strings, for example it currently excludes schema strings.
- Jan Danielsson added support for the Fossil Source Control Management to Meld. (GNOME bug 644811)
- Richard Hugues updated the screenshot tool in gnome-utils to save the screen ICC profile in the screenshot.
- Bastien Nocera implemented touchpad motion settings in the mouse plugin for gnome-settings-daemon. (GNOME bug 642474)
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| empathy | 166 |
| gtk+ | 137 |
| gnome-control-center | 130 |
| kupfer | 121 |
| gnome-shell | 113 |
| tracker | 111 |
| nemiver | 95 |
| gnome-user-docs | 81 |
| gimp | 72 |
| gnome-themes-standard | 69 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Lucian Adrian Grijincu | 144 | banshee, network-manager-applet, gnome-shell and others |
| Luca Bruno | 114 | nemiver, vala |
| Ulrik Sverdrup | 107 | kupfer |
| Gabor Kelemen | 86 | gnome-session, gnome-shell, gnome-utils and others |
| Cosimo Cecchi | 83 | gnome-themes-standard, gtk+, nautilus and others |
| Matthias Clasen | 68 | gnome-control-center, gtk+, glib and others |
| Daniel Mustieles | 65 | kupfer, damned-lies, gnome-shell and others |
| Alexander Larsson | 61 | gtk+, gnome-shell, mutter and others |
| Frederic Peters | 61 | library-web, jhbuild, releng and others |
| Bastien Nocera | 54 | gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-bluetooth and others |