Issue 173

January 29, 2012

This week… 1871 commits, in 231 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 219 were translation commits).

  • In librsvg Christian Persch improved the decoding of data: URIs.
  • Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-screenshot to make non interactive mode headless, making it just save the image to the saved screenshots directory.
  • Aurimas Černius added core synchronization support to gnote.
  • Carlos Garcia Campos pushed some initial work porting devhelp to WebKit2; he later posted details about the port and the process (porting devhelp to WebKit2).
  • Milan Crha added support for setting user’s folder permissions into evolution-mapi. (GNOME bug 667714)
  • Oleksij Rempel switched Cheese from theora/ogg to vp8/webm.
  • In gparted Rogier Goossens added the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide the appropriate tools to perform this action. (GNOME bug 667278)
  • Will Thompson added support for functions which return GError into pygobject. (GNOME bug 666098)
  • Alexander Larsson added a first run dialog to gnome-contacts.
  • Matthias Clasen added a resource tool to glib, this lets the developer poke at resources in elf files and standalone resource bundles.
  • James Le Cuirot contributed the possibility to align text vertically into glabels.
  • In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added High quality zoom for SVG images.
  • Adel Gadllah moved filesystem I/O to a thread when taking a screenshot in gnome-shell. (GNOME bug 652952)
  • Florian Brosch contributed support for comments to the GIR parser in Vala.
  • Pascal de Bruijn made gnome-color-manager use smaller/faster display calibration target sets.

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 151
libgda 89
vala 85
epiphany 78
clutter 61
glom 46
gnome-control-center 45
evolution-data-server 43
glib 43
valadoc 39

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas 110 =?utf-8?q?=5Bgnome-contacts=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_translation?=, =?utf-8?q?=5Bgnome-control-center=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_transl?=
=?utf-8?q?ation?=, =?utf-8?q?=5Bgtk+=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_translation?= and others
Daniel Mustieles 80 gnome-games, gnome-disk-utility, evolution-mapi and others
Vivien Malerba 63 libgda
Luca Bruno 60 vala
Jasper St. Pierre 54 gjs, extensions-web, gnome-shell and others
Matej Urbančič 51 glom, libgda, gnumeric and others
Emmanuele Bassi 51 clutter, glib, cogl
Xan Lopez 51 epiphany, glib
Cosimo Cecchi 49 gnome-screenshot, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Florian Brosch 47 valadoc, vala, libgee