Preliminary developments for 0.7
May 3, 2008
Hi,
I’m not good at following GNOME schedule. I do everything one or two month later :). I just started diving back in the development. I started by providing GEGL vala binding, without exactly knowing whether i will actually need it for GNOME Scan 0.8. Anyway, i activated vala in GNOME Scan build system. How long before automake support vala ?
I bumped version to 0.7.0 and will work on GNOME Scan. However, i have tons of things to do aside GNOME Scan : exams, scouting, drive permit, etc. I wish i’ll have the time to develop GNOME Scan before the freezes. Contributions are very welcome. However, GNOME Scan 0.8 needs some rework that can’t be done by a usual contributor. For sure, vala will speed up GNOME Scan development.
A good news, the windfarm_pm121 driver i wrote for iMac G5 iSight has been merged in Linus Torvald own tree 🙂 I’m now one of the thousands contributors to linux kernel ! Thanks Benjamin Herrenschmidt for allowing this to happen.
This and GNOME Scan tells me that developing free software is actually what i want to do. This is why i submitted my CV to o-hand for their job offer for junion kernel developer and junior GUI developer. I know i can’t move on London next year, but working with a senior developer on free software is actually what i want to do for my firsts years of work after the university.
Regards,
Étienne.
May 5, 2008 at 5:09 am
Étienne,
Thanks for caring about the community and thanks again for gnome scan, an awesome piece of software. When will we see flegita is gnome by default? 🙂
Keep it up.
May 5, 2008 at 10:51 am
Same question, why didn’t you propose gnome-scan for gnome 2.24 ?
And is gnome-scan (you) be present in the Libre Graphics Meeting ?
We still lack this blog on planet gnome…
Bon courage…