My parents and sister where in England for a 2 week holiday. Before traveling back they decided to visit London for a day, that day being today. They are all ok. Public telephones in London have a normal phone number. I really appreciated that as they only had one nearly empty mobile with them.

In standard Bugzilla the bugmail header X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC could mean that you are on the C list or you are watching someone on the CC list. Bugmails from bugzilla.gnome.org have a patch to differentiate between those. X-Bugzilla-Reason: WatchCC is used when watching someone on the CC list and X-B-R: CC is only used when you…

There are various ways to handle your spam problem. There are various spam detection problems, DNS blackhole lists, etc. The worst way I can think of is letting others deal with your spam problem. When you send these persons an email, automatically a confirmation email comes back. That email explains you need to reply before…

Bugzilla.gnome.org currently runs a modified 2.16. It mostly does what we want, except for some of the niceties a newer Bugzilla will provide (search as RSS, better written code, …). The test version of the new Bugzilla can be seen at http://bugzilla-test.gnome.org/. Upcoming changes can be seen at http://live.gnome.org/BugzillaUpgrade, new suggestions are welcome. Current status…

Gnome-blog is a great piece of software. For one it isn’t written in C, making it possible for me to hack on it (I do not want to know C). But to make this even better, the maintainer allows you to commit simple patches! I started with triaging its bugs. Only then I discovered it…