If something can be automated, I often want it automated. Doing things once is ok, but if you do the same things over and over it bores me. There is a drawback to automation, in that any change becomes an inconvenience. Leading to wanting to reduce any changes. Say you download various things via bittorrent.…

Background: Ubuntu Community Council’s decision (linking to awesome LWN) to remove Jonathan Riddell as the leader of the Kubuntu project. To me there seems to be a lot of similarities between above and personal experience with moderating. Basically: don’t moderate in threads you’ve participated in because you’re biased. If you think you’re unbiased, guess again…

This will be a short overview as I underestimated how much travel time I’d need to the airport. Alexandre explaining the release process. Meaning, the various freezes, the various releases, etc. I’m partly sponsored by the GNOME foundation.

I’ll continue from the previous blog post and update as I can (depends on Wi-Fi, 3G). The keynote it’s quite interesting. Mohammad talks about many people still having very old hardware. My system is 7 years old. However, that’s still pretty new compared to what some people are using. GNOME 3 making use of hardware…

Arrived at GNOME asia! Went here together with André Klapper. We followed the guide created by the locals to get from the airport to Depok. We’re staying quite close to the university, so we followed most of the guide. In the bus an Indonesian sitting next to is was quite amused that we had to…

On May 7-9 2015 I’ll attend GNOME asia. It will be held in Depok, West Java, Indonesia (30km below Jakarta). I’m going there because: I’d like to understand the difference between GUADEC attendees vs GNOME.asia attendees (their interests, why they go there) I want to represent GNOME Release Team (answer any questions) I’d like to…

Copy pasting from https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/ConsoleKit. We announced this as well on distributor-list, which we expect any distributor of GNOME to be subscribed to (please do so!). Discussion was held on desktop-devel-list. ConsoleKit is a framework for registering and enumerating login and user sessions. It is currently deprecated and unmaintained, though the project was recently forked into…

Two new games for GNOME 3.16 Within a short period, two people showed up with proposals for games for inclusion with GNOME 3.16. One is a 2048 clone, the other is a revival of Atomix (last maintenance was GNOME 2.14). Both proposals seem to be maintained by just one person. The 2048 clone might use…

In The Netherlands, various retail chains are either having difficulties, or they’re going bankrupt. Having it difficult: HEMA (huge stores though smaller than V&D), V&D (huge stores). Bankrupt/payment issues: Free Record Shop (CDs), Halfords (bikes/stuff for your car), Mexx (clothing) and Schoenenreus (shoes). These are stores you often see in any city centre. At least…

Plan to get rid of ConsoleKit in GNOME 3.14 Before the start of the GNOME 3.14 cycle, Ryan Lortie announced his intention to make most GNOME modules depend on a logind-like API. The API would just implement the bits that are actually used. According to Ryan, most GNOME modules only use a selection of the…