General Updates

It’s been a good long while since I’ve posted to this blog; I suppose I just fell out of the habit of doing so.

Since my last post, I’ve started a new job as Manager of Gateway Development at Webroot software in February, having left Voltage Security. I learned a lot while at Voltage and have fond memories, but Webroot offered me much more money and responsibility and I felt I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

I’m about to move to a new place in Sunnyvale, which is a 4 bedroom house I’ll be sharing with Steve Haas. It’s both a fair bit larger than the place I share with Kevin now and also closer to work, which is an extra bonus. For those of you interested in stalking me, the new address is 932 Planetree Pl, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Please form a queue along with all the other stalkers out front.

In the free software world, of late, I’ve sadly been reduced to the level of occasional stalker. I comment on bugs and try to offer insights I might have on code I’ve written in GNOME, but haven’t actually written any new code in quite some time, though I’m still an avid user of the system and still follow the development process pretty closely. Perhaps at a time in the not-so-distant future, when, perhaps I’m not quite so busy with moving and other considerations I could get back into it and write a patch or two.

Metacity 2.8.3

Made a metacity release today! Though I’ve been a metacity hacker
through many a metacity release, this is the first time that I’ve
actually been the one to make a release. Hope I didn’t screw it up.

I ended up committing the changed po files. There’s some controversy
over whether these should be committed, but I think that as long as
distcheck modifies these files I’m going to go ahead and commit the
modifications. I hope nobody gets too terribly angry at me; I’m not
trying to make anyone’s life harder.

Patch Searching

The GNOME bugzilla has a link now on the front page for searching
for “unreviewed” patches for a product. It would be nice if we
could customize the query a bit. How about all open bugs with
patches, or open bugs with patches in state
“accepted_commit_after_freeze”? As it stands I’m thinking that the
PATCH keyword was both more powerful and simpler to use, since you
can query on that in the interface.

First Post

I’ve decided to experiment with the whole blogging
thing. A lot of the GNOME folks seem to be down with it, so I’ll
give it a shot. I intend to document my GNOME work here, as well
as events in my life deemed more than trivially significant.

As far as GNOME work goes I’m currently helping Havoc handle
maintaining metacity, writing actual code for metacity whenever
possible, and generally making a nuisance of myself on GNOME
mailing lists. In particular, my hope is that this weekend I’ll
get a chance to maybe go through some applications like
gnome-terminal and epiphany and implement forwarding of
_NET_WM_USER_TIME timestamps from startup notification so that new
instances of old applications won’t pop up in the background
without focus.