2.0 continues to shape up with information being centralised on the 'dotplan' pages at developer.gnome.org. Concerns over how tight the deadlines are and the tough decisions that need to be made exploded into a major flamewar across a number of lists. Martin Baulig, one of the 2.0 Release Co-ordinators, felt he'd had enough and posted he wanted to step down: at the moment he is considering what to do for a week. Underlying this are a number of complex architecture decisions which have to be made so a lot of debate is needed. Hopefully things will be back to an even keel soon and Martin will come back refreshed and rejuventated.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-June/msg00120.html
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/
The X conference is an opportunity for people developing for X to get together and discuss the technology and learn about the developments. With so much development going on in this area during the last few years contributers are being sought for the various talks. For more information on how to submit talks read Jim Gettys post, or for more general information the conference link is below.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2001-June/msg00113.html
http://www.usenix.org/events/xfree86/cfp/
A call has gone out for module maintainers or people interested in bug tracking to add themselves to the notification list. Every time a bug report is associated with a particular module an email is sent to the maintainers listed in the notification list - so this is really the best way to stay on top of bugs with anymodule in GNOME CVS. The relevant file is halloween/bugzilla.gnome.org/maint-aliases.txt
The eazel-hacking automated build system is back up and running. This CVS module enables you to get bleeding-edge versions of nautilus for hacking or testing. If you're interested in working on Nautilus then this could make life much easier.
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-June/003872.html
Jim Gettys is also in our news trawl with an interview by Christian on Linuxpoweer. They discuss a wide ranging set of topics including GNOME, handhelds and that age old topic of why X is such a resource pig - or is it!
http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=211
Every hackers favourite application went through a super fast development cycle with two releses within days. Jacob continues to add features and improve it, this time by adding access to Ximians bugzilla.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-June/msg00017.html
Improvements to the developer documentation continue to appear, a hearty thankyou to everyone working on them. Hardly anyones idea of fun but an important task to enable people to use all the great GNOME technologies. I'm sure everyone would welcome more help and this is a great way to learn more about GNOME.
Thanks to Bart Cortooms for helping with last weeks project of checking the gnome.org weblinks. So for this weeks project I've selected an easy item and one that seems topical. Project of the week is for everyone that uses GNOME to write to the contributor of their favourite GNOME program/documentation/web-page or whatever and say thanks for the efforts - knock youself out and send two! From doing the Summaries I can tell you it makes a big difference at 1 in the morning to feel you've made a difference to someone.
Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules
92 galeon
71 SashMo
71 evolution
49 mc
38 libgnome
34 libcompat
33 eazel-hacking
33 libgnomeui
31 gtkhtml
30 gnome-utils
28 web-devel-2
27 dia
25 gtk+
24 gnome-i18n
23 gnome-db
22 gail
21 gtranslator
20 libxslt
19 gtkhtml2
18 libical
[97 active modules omitted]
Most active developers
127 martin
45 rodrigo
38 proskin
34 ramiro
32 mmueller
31 menthos
30 rodo
27 damon
26 veillard
25 chatham
24 aheitner
23 kabalak
22 olau
22 kmaraas
22 cyrille
21 atevstef
20 bcameron
19 jirka
16 maubury
16 christof
[115 active developers omitted]
Software updated this week is as follows.
GConf-- - C++ wrappers for GConf.
gbonds - Savings bond inventory application.
GMime - Utility library for dealing with MIME.
rubrica - Addressbook application.
glunarclock - Displays the current phase of the moon in a GNOME applet.
gbuilder - C/C++ IDE.
gASQL - Database administration frot-end using gnome-db.
gnome-crystal - A visualiser for crystal structures
gefax - GNOME front-end for Efax application.
GHex - Binary file editor and viewer.
B-Chat - Chat client for use with Yahoo! Chat.
Guikachu - Resource file editor for PalmOS pocket computers.
Citrus - Library for converting between different units.
mpterm - Terminal application that enables multiple terminals in one window.
Rocket - GUI configured and monitored web server.
gtex-letter - Easy interface for using the LaTeX letter classes.
Moleskine - Source code editor in pygnome.
For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map:
http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3
Thanks,
Steve
gnome-summary@gnome.org