Havoc posted that the GNOME foundation is looking to employ a full-time administrative person. They would work on the various pieces of admin, shows, advocacy and fundraising that the foundation currently tries to do using volunteers only. Importantly, they have someone in mind who will take on the responsiblity for finding enough money to support themselves. All in all this sounds like it would be a real boost for the GNOME Foundation.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-May/msg00006.html
Gnotices provides a central site for posting interesting GNOME material but has also been an administrative headache and the location of heavy trolling. This long thread indicates how high feelings have grown that something has to change to make the content easier to maintain and to remove the worst abuses. If you have the time or ability to help out with this Web application I'm sure many virtual beers would come your way!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00350.html
The Board is moving forward with the policys for GNOME contributors, discussions about email addresses and cvs access. Wider development work on the 2.0 platform is needed.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-May/msg00002.html
A new urgent release of GDM came up due to a security bug in the previous releases. The weakness would probably only effect "public access terminals or places where you don't trust other people on the local console" but additional bug fixes are thrown into the mix anyway. Check with your vendor for any specific updates to your distribution.
Oliver Berger announced a concept release of an XML editor called Getox (GNOME Editor for Text Orientated XML). The long-term aim is to provide an editor that can be used to edit XML files without the user having previous knowledge of the DTD: this would make XML very easy for even new users to manipulate. This initial release can parse various DTDs and do various basic editing such as moving tags around.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00054.html
http://idx-getox.idealx.org/images/getox_main.png
Having spent a year or more reporting solely on GNOME Michael intends to widen his view outwards to other developments that also encompass open and free standards. So there's not much about GNOME here but it's worth mentioning anyway!
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3428/1/
Free Software development is often a pursuit that's followed for love rather than the money or the fame - well unless you count Miguels recent 2 second appearance in a Hollywood film as fame! So when Chema emailed to say could we give a Juan Pablo Mendoza a mention we were delighted to obey - it seems that Juan is almost single handely fixing problems in gnome-games. So virtual beers to Juan and keep up the efforts!
Free Software needs good documentation for developers and users so theres a general effort to improve the state of our developer documenation. The GNOME architecture descriptions provide an important overview on how the individual parts fit together to form a coherent whole. Over time bits of it have fallen out of sync with reality so an effort is being made to update it with the current state of play. Everybody who is familiar with one or more parts of the GNOME architecture is encouraged to submit updates. For more details see this posting to GNOME hackers
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00348.html
Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules
81 evolution
77 galeon
63 ximian-setup-tools
55 mc
50 gnumeric
47 gtkhtml
36 gnome-media
34 gnome-core
31 web-devel-2
26 gdm2
26 gtranslator
24 gnome-chess
24 gail
23 libgnome
22 pan
22 libgnomeui
21 gtk+
21 nautilus
19 gnome-db
19 gnome-vfs-extras
[81 active modules omitted]
Most active developers
46 proskin
42 martin
38 jirka
34 kmaraas
31 teichman
31 kabalak
29 ke
29 menthos
26 chema
26 owen
26 jpr
25 yaneti
24 danw
24 fejj
24 maubury
24 rodrigo
22 tambeti
22 rodo
21 alexl
20 bcameron
[108 active developers omitted]
Software updated this week
B-Chat - chat client for use with Yahoo! Chat.
glunarclock - Displays the current phase of the moon in a GNOME applet.
gnect - A game where you need to get four pieces in a row.
gdm - Graphical login manager.
ldif_to_vcard - Converts Netscape addresses to GnomeCard compatible ones.
gnome-chess - graphical chess application.
Afterstep Clock Applet - NeXT look alike clock.
Gaim - An AIM client.
glame - (GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics) featureful audio processing application.
Sybase Query - Graphical SQL client for Sybase enterprise servers.
File Manager - A lightweight, intuitive, file manager.
CCView - C++ Project browser.
gtktalog - CDROM information storage database.
idx-getox - editor for text-orientated XML.
Terraform - interaactive fractal terrain former.
Gnucash - Easy-to-use personal finance application.
gRustibus - GNOME M.A.M.E front-end.
gThumb - Image viewer and browser.
GnomeRSVP - speed reading application.
Gnome CD Master - CD creation suite.
sello-e - Email client with scheduling.
gmmusic - Database front-end to store music collections.
Manual Page Viewer - Graphical viewer for UNIX help files.
gbonds - Savings bond inventory application.
XFce - Light-weight GNOME compliant desktop.
Oroborus - small and themable GNOME compliant Window Manager.
Thanks,
Steve