Maciej Stachowiak and the rest of the release team have been busily working on an early platform release of GNOME 2.0. The platform itself only consists of those libraries that will be part of the final environment; essentially this release is so that those developing the GNOME libraries can get a snap shot of where the current state of play is. Some particularly adventurous application developers can also start to consider what they'll need to do to port their application to the new platform.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-September/msg00114.html
I think it's fair to say that the GNOME developers have wanted to improve the co-ordination of the releases to make them less stressful and generally more polished. The 2.0 team is larger and seems to be off to a good start with regular meetings outlining actions and points. The minutes show progress being made on parceling out tasks, organising bugzilla and working on methods to converse with the community. Good luck to their efforts!
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-September/msg00219.html
Lauris discussses his work on Sodipodi, why it uses the SVG format for it's native file format, how he feels about the GNOME platform and more. This is a good interview that cover the work well and has some interesting views on GNOME development as well.
http://www.linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?sid=93&aid=12529
Michael continues his series delving into the dark and powerful workings of Bonobo, one of the GNOME key technologies. If you've found Bonobo difficult to grasp and any aconym minefield then this series should throw new light. Lets hope that Michael gets the bug and decides to keep going after this series!
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-bnbo2.html?dwzone=components
This already well-known guide on how to compile GNOME from source receives an update to 1.4.1. It's packed through with Karstens experience of compiling the whole thing, which is no mean deal. In addition it's a good location to find some of the premier additional programs that any GNOME addict should have on the desktop, complete with marks. If you find the contents useful why not drop an email, the whole thing must have taken ages to put together!
http://www.karubik.de/gig/index.html
Sopwith whips everyone into shape with a new workout plan to crush the bug infestation on bugzilla. He reckons if 30 people squash 30 bugs per day for 30 days we'll crush the millions of bugs in GNOME bugzilla. Whether his maths is wrong or whether he'll be the sole hacker left standing bug gun in hand, only time will tell! So lend a hand to this worthy cause if you can.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2001-September/msg00036.html
Wim Tayman posted an RFC (Request For Comments) on the proposed event system in GStreamer. Anyone who'd like to influence the design should shout now.
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/25/6701265/
Jeffrey Morgan recently announced a new release of the Java bindings of GNOME. A little outside the time period for this Summary, but since he tells us that you can compile them with the gcj to native code it seemed worth breaking the rules.
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/7035/2001/9/0/6620219/
Mikael Hallendal of the Project Management application under development. There are lots of new enhacments including network diagram, calendering and progress tracking components, along with a slew of bug-fixes. The Web site has some nice screenshots to tempt you to download and play with it!
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-September/msg00027.html
http://mrproject.codefactory.se/
Chema Celorio emailed to tell us about his new personal project of adding Ximian packages to various distribution ISO's. So if you'd like to install a new distribution but don't want to have to pay the telephone costs for downloading Ximian later then here's another way to do it. Even if you don't want the ISO his intro paragraph is worth the read, well it made me smile anyway.
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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A short Summary this week as Christian and myself have both been packed with real life. Fortunately, GNOME still continues to power away so no doubt there will be extra news for us to report next time! Until then,
Steve