GNOME Summary - 2002-08-12 - 2002-08-16

Table of Contents

  1. More on Medusa
  2. GNOME Setup Tools
  3. Hacker Activity
  4. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
  5. New and Updated Software

1. More on Medusa

In reply to my small report on Medusa in the last summary Seth Nickels wrote in the following.

I've ported medusa to GNOME2, all the known security holes have been resolved in periodic changes by Rebecca in the past year, and both Rebecca and I are going to be working to get the new medusa up and running. The biggest change is that medusa will no longer run as a root daemon, but will instead be run as a per user indexing daemon, assisted by a database provided by a system indexing daemon running as nobody (to minimize security risk). We'll be working on speedups and a few new features (like the ability to search for arbitrary MIME types, and perhaps content indexers for a few more types such as MP3 or AbiWord). We're hoping it might be possible to get this ready in time for GNOME 2.2, but we might not make such a near date.

2. GNOME Setup Tools

The Ximian Setup Tools are now known as the Gnome Setup Tools and have a new website at www.gnome.org. The tool frontends are also mostly ported to Gtk2. The tools will now focus mostly on supporting the Debian operating system.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/index.html

3. Hacker Activity

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
85 evolution
72 mc
71 gimp
71 galeon
43 gnumeric
28 balsa
27 libgnomeprint
26 gnome-guile
26 sun-patches
24 gcompris
24 gedit
24 gnome-panel
23 web-devel-2
22 gnome-utils
22 gnome-i18n
22 vte
21 mrproject
20 gconf-editor
20 gtk+
20 totem
[133 active modules omitted]
Most active hackers:
55 cneumair
46 proskin
36 jody
33 chema
32 jamesh
27 fejj
26 mvo
26 joeshaw
24 shivram_u
21 mortenw
21 kmaraas
21 mpeseng
20 hadess
20 dnloreto
20 rodo
20 ricardop
19 rodrigo
19 pawels
19 rhult
19 pgeorges
[148 active hackers omitted]

4. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity

This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 7503 (In the last week: New: 639, Resolved: 594, Difference: +45)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):

Module Open Bugs New/Opened in last week Resolved in last week Difference
nautilus: 803 35 23 +12
gtk+: 595 22 15 +7
gnome-vfs: 292 8 4 +4
galeon: 279 66 49 +17
GIMP: 261 13 62 -49
sawfish: 189 6 4 +2
gnome-applets: 180 19 12 +7
gnome-panel: 172 51 46 +5
control-center: 140 32 11 +21
gnome-core: 134 29 10 +19
gnome-terminal: 107 15 9 +6
balsa: 99 12 7 +5
medusa: 94 0 0 0
gnome-pilot: 88 6 3 +3
glib: 86 5 2 +3

Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:

Bug Hunter Bugs Resolved/Closed
daniel@veillard.com: 64
sven@gimp.org: 53
vincent@vuntz.net: 53
yaneti@declera.com: 42
cs19540@indiatimes.com: 41
andrew@sobala.net: 38
mamata.vishweshwar@wipro.com: 26
tomy.jacob@wipro.com: 21
bordoley@msu.edu: 18
venkat.swaminathan@wipro.com: 17
jfleck@inkstain.net: 13
kmaraas@gnome.org: 13
tml@iki.fi: 8
louie@ximian.com: 8
murrayc@usa.net: 8

4. New and Updated Software

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php

Short summary this week as I had a busy weekend and will be leaving on a work assignment monday morning. I will cover any items I might have missed this week in next weeks summary.

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller

gnome-summary@gnome.org

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