Daniel Veillard is the maintainer for the highly popular libxml1, libxml2 and libxslt libraries. He is also serving on the GNOME Foundation board which he was re-elected to not long ago. So be sure to check out this interview with one of the most central and important GNOME developers.
http://www.gnome.org/developerinterviews/veillard-20020126.html
Gnopher was released this week, a gopher viewer for Nautilus. Paired with the nntp support Andy Hertzfeldt made I think Nautilus now supports most of the important protocols out there. So if you want to surf gopher pages in style get it now.
http://gnopher.sourceforge.net/
The porting process to GNOME 2 seems to have gotten wings lately. Work is well underway on many of the major applications and both Gnumeric and Pan is reported to be compiling on the GNOME 2 plattform now. Christopher Blizzard have almost completet porting Mozilla and gtkmozembed to GTK2 so Galeon for GNOME 2 can now soon be released. Link to Mozilla bugzilla tracking GTK+ 2 port of gtkmozembed below. Bastien Nocera reports to have ported gnome-vfs-extras to GNOME 2, which means you will still be able to access smd shares and access your Rio500 from Nautilus.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121253
Starting this Thursday, #bugs on irc.gnome.org will be hosting bugday from 9AM EST to 9PM EST. This will be a weekly event until GNOME2 is bugfree... hopefully not very long [;)] We hope to see a lot of people in #bugs- you don't have to be a hacker or even a GNOME2 user to make GNOME2 better; you just have to have some free time, a bit of patience, and a helping of common sense.
If you'd like to help out, but can't on Thursday, we invite folks to visit #bugs at any time, gnome-bugsquad@gnome.org, or check out our triage page for information on how to help out as we make the bugzilla useful for GNOME2.
In more general news, bugzilla.gnome.org has also been undergoing some revamping. There are links from the front page, but most of the focus has been on our reports page as linked to below. Wayne Schuller deserves a ton of credit for writing a lot of those.
Anyone who is thinking about using bugzilla, either as a developer or bug-hunter, should read and think about the new, more consistent meanings of severity and priority. Using these consistently all around the bugzilla will make bugzilla a much better tool for everyone in the GNOME community.
Also thanks to the great work of Wayne Schuller we will from now on have statistics of the latest changes in the GNOME bugzilla in the same way that we have had CVS stats.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug_status.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports.cgi
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/triage.cgi
The GNOME Foundation has had another board meeting. Topics was GUADEC guest speakers, and the topics they always discuss.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-February/msg00000.html
The long avaited SVG theme for Nautilus is now available. It is called Scaleable Gorilla, and features many wonderfull icons in SVG format. For those who don't know, SVG is a vektor graphics format, so unlike bitmats these icons will look good even if you increase the size of the icons tenfold. They are a little slow to resize in current versions of Nautilus, but Alex Larsson of Red Hat and Michael Meeks of Ximian are working on optimizing the rsvg library, in order to speed up rendering when resizing etc. Link below to Jimmacs theme page and some nice screenshots.
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php3?skin=2
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~havardw/2002_02_08_095401_shot.png
For those of you using or interested in using GNOME on either FreeBSD or on Slackware, more help is now available. The FreeBSD community has set up a site dedicated to using GNOME on FreeBSD. For people using Slackware we now have a new mailing list for people using GNOME on Slackware.
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-slackware
As always we have translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know.
http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 6668 (In the last week: New: +695 Resolved: -968)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week |
|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 1253 | +30 | -39 |
| gnome-core: | 531 | +84 | -214 |
| gtk+: | 356 | +38 | -39 |
| gnome-applets: | 236 | +25 | -104 |
| gnome-vfs: | 236 | +5 | -4 |
| gnome-pilot: | 201 | +12 | -1 |
| galeon: | 183 | +147 | -136 |
| sawfish: | 180 | +6 | -12 |
| gnome-pim: | 167 | +2 | -45 |
| gphoto: | 125 | +4 | -0 |
| medusa: | 125 | +0 | -0 |
| gmc: | 121 | +6 | -2 |
| GIMP: | 109 | +13 | -60 |
| balsa: | 106 | +18 | -9 |
| Pan: | 97 | +28 | -2 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| louie@ximian.com: | 447 |
| yaneti@declera.com: | 102 |
| quinet@gamers.org: | 48 |
| srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de: | 44 |
| daniel@veillard.com: | 35 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 30 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 25 |
| kmaraas@gnome.org: | 21 |
| jfleck@inkstain.net: | 20 |
| mark@skynet.ie: | 19 |
| andersca@gnu.org: | 18 |
| mpeseng@tin.it: | 16 |
| menesis@delfi.lt: | 12 |
| dan_erat@pobox.com: | 11 |
| dsandras@seconix.com: | 10 |
Well as everyone is busy porting to GNOME 2 and writing their GUADEC papers there is little news to report this week. Unless you want us to start reporting on 500k of lines commited to CVS etc. :)
Christian
gnome-summary@gnome.org