The fast growing Rhythmbox team lead by Jorn Baayen and Bastien Nocera had their first official release this last week. Rhythmbox is a music management program which aims at taking care of all your needs in relation to playing music on a computer. This first release just plays your mp3 or ogg files but development is moving rapidly and many more features are planned as shown on the rhythmbox homepage.
Sun Microsystems has released Abicheck under the LGPL to the GNOME community. Abicheck is a tool to make sure that the libraries ABI stay 100% compatible, within the same release series. As part of this release they have made ABI docs for glibc and GNOME. More info on the abicheck homepage.
http://abicheck.sourceforge.net/
The GStreamer team did a new release of the GStreamer Multimedia Framework. This release featured among other things a new autoplugger and many new plugins. The release is also needed if you want to try out the first two released applications based on GStreamer namely the the Gst-Player and Rhythmbox releases.
http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.3.3/notice.php
http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.3.3/gstplayernotes.php
Our friends of the Gnucash project made another release this week. The new version features tweaks for the exchange rate calculation so that it will work in even more complicated cases, involving different Euroland and other currencies, added Edit Report Options hyperlink to warnings in reports and added workaround for Guppi barchart legend sorting (broken in Guppi 0.40.0 - 0.40.3).
ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/
The GTK+ team is proudly announced to the world the release of version 2.0 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and associated libraries (GLib, Pango, and ATK). These libraries are the result of 3 years work with contributions from hundreds of volunteers. This release represents a major step forward in free software user interface toolkits. This release brings with it many improvements in API and widget functionality, accessibilty support, unsurpased i18n support and support for anti-aliasing. All this for the first time available in a library available under the LGPL license a license that is open and free to all developers no matter what license they choose to use for their software.
http://www.gtk.org/2.0.0-announce.html
The second GNOME desktop beta was out this week and according to many this beta is stable enough to use on a daily basis if you are willing to be a little forgiving with your desktop. Bugfixing goes on at great pace thanks to the dedicated effort of the GNOME team. One person I think deserves a special mention this time around is Kevin Vandersloot who now maintains both gnome-applets and gnome-utils and is very quick to respond to new bug reports as shown by him being high both on the cvs commits list but also on the bug-hunters list. Thanks Kevin. Anyway please read the release notes for more information about this release.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-March/msg00181.html
That GNOME has the best applications there can be little doubt about. This week O'Reilly published an article presenting our favourite word processor Abiword to the world. The article gives some positive insight into the history of the project, where it is now and where its heading.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/03/14/abiword.html
The first software release for GNOME 2 is starting to appear. In addition to the mentioned Rhythmbox and Gst-Player releases mentioned earlier we had releases of Gnumeric, File Roller and Eye Of GNOME. More ports are started so expect to see more in the coming weeks.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-March/msg00017.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-March/msg00033.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-March/msg00037.html
The GtkAda team announced the release of GtkAda 2.0.0 release this week. This makes Ada the first language bindings to have a non-development release of bindings for the new GTK+ 2.0 release. Maybe this is the chance you have been waiting for to try out the Ada programmig language?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-March/msg00029.html
Since we have had a CORBA story for the last couple of summaries I thought we needed one this week also. Frank Rehberger has made a fun little tool which lets you dump CORBA ior's and ping associated objects. You find it and a screenshot at the link below.
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~frehberg/gior.html
We will also this week have a bug squashing event in #bugs on irc.gnome.org also this thursday between 2PM-2AM GMT aka (9AM-9PM EST). While the bug team has gotten many great volunteers the last few weeks more is needed so please stop by.
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: 6779 (In the last week: New: 1116, Resolved: 887, Difference: +229)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 1149 | 130 | 104 | +26 |
| gtk+: | 399 | 78 | 36 | +42 |
| gnome-core: | 312 | 97 | 131 | -34 |
| gnome-vfs: | 245 | 2 | 5 | -3 |
| gnome-applets: | 235 | 33 | 13 | +20 |
| galeon: | 177 | 191 | 174 | +17 |
| gnome-panel: | 168 | 114 | 39 | +75 |
| gnome-pilot: | 165 | 6 | 42 | -36 |
| sawfish: | 165 | 12 | 7 | +5 |
| GIMP: | 157 | 17 | 12 | +5 |
| control-center: | 141 | 57 | 33 | +24 |
| medusa: | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| gmc: | 111 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| balsa: | 106 | 18 | 7 | +11 |
| gnome-utils: | 101 | 33 | 26 | +7 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| heath@pointedstick.net: | 127 |
| yaneti@declera.com: | 126 |
| kmaraas@gnome.org: | 78 |
| bordoley@msu.edu: | 55 |
| louie@ximian.com: | 51 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 35 |
| mpeseng@tin.it: | 28 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 24 |
| kfv101@psu.edu: | 23 |
| menesis@delfi.lt: | 21 |
| james@daa.com.au: | 18 |
| iain@ximian.com: | 17 |
| jfleck@inkstain.net: | 16 |
| srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de: | 15 |
| jacob@ximian.com: | 14 |
There is no new and updated software listing this week. The new software map registers every change to the application entry which means that the script generating a list of new releases generated a huge list as maintainers have been updating their entries for the new map as this activity goes back to normal the new and updated software list will be back. The cvs stats and bug hunting stats are for last week only.
Christian
gnome-summary@gnome.org