The fantastic team at Ximian has done it again. Not only is the higly anticipated Evolution 1.2 release available, but Ettore Perazolli also announced that the also much anticipated GNOME 2 porting has begun. Not strange then that Evolution rules this weeks CVS statistics.
http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=evolution1_2
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2002-November/005231.html
Edd Dumbill is working on adding Bluetooth support to GNOME. This is done by writing a Bluetooth device subsystem. Basically it's a Bonobo component that knows about the Bluetooth devices available to the computer, and brokers interrogation of this database to applications. It can also set up serial port connections to Bluetooth devices for clients. Early adopters should talk to 'edd' in #gnome on irc.gnome.org to help out with testing the code so Edd can do a first official release. Screenshot below.
http://heddley.com/edd/2002/11/08/phonemgr.png
Once again it is time for us to choose the finest among us to spearhead the GNOME World Domination effort, through the GNOME Foundation Board. As always there are more great candidates that seats that needs to be filled, but I think we can be assured that whoever of these gets elected we will have a great GNOME board this year also. Check below for a full list of candidates.
http://foundation.gnome.org/ballot-summary.html
Last summary I claimed that we had a likely winner to be the new GNOME file-selector. This was not accurate. The code in libegg has a good chance of course, but the race is by no way over. It is also important to know that the fileselector seen in current GNOME 2 releases will be the one shipping for GNOME 2.2 also, so the fruits of these efforts is GNOME 2.4 material (which means 6-9 months away). Anyway Rodney Dawes has also made a proposal for the new fileselector, this one too with code behind it. Check out the Elysium libraries page for three screenshots of it in action.
http://elysium-project.sourceforge.net/libraries/
Naba Kumar with good help from Biswapesh Chattopadhyay,Andy Piper,Chris Woodruff,Johannes Schmid and Stéphane Démurget proudly announced the release of Anjuta 1.0 this week. Anjuta is a very nice integrated development environment for GNOME. If you haven't tried it in a while or not at all, you really should it rocks. The Anjuta team is now focusing their effort on Anjuta2.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-November/msg00028.html
GNOME is all about providing our users with good medicine. To strenghten this effort Jens Finke made a new release of Apotheke this week. Apotheke is a CVS view for Nautilus which in this version lets you do things like get status, create a diff, make a commit and update. So read the full announcement and get your medicine.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-November/msg00017.html
The GNOME bugteam and the Nautilus hackers joined forces last weekend to clean up the Nautilus bugzilla. The result was more than 200 bug reports resolved. Hopefully more drives like this will be held as we go forward to bring the Nautilus bugzilla to a level where it reflects only current bugs and not historic ones. A great thanks to everyone involved, keep up the great work. (This week statistic don't properly reflect this as the bugcount reduction was split between this week and last weeks.)
Thomas Vander Stichele has done some wonderfull work to get the GNOME 2.2 multimedia effort on track the last few weeks. Not only did he write up a great summary of where we are and what we can/should do, he also got the nautilus-media module started which is a set of GStreamer based additions to Nautilus, like a much improved music view and a video thumbnailer. Future plans include video preview on hoover. Great work Thomas!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-October/msg00651.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2002-November/msg00003.html
Murray Cumming and the gtkmm team has managed to get the gtk+ 2.x C++ bindings ready in record time. The first non-development release of the popular gtkmm bindings for Gtk+ 2.x is now available to be enjoyed by C++ hackers everywhere. Check out link below for announcement and credits.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-October/msg00084.html
Hilaire Fernandes delivered the third installment in his GNOME and Python tutorial series on Linuxfocus.org. While focusing on the GNOME1 bindings much of the knowledge learned from reading these tutorials can be applied to working with the GNOME2 Python bindings. Check out the tutorial to learn why Python is such a perl.
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2002/article266.shtml
We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish - all the links below.
http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#news@gnome-de.org
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 7460 (In the last week: New: 663, Resolved: 770, Difference: -107)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 692 | 43 | 177 | -134 |
| gtk+: | 539 | 21 | 90 | -69 |
| galeon: | 355 | 91 | 58 | +33 |
| GIMP: | 281 | 31 | 26 | +5 |
| gnome-vfs: | 269 | 6 | 38 | -32 |
| gnome-applets: | 194 | 22 | 8 | +14 |
| gnome-panel: | 140 | 39 | 42 | -3 |
| gnome-core: | 110 | 22 | 6 | +16 |
| control-center: | 100 | 30 | 28 | +2 |
| medusa: | 93 | 0 | 3 | -3 |
| libzvt: | 90 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| dia: | 87 | 16 | 2 | +14 |
| sawfish: | 84 | 1 | 28 | -27 |
| GnuCash: | 82 | 10 | 7 | +3 |
| Gnumeric: | 78 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| bordoley msu edu: | 66 |
| dkennedy tinytoad com: | 65 |
| aschwin van der woude creanor com: | 62 |
| newren math utah edu: | 58 |
| yaneti declera com: | 46 |
| otaylor redhat com: | 31 |
| jsh pixelslut com: | 28 |
| teuf users sourceforge net: | 27 |
| heath pointedstick net: | 27 |
| andrew sobala net: | 26 |
| vincent vuntz net: | 20 |
| bfrantzdale hmc edu: | 17 |
| sven gimp org: | 17 |
| davef tetsubo com: | 15 |
| jfleck inkstain net: | 14 |
As mentioned in the previous summary we have had a difference between the number of open bugs reported on the bugzilla.gnome.org website and the statistics here in the Summary.That difference is now fixed and it turns out the statistics here in the GNOME Summary is the one that has been correct all the time.
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org