The GNOME Team is proud to announce GNOME 2.0.2. Since 2.0.1 a total of 318 GNOME2 bugs has been marked fixed including some major stuff like menu editing. Check out link below for details and download instructions.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-September/msg00036.html
The Abiword team continues to storm forward with the next generation of Abiword. The first release of the new development version of Abiword, 1.1.0, is being planned and October looks like a likely target. Featurewise things are also looking good with things like much improved Docbook support, SVG rendering support based on librsvg and of course tables. Links below to 1.0.1 planning announcement and some discussion of details on the GTK+ and GNOME frontends. Also link to the SVG announcement including a screenshot.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Sep/0093.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Sep/0099.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Sep/0222.html
Lot of interviews this week. The Ximian crew where interiewed at their lair in Boston.Mikael Hallendal of MrProject and Damien Sandras of GNOME Meeting where interviewed and Jeff Waugh one of our release managers where interviewed.
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=211
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=205
http://ghj.sunsite.dk/index.php?1=articles/1/interview_mrproject.html&article=1
http://ghj.sunsite.dk/index.php?1=articles/1/interview_gnomemeeting.html&article=1
There has been lot of discussion about the changes Red Hat are doing with their desktop solution in Red Hat Linux 8. Some people love it and some people are not so happy with the changes. The GNOME community has at least been mature about it and to help alleviate any concerns Owen Taylor has writen an article explaining Red Hat's reasoning.
http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/rh-desktop.html
The great new accessibility support in GNOME 2 has not gone unnoticed. Sun Microsystems where awarded the Helen Keller Achievement Award for their work on creating the accessiblity framework. Congratulations to all the people inside and outside of Sun who has been involved in making this happen.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=648&mode=&order=0
We kicked of the new gnome-multimedia mailing list this week. It is meant as a place to both discuss multimedia additons to the GNOME desktop, but also the creation of new lower level libraries to improve general multimedia support. The list seems to have gotten of to a good start. Manuel Clos has tried putting togheter a small resume of issues being discussed. Links to that and the mailing list below.
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
http://llanero.eresmas.net/gnome-multimedia/plan.html
The GnuCash team has started the countdown to their 1.8.0 release. Lots of polish and small feature improvements have gone into this release which hopefully will be out somewhere in mid-december. Christian Stimming posted the mail below with some of the items still left on the todo list.
http://www.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2002-September/006782.html
I didn't get to do a summary last week, but I put up a mini-summary containing the generated statistics for that week.
http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2002_September01-September07.html
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 7657 (In the last week: New: 606, Resolved: 547, Difference: +59)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 802 | 34 | 30 | +4 |
| gtk+: | 605 | 22 | 20 | +2 |
| galeon: | 320 | 128 | 94 | +34 |
| gnome-vfs: | 295 | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| GIMP: | 272 | 8 | 6 | +2 |
| sawfish: | 192 | 2 | 1 | +1 |
| gnome-applets: | 190 | 15 | 3 | +12 |
| gnome-core: | 143 | 35 | 15 | +20 |
| control-center: | 128 | 21 | 40 | -19 |
| gnome-panel: | 126 | 35 | 72 | -37 |
| gnome-terminal: | 120 | 13 | 4 | +9 |
| balsa: | 105 | 14 | 7 | +7 |
| gnome-pilot: | 95 | 7 | 2 | +5 |
| medusa: | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pan: | 88 | 17 | 9 | +8 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| yaneti@declera.com: | 77 |
| mark@skynet.ie: | 67 |
| dennis_cranston@yahoo.com: | 39 |
| jody@gnome.org: | 33 |
| vincent@vuntz.net: | 27 |
| anand.subra@wipro.com: | 25 |
| louie@ximian.com: | 25 |
| damon@ximian.com: | 14 |
| david@lupercalia.net: | 13 |
| terra@diku.dk: | 13 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 13 |
| jfleck@inkstain.net: | 12 |
| bfrantzdale@hmc.edu: | 11 |
| yogeeshappa.mathighatta@wipro.com: | 9 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 9 |
Another week when I have not been able to spend as much time news hunting as I wanted, but I guess you are to busy trying out GNOME 2.0.2 to read the news anyway :).
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org