After a long wait the big update to our favourite website, gnome.org, is underway. The first phase is mostly updating the look of the site, using a shared template across all of gnome.org. This is a huge job, but we hope that it will help navigating the site. We have also done away with the old WML site building system in order to make life easier for content contributors. The real backend upgrade is still not done, but we have decided that if the new website is to happen then we need to make it happen step by step. So be sure to check out the website from time to time as we evolve the website towards its new incarnation. And of course if you want to help us make content, like more developer documenation don't be stranger, but contanct the web-developer on the web mailing list.
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
Telsa Gwynne was kind enough to send us this update on the effort of the Welsh translation team. If there are other translation teams out there who would like to do similar status reports, feel free to do so and send them in :)
There was a Welsh translation of GTK back in gtk-1.0 days, but things languished a bit after that. A bunch of us got together and decided to give it a go. We started by taking the Gnome Glossary and agreeing how to translate each item (well, except for anti-aliasing: that's still a problem :)) and using the existing GTK and Abiword translations. (Yes, there has been Abiword in Welsh for ages.) And then started on a few apps and libraries. The first commit went in on the 4th of May. Since then, we have comfortably passed "partially supported" for both HEAD and the 2.2 branch, and are heading for "fully supported" if we can get there in time for 2.4. In less than four months. (Okay, it took us two months to do the glossary first.)
(I say "we", but as a learner all I do is commit what native speakers are giving me. Oh, and I created 40 typos of one word in an effort to be helpful. And discovered new CVS error messages.)
Something that has helped us hugely is Kyfieithu (or Gyfieithu :)), a wonderful web-based translation system put together by Kevin Donnelly to help the KDE Welsh effort which we joined in with. See link below for how it works. Other teams might want to borrow the idea. You just aim your browser there and translate a bunch of strings when you have time. Lovely.
The credits for the work so far, and I really hope I don't miss anyone out here, goes to: Rhoslyn Prys (original Gtk translation) Owain Green, Gruffudd Williams, Gareth Williams, Tom Llewelyn, Dafydd Jones, Daniel, Steve Griffiths, Keith Willoughby and multiple instances of 'anonymous'/'anhysbys' (Kyfieithu contributors); Kevin Donnelly (Kyfieithu creator); Chris M Jackson, Gareth Bowker, Dafydd Harries (mostly straight from the po files); Dafydd Tomos, Dewi Jones, Jim Killock (discussion and bashing word lists into shape), larne on IRC for screenshots of Evolution in Welsh on FreeBSD _12 hours_ after we committed the first part of the translation (!) ; Alan Cox for the "fill in 20% of Evo from other strings in other files" program; Bryn S for volunteering to test the "how to teach your Linux box to speak Welsh" instructions and then doing it all again after the first time didn't work; and Rhys Jones for running the gnome-cy@penwgyn.linux.org.uk mailing list. If you want to be in this list next time, get over to #gnome-cy on freenode or the mailing-list :)
Next stop, 2.4. (We hope.) Wish us luck, and stop changing those strings!
http://pengwyn.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gnome-cy
Its not just the core GNOME sites that has gotten an update in the last two weeks. The dedicated team who runs art.gnome.org has also done some major updates and added new functionality like searching to the site. The art.gnome.org websmith Alex Duggan also tells me that art.gnome.org soon will move to using the same new template as the other GNOME sites has switched to.
Since its introduction the human interface guidelines has had an tremendous impact on GNOME and GTK+ applications. It has helped move the GNOME desktop to a new level of polish and integration and improve usability of GNOME applications greatly. But making the desktop comply 100% with these guidelines has been a huge undertaking, an undertaking not yet completed. One of the people who has been working very hard over the last few weeks on these issues is Dennis Cranston who after seeing his name pop up in CVS with HIG fixes time and time again I felt deserved a special mention. A big thanks to Dennis for his effort!
Real Networks has released the sourcecode to their SMIL 2.0 implementation as part of their Helix Community effort. This is something that many in the GNOME accessibility community has wanted for some time. It is not released under the LGPL unfortunatly, but the OSI approved RPSL license might be acceptable to application developers. Just remember to that if you use the GPL license for your application you would need to add an exception if you decide to include/link this library into your application. In related news from Real/Helix they have set up a project website for their upcoming GTK+ RealOne client for Unix and GNU/Linux.
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/smilsource.html
https://player.helixcommunity.org
The Sodipodi project has been making steady progress over the last months, and is establising itself in the free software community to be as synonymous with vector graphics creation as Gimp is for bitmap graphics. It has reached the stage now where more and more artists find that it is powerfull enough for them to actually do serious artwork with. To examplify this we got a new SVG icon theme this month that is done 100% in Sodipodi by a wonderfull artist called Kuswanto a.k.a Zeus. His icon theme proves that you now can make just as beautiful and detailed icons in Sodipodi as you can in illustrator. Another use for Sodipodi is for making Manga comics, something which Sodipodi developer MenTaLguY do with his Lunar 8 project. A big thanks to Zeus and the Sodipodi developers for their work so far.
http://zeus.coolfreepage.com/home.html
Our favourite groupware team is considering changing the way Evolution looks in their next major release. Anna Dirks has made some neat mockups of the proposed new GUI. Check out the full story and discussion on gnomedesktop.org. The Evolution team has also made a list of things they want to see happen in the backend space, but they are also aware that there is no way they will be able to handle all all the items in the list themselves, so they are hoping for contributions from the community to make it happen, check out the email linked below for the todo list.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1215&mode=&order=0&thold=1
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2003-June/000535.html
The freedesktop.org metateam is contemplating doing a combined release of the development plattform they have developed for Unix desktops, primarly GNOME and KDE. This in order to help promote the shared technologies developed under and in conjunction with freedesktop.org. Check out Havoc Penningtons announcement and the ensuing discussion on the freedesktop mailing list.
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2003-July/msg00101.html
According to the gnome dictionary T.Campbell said 'The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless', and there is no doubt that the Dashboard developers are dashing and daring :). Since we mentioned the effort here two weeks ago it has moved fast forward and now even have a status page with screenshots of contributed frontends. In fact Dashboard is moving so fast forward that Nat hasn't even had time to add a screenshot to Mark Humphreys Rhythmbox frontend, so we do it here instead :)
http://www.nat.org/dashboard/status.php3
http://www.markh.uklinux.net/rb-dashboard3.png
We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese - all the links below.
http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/gnome_summary.php4
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/
http://www.gnome.gr.jp/summary/index.html
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
| Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 9593 (In the last week: New: 616, Resolved: 456, Difference: +160)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 882 | 45 | 14 | +31 |
| gtk+: | 591 | 17 | 37 | -20 |
| galeon: | 548 | 44 | 26 | +18 |
| gnome-panel: | 302 | 29 | 14 | +15 |
| gnome-vfs: | 223 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| control-center: | 198 | 13 | 10 | +3 |
| GnuCash: | 159 | 14 | 11 | +3 |
| GIMP: | 152 | 12 | 13 | -1 |
| balsa: | 133 | 6 | 7 | -1 |
| metacity: | 125 | 11 | 4 | +7 |
| sawfish: | 119 | 2 | 0 | +2 |
| gnome-applets: | 109 | 9 | 15 | -6 |
| dia: | 108 | 8 | 20 | -12 |
| epiphany: | 101 | 30 | 26 | +4 |
| gnome-terminal: | 99 | 10 | 14 | -4 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| ps baum ro: | 25 |
| yaneti declera com: | 24 |
| mpeseng tin it: | 15 |
| jody gnome org: | 15 |
| richard imendio com: | 14 |
| ccevans cox net: | 14 |
| kris gtk org: | 13 |
| aguelzow taliesin ca: | 12 |
| hans breuer org: | 12 |
| charles rebelbase com: | 12 |
| maclas gmx de: | 11 |
| warlord MIT EDU: | 11 |
| teuf users sourceforge net: | 10 |
| andrew sobala net: | 9 |
| hadess hadess net: | 9 |
Even has many GNOME hackers and contributors are enjoying their summer vacations the work continues at rapid speed. To clarify the statistics for this summary, the CVS and bugzilla stats are for the last week, while the software map list is for the last two weeks.
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org
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