Just a couple of notes on whats going on with GNOME summary. First off, I've added a couple of people who were willing to help out with the summaries. I'd love to have more. The larger the group the grander the possibilities!
I've also decided that we will also help cover some of the Freedesktop news as they are starting to bind more tightly with the GNOME desktop. Integration between operating system and desktop by the use of standards will be one of the key advancements in the Free Software Desktop. So look for increased coverage of freedesktop components like HAL and xserver.
Java Desktop System is a product in which Sun Microsystems Inc. has combined Linux, Mozilla, GNOME and StarOffice-creating a credible challenger to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and Office on the corporate desktop.
Eweek and OSNews have published reviews of the Java GNOME Desktop (code named Mad Hatter).
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1399984,00.asp
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5286
There has been a positive response to the bounty hunt announcement, and patches are coming in fast for Evolution. The first patch to come in was the set wallpaper from displayed images one. More bounty related patchworking is in progress.
Ross Burton has announced the release of Contact Lookup Applet 0.2, an applet for your panel which will lookup contacts in an evolution-data-server addressbook you specify. It requires Evolution and evolution-data-server HEAD from CVS.
The Evolution Certificate Viewer is nearly 100% complete, with a cool details tab displaying a tree view of the ASN1 structure of the certificate.
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000093.html
http://www.burtonini.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computers/contact-lookup-applet-20031205
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000094.html
Palm and LDAP support is new with this release.
MultiSync allows you to synchronize Evolution, mobile phones (IrMC, SyncML), Opie/Zaurus devices, PocketPC devices, Palm devices and LDAP directories.
http://multisync.sourceforge.net/releases/release_notes_081.shtml
Planner is the project management application formerly known as MrProject.
This release features "numerous bug fixes, polish, polish, and more polish."
Gnumeric is GNOME based spreadsheet application, intended to be a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.2.2.html
Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of Ximian, gave a presentation regarding the progress of Mono, a free software implementation of the C#/.Net development framework, at the Bangalore Open Source conference. Mono comprises a compiler, runtime, and a set of class libraries, including GTK#, the .Net bindings for the GNOME platform. Miguel, together with Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, also gave several talks on the Linux desktop. Students and developers in attendance expressed great interest in contributing to the free software world.
Gnome Bangalore was also launched, and Naba Kumar of Anjuta fame had a booth all to himself to demo Anjuta and a locally built PDA. Overall, it was an exciting conference for all who attended.
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/activity-log.php
OSNews reviews one of GNOME's coolest applications. Some people say that VOIP is the wave of the future. If so, GNOME's future is looking bright, thanks to GnomeMeeting and its maintainer Damien Sandras.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5280
We have two new marketing team lists created this week. gnome-ar-list and gnome-ir-list will be the lists to promote GNOME at those respective countries.
Support GNOME in your local communities and countries!
Bastien Nocera (a.k.a. hadess), maintainer of GNOME's media player Totem, has done some hacking that will allow the automatic mounting of a USB device and have it show up as a mount on your GNOME desktop. Bastien made two patches against kudzu and magicdev cvs. Note that the new functionality will also require that you install D-BUS, from freedesktop.org.
http://www.hadess.net/files/patches/kudzu-automount/mail.txt
http://www.hadess.net/files/patches/kudzu-automount
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus
Almost all of the planned features of the 0.2 version of HAL are implemented along with a few other nifty features like monitoring the link status of ethernet devices and the mount point of block devices. Patches, comments, and bug reports are welcome. Please use the xdg-list@freedesktop.org mailing list.
http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-with-caps-and-category.png
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
http://freedesktop.org/Software/HalBuildInstructions
shaunm writes "Yelp 2.5.0 features a new transformation system which is simpler to work with and produces faster transformations. Additionally, the infastructure is in place for keyword searches of all installed documentation, and this should be ready in the 2.6 timeframe. Please pardon our mess during reconstruction. There's really a lot going on under the hood."
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-December/msg00008.html
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/2.5/
A new library to enable cd burning was added to the freedesktop umbrella. Libburn will allow software projects to easily create burning applications.
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/burn
Nat sends out mail to dashboard-hackers of a possible release of dashboard. There are a number of things that Nat would like to see happen before the release.
The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2003-December/msg00004.html
http://www.nat.org/dashboard/rewrite.png
Mono 0.29, MonoDoc 0.8, XSP 0.8 and mod_mono 0.6 has been released. In addition there is a roadmap to the 1.0 release also available.
Mono is Novell's open source implementation of the .NET Development Framework. Mono includes a compiler, tuntime, and a set of class libraries.
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html
http://www.go-mono.com/mono-roadmap.html
Rodrigo Moya has implemented in GNOME this popular feature, which allows one to switch users without logging out. To try the Switch User feature, you will need to patch against gnome-panel HEAD. Rodrigo's patch has generated interesting discussions regarding the user interface considerations involved in implementing this feature.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-December/msg00077.html
GNOME, KDE, and the ROX desktop have worked together at freedesktop.org to come up with a common, unified system for handling MIME types, which are the associations between particular file formats and the applications automatically picked to view the documents with those formats. The GNOME hackers are busy implementing the new specification for Nautilus before the API freeze for GNOME 2.6. There has been quite a bit of discussion on the desktop-devel mailing list regarding the new system.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-December/msg00055.html
Alex Larsson, co-captain of Nautilus, posted a message explaining his new authentication mechanism, which implements safe password storage to authenticate various services, including samba and ssh. Gnome-vfs now makes use of gnome-keyring for better password management! Gnome-keyring is available from the GNOME cvs server in the gnome-keyring module.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00555.html
Murray Cumming, maintainer of the superb C++ bindings for the GNOME platform, is organizing a GNOME language bindings release to go out with the upcoming GNOME 2.6. For all those people who like other languages than C and say that GNOME should "bless" language bindings for developer use, Murray is the answer to your prayers. Help him out and make the GNOME language bindings release a success!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/language-bindings/2003-November/msg00001.html
Uraeus (Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller) has made a new release. With new and updated icons on serveral of the themes.
http://www.linuxrising.com/files/freshnuvola.png
These are this weeks translation stats. Once I figure out xsl and dtd I'll be able to put this in properly. Thanks for your patience
http://stara.kvota.net/sri/stats26.php?end=2003-12-07&start=2003-11-30
Currently open: 10465 (In the last week: New: 531, Resolved: 379, Difference: +152)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 762 | 49 | 55 | -6 |
| gtk+: | 652 | 19 | 14 | +5 |
| control-center: | 252 | 15 | 4 | +11 |
| gnome-vfs: | 240 | 7 | 8 | -1 |
| GnuCash: | 213 | 6 | 0 | +6 |
| gnome-panel: | 211 | 45 | 22 | +23 |
| gnome-applets: | 175 | 30 | 11 | +19 |
| galeon: | 162 | 27 | 16 | +11 |
| GIMP: | 158 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| dia: | 150 | 4 | 0 | +4 |
| balsa: | 128 | 3 | 0 | +3 |
| epiphany: | 118 | 20 | 16 | +4 |
| sawfish: | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| metacity: | 114 | 7 | 5 | +2 |
| gnome-media: | 111 | 7 | 4 | +3 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| martin wehner epost de: | 21 |
| vincent vuntz net: | 17 |
| ds schleef org: | 16 |
| padraig obriain sun com: | 13 |
| shaunm gnome org: | 12 |
| kfv101 psu edu: | 11 |
| bmm80 ifrance com: | 11 |
| seb128 debian org: | 11 |
| sven gimp org: | 11 |
| hadess hadess net: | 10 |
| aes gnome org: | 10 |
| chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: | 10 |
| bill haneman sun com: | 10 |
| maclas gmx de: | 9 |
| heath pointedstick net: | 9 |
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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