Mikael Hallendal has been furiously hacking on his new project called "Blam!", a RSS Aggregator for GNOME. He has already made two releases, and he claims "Yeah I know, BLAM! is no longer just an Application, it's becoming a Life Style!". Blam requires Mono and GTK# to be installed in your machine.
Great work by Mikael - and maybe now everyone can watch what the GNOME hackers are doing by having their blogs right on their desktops, in a neatly organised manner. A satisfied Blam! user comments - "Before BLAM!, I was like a lost sheep in the GNOME world. But after installing BLAM!, I know what everyone is doing, including the super-famous Robert Love!" ;-)
http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/000104.html
http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/blam-0.1-1.html
Get familiarised with one of the most cool components of the GNOME Desktop. Christian Schaller has written a very nice introductory article on Gstreamer, explaining what it is, and what it is supposed to do. (I hear that even the KDE hackers are thinking about gstreamer - good for them). :-)
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5648
The GNOME Network hackers are thinking about the separation of the various tools in their own CVS modules, with their own releases and maintainers. This will avoid having GNOME Network being a giant, unmaintainable module. They are also considering merging the remote shell client with GNOME terminal, making the remote desktop client better integrated into the desktop and making the Personal Web Server an extension to Nautilus, so a 'Share' menu item shows up in the Nautilus context menu for folders.
http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/news.php?14/January/2004
Robert Love has transferred the code for GNOME Volume Manager into the GNOME CVS. The GNOME Volume Manager is a simple GNOME daemon that acts as a policy agent on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel, hotplug, udev, and HAL. GNOME Volume Manager listens for HAL events and responds with user-configurable reactions.
RML has also created a few RPMs for Fedora Core, and you can give it a spin, keeping in mind that these are really bleeding edge, there will be bugs.
http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/blog/archives/000315.html
http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/project_utopia/fedora/
Alvaro del Castillo has committed his work in replacing the code that accesses postgres directly with libgda allowing Planner (formerly known as Mr. Project) to use any kind of database that libgda supports.
Planner is a tool for planning, scheduling and tracking projects. Planner is an open source project targetting the GNOME Desktop.
Just want to correct last week's story regarding the interview with Ximian folks. The CTO of Ximian is Miguel de Icaza not Chris Stone.
http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2004_January04-January10.html#2
Currently open: 10662 (In the last week: New: 731, Resolved: 517, Difference: +214)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 755 | 66 | 27 | +39 |
| gtk+: | 648 | 27 | 18 | +9 |
| control-center: | 271 | 35 | 21 | +14 |
| gnome-vfs: | 247 | 5 | 4 | +1 |
| GnuCash: | 225 | 11 | 6 | +5 |
| gnome-panel: | 205 | 30 | 20 | +10 |
| gnome-applets: | 162 | 23 | 12 | +11 |
| galeon: | 144 | 33 | 34 | -1 |
| GIMP: | 133 | 37 | 47 | -10 |
| gnome-terminal: | 131 | 12 | 0 | +12 |
| epiphany: | 130 | 27 | 18 | +9 |
| dia: | 125 | 4 | 9 | -5 |
| balsa: | 123 | 8 | 3 | +5 |
| sawfish: | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GStreamer: | 112 | 16 | 6 | +10 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| hadess hadess net: | 42 |
| gnome flowerday cx: | 24 |
| poobar nycap rr com: | 20 |
| paolo bacch tin it: | 18 |
| chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: | 15 |
| bolsh gimp org: | 14 |
| mark skynet ie: | 13 |
| chris rebelbase com: | 12 |
| sven gimp org: | 12 |
| padraig obriain sun com: | 12 |
| alexl redhat com: | 11 |
| readams hmc edu: | 11 |
| maclas gmx de: | 10 |
| xkahn zoned net: | 9 |
| murrayc usa net: | 9 |
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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