This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-12-07 - 2003-12-06
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Table of Contents
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1. We'll Miss You, Bambino
2. New Foundation Board Elected!
3. GNOME Development Release 2.5.1!
4. Robert Love to give help desktop/linux integration
5. Anjuta 1.2.0 Released
6. Evolution 1.5.0 Released
7. GNOME System Tools 0.30.0 Released
8. Epiphany 1.1.1 Released
9. Planner 1.0 Roadmap
10. Towards Gossip 0.7
11. GNOME Platform Bindings release set
12. GAIM and Evolution Integration
13. Gnome Wishlist from OSNews
14. AbiWord 2.0.2 released
15. Inkscape 0.36
16. This weeks translation stats
17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
18. New and Updated Software
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1. We'll Miss You, Bambino
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The GNOME community says goodbye to one of it's own. Ettore Perazolli, one of
the main hackers of Evolution and the number three employee of Ximian passed
away suddenly on December 10. Our hearts and thoughts go out to Ettore's Family
and Friends. Good bye Ettore, we hope you dwell in a better place and in peace.
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2. New Foundation Board Elected!
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A new foundation board has been elected. Good luck to the new Foundation board
for the new year!
The new foundation board consists of:
Owen Taylor - Glynn Foster - Jody Goldberg - Jeff Waugh - Luis Villa - Jonathan
Blandford - Nat Friedman - Leslie Proctor - Bill Haneman - Dave Camp - Malcolm
Tredinnick
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3. GNOME Development Release 2.5.1!
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GNOME Development release 2.5.1 "Hey, I'm at least housebroken" is ready for
consumption for those of you with strong commits and great bug bashing-fu.
Bugbuddy and Bugzilla are ready for you!
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.5/2.5.1/sources/
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/modules
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4. Robert Love to give help desktop/linux integration
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>From Jeff's blog is an interesting tidbit. Robert Love is being hired by the
Ximian/Suse division to work on kernel support of the desktop.
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/blog/2003/12/14/
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5. Anjuta 1.2.0 Released
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Anjuta 1.2.0 features a number of new bugfixes, and according to Naba Kumar,
the lead developer, it is 99% stable.
Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME. Features
include project management, application wizards, an onboard interactive
debugger, and a powerful source editor with browsing and syntax highlighting.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=335085
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6. Evolution 1.5.0 Released
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Evolution 1.5 has fixed some major architectural issues and sees the splitting
out of the addressbook, calendar and task data access into a separate library
for other projects to use. Shell components are now much more simplified.
Note that is a development release - and not for general day-to-day use.
Evolution is a project to provide integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring
functionality to the GNOME desktop.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1511
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/screenshots15.shtml
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7. GNOME System Tools 0.30.0 Released
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The 0.30.0 release of GNOME System Tools has been mostly for frontends
polishing, aimed to make easier the distro porting that will happen in the next
releases.
The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration utilities for
Linux and other Unix systems. Internally they are divided in frontends and
backends. The frontend knows nothing about the underlying system and provides
the same user interface across the different types of systems.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/0.30/
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8. Epiphany 1.1.1 Released
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Epiphany 1.1.1 features numerous bugfixes, an improved downloader (with a tray
icon) and more.
Epiphany is the default GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/
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9. Planner 1.0 Roadmap
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The Planner (formerly MrProject) hackers have released a draft roadmap for
Planner version 1.0.
Planner is a tool for planning, scheduling and tracking projects for the GNOME
Desktop. Planner is an open source project aiming at being a better alternative
than the available proprietary tools.
http://planner.imendio.org/hackerlog/000025.php
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10. Towards Gossip 0.7
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The Gossip developers have identified a number of bugs which they would like to
fix before releasing version 0.7. The current bugcount for 0.7 milestone stands
at 31.
Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME. Layered on top of the open
protocol Jabber is a clean and easy-to-use interface, providing users of the
GNOME Desktop a friendly way to keep in touch with their friends.
http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/archives/000024.html
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11. GNOME Platform Bindings release set
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Murray Cumming recently announced the GNOME Platform Bindings release set,
featuring a proper schedule and rules to work within.
Presently, the set includes gtkmm (C++), gtk2-perl (Perl) with beta bindings
for C#, and hopefully, pyGTK (Python) would join the set soon.
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/
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12. GAIM and Evolution Integration
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Christian Hammond has been busy integrating the GAIM instant messenger with the
development version of Evolution. The work allows the Evolution addressbook to
be used as a source of instant messaging information.
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000097.html
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13. Gnome Wishlist from OSNews
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OSNews has published a list of some of existing weaknesses in GNOME that they
would like to see fixed in the future.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5361
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14. AbiWord 2.0.2 released
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A new version of Abiword was released this week. Improvements include
footnotes, and table handling.
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.0.2.html
http://www.abisource.com/download/
http://www.abisource.com
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15. Inkscape 0.36
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The new version of Inkscape has been released. This includes quite a bit of
improvements. Please check it out at their home page!
The Inkscape application is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar
to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic
shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing,
svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
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16. This weeks translation stats
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This weeks translation statistics.
http://stara.kvota.net/sri/stats26.php?end=2003-12-13&start=2003-12-07
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18. New and Updated Software
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CVSGnome Build Script - CVSGnome Build Script
Planner - Project management application
Libcroco - The Gnome CSS manipulation toolkit
GChemPaint - 2D chemical structures editor
gnubiff - Mail notifier.
HTML Code Convert - Convert HTML CGI
Conglomerate - User-friendly XML editor
gnome-mlview - xml editor for gnome
GNOME Desktop Themes - GNOME desktop themes
GNOME Terminal - terminal console application
Giriver - Iriver Gnome pygtk app
gramps - GNOME based genealogy program
Greenwich - Whois client for GNOME
Liferea - RSS/RDF news aggregator
For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map:
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php
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17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
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This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature
reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt,
subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.
Currently open: 10484 (In the last week: New: 640, Resolved: 678, Difference:
-38)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
nautilus: 746 (In the last week: New: 59, Resolved: 75, Difference: -16)
gtk+: 645 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 41, Difference: -14)
control-center: 254 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 6, Difference: +8)
gnome-vfs: 239 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 5, Difference: -2)
GnuCash: 219 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 9, Difference: +7)
gnome-panel: 209 (In the last week: New: 33, Resolved: 41, Difference: -8)
gnome-applets: 169 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 13, Difference: +5)
galeon: 162 (In the last week: New: 28, Resolved: 22, Difference: +6)
GIMP: 158 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 26, Difference: +1)
dia: 154 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 7, Difference: -1)
balsa: 124 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 11, Difference: -9)
epiphany: 124 (In the last week: New: 33, Resolved: 27, Difference: +6)
sawfish: 117 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
gnome-terminal: 112 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 7, Difference: +2)
metacity: 111 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 11, Difference: -5)
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
newren math utah edu: 215 bugs closed.
hadess hadess net: 28 bugs closed.
daniel veillard com: 24 bugs closed.
chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 24 bugs closed.
vincent vuntz net: 22 bugs closed.
padraig obriain sun com: 22 bugs closed.
fherrera onirica com: 15 bugs closed.
maclas gmx de: 12 bugs closed.
sven gimp org: 11 bugs closed.
bill haneman sun com: 11 bugs closed.
gnome flowerday cx: 10 bugs closed.
sandmann daimi au dk: 10 bugs closed.
m_kretzschmar gmx net: 9 bugs closed.
martin wehner epost de: 9 bugs closed.
maggi athena polito it: 9 bugs closed.
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