This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-01-10 - 2004-01-17 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Blam! Blam! 2. Get acquainted with Gstreamer 3. GNOME-Network developers think about a code reorganisation 4. GNOME Volume Manager lands in CVS 5. Planner gets support libgda 6. Errata from Last Week's GNOME Summary 7. Hacker Activity 8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 9. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Blam! Blam! -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ============================================================== 2. Get acquainted with Gstreamer -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ============================================================== 3. GNOME-Network developers think about a code reorganisation -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ============================================================== 4. GNOME Volume Manager lands in CVS -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ============================================================== 5. Planner gets support libgda -------------------------------------------------------------- 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. http://planner.imendio.org ============================================================== 6. Errata from Last Week's GNOME Summary -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ============================================================== 8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 10662 (In the last week: New: 731, Resolved: 517, Difference: +214) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 755 (In the last week: New: 66, Resolved: 27, Difference: +39) gtk+: 648 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 18, Difference: +9) control-center: 271 (In the last week: New: 35, Resolved: 21, Difference: +14) gnome-vfs: 247 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 4, Difference: +1) GnuCash: 225 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 6, Difference: +5) gnome-panel: 205 (In the last week: New: 30, Resolved: 20, Difference: +10) gnome-applets: 162 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 12, Difference: +11) galeon: 144 (In the last week: New: 33, Resolved: 34, Difference: -1) GIMP: 133 (In the last week: New: 37, Resolved: 47, Difference: -10) gnome-terminal: 131 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 0, Difference: +12) epiphany: 130 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 18, Difference: +9) dia: 125 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 9, Difference: -5) balsa: 123 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 3, Difference: +5) sawfish: 119 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0) GStreamer: 112 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 6, Difference: +10) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: hadess hadess net: 42 bugs closed. gnome flowerday cx: 24 bugs closed. poobar nycap rr com: 20 bugs closed. paolo bacch tin it: 18 bugs closed. chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 15 bugs closed. bolsh gimp org: 14 bugs closed. mark skynet ie: 13 bugs closed. chris rebelbase com: 12 bugs closed. sven gimp org: 12 bugs closed. padraig obriain sun com: 12 bugs closed. alexl redhat com: 11 bugs closed. readams hmc edu: 11 bugs closed. maclas gmx de: 10 bugs closed. xkahn zoned net: 9 bugs closed. murrayc usa net: 9 bugs closed. ============================================================== 7. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 146 evolution 117 gpdf 100 gimp 77 gnucash 65 gdesklets 51 evolution-data-server 48 gnome-commander 45 epiphany 43 conglomerate 43 gnome-control-center 42 balsa 41 gtk+ 40 nautilus 35 gnome-applets 35 galeon 33 gnome-panel 32 gnumeric 32 yelp 31 gtkmathview 30 gnome-vfs [181 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 182 laurenti 116 adrighem 108 kmaraas 77 danilo 73 rcoscali 70 mitr 57 rodrigo 54 pycage 54 serrador 50 warlord (gnucash) 49 redfox 48 jpr 45 marbj 43 cwryu 35 chpe 35 aflinta 35 markmc 34 alastairmck 32 fejj 31 PeterB [186 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 9. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- GtkDatabox - Fast display of numerical data General Applet Interface Library - Library simplifies applet development BananaPos - Point Of Sale GNOME Database widgets library - GNOME Database Widgets library GNOME Database Access library - GNOME Database Access library gDeskCal - desktop calendar Gretools vocabulary builder - Vocabulary building tool for GNOME gThumb - Image viewer and browser. gnome-vim - Vim bonobo component. gedit - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor sussen - Sussen is a security scanner File Roller - Archive Manager Pigeon CD Recorder - A Gnome2 CD Recorder GNOME Desktop Themes - GNOME desktop themes gtk copy-paste buffer - gtk copy-paste buffer GNOME Commander - File manager gURLChecker - Graphic web links checker Shermans aquarium - Swimming fish applet For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php Gnome Summary is brought to you by: Sri Ramkrishna, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Jim Hodapp, and Andrew Coulam. gnome-summary@xxxxxxxxx Join the Friends of GNOME! http://www.gnome.org/friends _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list