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Stormy’s Update: August 30, 2010

31.08.2010 02:45 During the week of July, I was at  ! There I attended the GNOME Board of Directors annual meeting, ran the GNOME Board of Advisors annual meeting, put together the Getting Things Done lightening talks and met with lots of people. It was a great GUADEC in a great venue with lots of good talks and conversations – we’ve been getting lots of good feedback. Kudos to the local organizing team! You can see all the videos of the talks at  as it was streamed live and recorded! The videos are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 so please use and share them. During the first week of August,  . Since then I’ve been trying to catch up on my Inbox, follow up on conversations, and generally make sure that I’m helping make great things happen in GNOME. Attended  in Boston and made a call for free web services. Pointed out several of the ones GNOME is working on. Ran into lots of interesting people but not enough time to talk to them all as much I’d have liked. I met one on one with Rosanna. And Brian. I attended board meetings. I think the new board is still figuring out who’s doing what and who’s good at what but they are coming together and their talents balance nicely. Met with Nokia about the money they are providing to GNOME Mobile. Tried to attend a webinar about Finances and nonprofits put on by our insurance company but had some technical difficulties. Will try again next time. Had several interviews for magazines and blogs. Trying to push them towards other interesting GNOME people! Had brief meetings with our attorneys and our accountant to get some clarifying information. Attended the FSF’s women’s group meeting. Worked on the Free Software booth for  . Booked hotel for that. Booked travel for  . Worked on getting GNOME representation at board and community level for the Desktop Summit 2011. Finished the Q2 quarterly report with help from all the teams, Vinicius Depizzol and Vincent Untz! Worked with LGM to help them get their reimbursements in order for LGM 2008, 2009 and 2010. Debating future travel. Latinoware, GNOME Forum Brazil, Desktop Summit 2011 planning meeting , Boston Summit, … already going to Ohio LinuxFest and Grace Hopper and I’m enjoying being home for a while. Had a meeting with LiMo, Samsung, Ryan Lortie, Alberto Ruiz and Vincent Untz at GUADEC.  To talk about GTK+ and upcoming related events. Reviewed actual budget numbers for the year in preparation for helping with our 2011 budget. The year starts in October so now is the time to get in your requests for community events or other things you think GNOME should do in the next year. Connected several people with great ideas with people I thought could help move them forward. Pinged the MIT folks a few times, as did J5, and we now have rooms for the Boston Summit! Following up with marketing team and others on numerous offers to give us pro-bono ads in magazines. Met with a couple of advisory board members. Hoping to meet up with those I missed via phone soon.

Issue 99

30.08.2010 10:30 This week… 2512 commits, in 181 projects, by 248 happy hackers . The synctex plugin, to synchronize TeX files and PDF output, has been merged into gedit-plugins. Both Lapo Calamandrei and Jakub Steiner worked on the metacity/mutter theme for GNOME 3. Nate Stedman added alpha support to backgrounds in Ease. A “save as PDF” plugin has been added to Gimp, thanks to Barak Itkin . Andreas J. Guelzow added progress info support to the ODF export feature of Gnumeric. Batch operation support for both Calendar and Documents services has been added to libgdata . Christopher Roy Bratusek made the applications menu of Sawfish honour NotShowIn and OnlyShowIn. Interactive TLS certification verification has been merged into Empathy . Jonh Wendell split the reverse VNC feature of Vinagre into its own plugin, and ported it to GSocket, making reverse connections work with both IPv4 and IPv6 . Cosimo Cecchi updated the design of the Nautilus sidebar, categorizing items with headings, a is available . f-spot completed its port to GtkBuilder . Thomas Wood implemented a new UI design for the background preference panel. Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen ported both gnotravex and gnotski to cairo . Gustavo Noronha Silva wrapped the geolocation support provided by WebKitGTK+ in Epiphany, using info bars to present policy requests to the user . GDateTime, an opaque data type containing a date and time representation, has been added to GLib . Benjamin Otte completed the second part of his GTK+ 3 rendering cleanup work, and posted a to the gtk-devel-list. Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 524 empathy 187 tracker 142 vala 105 ease 71 glib 52 gimp 47 gobject-introspection 38 anjuta 37 evolution 37 Top authors Author Commits Modules Carlos Garnacho 234 gtk+, tracker Javier Jardón 181 gtk+ Philip Withnall 125 empathy, folks, libgdata and others Cosimo Cecchi 83 empathy, nautilus Luca Bruno 70 vala, gobject-introspection Benjamin Otte 61 gtk+, gnome-applets, libgnomekbd and others Guillaume Desmottes 57 empathy, jhbuild Bruno Brouard 52 evolution, gtk+, epiphany and others Nate Stedman 51 ease Alexander Shopov 49 gnome-control-center, gnome-media, gconf and others

2010 GNOME Boston Summit rooms confirmed

27.08.2010 20:45 It took a while but we are now able to confirm we have rooms for the November 6 – 8 GNOME Boston Summit. For Saturday and Sunday we will be in the Tang Center again in the same rooms as last year. Monday is a little trickier since class is in session. We may have a couple of rooms spread out on the campus. We are still working out the best options there but we will have rooms on Monday to hack in. Please go to the 2010 Summit page and tells us you are coming! http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51 http://live.gnome.org/Boston2010 -- John Palmieri _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce

TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.32.0 Beta 2 , and String Freeze

27.08.2010 17:30 Hello GNOME hackers, *Tarballs are due* on 2010-08-30 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.31.91 beta release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 2.31.91. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! Many deprecation notices landed in GTK+ recently, if you have set your tarballs to disable deprecated stuff, please make sure they still build, if it fails, it is of course best to update your code, but you could also remove the disable deprecated defines from your build options. http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/07/27/rendering-cleanup/ We are now entering string freeze : No string changes may be made without confirmation from the i18n team and notification to release team, translation team, and documentation team. From this point, developers can concentrate on stability and bug-fixing. Translators can work without worrying that the original English strings will change, and documentation writers can take accurate screenshots. For the string freezes explained, and to see which kind of changes are not covered by freeze rules, check http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes. UI Freeze is still in effect : *No UI changes* may be made at all without confirmation from the release team and notification to the documentation team; be sure to ask! To help write *good release notes*, please do add major user-visible changes happening during the 2.31 release cycle to this wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ReleaseNotes For more information about 2.31, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Thanks,

Meeting Minutes Published - August 5, 2010

26.08.2010 02:30 The meeting minutes for the August 5th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100805 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

Meeting Minutes Published - July 25, 2010

26.08.2010 02:30 The meeting minutes for the July 25th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100725 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

Issue 98

23.08.2010 12:45 This week… 2759 commits, in 181 projects, by 258 happy hackers . Peter Tyser added to Meld the ability to check if version control repository are valid. Christian Persch ported libgconf-2 to GDbus, this makes libgconf-2 not link to libdbus anymore, which means libgconf-2 is LGPL2+ again . Tor-björn Claesson made it possible to register new search providers for the GNOME Shell dash. Paul Cutler added Mallard snippets to the gedit snippets plugin. Also in the Mallard vicinity Claude Paroz updated Damned Lies to display a special icon next to documentation in the Mallard format. Håkon Enger added support for Mac OS VNC authentifcation to gtk-vnc. The Murrine engine got support for theming new widgets: GtkIconView and GtkInfoBar. Jiří Techet changed the double click behaviour of libchamplain, it will now zoom and center to the clicked area . Support for importing ODF graphs into Gnumeric continues to improve thanks to Andreas J. Guelzow . Carlos Garcia Campos merged his port of gnome-applets to the new libpanel-applet API. Nicolas Dufresne work on proxy support in GLib has been merged. Empathy new “linking contacts” dialog continues to be improved; also it is now possible to disable logging . Nate Stedman added support for embedding PDF documents in Ease. Summer of Code has ended, there is a , the snippets manager plugin written by Dragos Dena has been merged in Anjuta, and a few last updates were posted, Salomon Sicket on , Pēteris Krišjānis on , and Matt Novenstern who worked on the . Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 453 tracker 297 vala 96 glib 80 empathy 69 nautilus 67 gnumeric 60 nautilus-actions 53 anjuta 49 rygel 49 Top authors Author Commits Modules Carlos Garnacho 214 gtk+, tracker Jürg Billeter 107 tracker, vala Javier Jardón 97 gtk+, epiphany Benjamin Otte 71 gtk+, gnome-control-center, libgnomekbd and others Martyn Russell 65 tracker Aleksander Morgado 58 tracker Jorge González 56 buoh, empathy, gtk+ and others Cosimo Cecchi 56 nautilus Philip Van Hoof 55 tracker Philip Withnall 54 empathy, totem, libgdata and others

GNOME 2.31.90 beta released!

19.08.2010 17:45 Hello all, This is 2.31.90, and it's out! It's the first beta of what will be GNOME 2.32, enjoy every moment of it, the next beta will arrive in two weeks. With this release we are now UI frozen, no UI changes may be made without confirmation from the release team and notification to the documentation team . The other freezes are of course still in place, details on http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes To compile GNOME 2.31.90, you can use the jhbuild modulesets published by the release team . http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.31.90/ The release notes that describe the changes between 2.31.6 and 2.31.90 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release: platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS mobile - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.31/2.31.90/NEWS The GNOME 2.31.90 release is available here: platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.90/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.90/ admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.90/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.90/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.90/ mobile sources - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.31/2.31.90/ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. For more information about 2.31, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Cheers, Frederic

gnome achievements – the alternative

18.08.2010 12:15 The point of this post is to make you aware that there are more projects tackling with trophies than just Seif Lofty’s zeitgeist plug, and with much more serious intentions. I’m asking to give it a little more time before you think about integrating your app, as we might have something more real, more serious and more to the point. Not there yet, obvisouly – it’s missing bling, polish and refinement. We’ve already asked for trophy icons from the design team and Lapo Calamandrei stepped up, so that’s in progress.   I guess most of you have seen Seif Lofty’s on planet gnome about having written twenty lines of code. The project is much older, although the code backdates just about a week before the omg saga. The gnome-achievements project has a single goal and that is to enable users to discover application features. Fun is a side effect of that. For example in hamster – it is hard to expose some specific features in the UI – like entering negative minutes to start activity in past, or the fact that you can override the default report. It is documented in help and linked as contextually as possible – but often one won’t even realize that there is a better way to do things. And so enter trophies. If you know negative deltas, then after doing it a number of times you will get a trophy. Maybe you will say “hey – what was that about” and go into trophies and stumble upon more interesting ones. Or maybe, if you don’t know negative deltas – you will stumble upon them via some other trophy or by deliberately opening the trophy browser. We have come up with so far, out of which 34 seem to be viable right now. The current progress is that the service is there, there is a rudimentary browser and now i’m working on putting the trophies in hamster. The plan is to gain insight while doing that and write a first draft of guidelines. There are many questions to be answered and the whole system, being so different from video games, has to be rethought. Do ranks make sense on desktop? Should hidden trophies be included in the interface if there is such a large proportion of them. And so on. After that the plan would be to approach developers of some other project and with them try bring trophies into their app and see what bits are missing. And after a few more trials then we go public. It shouldn’t take too long – a month or two perhaps. Apart from coming up with guidelines, which i think are crucial to be relevant, the trophy system itself will try and offload as much of trophy related state-tracking, as possible. Anyway, it’s not a release yet, and you can see commits happening actively both on hamster side and on gnome-achievements. You can also see things coming and going, so this is not the point where you plugin in yet. There will be a proper announcement when we are there. As for the duplication of effort – there was a quick discussion when Seif came out with the first announcement, but with the most recent one he has went into full denial, avoiding linkage or responding to my comments. I think it’s not a race anyway, and in longterm whatever makes sense, will survive. I am following their progress too, so no worries – it seems to me that the whole effort is slightly lagging behind gnome-achievements due to lack of focus. Finally, we do plan to get into GNOME eventually. And there is such intent because i firmly believe that this makes sense. If interested, and check out the code.

Clutter 1.3.10 - developers snapshot

17.08.2010 16:45 good news, everyone! here's to you the fifth 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter. Download Clutter 1.3.10 is now available for download at: A mirror is also available here: SHA256 Checksums: 5a6f2d08f2c394616b07977b40b7dae3e190f4a2308a42984872ab15e3e8354f clutter-1.3.10.tar.gz ff4c0960e8f89b6a3e2e0db0c502c91d9c9beafcf01e319b70db4c3c052f1799 clutter-1.3.10.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Requirements GLib >= 2.18.0 Cairo >= 1.6 Pango >= 1.20 Atk >= 1.7 OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on: GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0 JSON-GLib >= 0.10 Release Notes This is the fifth developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle. This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter. Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter. Bugs should be reported on . What's new in Clutter 1.3.10 List of changes since Clutter 1.3.8 Fix a locale-dependent conversion from double to string when generating ARBfp programs for the materials. Use the XKB extension on X11 platforms to convert between hardware keys to key symbols. Documentation fixes in the API reference. More recipes, with videos and full examples, in the Cookbook. Add localization support and initial translations of error messages that might be visualized in a user interface. Improve debugging output. Fix build of the GLX backend on OSX. Multiple fixes to the native OSX backend. Add support for 3D textures in Cogl. Fix shader-related issues and leaks in the new Material code. Unify GLSL support in the GL and GLES 2.0 drivers. Allow specifying an hint to disable clearing the stage before each paint cycle. Many thanks to: Neil Roberts Roman Kudiyarov Elliot Smith Robert Bragg Chris Kühl Chris Leick Nate Stedman happyaron raven Øyvind Kolås Have fun with Clutter!

Clutter 1.3.12 - developers snapshot

17.08.2010 16:45 good news, everyone! here's to you the sixth 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter. Download Clutter 1.3.12 is now available for download at: A mirror is also available here: SHA256 Checksums: bad23d69867d8eb44e1d5f32475d38e0c243089126baa69a57644aacc50c3907 clutter-1.3.12.tar.gz 77c369856fb740593591b41fcc8d821362705cd30927b10dd31165f6f3cfe373 clutter-1.3.12.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Requirements GLib >= 2.18.0 Cairo >= 1.6 Pango >= 1.20 Atk >= 1.7 OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on: GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0 JSON-GLib >= 0.10 Release Notes This is the sixth developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle. This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter. Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter. Bugs should be reported on . What's new in Clutter 1.3.12 List of changes since Clutter 1.3.10: New recipes in the Cookbook: create and animate sub-textures layout managers scroll events Set the ClutterTexture:filename property to also be readable. Avoid layout cycles when creating ClutterLayoutMeta objects during the ::allocate implementation. Add a ClutterTableLayout, a layout manager for tabular layouts. Capture ENTER and LEAVE events on the stage within the ClutterDragAction. Plug memory leaks. Use g_object_notify_by_pspec , if available, to speed up the emission of the ::notify signal on property changes. Re-use the Cogl texture atlas for the CoglPango glyphs cache, and improve the performance with large font sizes. Various fixes in the Materials comparison and inheritance. Add the ability to associate a user program to a material. Many thanks to: Neil Roberts Elliot Smith Robert Bragg Damien Lespiau José Dapena Paz Owen W. Taylor Have fun with Clutter!

Anjuta 2.31.90 released

17.08.2010 16:45 New: Python is now fully supported Initial support for python plugins Snippets plugins from GSoC Updated: Language support for Vala got a major update Bugs fixed: project-wizard: bgo#625434 - remove cvsignore from templates python-support: bgo#626950 Anjuta crash with python support build-basic-auotools: bgo#626562 crash refusing to clean the configuration symbol-db: bgo#622529 - Crash when trying to open a non-writable project symbol-db: bgo#616560 - Symbol views do not display names containing especial chars correctly manual: Fixed mailing list adress language-support-vala: bgo#626306 Symbol completion doesn't work with "this." libanjuta: Increase launcher buffer size class-gen: add missing include Add PyGTK project template. Fixes bug #608304. Thanks to: Abderrahim Kitouni, Andika Triwidada, Daniel Nylander, Dragos Dena Fran Diéguez, James Liggett, Jens Georg, Jorge González, Leandro Mattioli Massimo Corà, Matej Urbančič, Vincent Untz, Yang Hong

GUPnP DLNA 0.3.0

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GUPnP Vala 0.6.11

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