GNOME News

Issue 172

31.01.2012 21:00 This week… 1964 commits, in 174 projects, by 203 happy hackers . Maciej Piechotka added a ArrayQueue data structure to libgee. Patches from Christophe Fergeau to port sound-juicer to musicbrainz4 have landed at last. In Banshee Andrés Aragoneses split RockBox support co into its own class. Krzesimir Nowak changed rygel to append extensions to served files. Bastien Nocera added support for pairing the iCade into gnome-bluetooth. Shaun McCance improved Yelp by making Mallard documents auto-reload on changes. In Tomboy Aaron Borden fixed template syncing . In gnome-contacts Alexander Larsson added support for changing the primary address book. Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to add devices based on what is supported by the OS; the information about device support comes from libosinfo . Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to gnome-packagekit, to make it use systemd instead of ConsoleKit for rebooting . Joseph Scheuhammer contributed a dialog for zoom options into the universal access control center panel . David Zeuthen merged his udisks2 port of gnome-disk-utility. In GLib Dan Winship added multicast-related functions to GSocket . Alexia Death added axis labels to dynamics curves and curveview in Gimp. Patricia Santana Cruz added videos and picture sharing support, via nautilus-sendto, to Cheese . Top projects Project Commits clutter 151 gtk+ 139 epiphany 86 evolution 64 glib 64 gnome-shell 57 gnome-contacts 56 libgda 47 gnome-bluetooth 45 gnome-control-center 38 Top authors Author Commits Modules Emmanuele Bassi 135 clutter, gnome-shell Daniel Mustieles 75 pan2, gnome-games, anjuta and others Matthew Barnes 75 evolution, evolution-data-server, gnome-video-arcade and others Bastien Nocera 74 gnome-bluetooth, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon Matthias Clasen 69 gtk+, glib, gconf and others Colin Walters 62 ostree, linux-user-chroot, gjs and others Alexander Larsson 62 gnome-contacts, gtk+, glib and others Xan Lopez 62 epiphany David Zeuthen 52 gnome-disk-utility, gvfs Cosimo Cecchi 49 nautilus, epiphany, gnome-documents and others

Issue 173

31.01.2012 21:00 This week… 1871 commits, in 231 projects, by 217 happy hackers . In librsvg Christian Persch improved the decoding of data: URIs. Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-screenshot to make non interactive mode headless, making it just save the image to the saved screenshots directory. Aurimas Černius added core synchronization support to gnote. Carlos Garcia Campos pushed some initial work porting devhelp to WebKit2; he later posted details about the port and the process . Milan Crha added support for setting user’s folder permissions into evolution-mapi . Oleksij Rempel switched Cheese from theora/ogg to vp8/webm. In gparted Rogier Goossens added the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide the appropriate tools to perform this action . Will Thompson added support for functions which return GError into pygobject . Alexander Larsson added a first run dialog to gnome-contacts. Matthias Clasen added a resource tool to glib, this lets the developer poke at resources in elf files and standalone resource bundles. James Le Cuirot contributed the possibility to align text vertically into glabels. In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added High quality zoom for SVG images. Adel Gadllah moved filesystem I/O to a thread when taking a screenshot in gnome-shell . Florian Brosch contributed support for comments to the GIR parser in Vala. Pascal de Bruijn made gnome-color-manager use smaller/faster display calibration target sets. Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 151 libgda 89 vala 85 epiphany 78 clutter 61 glom 46 gnome-control-center 45 evolution-data-server 43 glib 43 valadoc 39 Top authors Author Commits Modules Kjartan Maraas

Issue 171

31.01.2012 17:45 This week… 1971 commits, in 211 projects, by 183 happy hackers . Owen Taylor correct memory management for singletons in gjs. In gparted Mike Fleetwood contributed resize support to nilfs2 . Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to use floppy image only for Windows express install, switching to emulating a USB drive for other images . Christian Persch reimplemented .svgz support into rsvg-view. Federico Mena Quintero merged his docking-stations branch into gnome-settings-daemon, this lets docking stations work better in the light of plugging external monitors. Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to the user accounts panel of gnome-control-center . Milan Crha improved the performance of the addressbook cache of evolution-data-server . In gnome-system-monitor Krishnan Parthasarathi contributed a new Process Properties dialog . Shaun McCance updated mal2html conversion to reflow grid and 2column links on small screens. In Banshee Olivier Dufour added xesam:userRating field in track metadata . Jean Bréfort fixed formula interpretation in plot series in Gnumeric . In Epiphany Xan Lopez made the visible name of the application always be ‘Web’ ;. Rob Bradford added a basic implementation of GtkClipboard for Wayland into GTK+. Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 496 gnome-control-center 104 glib 69 nautilus-actions 56 glom 53 baobab 50 epiphany 49 nautilus 47 clutter 47 gimp 40 Top authors Author Commits Modules Benjamin Otte 349 gtk+, glib Jiro Matsuzawa 78 totem, gnome-control-center, accerciser and others Bastien Nocera 76 gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, totem and others Cosimo Cecchi 61 nautilus, gnome-themes-standard, gtk+ and others Alexander Larsson 48 glib, gtk+, nautilus and others Pierre Wieser 47 nautilus-actions Murray Cumming 47 glom, java-libglom, gtk+ and others Ryan Lortie 46 baobab, gtk+, json-glib and others Daniel Mustieles 46 gnome-games, glom, nautilus-actions and others Matthias Clasen 42 gtk+, glib, gnome-control-center and others

Issue 170

31.01.2012 17:45 This week… 2045 commits, in 177 projects, by 185 happy hackers . In librsvg Christian Persch reworked rsvg-view to make it more modern, dropping GTK+ 2, using Cairo surfaces, GIO, etc. Murray Cumming changed Glom to allow custom choices to be translated when used for text fields. Neil Roberts added support for mainloop integration to cogl. Claudio Saavedra updated eog to make it possible to scale the print preview using the scrollwheel . Marc-André Lureau added GtkApplication and shell menu to gnome-boxes . In Evolution Milan Crha added a Print button to the meeting notification dialog . Marina Zhurakhinskaya updated the way notification sources are grouped in gnome-shell, to base it on a combination of pid and title . In glib Ryan Lortie added new ‘add’ and ‘contains’ APIs to GHashTable, these are both convenience APIs that make it slightly nicer to use GHashTable as a set. Matthias Clasen had various GtkApplication changes, including a new Inhibit API and logout notifications. Robert Ancell ported a bunch of gnome-games to use GSettings: gnotski, gnibbles, and gnect. Germán Poo-Caamaño replaced the old local cooked sockets by the use of nmap for basic port scanning in gnome-nettool. Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 295 pan2 293 clutter 112 gnome-games 104 libgda 83 vala 68 nautilus-actions 68 evolution 60 glib 53 baobab 52 Top authors Author Commits Modules Heinrich Müller 227 pan2 Benjamin Otte 190 gtk+ Emmanuele Bassi 101 clutter, gtk+, gnomeweb-wml Pierre Wieser 63 nautilus-actions Vivien Malerba 58 libgda Luca Bruno 55 vala Paolo Borelli 54 baobab, gtk+, gedit and others Ryan Lortie 53 baobab, glib, gtk+ and others Andy Spencer 47 grits Robert Ancell 42 gnome-games

GNOME wins 2 Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards in 2011

27.01.2012 22:45 Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted . Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters in 2010, this is a great honor for GNOME. Linux Journal reports that “GNOME 3 represents a drastic change in the way we compute on the desktop“, and says the readers have proven “that change isn’t always a bad thing, and GNOME 3 wins!”.

GNOME 3.3.4 Development Release

27.01.2012 00:00 A little bit late due to various compilation errors, but here's another snapshot of GNOME 3.4 development! There's still a lot of flux around some core infrastructure like Clutter and the GLib menu infrastructure, but we're working hard to get it all settled and ready. Have fun! GNOME 3.3.4 Development Release =============================== To compile GNOME 3.3.4, you can the jhbuild modulesets : http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.3.4/ The release notes that describe the changes between 3.2.0 and 3.3.4 are available. Go read them to learn what's new in this release: core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.3/3.3.4/NEWS apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.3/3.3.4/NEWS The GNOME 3.3.3 release is available here: core sources - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.3/3.3.4 apps sources - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.3/3.3.4 WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of early 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 informations about 3.3, the full schedule and the official module lists, please see our colorful 3.3 page on the wiki: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/ For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule We hope you'll love it, The GNOME Release Team

GtkBuilder GMenu changes

26.01.2012 11:00 hi, I was quite fond of the XML format originally used by GMenu because it allowed for a relatively concise expression of the menus in your application. It turned out that this format didn't jive well with the rest of GtkBuilder and, particularly, the tools that we use to extract translations from our XML file formats. For this reason, the format has been changed to be brought more into line with how the rest of GtkBuilder works. In doing so, I also moved the code of the parser itself into Gtk and made it private . The GLib API for parsing menus will soon disappear. When it does, you will have to ensure that you have the new version of GTK installed. I apologise for making this change after many people have probably already written their menus in the old format. To mitigate the inconvenience, I wrote a small XSLT program that should help with the process of converting to the new format. Commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=eed307713b8ef4da5e4edf0aa8d85aa5c32a6d4f Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668696 XSLT program: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=206142 Cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Meeting Minutes Published - December 13, 2011

24.01.2012 20:00 Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111213 = Minutes for Meeting of December 13 = == Next Meeting == January 10, 2012 == Attending == * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Karen Sandler * Ryan Lortie * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === === Missing === * Bastien Nocera == Board Meeting Agenda == * Shall we have a meeting on the 27th? * In previous years the board has skipped meetings over holidays or slipped them a week when there is not much business to discuss. * Voted for skipping: unanimous. * Next meeting: January 10th, 2012. * Trademarks * Justin Colannino let us know that the GNOME brand is now trademarked. * How should we announce this? * '''ACTION''': Brian to draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark. * We need to renew the older trademarks. What email address should we use? * Should we use board< at >gnome.org? * Use legal-private? * Use both board and legal-private. * Should we proceed working with Justin? * '''ACTION''': Brian to continue working with Justin about the old trademarks. * Information on renewal should go on the wiki to act as a reminder. * Events * Desktop Summit * Any last comments about the Desktop Summit planning email to the foundation-list before it is sent out? * No further comment; Brian to send it to foundation-list * Christian Schaller asked if they can put their upcoming GStreamer hackfest information on the GNOME Hackfests website. * +1 from Shaun, Emmanuele, Stormy, Bastien, and Brian, Ryan, Germán * There was a request for more information about budgets, a tentative list of attendees as well as more detailed agenda. Especially if they are seeking any assistance with funding. * We need to let Christian know. * Karen replied to Christian * Event Box * Haikel Guemar requested €292 for GNOME Event Box expenses. Do we need more information? Is this in process? * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Shaun, Emmanuele, Ryan, Germán * Rosanna to process the reimbursment * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months. Any update? Is this still relevant? * Alberto Ruiz wants to just notify Planet bloggers and readers, establish a grace period, and then remove non-compliant feeds * '''ACTION''': Ryan to help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy. * Policy for GSoC and GWOP interns * Membership application is suggested at the end of the internship. * Have a grace period post-internship for presence on the Planet. * GUADEC papers committee * Process for gathering members of the papers committee has started. * Suggestions are welcome. * Executive Director Review * Sent to board-list. * Feedback to Karen from the Directors is appreciated. * Friends of GNOME * Accessibility campaign planning. * Update: * Well on track for the end of the week. * Third testimonial found. * Karen contacted IBM and they are re-considering their position. * Reasons that we could not have an app contest today/how to fix it? * Shift towards the application side after the shell for 3.x. * Encourage writing GNOME 3 apps. * There is no HIG 3.0 and developer documentation. * Need an app developer story first? * Documentation * HIG 3.0 is currently being drafted by Allan Day on the GNOME wiki. * Documentation Hackfest in February 2012. * Requirements first. * SDK is missing/too hard to jhbuild. * Let's wait until more pieces are in place. * Could it be worth contacting the Yorba developers to help out for the docmentation/SDK? * Should be added to a future agenda. == Completed Actions == * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money. Transferred to Karen. * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams. Transferred to Karen. * Brian - Will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list. * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review. * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers. == Status of action items == * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932. * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge. * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list. * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control. * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time. * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine. * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report. * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract. * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again. * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. * Emailed, so far no response. * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by. * Have been in touch with Gil * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile. * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising. * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes. * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey. * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward. * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference. * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul Behdad. * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising. === New Action Items === * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark. * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks. * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy. * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year. == Discussed on the mailing list == * Events * Drafting an email to start a discussion on foundation-list about the future of the Desktop Summit. * GUADEC 2012 * Planning meeting on December 12th. * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121 * Discussion with Jiří Eischmann about the fact that additional hackfests can be accommodated $25-42 USD per day, but they need to know by December the 14th. * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg00028.html * Discussion with José Félix Ontañon about promoting the "Accessibility of the libre! workstation" event. * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/WorkstationA11y2011 * Discussion about making progress on the Annual Report * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/date.html * Discussion about finding sponsors for the upcoming Friends of GNOME a11y campaign. * The board finished its report for the Q3 Quarterly Report.

Meeting Minutes Published - November 29, 2011

24.01.2012 20:00 Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111129 = Minutes for Meeting of November 29 = == Next Meeting == December 13, 2011 == Attending == * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Karen Sandler * Ryan Lortie * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance === Regrets === * Bastien Nocera * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Stormy Peters === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Flattr * Is the board agreeable to work with Flattr even though they will not provide "charitable" status ? * Karen is suggesting Flattr to update their FAQ. * Potential for other form of compensation over fees . * Approved vote for working with Flattr: +1 from Brian, Bastien, Ryan, Emmanuele. * Q3 Report * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3 * Can someone on the board provide an update? * One was not provided from the board in the last report. * '''ACTION''': Karen to provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review * World of GNOME * Next steps now that they have announced a change in direction? * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html * We should remind them about the trademark policy. * Wait and avoid coming out too strong on the new direction of the website. * Vote: Unanimous. * '''ACTION''': Karen to send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers. * ED autonomy * The GNOME Board is more hands on than other boards. * The ED could take on more tasks without involving the board. * It's hard to predict where the involvement of the board is warranted. * Proposal: when warranted, send a draft of action to the board list, and wait for feedback. * Events * Desktop Summit. * Next Steps. * Ryan talked to KDE representatives. * KDE members likes the idea of a smaller, focused event. * Not at expense of the bigger event. * Potential to attach a "mini-collaboration summit" to an existing event. * Proposal from the IRC meeting: open the floor for a discussion on foundation-list. * '''ACTION''': Brian will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list. * Hackfests * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests * There are only two Hackfests planned . There should be others like a11y, Marketing, etc. * a11y and marketing decided not to have a hackfest in Brno. * Proposals? * Usability hackfest. * Sysadmin hackfest. * !FreeWear provided a report that The GNOME Foundation has made 6 euros in October and 32.40 euros since February. Should we continue to provide this information to the GNOME Foundation community by just reporting the updates in the minutes? Perhaps we should make other arrangements that are more sensible for the future, like ask them to instead give t-shirts to people in Brazil who might be able to use them at events. * Mention the !FreeWear report once a year. * During AGM. * Friends of GNOME * Accessibility campaign planning. * Karen contacted the web team for the website . * The number suggested by A11y was 40,000 USD, which seems too high. * Target: 25/30k USD. * How do we consider monthly/yearly subscriptions? * Should we have a way for donations to be directed to specific funds? * Define a minimum/maximum amount of time for recurring subscriptions to be directed to the campaign. * Karen contacted some journalists for a press coverage. * LWN * IBM responded negatively for a donation. * Mention the campaign to the FSF. * Annual Report * We are approaching the end of the year and we should be nearing completion. * This task seems to need more effort driving it to success. * '''ACTION''': Brian will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list. == Completed Actions == * Karen - will go through the stats sent to the board list and prep them for publishing them. * Karen - to follow up with Vincent about the Google Code In * Karen - to contact Emily Chen about the state of GNOME.asia * Karen - to contact Simon Phipps about the OSI membership * Karen - to draft a summary and proposal for the Oracle advisory fee and send it to the board-list to get an official vote. * Karen - to draft a reply to the website owners, and send it to board-list. == Status of action items == * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge. * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money. * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams. Will draft an agenda. * Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control. * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time. * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine. * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report. * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract. * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again. * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. * Emailed, so far no response. * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by. * Have been in touch with Gil * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile. * Karen - To contact Pockey and negotiate the details and the salary. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Ryan - Figure out what's going on with the GTK hackfest * Ryan - To look into running a survey for foundation members about the Desktop Summit. * Ryan - Will contact Canonical for a quote for the release notes. * Ryan - To communicate with the a11y team the decisions of the board on their contract work proposal. * Ryan - To send a new draft of the email to the A11Y team about their contract proposal to board-list. * Ryan - To contact Alberto about sending mail to affected bloggers due to changes in PGO editorial policy. * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes. * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey. * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward. * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference. * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul Behdad. * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising. === New Action Items === * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list. * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review. * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers. == Discussed on the mailing list == * New Foundation Members * http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/11/18/new-foundation-members/ * Discussion about whether to move ahead with using Flattr even though they do not provide charitable status to FOSS projects. * +1 from Brian, Bastien. * The board decided to approve an additional candidate for the Womens Outreach Program. * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Germán, Shaun. * Shaun emailed Marina to notify the program about the approval. * Marina provided a press release that she wrote with Karen. * http://www.gnome.org/news/2011/11/gnome-outreach-program-for-women-participants-continue-to-impress/ * Events * GUADEC 2012 * Discussion with the organizers about putting together a sponsorship brochure. * Planning meetings on the 21st and 28th. * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121 * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1128 * Accessibility of the libre! workstation * http://etsiit.ugr.es/pages/tablon/noticias-etsiit/2011/11/25/jornada-de-accesibilidad-en-el-puesto-informatico-libre * José Félix Ontañon notified the board about this FOSS accessibility event being held in Granada on November 30, 2011. * Alejandro Leiva, Alejandro Pinheiro, and Javier Hernández from the GNOME a11y team will be participating on the panel. * The program is as follows: * 10:00 to 10:30 Opening. * 10:30 to 11:30 Panel 1: State of the art of the free accessibility * 11:30 to 12:00 Coffee break * 12:00 to 13:00 Panel 2: Successful deployments of free accessibility * 1:00pm to 2:00pm Panel 3: Room for improvements * 2:00pm to 3:00pm Lunch * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 1: A successful case study * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 2: free accessibility swot * 6:00pm to 6:30pm Closing. * Brno Hackfests * Jiří Eischmann is discussing with the board the possibility of acquiring additional space for hackfests, if needed. * Haikel Guemar requested 292€ to cover expenses relating to using the EU event box on the behalf of the GNOME booth at JDLL 2011 which was held from 18th to 19th November. * Discussion with Andrea Veri about improving the GNOME Foundation website. * Bastien responded to Marcos Diaz's email regarding his questions about the Nathive image editor possibly becoming a GNOME project. * Discussion about World of GNOME in light of their recent change of direction. * http://worldofgnome.org/ * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html * Discussion about preparing the Q3 report. * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3 * Status of sysadmin team.

Meeting Minutes Published - January 24, 2012

24.01.2012 20:00 Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120124 = Minutes for Meeting of January 24 = == Next Meeting == February 7, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Ryan Lortie * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Next Advisory Board Meeting * When shall we have the next meeting? * Proposed date: February 28th, 2012 * Topics? * Accessibility * Have a GNOME release for distribution LTS release * How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME. * '''ACTION''': Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement of the next meeting on February 28, and request for agenda topics. * Events * FOSDEM * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM. * Unanimously approved. * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y. * Our response? * In case we joined OSI, we should notify the Free Software Foundation to avoid misunderstandings. * Condition for joining should be an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom. * Even if GNOME decides not to join, should there be a clear indication of who should join? * Should we ask KDE eV for their reasons to join the OSI? * '''ACTION''': Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom and promote GNOME a11y. * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement. * '''ACTION''': Karen - Is putting together a Foundation membership certificate for Milan Bouchet-Valat. * Stormy sent the certificates used for Alberto Ruiz to board-list. * Formal process on release requirements and portability matrix changes. * We used to have the process of the external dependencies. * Was superceded by the feature proposal period. * Need to raise the issue with the release-team, and eventually bring the external dependencies process back. * '''ACTION''': Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process. * Friends of GNOME * Karen mentioned the campaign on her LCA keynote. * The Foundation needs help getting the a11y FoG banner on the website. * Bi-weekly foundation meetings. * Reguarly scheduled. * Not much momentum generated, lack of agenda topics. * '''ACTION''': Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. == Recurring Items == * Review past action items. * Did each person update their action items? * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list. * Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking. == Completed Actions == * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark. * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.Asia bidders on the Foundation budget. * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. -- Behdad won't be in Brno, so no Harfbuzz hackfest is scheduled. == Status of action items == * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932. * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge. * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time. * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine. * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report. * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract. * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again. * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. * Emailed, so far no response. * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by. * Have been in touch with Gil * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising. * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian. * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks. * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy. * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes. * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey. * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward. * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference. * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul Behdad. * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year. * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders. === New Action Items === * Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. * Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics. * Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom. * Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. * Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process. == Discussed on the mailing list == * FOSDEM * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM. * +1 from Stormy, Brian, Germán. * Women's Outreach Program * Laura Lazzati needs to drop out of the program for personal reasons. * The board agreed to pay Laura Lazzati $1,250 for work done so far. * This is half of the normal mid-point payment other GNOME Women's Outreach Program interns will get on February 1. * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y. * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.

Meeting Minutes Published - January 10, 2012

24.01.2012 20:00 Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120110 = Minutes for Meeting of January 10 = == Next Meeting == January 24, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === * Ryan Lortie === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Trademarks * New GNOME foot logo has been registered. * We need to renew the older trademarks, or let them elapse. * The new logo, by virtue of being similar to the old, can very likely protect the old logo . Copyright restrictions would also prevent the old logo's use. * Justin has withdrawn as the lawyer on record but he or SFLC should be able to help with renewals and other trademark work going forward. * Events * GNOME.Asia Summit * Planning meeting was today, just before the board meeting. * Bids received are here: * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/HkProposal * Indonesia budget is $43,574 , including $15,250 travel budget and $10,000 lodging budget for 5 days for 25 people. * Hong Kong budget is $19,285.20 to $21,650.20 with a $12,000 travel budget. * The venue is free for both events. Both events include some meal costs. Both events are planning a hackfest to coincide with the event. * What amount is the Foundation going to be able to cover? * 2010: we spent $28,148 , and received $12,000. * 2011: we spent $14,450 , and received $12,766. * $15,000 for 2012 seems reasonable. * +1 from Emmanuele, Shaun, Germán, Brian. * '''ACTION''': Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget. * '''ACTION''': Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship. * Did Behdad Esfahbod have a HarfBuzz hackfest at Brno? He indicated he would when he notified the board on December 13th. If so, we should ask him to do a write-up and add it to our Hackfest Wiki. * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. * GStreamer Hackfest * The board approved paying $3,714.90 to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs. Was Christian notified? Yes, by Karen after the vote in the email thread. * Accounts * Access to things like our Amazon affiliates store was raised as a discussion point on the list. * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-January/msg00010.html * Need some sort of process to decide who should get access? * Access should be restricted, as the account contain sensitive and financial data. * Password owners should be listed in the Board private wiki. * The Board should be notified of changes. * '''ACTION''': Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders. * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011. Was this taken care of? * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-December/msg00221.html * In progress. * Friends of GNOME * Status. * Next steps for a11y campaign. * The banner is still missing, due to sysadmin issues. * Visibility in the press, but not much on the GNOME website. * Need to get more visibility on Board members blogs. * The a11y hackfest report would give another push to the campaign. * Karen circulated a proposal about how to improve the process for earmarked fund raising * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-October/msg00213.html * Karen talked to Christian about a GStreamer UK org and the Foundation role. * Christian agreed to review Karen's proposal . * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed. * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy. * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months. Any update? Is this still relevant? * Ryan is going to write a script to cross-reference the current foundation members with the PGO membership, and Alberto will prepare an announcement. * Bastien visited the GUADEC 2012 venue in La Coruña. * Venue and accommodation. == Completed Actions == * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list. * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile. == Status of action items == * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932. * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge. * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark. * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks. * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control. * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time. * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine. * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report. * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract. * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again. * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. * Emailed, so far no response. * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by. * Have been in touch with Gil * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising. * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy. * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes. * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings. * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey. * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward. * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference. * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul Behdad. * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year. * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising. === New Action Items === * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget. * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship. * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders. == Discussed on the mailing list == * Membership Renewals * Verify to make sure you know when your membership needs renewal. * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-January/msg00007.html * Events * ATK and AT-SPI Hackfest 2012 Planning * 18 - 22 January ~ A Coruña, Galicia * https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfests/ATK2012 * The board approved $6,150 in travel expenses for this event. * GStreamer Hackfest * The board approved paying $3,714.90 to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs. Was Christian notified? * Desktop Summit Planning * Discussion started on foundation-list. * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-December/msg00013.html * Behdad Esfahbod notified the board that he and Jonathan Kew planned a HarfBuzz Mini Hackfest at Brno. * The board approved covering Diego Escalante Urrelo's visa reimbursement for the WebKitGTK+ hackfest. * Legal * The GNOME Foundation New Foot Logo has now been trademarked. Reg. No. 4063108) filed November 29, 2011. * GNOME word mark needs to be renewed. Working with the lawyers to move forward on this. * Friends of GNOME * Planning for upcoming a11y Friends of GNOME campaign. * Should we say anything about our working with FSF or other partners? * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011. * Finishing up the Q3 Report. * Karen contacted Christian Schaller to let him know that The GNOME Foundation is wanting to support the upcoming GStreamer hackfest. * Working to help provide and improve content for the GNOME Foundation website update. * Discussion about how to improve the "free software" message on GNOME websites.

Issue 167

21.01.2012 00:45 This week… 1782 commits, in 171 projects, by 230 happy hackers . Philip Chimento converted Devhelp from IgeMacIntegration to GtkOSXApplication, a change necessary to build on 64-bit Macs . In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew used some to made password prompts work properly . In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei continued working on unfocused window appearance, styling radio, checks, sliders, progressbars and scrollbars. Juan A. Suarez Romero updated the shoutcast plugin in grilo-plugins to the SHOUTCast 2.0 API. Zeeshan Ali added some UI to gnome-boxes for specifying product key . Alexander Larsson added support for unlinking contacts to gnome-contacts. Jakub Steiner updated gnome-color-manager colorimeter artwork. Alex Murray added automatic dimming / toggling to keyboard backlight to gnome-settings-daemon power plugin. Work on the Firebird provider, by Faghmie Davids, was pushed into libgda. In Evince Cyril Soldani added an option to show odd pages on the left in dual mode. Andreas J. Guelzow fixed LaTeX export of cyrillic in Gnumeric . In Rygel Jens Georg added hacks for XBMC to recognize DLNA mime-types as AAC for AAC files. Robert Roth contributed to gnome-system-monitor a patch to summarize the processor cores to be able to display sysinfo for multi-core systems with more than 13 cores . Christian Persch added a lock button the the drwright break window . Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 240 tracker 109 gnome-contacts 80 evolution 77 glib 57 cogl 56 libgda 45 epiphany 36 gimp 35 gdk-pixbuf 34 Top authors Author Commits Modules Benjamin Otte 110 gtk+ Alexander Larsson 80 gnome-contacts, gtk+ Matthias Clasen 73 gdk-pixbuf, gtk+, glib and others Aleksander Morgado 45 tracker Neil Roberts 43 cogl Bastien Nocera 40 gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, jhbuild and others Marek Černocký 39 gnome-commander, gnote, libgda and others Carlos Garnacho 37 gtk+, tracker Rui Matos 36 gtk+ Daniel Mustieles 34 evolution, conglomerate, file-roller and others

Issue 168

21.01.2012 00:45 This week… 1842 commits, in 176 projects, by 213 happy hackers . Kai Willadsen changed meld to draw the currently displayed page area in the DiffMap . In Eog Felix Riemann made EXIF/XMP summaries available as a sidebar . Xavier Claessens added Windows Live oauth2 support to gnome-online-accounts . Claudio Saavedra combined the Reload and Stop toolbar buttons of Epiphany into a single one . Cosimo Cecchi did work on gnome-documents new application menu. In Evolution Milan Crha made it possible to decrypt GPG mails with anonymous recipient set . Jonathan Matthew added extdb, a database for storing external metadata , to Rhythmbox. Stef Walter added system prompt and prompter to gcr. Giovanni Campagna reintroduced Wanda The Fish into gnome-shell. Jeffrey Stedfast fixed gmime with regards to multibyte sequences split between two rfc2047 tokens. Yasumichi Akahoshi changed Zenity documentation to use Mallard, and did new and updated screenshots to go along. In Banshee Bertrand Lorentz added a button to go back to the list of audiobooks . Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 296 longomatch 103 glib 57 gnome-themes-standard 51 anjuta 42 empathy 41 gnome-contacts 41 ostree 38 evolution 36 gnome-games 36 Top authors Author Commits Modules Matthias Clasen 113 gtk+, glib, gnome-shell and others Andoni Morales Alastruey 101 longomatch Rui Matos 80 gtk+, gnome-themes-standard Xandru Armesto 79 gnome-power-manager, gnome-panel, gvfs and others Ryan Lortie 68 gtk+, glib, gnome-games and others Colin Walters 63 ostree, gtk+, gnome-shell and others Daniel Mustieles 57 gnome-commander, file-roller, empathy and others Alexander Larsson 55 gnome-contacts, glib Lapo Calamandrei 45 gnome-themes-standard, gnome-icon-theme-symbolic Stef Walter 42 gcr, gnome-keyring, seahorse and others

Issue 169

21.01.2012 00:45 This week… 803 commits, in 123 projects, by 135 happy hackers . Emmanuele Bassi added a special diagnostic mode to Clutter, to be used to mark deprecated virtual functions and other run-time constructs. John Ralls pushed the conversion of gtk-mac-integration to the gobject-introspectable structure. In libchamplain Jiří Techet added a Python champlain-gtk demo with markers, thanks to Nicolas Évrard. Vivien Malerba improved the timestamp entry widget of libgda. Zeeshan Ali added a sound card device to VMs of gnome-boxes. In Orca Joanmarie Diggs had various event manager improvements. Murray Cumming improved the “Related Choices” Glom field to allow the user to specify a sort order. Sergey V. Udaltsov fixed rendering of the layout list in the “add layout” popup of gnome-control-center region panel. In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported iagno from C to Vala. Dov Grobgeld introduced initial remote control of giv through jsonrpc. In goffice Andreas J. Guelzow fixed chinese number rendering. Morten Welinder updated gnumeric to handle unicode signs better. In glib Ravi Sankar Guntur fixed the handling of ‘\v’ in g_strescape and g_strcompress . Top projects Project Commits gtk+ 129 gnome-games 99 glib 34 gimp 32 glom 27 vala 24 gnumeric 20 cheese 19 gedit 17 gcompris 15 Top authors Author Commits Modules Benjamin Otte 64 gtk+ Robert Ancell 59 gnome-games Carlos Garnacho 33 gtk+ Matthias Clasen 24 glib, gtk+, gdk-pixbuf Muhammet Kara 24 gimp, almanah, alleyoop and others Murray Cumming 22 glom Yaron Shahrabani 21 gnome-games, epiphany, zenity and others Luca Bruno 21 vala Morten Welinder 20 gnumeric, goffice Mario Blättermann 18 gimp, gnome-system-monitor, glabels and others

Issue 166

20.01.2012 21:30 This week… 1703 commits, in 159 projects, by 210 happy hackers . Steven Carr introduced support for the VNC audio tunnel extension to gtk-vnc. Bastien Nocera updated gnome-settings-daemon to use libwacom to get tablets metadata. A new “Change Passphrase” dialog was added to gnome-disk-utility by David Zeuthen. Lapo Calamandrei did work on the unfocused windows appearance in gnome-themes-standard. Jasper St. Pierre added a RSS feed to the extensions.gnome.org website. Various client side wayland support updates by Robert Bragg made their way into cogl. Paolo Bacchilega modified gthumb “edit metadata” dialog to allow saving the metadata without closing the dialog. In gnome-boxes Zeeshan Ali made various improvements to the express installation of Fedora and Windows VM . In Orca Joanmarie Diggs began work on label inference functionality for WebKitGtk content. Zan Dobersek contributed a fix to gnome-shell to make sure the window labels are visible at all times . GMenu* support has landed into GLib. In GTK+ Cosimo Cecchi ported GtkStatusIcon to use GtkIconHelper . Top projects Project Commits cogl 143 glib 121 clutter 100 gtk+ 97 gimp 74 tracker 46 glom 41 nautilus-actions 38 evolution-kolab 35 ostree 34 Top authors Author Commits Modules Matthias Clasen 81 glib, gtk+, byzanz Robert Bragg 75 cogl, clutter Neil Roberts 68 cogl Emmanuele Bassi 61 clutter Ryan Lortie 58 glib, gtk+, dconf and others Daniel Mustieles 44 gnome-commander, evolution, gthumb and others Morten Welinder 40 goffice, libgsf, gnumeric Murray Cumming 40 glom Colin Walters 38 ostree, glib, mutter Jens Georg 35 rygel, gupnp, gssdp and others