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GNOME Summary May 30 - July 21

This is the GNOME Summary for May 30 - July 21, 2000.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  StarOffice to join GNOME
 2)  Join the initial GNOME Foundation membership
 3)  GTK+ Preview Release
 4)  Development tutorials and information
 5)  Evolution preview release
 6)  pkg-config
 7)  Inti preview release
 8)  WM Spec versions
 9)  Web browsers
 10)  Hacking Activity
 11)  New and Updated Software

You're probably wondering where the summary has been; basically I got
busy, stressed, etc. and just wasn't feeling up to it. However I'll
try to do them regularly again going forward (though it may not be
once per week; I'm considering one per 10 days or 2 weeks or so).

In any case, there's a lot of stuff that's happened recently, I'll try
to just hit some highlights.

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 1)  StarOffice to join GNOME

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The exciting announcement of the month is that Sun will be joining the
GNOME community with their newly-GPLed StarOffice project. Most of the
details remain to be seen; for example, we don't know how this will
impact the various components of GNOME Office. Certainly we'll try to
minimize duplicated effort when possible.

Hopefully everyone will welcome the Sun engineers as they join the
project.

You can read more here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/964019206/index_html

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 2)  Join the initial GNOME Foundation membership

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In order to create a GNOME Foundation, we need an initial list of
voting members. To be a member of the foundation, you only need to
consider yourself an active member of the GNOME community; if you
contribute translations, documentation, code, art, advice, or
whatever, and you keep up with GNOME happenings, we'd like you to join
the foundation.

To this end the steering committee decided to create a CVS module
"gnome-foundation", containing the file "membership.txt". This is the
canonical list of members of the GNOME Foundation. Anyone with CVS
access should feel free to add themselves to this file; please include
your full name, your email address, and a short blurb about your role
in GNOME:

 Dan Mueth <d-mueth@no_spam.uchicago.edu>  (GDP leader)
 Bart Decrem <bart@no_spam.eazel.com>      (Eazel, helping organize the foundation)
 Jim Gettys  <example@dontknowhisaddress.com> (original X author, spiritual advisor)

etc. If you use munging to avoid spam please use "no_spam", so everyone 
has the same anti-spam and we can easily remove it via perl script.

If you don't have CVS access, send mail to the ad hoc membership
committee (Dan Mueth and Maciej Stachowiak) including your name, email
address, and involvement with GNOME. They'll add you to the CVS
module. You can reach Dan and Maciej at membership@gnome.org.

The initial membership of the foundation will be responsible for
electing the first board of directors for the foundation; we hope to
have a vote in the coming weeks.

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 3)  GTK+ Preview Release

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It's been decided that the next version of GTK+ will be called GTK+
2.0 (not 1.4, which was the previously-planned version). The unstable
prerelease series will be 1.3.x, and the first in that series is now
available.  Owen's announcement includes details on the features of
GTK+ 2.0:

  http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gtk-list/2000-July/022410.html
  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963685850/index_html

The final release is expected in a timeframe on the order of "2-3
months".  The feature list is more or less already frozen, though all
the features aren't in place yet. Now is also a good time to bring up 
small changes or enhancements on gtk-devel-list@gnome.org.

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 4)  Development tutorials and information

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Glade/Python:

  http://linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article160.shtml

Intro to GNOME programming:

  http://www.linuxprogramming.com/news/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-12-001-03-ID-UU-UU

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 5)  Evolution preview release

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Another Evolution preview, see here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963451511/index_html

This one is almost usable, Jonathan is using it daily to read to his
mail. He's not using it to _send_ mail, because it segfaults,
but... you can't have everything. ;-)

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 6)  pkg-config

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We're hoping to move most of the libraries we use to a new
"pkg-config" system in the near future. This is similar to
gnome-config, but will come as a separate package so we can use it
with glib/GTK+ without creating a circular dependency. Also, it has
some features gnome-config lacks.

You can find the pkg-config source code here:

  http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net/
 
The CVS version has a rewrite of the shell script in C, which makes
configure run a lot faster, and makes it easier to add features and
maintain the program.

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 7)  Inti preview release

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I released a preview of the Inti C++ framework, you can find it on the
Inti web site:

 http://sources.redhat.com/inti/

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 8)  WM Spec versions

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There are new versions of the Window Manager Specification here:
 http://www.freedesktop.org

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 9)  Web browsers

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People are into writing small web browsers. The Nautilus file manager
will embed either GtkHTML or Mozilla; then we have Galeon, which
embeds Mozilla, and Encompass, which embeds GtkHTML.

Encompass:
  http://zephyr.webhop.net/encompass.html

Galeon: 
 http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963929254/index_html

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 10)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary)

1457 nautilus
 979 evolution
 353 gnome-vfs
 274 gnumeric
 233 gtkhtml
 223 gtk+
 221 balsa
 220 gimp
 203 gedit
 193 gnome-libs
 189 guppi3
 189 gnome-db
 159 gphoto2
 128 medusa
 127 gnome-i18n
 126 pan
 102 gnome-utils
 101 bonobo
  94 gernel
  82 achtung
  78 gnomeweb-wml
  68 gnomeicu
  66 gtranslator
  65 gnome-core
  62 gnome-admin-tools
  62 glib
  60 grapevine
  59 gnome-applets
  59 eog
  59 dia
  56 ammonite

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary)

 603 darin
 294 kmaraas
 241 ettore
 233 frob
 203 jirka
 201 danw
 187 scottf
 173 kabalak
 159 minmax
 157 rodrigo
 156 trow
 156 ramiro
 151 clahey
 143 fejj
 138 chema
 136 andy
 131 sullivan
 128 jody
 126 pepper
 125 owen
 122 mstachow
 118 peterw
 117 eskil
 115 rodo
 110 mmeeks
 109 pce
 101 charles
  85 rasta
  82 federico
  78 hp
  73 gzr
  72 fritz
  71 bratislav
  68 rebecka

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 11)  New and Updated Software

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Software since the last summary.

[elided due to huge time since last summary :-) ]

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next time - 

Havoc
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