GNOME Summary February 1 - February 7, 2004

From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>
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Subject: GNOME Summary February 1 - February 7, 2004
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:29:55 -0800

This week's GNOME Summary

This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-02-01 - 2004-02-07
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Desktop & Developer platform 2.4.2 released
2. GNOME Development Release 2.5.3: "That and a pair of testicles"
3. Reminder GUADEC 2004 Call for Papers
4. Epiphany Extensions 0.7 Released
5. Rhythmbox 0.70 Development Release
6. Gstreamer 0.7.4 "Wooden Eels" Released
7. Sound Juicer "Highest Grade Mk 2" 0.5.10.1 Released
8. Vino imported into GNOME CVS
9. GNOME System Tools 0.32.0 Released
10. Major Changes to Jhbuild
11. Solutions Linux Gnome Exhibit in Paris Redux
12. Thanks from Gnome Summary
13. Hacker Activity
14. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity

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1. GNOME Desktop & Developer platform 2.4.2 released
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The new point release of the stable GNOME 2.4 series have been released. 
Congratulations to the GNOME team, who consists of translators, documentors, 
bug hunters, maintainers, and all of you who have contributed your time and 
effort in improving GNOME through your feedback. 

        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.4/2.4.2/sources/

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2. GNOME Development Release 2.5.3: "That and a pair of testicles"
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A new version of the Development release of GNOME is ready for testing! 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00007.html

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3. Reminder GUADEC 2004 Call for Papers
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David Neary would like to remind the GNOME community that the closing date for 
submitting abstracts is only a couple weeks away. If you have an interesting 
item that you would like to present at GUADEC now is a good time to start 
planning it. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00005.html
        http://guadec.org/

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4. Epiphany Extensions 0.7 Released
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Epiphany Extensions is released. This release includes, a sample extension so 
you can write your own, popup blocker, mouse gestures, certificate viewer, and 
a lot more. If you're interested in extending Epiphany with more features. 
Check this out! 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00006.html

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5. Rhythmbox 0.70 Development Release
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Colin Walters has released the development version of Rhythmbox. This versions 
adds a lot of features and bug fixes. It requires the recently released version 
of Gstreamer 0.7.4 in order to compile it. Please try it out and send in bug 
reports! 
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by 
Apple's iTunes. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2004-February/msg00044.html
        http://www.rhythmbox.org

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6. Gstreamer 0.7.4 "Wooden Eels" Released
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The Gstreamer team have released their next version of their modular media 
framework software. The 0.7 series is a development release and is aimed at 
developers. This release contains many new features and bug releases including 
reworked error notification and a new element capabilities system. The 
capabilities system allows developers to write bug free features like video 
resizing amongst other things. 
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling 
components, ranging from simple mp3 playback to complex audio (mixing) and 
video (non-linear editing) processing. 

        http://www.freedesktop.org/~gstreamer/releases/gstreamer/0.7.4.html

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7. Sound Juicer "Highest Grade Mk 2" 0.5.10.1 Released
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Ross Burton has released a new version of Sound Juicer. Some nice features 
include adding estimated duration and ripping speeds for those of you who are 
time conscious. For those who've been trying to corner Ross into admitting that 
his release name are weird, well he admits that too. 
Sound Juicer is a GNOME2 CD Ripper. 

        http://www.burtonini.com/computing/sound-juicer-0.5.10.tar.gz

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8. Vino imported into GNOME CVS
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Mark McLoughlin recently imported a project he's been working on called Vino. 
Vino adds remote desktop functionality using the RFB protocol commonly used as 
VNC. Vino distinguishes itself from the other VNC servers out there by being 
integrated with GNOME and adding security features. It also lets you export the 
current desktop. 

        
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=vino/docs/remote-desktop.txt

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9. GNOME System Tools 0.32.0 Released
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A new release of GNOME System Tools is out. UI Polish and bug fixes, and adding 
support for PLD 1.1 and 1.99 are the highlights for this release. 

        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/0.32/

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10. Major Changes to Jhbuild
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James Henstridge, author of jhbuild, has checked in a lot of new features into 
jhbuild. Jhbuild now has a GUI that you can launch. Unattended building with a 
HTML page giving a summary of how to build went, a build environment sanity 
check, and some modifications so that you can load module information through 
the web. Building Gnome2 from CVS will be a whole lot easier now. Additionally, 
these changes paves the way to daily snapshots of Gnome to share. 
jhbuild is a build system written in python similar to other build systems like 
CVSGnome 

        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/files/jhbuild-tbox/

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11. Solutions Linux Gnome Exhibit in Paris Redux
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Pictures and also a short blurb on how the Solutions Linux GNOME booth went. It 
looked like a lot of excitement and fun during the conference explaining Gnome 
to the French corporate world. Thanks again to all who spent time and energy in 
making the booth a success. Gael Chamoulaud (strider) has written GNOME 
Marketing brochure written in French that was given out at the booth. 

        http://www.advogato.org/person/sdodji/
        http://www.gnome.org/~strider/photos/SolutionsLinux2004
        http://www.gnomefr.org/apropos/pourquoi_gnome.pdf
        http://redfox.redfoxcenter.org/gallery/SolutionsGNULinux2004?page=1

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12. Thanks from Gnome Summary
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I'd like to thank everyone who responded to our call for developers! We're 
feeling a lot of love out there for GNOME and for it's goal. We really 
appreciate it! It also tells us that there is a lot of people out there who 
would like to be involved. We hope to involve as many people as we can with 
GNOME whether you're a technical or non-technical or an ordinary user. 


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14. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
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This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature 
reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, 
subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 10678 (In the last week: New: 719, Resolved: 652, Difference: 
+67)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): 

  nautilus: 739 (In the last week: New: 63, Resolved: 40, Difference: +23)
  gtk+: 637 (In the last week: New: 37, Resolved: 50, Difference: -13)
  control-center: 263 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 21, Difference: -4)
  gnome-vfs: 253 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 10, Difference: 0)
  GnuCash: 221 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 3, Difference: +5)
  gnome-panel: 215 (In the last week: New: 32, Resolved: 30, Difference: +2)
  gnome-applets: 159 (In the last week: New: 35, Resolved: 50, Difference: -15)
  galeon: 146 (In the last week: New: 31, Resolved: 38, Difference: -7)
  GStreamer: 137 (In the last week: New: 36, Resolved: 29, Difference: +7)
  dia: 130 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 3, Difference: +6)
  balsa: 126 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 1, Difference: +4)
  GIMP: 124 (In the last week: New: 51, Resolved: 69, Difference: -18)
  balsa: 126 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 1, Difference: +4)
  GIMP: 124 (In the last week: New: 51, Resolved: 69, Difference: -18)
  sawfish: 119 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  gnome-terminal: 113 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 10, Difference: 0)
  rhythmbox: 112 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 19, Difference: +8)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  sven gimp org: 32 bugs closed.
  gnome flowerday cx: 32 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 31 bugs closed.
  martin wehner epost de: 24 bugs closed.
  padraig obriain sun com: 22 bugs closed.
  vincent vuntz net: 21 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 21 bugs closed.
  kfv101 psu edu: 19 bugs closed.
  bugsqueesher yahoo com: 15 bugs closed.
  jody gnome org: 14 bugs closed.
  walters verbum org: 13 bugs closed.
  quinet gamers org: 13 bugs closed.
  walters verbum org: 13 bugs closed.
  quinet gamers org: 13 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 13 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 12 bugs closed.
  bill haneman sun com: 12 bugs closed.
  
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13. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 110 evolution
 72 gtk+
 68 gimp
 64 evolution-data-server
 55 gnome-applets
 41 gdesklets
 40 galeon
 40 epiphany
 39 rhythmbox
 36 jhbuild
 35 gnome-panel
 33 gnome-games
 33 muine
 33 gucharmap
 32 nautilus
 32 balsa
 30 dasher
 30 gnucash
 27 epiphany-extensions
 27 librsvg
[212 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 167 delacko
 149 laurenti
 59 mitr
 46 alastairmck
 41 fejj
 37 rodrigo
 35 rundll32
 34 pycage
 33 jbaayen
 33 chpe
 30 jamesh
 30 serrador
 28 matthiasc
 28 cwryu
 28 markmc
 27 cneumair
 25 walters
 25 adrighem
 24 olau
 24 aihana
[189 active hackers omitted]


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