Gnome Summary January 11 - January 17, 2004

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-01-10 - 2004-01-17
    
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Table of Contents
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1. Blam! Blam!
2. Get acquainted with Gstreamer
3. GNOME-Network developers think about a code reorganisation
4. GNOME Volume Manager lands in CVS
5. Planner gets support libgda
6. Errata from Last Week's GNOME Summary
7. Hacker Activity
8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
9. New and Updated Software

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1. Blam! Blam!
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Mikael Hallendal has been furiously hacking on his new project called
"Blam!", 
a RSS Aggregator for GNOME. He has already made two releases, and he
claims 
"Yeah I know, BLAM! is no longer just an Application, it's becoming a
Life 
Style!". Blam requires Mono and GTK# to be installed in your machine. 
Great work by Mikael - and maybe now everyone can watch what the GNOME
hackers 
are doing by having their blogs right on their desktops, in a neatly
organised 
manner. A satisfied Blam! user comments - "Before BLAM!, I was like a
lost 
sheep in the GNOME world. But after installing BLAM!, I know what
everyone is 
doing, including the super-famous Robert Love!" ;-) 

        http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/000104.html
        http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/blam-0.1-1.html

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2. Get acquainted with Gstreamer
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Get familiarised with one of the most cool components of the GNOME
Desktop. 
Christian Schaller has written a very nice introductory article on
Gstreamer, 
explaining what it is, and what it is supposed to do. (I hear that even
the KDE 
hackers are thinking about gstreamer - good for them). :-) 

        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5648

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3. GNOME-Network developers think about a code reorganisation
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The GNOME Network hackers are thinking about the separation of the
various 
tools in their own CVS modules, with their own releases and maintainers.
This 
will avoid having GNOME Network being a giant, unmaintainable module.
They are 
also considering merging the remote shell client with GNOME terminal,
making 
the remote desktop client better integrated into the desktop and making
the 
Personal Web Server an extension to Nautilus, so a 'Share' menu item
shows up 
in the Nautilus context menu for folders. 

        http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/news.php?14/January/2004

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4. GNOME Volume Manager lands in CVS
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Robert Love has transferred the code for GNOME Volume Manager into the
GNOME 
CVS. The GNOME Volume Manager is a simple GNOME daemon that acts as a
policy 
agent on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel,
hotplug, 
udev, and HAL. GNOME Volume Manager listens for HAL events and responds
with 
user-configurable reactions. 
RML has also created a few RPMs for Fedora Core, and you can give it a
spin, 
keeping in mind that these are really bleeding edge, there will be
bugs. 

        http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/blog/archives/000315.html
        http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/project_utopia/fedora/

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5. Planner gets support libgda
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Alvaro del Castillo has committed his work in replacing the code that
accesses 
postgres directly with libgda allowing Planner (formerly known as Mr.
Project) 
to use any kind of database that libgda supports. 
Planner is a tool for planning, scheduling and tracking projects.
Planner is an 
open source project targetting the GNOME Desktop. 

        http://planner.imendio.org

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6. Errata from Last Week's GNOME Summary
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Just want to correct last week's story regarding the interview with
Ximian 
folks. The CTO of Ximian is Miguel de Icaza not Chris Stone. 

        http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2004_January04-
January10.html#2

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8. 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: 10662 (In the last week: New: 731, Resolved: 517,
Difference: 
+214)

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

  nautilus: 755 (In the last week: New: 66, Resolved: 27, Difference:
+39)
  gtk+: 648 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 18, Difference: +9)
  control-center: 271 (In the last week: New: 35, Resolved: 21,
Difference: +14)
  gnome-vfs: 247 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 4, Difference: +1)
  GnuCash: 225 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 6, Difference: +5)
  gnome-panel: 205 (In the last week: New: 30, Resolved: 20, Difference:
+10)
  gnome-applets: 162 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 12,
Difference: +11)
  galeon: 144 (In the last week: New: 33, Resolved: 34, Difference: -1)
  GIMP: 133 (In the last week: New: 37, Resolved: 47, Difference: -10)
  gnome-terminal: 131 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 0,
Difference: +12)
  epiphany: 130 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 18, Difference:
+9)
  dia: 125 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 9, Difference: -5)
  balsa: 123 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 3, Difference: +5)
  sawfish: 119 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  GStreamer: 112 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 6, Difference:
+10)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  hadess hadess net: 42 bugs closed.
  gnome flowerday cx: 24 bugs closed.
  poobar nycap rr com: 20 bugs closed.
  paolo bacch tin it: 18 bugs closed.
  chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 15 bugs closed.
  bolsh gimp org: 14 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 13 bugs closed.
  chris rebelbase com: 12 bugs closed.
  sven gimp org: 12 bugs closed.
  padraig obriain sun com: 12 bugs closed.
  alexl redhat com: 11 bugs closed.
  readams hmc edu: 11 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 10 bugs closed.
  xkahn zoned net: 9 bugs closed.
  murrayc usa net: 9 bugs closed.
  
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7. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 146 evolution
 117 gpdf
 100 gimp
 77 gnucash
 65 gdesklets
 51 evolution-data-server
 48 gnome-commander
 45 epiphany
 43 conglomerate
 43 gnome-control-center
 42 balsa
 41 gtk+
 40 nautilus
 35 gnome-applets
 35 galeon
 33 gnome-panel
 32 gnumeric
 32 yelp
 31 gtkmathview
 30 gnome-vfs
[181 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 182 laurenti
 116 adrighem
 108 kmaraas
 77 danilo
 73 rcoscali
 70 mitr
 57 rodrigo
 54 pycage
 54 serrador
 50 warlord (gnucash)
 49 redfox
 48 jpr
 45 marbj
 43 cwryu
 35 chpe
 35 aflinta
 35 markmc
 34 alastairmck
 32 fejj
 31 PeterB
[186 active hackers omitted]


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9. New and Updated Software
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GtkDatabox  - Fast display of numerical data
General Applet Interface Library  - Library simplifies applet
development
BananaPos  - Point Of Sale
GNOME Database widgets library  - GNOME Database Widgets library
GNOME Database Access library  - GNOME Database Access library
gDeskCal  - desktop calendar
Gretools vocabulary builder  - Vocabulary building tool for GNOME
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
gnome-vim  - Vim bonobo component.
gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
sussen  - Sussen is a security scanner
File Roller  - Archive Manager
Pigeon CD Recorder  - A Gnome2 CD Recorder
GNOME Desktop Themes  - GNOME desktop themes
gtk copy-paste buffer  - gtk copy-paste buffer
GNOME Commander  - File manager
gURLChecker  - Graphic web links checker
Shermans aquarium  - Swimming fish applet

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php

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