Six months of work. Here's the result:
I'm happy to be part of our community. And proud. Because we're rocking, and GNOME 2.22 is the best proof of this! Congratulations everybody, and don't forget to eat ice cream to celebrate this release!
GNOME Foundation happenings
A bit later than expected, but they're finally here: the GNOME Foundation annual report for 2007 and the GNOME Foundation budget for 2008.
I won't write too much about the annual report since Lucas, Federico and others already blogged about them. It's really nice to have such a document that summarizes many of the things that happened last year. Congratulations to Lucas for leading this effort and to everybody who contributed some text, photos, design and proofreading time! For the 2008 report, I guess we'll probably try to start the work a bit earlier so that it can be released earlier too (December/January).
Also, at the end of last year, I started working on a budget for 2008. Not that I'm good at this kind of job, but I was treasurer at this time. Dave helped me write a first version, and it got reworked a few times until mid-January. So, it's released two months too late, according to me, but I can only blame myself for not pushing harder and for not finding more time :-) What's in this budget? Well, here are some highlights, related to things that are important to me:
- we've allocated money for hackfests. The GTK+ hackfest is going strong, with lots of action happening right now in Berlin, and so I'm even more convinced now that we need to do more small hackfests on specific topics. More news to come on this topic, hopefully.
- there's quite some money allocated for some local groups and events. It's been hard to prepare the budget there since it's hard for local groups to know how much money they'll need during the whole year. Still good, though: I think we'll be spending more money on this than any year before, which is good.
- we're planning to support the Latin America tour that Diego proposed last year. It's still in the planning stages, but it should get more attention in the next few months :-)
- there's the sysadmin job in there. Right now, we're trying to not go crazy and we're thinking of starting small, with a part-time job. It's still a work in progress, but I really hope we'll make it happen.
Of course, there are other interesting things in this budget, but I'll let you have a look at it!
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Tuesday 11 March 2008
Getting ready for releasing GNOME 2.22.0
I was going to write a post about how everybody can help with smoketesting GNOME 2.22.0, but Olav has been faster. Yeah, this guy can be annoying, he's always doing things a few minutes before you ;-) Fortunately, he didn't explain what smoketesting is, so I still have something to talk about. And if you're a maintainer of a GNOME module, read on too: we need your help to check at least one thing.
The smoketesting step is one of the last steps before the actual release: we build the whole GNOME stack from scratch and play with it for a while to be sure that there's no big last-minute bug or crasher. It should help catch the major problems in a release. We're doing this step for all stable and unstable release, but it's of course more important to do it right for stable releases, especially the .0 releases since we're trying hard to make crash-free and regression-free releases. The good thing here is that everybody can help with smoketesting. We have some smoketesting documentation if you want to help. This documentation should guide you through all the steps needed to smoketest GNOME 2.22.0. It was a bit outdated so I quickly updated it, so if there's some error, tell the release team about it, or leave a comment here. Alternatively, if you're an expert, you can simply read Olav's post which should be just what you need.
We also need help from maintainers: all of you should make sure that the versions file for 2.22.0 contains the right version for your modules. You'll notice that a few modules still have a 2.21 release as the latest one: evolution-webcal, file-roller, gnome-icon-theme, libgnomekbd and sabayon. We might still be able to use a 2.22.0 release for those modules if it doesn't come out too late. Contact the release team by mail or on IRC if you need help to release them.
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Tuesday 4 March 2008
MoFo and GNOME
Our friends at Mozilla love us and we also love them. It's been a really good relationship for years now. So, at the end of last year, when Chris started working at the Mozilla Corporation, we quickly started talking about what we can do together. Mozilla and GNOME have lots of things in common. Technical things, of course, but also, and that's way more important, our communities both share some values, like freedom and innovation. Therefore the GNOME Foundation invited the Mozilla Foundation to join our advisory board, and we also discussed various cooperation ideas. One of the result of those discussions is the GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility (which Google, Canonical and Novell later joined as sponsors), something we're really proud of.
As a summary, we've been making our collaboration a bit more official, and we're playing with new ideas! And we've finally announced all this. Okay, this was not a secret since quite some time (Chris talked about it back in January, eg) ;-) Welcome to the advisory board, MoFo, and I'm glad we'll be able to do a lot of cool things together!
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Two planets, two mailing lists
Woohoo, I've progressed in my quest to rule the world. Oh, those are secret plans, I shouldn't talk about them here, I guess. Anyway, I got added to Planet freedesktop.org and Planet SUSE. Hi there! Since I still didn't enter the aggressive mode for another secret plan (you know, the one about making french the only true language), only the english posts should show there. Yeah, I know, it's a bit sad... Did I hear someone say "yay, less blog entries from this guy?" ;-)
So, today, I want to tell you about two new freedesktop.org mailing lists which should be of interest to at least some people: ftp-release and distributions.
The goal of the first one is to be the place where announces of new releases for projects hosted by freedesktop.org should go. It seems a good idea since, for example, nobody knows when a new desktop-file-utils release is out and so it doesn't get packaged anywhere. I'd love to see some Xorg announces there, and also some telepathy, poppler, swfdec, etc. announces. You can simply cc the list if you still want to send the announces to your development mailing list. It would help make the world a better place, at least for some packagers, I guess. Sure, tt's not perfect since right now, maintainers need to write the mail themselves, but maybe at some point in the future, we'll be able to improve the freedesktop.org infrastructure and get this done automatically in some way.
The distributions list is an interesting project to get some cross-distribution collaboration. It's not about which one is better?
or some other totally cool debate, but really about some low-level topics that could help improve the overall quality of distributions. Oh, and it's distributions as in free software distributions
, not as in Linux or GNU/Linux distributions
, so everybody is welcome, including our friends working on OpenSolariis, *BSD, etc. Lucas, who pushed for the creation of this list, has more details about it. I'm happy because this mailing list will make it possible for me to start working on another (small) secret plan that could be interesting to many distributions.
Hrm, maybe I have too many secret plans? I guess I'll just postpone a bit the one about ruling the world... Anyway, everybody, go subscribe to those two lists. I know you'll feel empty if you don't do so now.
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