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Commit Digests

20:38 - GNOME

After several months on hiatus, then some January evenings to process the backlog, I am happy to have the commit digests back to the present day.

What now? I'll try to get back to the weekly updates, whatever the weather.

Of course you can help; whenever you see a noteworthy commit, whenever you make a noteworthy commit, just send me an email, or ping me on IRC, this will help me, and could also bring other perspectives on what constitutes a “noteworthy” commit. And if you love the commit digests, if you have time on your hands, you can help extending the projects to new heights, got an interest in statistics? got an interest in interviews? there's a place for you.

Happy reading!

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Montreal Summit 2011

1:35 - GNOME

The date came late, and it was definitely not at the best time wrt some projets at work, but I decided to go nevertheless, and have to give my thanks to the GNOME Foundation, and the travel committee, for quickly accepting when I asked for sponsorship.

Probably because of the short notice it felt like some important teams didn't have enough representation, and while this gave ample place for some topics (building gnome!) I wish we had enough teams for a roundup of the different aspects of GNOME. On the positive side this wide cooperation is happening in the mailing list discussion on freezes, with translators, documentation team, release team and other interested parties.

Still, back to Montreal and the summit, I spent much of the first day testing and reviewing jhbuild patches, and wrapping the day with the presentation of Baserock by Lars Wirzenius. The second day was more diverse, and more intense, with (I heard) a very interesting discussion on GNOME strategy (Tiffany wrote about it in details) that happened at the same time as a jhbuild (and more) session lead by Colin, and later in the afternoon a good serie of questions asked by Xan about our (lack of a clear) developer platform.

And the Collabora party, of course.

Then on Monday, more patch reviews, including (at last) Bug 654872 - Delete no longer shipped files at install time but the day was short as many people had to leave early, so it ended with random hacking and bug filing, with the good luck of hitting a bug in glib-networking with Nicolas Dufresne sitting just behind.

All in all this was my first summit and it went well, it would sure benefit from some earlier planning (both dates, and sessions), but this was a nice chance to see new heads (and known heads, of course), especially as I was not in Berlin this summer.

Rejuvenating your release team

10:21 - GNOME

Vincent is taking his release team hat off and dropped it on my head. I am a bit sad because the real blue hat has been lost, but I am very happy to be here at this time, GNOME 3 is out, people loves it.

For 3.2 we will continue to have our work driven by design, and we are making adjustments to our schedule and processes to keep on going with a global vision, there have been a few emails about feature planning on desktop-devel-list, we will expand on that soon, but for now, I wanted this post to give all my thanks to Vincent Untz (plenty of time for icecreams now), Lucas Rocha (don't forget to add ajax support to the board), and Frédéric Crozat (we will continue harassing you for live usb images), who are leaving the team, and to welcome our new members,

• Luca Ferreti, he was a team member already but Vincent gave him a trainee badge as no one was leaving at that time; he has already been helping with releases;
• Javier Jardón, he arrived on #gnome-love someday, got hooked fixing build failures and went on to lead wide goals to improve our modules, and more;
• Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, I met him in the build brigade, but really he is now an accessibility guy, and his expertise in the domain will be immensely valuable;
• Colin Walters, shell developer, involved with gobject introspection from the beginning, his latest feat has been to push for a standalone spidermonkey release from our friends in Mozilla.

Let's now go to 3.2, and beyond!

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GNOME 3.0

8:58 - GNOME

With no consideration for Bangalore timezone or my sleep schedule, GNOME 3.0 has now been released! Live images are already updated (go try them) and packages are flowing into distributions.

I originally had plans for some tourism in Bangalore after GNOME.Asia (fanstastic event) but didn't do much in the end as everyone was working hard on the release, and I certainly didn't want to let it happen without my part of the effort.

And that effort has been concentrated on the documentation websites, library.gnome.org, updated to the new website look, and developer.gnome.org, a revived site dedicated to developers, working on and with GNOME technologies. It couldn't have happened without the Berlin Development and Documentation Tools hackfest, and the collective effort of numerous hackers, inspired by the immense work Shaun McCance has been doing for years.

Thanks everyone for making it happen, and let's all step into the GNOME 3 era.

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Bad news for Mozilla embedders

20:46 - GNOME

The Heise Online just published an article, Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine, without making any fuss it starts with "Mozilla has officially ended support for embedding the Gecko layout engine in applications other than Mozilla core applications", then it links to Benjamin Smedberg post on mozilla.dev.embedding but it doesn't offer much details, or reasons (other than "our product is firefox, we have to focus ressources there.").

This article ends with an open question, about applications that are currently using Gecko, but it erroneously cites Devhelp. Devhelp has been ported to Webkit a long time ago (I had a post title "Devhelp with Webkit back in 2007).

No worries for Devhelp then; but while it talks about Gecko only this decision may be of concern to us, if it was extended to Mozilla Javascript engine (SpiderMonkey); a few months ago Colin Walters was actually quite positive ("Actually we're discussing this upstream again very productively; there's renewed interest in supporting embedders, and I'm in the process of getting some patches in to help here.") but who knows... Mozilla certainly keeps on ignoring some of our needs, I can't count the number of times jhbuild had to be updated because a xulrunner tarball was removed from their mirrors. (last time? two days ago, bug 645971).

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