From: Steve George <gnome-summary@gnome.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for May 27 - June 02, 2001. Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:21:23 +0100 Cc: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org This is the GNOME Summary for May 27 - June 02, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Full time administrative staff 2) Gnotices in need of help 3) Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 29 May 2001 by Bart Decrem 4) GDM 2.2.2.1, the "George deserves a spanking!" release 5) Initial release of Getox 6) Michael Hall ends his gnotebook 7) Special mentions 8) Project of the week 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Full time administrative staff -------------------------------------------------------------- Havoc posted that the GNOME foundation is looking to employ a full-time administrative person. They would work on the various pieces of admin, shows, advocacy and fundraising that the foundation currently tries to do using volunteers only. Importantly, they have someone in mind who will take on the responsiblity for finding enough money to support themselves. All in all this sounds like it would be a real boost for the GNOME Foundation. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-May/msg00006.html ============================================================== 2) Gnotices in need of help -------------------------------------------------------------- Gnotices provides a central site for posting interesting GNOME material but has also been an administrative headache and the location of heavy trolling. This long thread indicates how high feelings have grown that something has to change to make the content easier to maintain and to remove the worst abuses. If you have the time or ability to help out with this Web application I'm sure many virtual beers would come your way! http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00350.html ============================================================== 3) Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 29 May 2001 by Bart Decrem -------------------------------------------------------------- The Board is moving forward with the policys for GNOME contributors, discussions about email addresses and cvs access. Wider development work on the 2.0 platform is needed. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-May/msg00002.html ============================================================== 4) GDM 2.2.2.1, the "George deserves a spanking!" release -------------------------------------------------------------- A new urgent release of GDM came up due to a security bug in the previous releases. The weakness would probably only effect "public access terminals or places where you don't trust other people on the local console" but additional bug fixes are thrown into the mix anyway. Check with your vendor for any specific updates to your distribution. ============================================================== 5) Initial release of Getox -------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Berger announced a concept release of an XML editor called Getox (GNOME Editor for Text Orientated XML). The long-term aim is to provide an editor that can be used to edit XML files without the user having previous knowledge of the DTD: this would make XML very easy for even new users to manipulate. This initial release can parse various DTDs and do various basic editing such as moving tags around. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00054.html http://idx-getox.idealx.org/images/getox_main.png ============================================================== 6) Michael Hall ends his gnotebook -------------------------------------------------------------- Having spent a year or more reporting solely on GNOME Michael intends to widen his view outwards to other developments that also encompass open and free standards. So there's not much about GNOME here but it's worth mentioning anyway! http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3428/1/ ============================================================== 7) Special mentions -------------------------------------------------------------- Free Software development is often a pursuit that's followed for love rather than the money or the fame - well unless you count Miguels recent 2 second appearance in a Hollywood film as fame! So when Chema emailed to say could we give a Juan Pablo Mendoza a mention we were delighted to obey - it seems that Juan is almost single handely fixing problems in gnome-games. So virtual beers to Juan and keep up the efforts! ============================================================== 8) Project of the week -------------------------------------------------------------- Free Software needs good documentation for developers and users so theres a general effort to improve the state of our developer documenation. The GNOME architecture descriptions provide an important overview on how the individual parts fit together to form a coherent whole. Over time bits of it have fallen out of sync with reality so an effort is being made to update it with the current state of play. Everybody who is familiar with one or more parts of the GNOME architecture is encouraged to submit updates. For more details see this posting to GNOME hackers http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00348.html" ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules 81 evolution 77 galeon 63 ximian-setup-tools 55 mc 50 gnumeric 47 gtkhtml 36 gnome-media 34 gnome-core 31 web-devel-2 26 gdm2 26 gtranslator 24 gnome-chess 24 gail 23 libgnome 22 pan 22 libgnomeui 21 gtk+ 21 nautilus 19 gnome-db 19 gnome-vfs-extras [81 active modules omitted] Most active developers 46 proskin 42 martin 38 jirka 34 kmaraas 31 teichman 31 kabalak 29 ke 29 menthos 26 chema 26 owen 26 jpr 25 yaneti 24 danw 24 fejj 24 maubury 24 rodrigo 22 tambeti 22 rodo 21 alexl 20 bcameron [108 active developers omitted] ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software updated this week B-Chat - chat client for use with Yahoo! Chat. glunarclock - Displays the current phase of the moon in a GNOME applet. gnect - A game where you need to get four pieces in a row. gdm - Graphical login manager. ldif_to_vcard - Converts Netscape addresses to GnomeCard compatible ones. gnome-chess - graphical chess application. Afterstep Clock Applet - NeXT look alike clock. Gaim - An AIM client. glame - (GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics) featureful audio processing application. Sybase Query - Graphical SQL client for Sybase enterprise servers. File Manager - A lightweight, intuitive, file manager. CCView - C++ Project browser. gtktalog - CDROM information storage database. idx-getox - editor for text-orientated XML. Terraform - interaactive fractal terrain former. Gnucash - Easy-to-use personal finance application. gRustibus - GNOME M.A.M.E front-end. gThumb - Image viewer and browser. GnomeRSVP - speed reading application. Gnome CD Master - CD creation suite. sello-e - Email client with scheduling. gmmusic - Database front-end to store music collections. Manual Page Viewer - Graphical viewer for UNIX help files. gbonds - Savings bond inventory application. XFce - Light-weight GNOME compliant desktop. Oroborus - small and themable GNOME compliant Window Manager. =========================================================================== Thanks, Steve