Because I was curious, and before I forget, I poked a bit at sloccount tonight. The modules built by jhbuild in a roughly default 2.12 build include about 3.81M LOC; evo, e-d-s, and gtkhtml2 are 671K of that; a little over a sixth. Those same three modules have around a fifth of the open bugs [...]
My mom and dad both have power back as of this evening after Miami’s brush with Katrina. My father lives right on the water in a house he was able to buy because when he bought it, one entire wing of the house had no roof from Andrew and the basement still had terrible water [...]
I’ve gone on a bit much lately about ’speaking in a human voice’. It’s not just true for people in marketing; the news folks should get on the bandwagon too. The use and abuse of adjectives I’ve seen today (I’ve watched several hours of CNN and Weather Channel) is just nutty. Perhaps most importantly in [...]
Blah. I did not intend to spend today rehashing the release notes. But I did anyway. Some of the damage is done in CVS; other bits will have to wait until tomorow before committing. All will have to wait for someone to unfuck the website build. I’ve tried and failed. I’m tempted to just throw [...]
Am glued to the weather channel, crossing my fingers for New Orleans. Andrew was scary; this is nearly as big, faster, and New Orleans is 20 feet below water level instead of 20 feet above. Good luck to them.
Had a bizarre blog-land experience this weekend. Matt Asay wrote this post about ‘the open source ethos’, which I thought made a fairly common mistake- assuming that if an open source volunteer is not being generous to you, that he is not generous at all. Usually this is an assumption made by ungrateful users in [...]
More people are signing up for the Summit, and adding suggestions on what to talk about. That’s great- hope more people do so. Ideally, if you’ve got specific topics you’d like to talk on, please also make sure it is added to the ‘proposed topics’ section of the schedule, so that when a couple of [...]
If you are looking for a way to get involved with gnome-journal, I’ve posted a pretty fun and easy way to get involved to marketing-list.
The sysadmin team (not just GNOME’s but really everyone’s) tends to get noticed only if things go wrong. So a big shout out to them for finally eliminating our anoncvs lag. [...]
Bug day tomorrow. Goal: find showstoppers. If you can find something embarassing that is worth stopping 2.12 for… well, I’ll do something. Probably that embarasses me and (hopefully) that makes you happy. Or something.
Place is irc.gnome.org #bugs as usual; time is 9AMEST-9PM EST tomorrow. [1500GMT->0300GMT] I’ll be mostly lurking because I have to study, but [...]
For those not in #gnome-hackers tonight, the main subject of discussion has been talk.google.com, for some reason :) You can get through to it with gaim via google’s provided gaim instructions, which is pretty cool; I presume something similar works for gossip, though I have not tried it yet.
Apparently the voice component is google-only ATM, [...]
