So when Tim O’Reilly pimped MarkMail a few weeks ago, with a post about their huge Perl mail archive import, I liked what I saw.
But it wasn’t just that. I also wondered how much we kicked Perl’s arse. Or, put more diplomatically… I wondered what the difference might be between two large, mature FLOSS projects.
Of […]
Tag Archives: GNOME
GNOME in MarkMail
April 8, 2008 – 00:01
GNOME 2.22 and other awesome
March 18, 2008 – 15:50
Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.
Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in […]
Projects that make GNOME rock!
January 14, 2008 – 00:59
James Maguire at Datamation published an article late last year about the favourite projects of FLOSS industry and community leaders. Uh huh, I’m still catching up with 2007!
With my GNOME Foundation hat on I thought that, rather than taking the easy way out by plugging a bunch of our rocking applications, it might […]
Congratulations — KDE 4.0!
January 12, 2008 – 00:21
Hearty congratulations to our friends in the KDE community, who shipped KDE 4.0 today!
It’s a hard slog for any software development team to wrangle a major release such as this, but if our experience since shipping GNOME 2.0 is anything to go by, the KDE team’s efforts on this release will pay off handsomely in […]
WordPress MU + WP-OpenID almost done
January 10, 2008 – 02:24
I have almost kicked enough WordPress MU and WP-OpenID arse to enable global OpenID consumption for logins and comments. That’s mu-plugins style, WPMU lovers — yeah!
Once GNOME bug #446524 is fixed for Blogo, I’ll try to push the changes upstream. OpenID is for everybody, including WPMU admins and users!
GNOME bugs through the ages
January 9, 2008 – 23:22
Over on Planet Debian, Christian Perrier looked back at the number of Debian bugs submitted over the years.
The variation is not quite large enough to make any serious judgements about the impact of Ubuntu, but the spike in 2004 has a certain whiff of intrigue about it. Perhaps that’s just me.
Of course, I […]
Live podcast interview about GNOME, OOXML, etc.
December 4, 2007 – 19:44
Last week I suggested to Bruce Byfield that a podcast interview might be a good way to put a human face (okay, okay: voice) on some of the GNOME-related issues currently being debated in some quarters of the community.
Thanks to support and interest from Linux.com, we now have some cool infrastructure for it, including web […]
A response to the cacophony
November 27, 2007 – 08:58
There’s a layer of truth to some of what Murray has said, but his shockingly exaggerated, hateful message is not intended to resolve or heal. Murray does not accept or credit my commitment or contributions to the project, and he has sought to denigrate, disenfranchise and discredit me consistently over the years… though this is […]
GNOME and Novell: The FUD Stops Here
November 27, 2007 – 04:06
As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME’s relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.
Due to my position as a director of the GNOME […]
Quelle surprise?
November 21, 2007 – 05:26
Federico, you might be learning the wrong lesson from this story, or possibly seeing only the Nail du Jour?
You don’t need a distributed revision control system to do the right thing by the communities who power your products.
If Novell had done this work upstream in the first place, it would have saved everyone a lot […]
