Tag Archives: GNOME

GNOME in MarkMail

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Apache, GNOME, history, jason hunter, mailing lists, markmail, perl | 2 Comments

GNOME 2.22 and other awesome

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged desktop, GNOME, gnome222, gtk+, hackfest, platform, release | Leave a comment

Projects that make GNOME rock!

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged bugzilla, cairo, evolution, GNOME, olpc, WordPress, WPMU | 7 Comments

Congratulations — KDE 4.0!

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged announcement, congratulations, GNOME, kde, kde4, release | 6 Comments

GNOME bugs through the ages

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged bugs, Debian, GNOME | 7 Comments

Live podcast interview about GNOME, OOXML, etc.

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged brucebyfield, GNOME, interview, jeff waugh, OOXML, podcast, robinmiller, royshestowitz | 4 Comments

A response to the cacophony

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged community, depression, GNOME, voltaire | 33 Comments

GNOME and Novell: The FUD Stops Here

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged fud, GNOME, migueldeicaza, mono, natfriedman, Novell | 30 Comments

Quelle surprise?

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged collaboration, GNOME, Novell | 2 Comments