GNOME Summary December 14, 2003 - December 28, 2003

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Last GNOME Summary of the year:

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-12-14 - 2003-12-28
    
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Table of Contents
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1. Wireless applet improvements
2. Linux Productivity Magazine features The GIMP
3. GNOME 2.4 in The Linux Show
4. Gnome Foundation FundRaising
5. GNOME Foundation Moved to Cambridge
6. Hacker Activity
7. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
8. New and Updated Software

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1. Wireless applet improvements
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James Willcox has been hacking on the GNOME wireless applet, and now it lists 
all the access points and the quality. 

        http://www.snorp.net/files/screenshots/wireless-applet.png

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2. Linux Productivity Magazine features The GIMP
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The Linux Productivity Magazine's December 2003 has an article on The GIMP with 
a overview of a select few of Gimp's abilities. 
The GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as 
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 

        http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200312/200312.htm

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3. GNOME 2.4 in The Linux Show
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As a part of the Desktop thread series, The Linux Show featured GNOME 2.4, with 
Jeff Waugh and Leslie Proctor representing the GNOME Foundation. 

        http://www.thelinuxshow.com/

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4. Gnome Foundation FundRaising
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'tis the season for giving 
With thousands of more users taking advantage of GNOME at Brazilian telecentros 
and schools in Extremadura, now is a good time to make a donation to GNOME 
Foundation. You can help underwrite the foundation's activities bringing GNOME 
to the developing world and subsidizing developers and students participation 
at GUADEC and the Summit in 2004. 
GNOME Foundation has been granted tax exempt status by the U.S. Internal 
Revenue Service. This means that all contributions to the foundation are now 
tax-deductible in the U.S. 
Contributions can be made on-line, via PayPal, or by check. Visit: 
http://www.gnome.org/friends/> for details. 
*Remember, to qualify for a charitable tax deduction in 2002, you must make 
your donation by December 31st.* Every donation is important. 

        http://www.gnome.org/friends

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5. GNOME Foundation Moved to Cambridge
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The GNOME Foundation office will be moving with Ximian to Novell space in 
Cambridge on Saturday, December 27th. 
GNOME Foundation c/o Novell, Inc. 8 Cambridge Center Floor 5 Cambridge, MA 
02142 


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7. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
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This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature 
reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, 
subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 10527 (In the last week: New: 394, Resolved: 287, Difference: 
+107)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): 

  nautilus: 766 (In the last week: New: 47, Resolved: 28, Difference: +19)
  gtk+: 640 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 11, Difference: +2)
  control-center: 254 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 0, Difference: +4)
  gnome-vfs: 241 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 2, Difference: 0)
  gnome-panel: 224 (In the last week: New: 25, Resolved: 7, Difference: +18)
  GnuCash: 221 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 0, Difference: +2)
  gnome-applets: 169 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 2, Difference: +10)
  GIMP: 159 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 11, Difference: +1)
  dia: 155 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1)
  galeon: 147 (In the last week: New: 20, Resolved: 16, Difference: +4)
  balsa: 125 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 0, Difference: +2)
  gnome-terminal: 122 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 4, Difference: +5)
  sawfish: 117 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  gnome-session: 116 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 0, Difference: +4)
  epiphany: 110 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 21, Difference: -8)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  walters verbum org: 17 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 16 bugs closed.
  chris gnome-de org: 15 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 15 bugs closed.
  bugsqueesher yahoo com: 14 bugs closed.
  wbrack mmm com hk: 10 bugs closed.
  readams hmc edu: 9 bugs closed.
  chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 8 bugs closed.
  gnome flowerday cx: 8 bugs closed.
  olpa xmlhack ru: 8 bugs closed.
  fherrera onirica com: 8 bugs closed.
  daniel veillard com: 8 bugs closed.
  marco gnome org: 8 bugs closed.
  gjc inescporto pt: 7 bugs closed.
  sinzui cox net: 7 bugs closed.
  
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6. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 59 gdesklets
 44 rhythmbox
 37 gimp
 30 beast
 28 gnumeric
 26 gdesklets-extras
 25 gnomeweb-wml
 23 epiphany
 21 gnucash
 19 nautilus-cd-burner
 19 yelp
 19 galeon
 17 evolution
 17 gtk+
 16 gnome-system-tools
 16 gnome-xml
 16 gnome-python
 16 optimystic
 15 conglomerate
 15 eog
[118 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 54 pycage
 47 serrador
 38 mitr
 36 walters
 34 aasmunds
 33 dnloreto
 29 danilo
 29 chrisime
 24 laurenti
 21 cstim (gnucash)
 19 frehberg
 18 timj
 16 matthiasc
 15 hadess
 15 dodji
 14 rodrigo
 13 gcarneiro
 13 aflinta
 13 veillard
 13 shaunm
[111 active hackers omitted]


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8. New and Updated Software
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screem  - Web Site / HTML Editor
GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit  - GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit
GnomeSword  - GnomeSword2 Bible Guide
gDesklets  - GNOME Desktop Applets
The GNOME XSLT toolkit  - The GNOME XSLT toolkit
The GNOME XML toolkit  - The GNOME XML toolkit
Coriander  - IEEE1394 IIDC camera GUI firewire
OpenHacha  - OpenHacha is a "free as in freedom" implementation for GNU/Linux 
of the propietary-and-only-for-MS-Windows program Hacha. OpenHacha is based on 
the libhacha.cs library, a C# implementation of the Hacha program features, 
developed by the Sierra pro
GNOME Desktop Themes  - GNOME desktop themes
gwget2  - Download Manager for Gnome 2.
gLabels  - gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business 
cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various 
laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you``ll find at most 
office supply stores.
Gwine  - A wine cellar manager
gnocl  - A GTK+ / Gnome extension for Tcl
Translator for GNOME  - A front-end to the Babel Fish
libxklavier  - XKB foundation library
gnome-mud  - GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, which aims to make 
mudding a bit easier. It can define aliases, triggers, variables. keybind 
shortcuts and has a connection wizard to easily manage different player 
characters and MUDs. GNOME-Mud is the
Audio File Library  - The Audio File Library provides an elegant API for 
accessing a variety of audio file formats, such as AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and 
NeXT/Sun .snd/.au in a manner independent of data and file formats.
sussen  - Sussen is a security scanner
Silky  - Silky - An easy to use SILC client.

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