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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnu.org>
To: gnome-devel-list@gnome.org, gnome-hackers@nuclecu.unam.mx,
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Subject: Planning for March/April GNOME.
X-Home: is where the cat is
Hello guys,
A long time has passed since the last major release of GNOME:
October GNOME. As most GNOME developers, you know that the various
GNOME components are released under their own schedules and they are
maintained by different people.
For outsiders, it is hard to realize what the latest "stable" GNOME
is, and sometimes they keep running old versions of the applications
which either contain bugs that we already fixed or lack features that
we already implemented.
So in the GNOME tradition, we are preparing for the next major
release of GNOME (perhaps it could be called April GNOME, but it does
not quite sound as good as October GNOME, and sadly it lacks fuel for
fueling conspiracy theories).
The idea would be to release the next major GNOME release in sync
with gnome-core-1.2 together with most of the other toys we have
developed by then. This would be a stabilization release and would
not contain either Nautilus nor Evolution as they would not be ready
in time for beta-testing.
There are many ways in which you can contribute
* How to contribute to the Next GNOME release.
** Documentation
What would be great to do in the next weeks, would be to help out
with the GNOME Documentation Project (http://www.gnome.org/gdp): to
make sure that all applications ship with a manual, and that all
applications that use the gnome-property-box have the help system
linked to the "help" button.
Dave Mason at Red Hat is coordinating this work (dcm@redhat.com).
** Icon work.
Mathias Warkus has been doing a great work coordinating
(mawarkus@t-online.de) the Icon development and deployment. If you
are good doing icons, please get in contact with him.
** Test the code
If you are running one of the latest versions of a GNOME
application, please provide bug reports about the application:
1. Actual bugs in applications.
2. Applications whose user interface is non-intuitive
3. Crashes in applications.
4. Uniformity problems in the user interface.
5. Obvious performance problems in applications.
6. For language bindings: excercising the bindings, making sure the
bindings all work and that things run smoothly.
** Help translating
If you are not a programmer, but you are interested in helping
translating the GNOME applications to your native language or
translate the documentation, please get in contact with Kjartan who
is coordinating the translations effort (kmaraas@online.no).
You can learn more about which packages need help at
http://www.gnome.org/i18n.
We need to update that list to reflect the list of packages that we
are going to ship with Next GNOME.
** Coordination
Coordination will take place on the gnome-devel-list as usual.
Best wishes,
Miguel.
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Subject: GNOME VFS 0.1 is out
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From: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@helixcode.com>
Date: 22 Feb 2000 03:01:59 -0500
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Hello lovers of file system abstractions,
version 0.1 of the GNOME Virtual File System (code name "Federico
Thinks I Need a Code Name") is out.
The GNOME Virtual File System provides an abstraction to common file
system operations like reading, writing and copying files, listing
directories and so on. It is similar in spirit to the Midnight
Commander's VFS (as it uses a similar URI scheme) but it is designed
from the ground up to be extensible and to be usable from any
application.
GNOME VFS supports pluggable modules that implement the access methods
for different file systems, such as local file systems, FTP, HTTP, and
others. Programmers can write their own modules to provide access to
other file systems or file system-like sources.
GNOME VFS also provides asynchronous file operations on all the kinds
of file systems in a portable way, taking advantage of threads when
they are available. This is exported through a nice GTK+-like API.
GNOME VFS is currently being used as the foundation of Nautilus, the
GNOME 2.0 graphical file manager and shell, but is NOT finished nor
stable yet. The purpose of this release is to allow more people to
test it and contribute to the code base.
* Availability:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-vfs/gnome-vfs-0.1.tar.gz
* Authors:
The following people contributed to this release of GNOME VFS:
Darin Adler <darin@eazel.com>
Dave Camp <campd@oit.edu>
Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnu.org>
Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@gnu.org>
Cody Russell <bratsche@dfw.net>
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
John Sullivan <sullivan@eazel.com>
--
Ettore