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Name: Andrew Sobala
Homepage: http://www.penguins-of-fire.co.uk
Notes: I am 18, and I write applications for GNU/Linux in my spare time.
I am currently on the GNOME release team. I'm also the QA maintainer for the GNOME control center. If you want some free virtual pizzas [1], you might want to go to bugzilla.gnome.org and give some bugs the love they need :-)
[1] (free virtual non-existant ...)
This person is:
- a Lead Developer on project gene.
- a Pondering Citizen on project The Universe.
- a Developer on project GNOME.
Recent diary entries for aes:
Yesterday I mentioned sacrificing chickens to servers to keep them happy.Let the fire-building commence.
Much MovieageIn the past week or so I have watched (or in many cases, rewatched):
- Life of Brian
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Touching the Void
- The Italian Job (not as good as the first one)
Bugzilla
Took no. of release critical issues down to 1, then up to 2 again because I thought of another one :-) BUT I also upgraded it from 2.16.3 to 2.16.5. Asked people to tell me if bugzilla-test doesn't play as expected. It should do.
Screenshots
I never thought announcing things in my journal would be a good way of announcing things - no-one reads this stuff, right? - but due to Planet GNOME I suppose a few people do.
So: If you sent me a screenshot for the GNOME 2.6 release notes, many thanks. The screenshots will be going up very shortly (we might need to sacrifice a chicken to the wellbeing of our mirrors when slashdot do the slashdot thing) and they're all really cool. My apologies if some of them aren't there; a few of them arrived too late to get distributed to the mirrors with the others. Sorry about that.
You told these people to eat my juniper berries. You break my bloody foot. You break my vow of silence, and then you try and clean up on my juniper bushes!After being forced out of my hole in the ground, I thought I'd say my thing about this language issue.
I'm not quite sure why we need to standardise on one language in the desktop core. Surely if we can get to a point where different languages can interoperate through a shared runtime, we can implement the desktop in whatever we want and it will all just work. Miguel showed how this can be done to a certain extent - calling Java code from Mono. So the question is can Mono call Java code? And if so, we can implement the desktop in whatever we want.
If we move away from C, though, we have a few problems.
1. We will have to bind to a less oopy language to enable programs written in C to run. This is hard.
2. Before any feature in GTK can be used in the desktop, it will have to have the relevant language binding written for it.
Urgh. Urgh. Urgh.
Back home
I haven't kept this very up to date. Anyway, I'm back home again now for Easter.
Bugzilla
I knocked our "must fix for upgrade" list from 7 items to 3 on Saturday. This will continue on Monday :-P
Been doing all sorts of things recently, including work and being lighting designer for "Songs for a New World" here in Cambridge. I haven't really had much time to work on bugzilla - although Elijah Newren has been doing nice things to it.
I've recently discovered a social network bot that draws social networks of IRC channels. FWIW, here's the network for #gnome-hackers for 10 Feb. Cool stuff :-)
My windows FAT is buggered. This is very irritating.
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