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Posted Feb 3, 2016 at Silicon Island

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So apparently, this happened, and then this. Long story short, the elementary OS guys had been offered to use SPI as the legal entity to represent the project, something they didn't need at all, and since they didn't, Joshua Drake,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2015 at Silicon Island

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Re: Scammers at promo-newa.com

Beware of promo-newa.com, they scammed my colleague and friend Richard. As someone with experience in importing from China I know how scary and risky it can be so I completely sympathize with them. Apparently they sent hacked 96Mb flash drives... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2015 at Silicon Island

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DevX Hackfest 2015

Yesterday I arrived to Cambridge to attend the DevX hackfest. Loads of good stuff going on, I am mostly focusing on trying to integrate the hundreds of ignored pull requests we're getting in Github's mirror with Bugzilla automatically. In the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2015 at Silicon Island

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Matt, That's exactly the way it happens. People hang out on IRC all day, and we do schedule meetings everytime one is requested. We discuss things in gtk-devel too. The reason more cross-platform support doesn't happen is simple, none of the developers run Windows or Mac, so none is taking care of those backends. It's hardly going to happen unless people step up to do the work.

Commented Sep 14, 2014 on GTK+ Healthcheck at Silicon Island

Back to the kingdom

And not the kingdom of Spain unfortunately (unfortunately because I miss it and because it's still a kingdom). In a few months (not sure about specific dates yet, probably in early 2015) I will be moving back to the United... Continue reading

Posted Sep 14, 2014 at Silicon Island

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On OPW, leadership and PGO

Recently Philip decided it was time to call for some attention.I happen to agree with him on the need to focus on developer experience, that's why I organized the first hackfest on this topic last year and attended this year.... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2014 at Silicon Island

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DevX hackfest

Two weeks ago I flew to Berlin for the 2nd GNOME Developer Experience hackfest. The event was quite productive and allowed us to move things forward in different fronts. There has been many blog posts about most of the on... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2014 at Silicon Island

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Adventures in Go land: high performance custom HTTP(S) service

The problem While working on a side project I was confronted with the problem of serving a JSON object to potentially tens of thousands of users representing the state of the app (think you are following the results of an... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2014 at Silicon Island

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Awesome!

Commented Nov 15, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

Some work is still needed, ask pecisk on IRC :-)

Commented Nov 14, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

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Commented Nov 14, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

That branch is a work in progress. As per GObject, I think Evo would be a hard place to start if you want to learn. I would recommend you to have a look at these documents/tutorials: https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/howto-gobject.html https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/c.html.en And if you think you get the handle of it feel free to show up on IRC and I'll be more than happy to assist you on where to start :-)

Commented Nov 14, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

Hey Alexander, There's mainly two reasons, one is that Thunderbird is going end of life from Mozilla, so they are only doing security bugfixes, a lot of corporate environments have custom POP/IMAP email setups so webmail is not an option for a lot of them so we need a mail client for Fedora and RHEL. The other reason is that a lot of customers of Red Hat use Microsoft Exchange and Evolution is the only email client with decent MS Exchange support through EWS. Check out Fabiano Fidencio's blog for the progress on EWS support in Evo http://blog.fidencio.org/

Commented Nov 13, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

We are working on a WebKit2 composer/renderer for 3.12, if you want to help in that front let me know :-)

Commented Nov 12, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

Yeah I was about to comment, though evolution-exchange/mapi is somewhat deprecated, evolution-data-server is not marked as done, so help there would be more than welcome!

Commented Nov 12, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

That would be more than welcome Jim!

Commented Nov 12, 2013 on Evolution needs your help! at Silicon Island

Evolution needs your help!

Evolution just branched for 3.11 starting what would be the latest release under the 6 month cadence. As announced before, Evo is going for a 1 year release cycle that the team thinks is going to enable them to improve... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2013 at Silicon Island

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Not that I am aware of :?

Commented Aug 20, 2013 on GNOME's official GitHub mirror at Silicon Island

Hey Cody, The issue is that such property can only be set manually by a GitHub sysadmin, those were added manually by them, it's a bit of a long story, will set it right eventually.

Commented Aug 16, 2013 on GNOME's official GitHub mirror at Silicon Island

GNOME's official GitHub mirror

GNOME has just launched its official GitHub mirror! This is an idea that has been in the back of my head for quite a while, my motivation started after I found out that someone fixed my webp pixbuf loader out... Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2013 at Silicon Island

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Hello Julien, Right now 3.8 was the last stable release and 3.10 is coming up soon, nothing too exciting about those two releases. All that I mentioned in my post are plans.

Commented Aug 13, 2013 on Evolution Hackfest 2013: It's a wrap! at Silicon Island

Evolution Hackfest 2013: It's a wrap!

GUADEC 2013 is over and it was a blast, kudos to the organizers and the whole community for making it a great success. As I announced previously an Evolution Hackfest took place on the 5th and it was quite a... Continue reading

Posted Aug 13, 2013 at Silicon Island

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Evolution Hackfest

I am having a blast during the first few sessions at GUADEC. I should mention that the Evolution team is organizing an Evolution hackfest on Monday. Most of the current Evolution team will be there (Matthew, Milan, Fabiano, Tomas...). We... Continue reading

Posted Aug 1, 2013 at Silicon Island

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I will see you soon! ;-)

Commented Apr 23, 2013 on Wearing the red fedora at Silicon Island