GNOME 2012 Q2 Report

This is a rough draft of the 2012 Q2 report. Please add your teams update at the bottom and remove your name from the list of those needed. Thanks!

Due Date: TBA

[Team Title] by: who-compiled-or-wrote-it

Short summary of what your team did this quarter

Board and Executive Director

by: Karen Sandler

Bugsquad

by: André Klapper

From April to June, 5903 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 5196 were closed.

Top bug closers were André Klapper (316 reports), Bastien Nocera (259), Cosimo Cecchi (222), Milan Crha (216), Matthias Clasen and Jasper St. Pierre (both 162).

Top bug reporters were Milan Crha and William Jon McCann (both 162 reports), Bastien Nocera (101), Matthias Clasen (91) and Guillaume Desmottes (84).

Top patch contributors were Jasper St. Pierre (201 patches), Guillaume Desmottes (187), Matthias Clasen (102), Giovanni Campagna (97) and Florian Müllner (94).

Top patch reviewers were Bastien Nocera (241 reviews), Jasper St. Pierre (228), Matthias Clasen (217), Guillaume Desmottes (186) and Sebastian Dröge (134).

Take these numbers with a grain of salt as many projects do not use Bugzilla as their only place for patch handling.

Release Team

by: Frederic Peters

This quarter started just after 3.4.0 was released, on March 28th. It went on with a 3.4.1 update, as well as 3.4.2 (and more) releases for many of our modules. The 3.5 cycle started and both 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 were successfully released and came with live USB images, thanks to Ray Strode.

We had a meeting where we debriefed how 3.4 went, and reviewed feature proposals for 3.6. We also went over GNOME goals and marked some of them as 'official', and announced that on desktop-devel-list.

Membership and Elections Committee

by: Tobias Mueller

During Q2 2012 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 53 applications for a foundation membership including renewals. 53 applications were processed. During the same period, 28 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 377 members.

We ended up with 6 new members:

  • Liyanaarachchi Udesh 2012-04-28
  • Jared Jennings 2012-05-14
  • Jeremy Bicha 2012-05-14
  • Jon Nordby 2012-05-17
  • Anna Zacchi 2012-05-18
  • Víctor Manuel Jáquez 2012-05-24

The Membership and Elections Committee also held the annual elections for the Board of Directors. There were 375 registered voters, 186 of whom sent in valid ballots. 9 candidates ran for these elections. That's not as much as last year when 13 candidates ran. The new directors will serve the GNOME Foundation for a year and their names are:

  • Emmanuele Bassi
  • Joanmarie Diggs
  • Seif Lotfy

  • Shaun McCance

  • Tobias Mueller
  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Bastien Nocera

GNOME User Groups

by: ??

Accessibility Team

by: Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias and Joanmarie Diggs

Outreach Program for Women

by: Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Localization

by: Petr Kovar

During Q2 2012, the GNOME translation teams mainly focused on the GNOME 3.4.x minor releases. Some teams also started working on the next major release 3.6 due in September.

In April 2012, there were 1397 translation commits to git.gnome.org as per the GNOME Commit-Digest. In May 2012, there were 1138 translation commits, and in June 2012, there were 1203 translation commits.

Some other interesting stats on the l10n.gnome.org localization platform include:

  • 131 registered teams,
  • 177 registered languages and language variants,
  • 353 registered software modules,
  • ca. 40700 UI strings for translation in the GNOME 3.4 release set,
  • ca. 23100 doc strings for translation in the GNOME 3.4 release set,
  • ca. 532000 UI strings for translation in all registered modules,
  • ca. 268300 doc strings for translation in all registered modules.

Note that these numbers are based on the current state (October) as there is no easy way to track the past quarter in our l10n platform.

During Q2, the gtranslator PO editor also saw some improvements in translation memory management, plural forms handling, etc.

Documentation

by: Tiffany Antopolski / Shaun McCance

The Documentation Team had an extremely productive Q2. Many tutorials and code samples were generated for the gnome-devel-docs by Marta Casetti, Taryn Fox, Monica Kochofar as well as myself. Most of these updates were initially filed as bug reports, with over 70 new bugs being created for this work. This work was featured in the 3.5.3 release. These additions to the developer documentation are very exciting, as it is hoped that they will help provide a starting point for learning GNOME development for newcomers.

Additionally, Shaun McCance has been planning the OpenHelp Hackfest scheduled for August. During the hackfest, we hope to edit and polish as well as add to the gnome-devel-docs tutorials. Additionally, we plan to complete the user documentation in areas such as gnome-documents and gnome-contacts.

Web

by: Andreas Nilsson and Vinicius Depizzol

The Web Team in collaboration with the GNOME Outreach Program for Women intern Elena Petrevska continued the work of refreshing the design of various GNOME websites and to that end launched a redesigned git.gnome.org. -Oliver Propst

Google Summer of Code

by: Alexandre Franke

The Summer of Code ran smoothly this year and at the time of writing this we're in the final evaluation period. Our students have put their pencils down and delivered their code and documentation. You can read their project pages at https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects with a summary of what they've been working on.

We required the students to have a blog with reports at least every two weeks, which you could see on planet GNOME. Even if some were a bit relunctant at the beginning, it is now mostly agreed that it was a good thing since they get some perspective on what they've been doing. The use of blogs instead of mailing lists increases publicity. Links to the reports can be found on each project wiki page.

16 of our 29 interns attended GUADEC. If you were there, you most likely haven't missed them. A little game in small teams was organised for them with missions such as finding and taking a picture of past interns. We had the pleasure to have a session of lightning talks with all the students showing off their work. A printed copy of the yearbook was given to them.

Only one student unfortunately couldn't pass the midterm evaluation due to personal circumstances, but the good news is he attended GUADEC and continues contributing to GNOME. Some students already have had their work merged and will see it released as part of GNOME 3.6. We hope inclusion is coming soon for the rest of them.

Marketing

by: Emily Gonyer

The Marketing Team continued to ready the Annual Report for publication at GUADEC and feel that we are on-track to do so. We have also started planning for this years Annual Report in hopes of getting it out the door in a more timely fashion next year. Thanks to the redesign of gnome.org, we have been able to keep the website more up-to-date with gnome news than before, and are planning how to keep a constant stream of information regarding GNOME and the state of the community going forward.

Sysadmin

by: ??

Design

by: Allan Day

Conference planning: GUADEC, GNOME.Asia

by: Will LaShell

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