Why
Because GNOME still needs your love. It should not be a single meeting but a tradition. You should marry GNOME.
The GNOME 2.16 release is approaching quickly, let's try to polish it. Let's make the perfect desktop. Also we'll try to follow some goals described at GnomeGoals
When
- Sunday, August 06, 2006, from 11:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC
How
Join the #gnome-love IRC channel (GIMPnet), and ask for tasks, help or add your own ideas!
What
Here you'll find some tasks. Choose one, sign-up, and join the ride!
Application |
Task |
Difficulty |
Assigned To |
evolution |
Bug 325882 – Enforce password, send/receive mail dialog window position |
easy |
|
evolution |
Bug 257118 – Clear button is not getting disabled after clearing the search |
easy |
|
gnumeric |
Bug 152613 – Add a command line option for the compilation settings of the instance |
easy |
|
gnome-panel, nautilus |
Bug 97295 – Dropping a launcher to nautilus should remove the launcher |
medium |
|
evince |
Bug 323817 – 'Find next' should also work when find bar isn't displayed |
medium |
|
evince |
Bug 324122 – Scroll pages in page entry with mouse wheel |
medium |
|
gnome-doc-utils |
Bug 162366 – Docbook 4.3 task element |
easy (requires XSLT) |
|
gnome-doc-utils |
Bug 157509 – Wrong lowercase used in locales |
easy (requires XSLT) |
|
gedit |
Bug 324491 – "already open" doesn't offer "show" |
medium |
|
everywhere |
Bug 348844 – Errors in .desktop file break bug-buddy support (you need to check every .desktop in GNOME, also you have to find a lot of maintainers on irc and poke them) |
medium |
|
Some additional topics:
About dialog goal GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
- Automatic tests for applications with dogtail
- Update all modules to automake 1.9
GNOME Love bugs https://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-love.cgi
- Evince GNOME Love
... And more to come
Who
You of course
Guidelines
If you have no idea what GNOME Love is about, start reading about it on GnomeLove.
First of all, setup development environment, compile GNOME with jhbuild. Problems above are just simple bugs, found them on https://bugzilla.gnome.org. Ask about them and try to fix them. Of course, feel free to ask about problems, we'll try to help you as possible.
Results
asabil created nice patch to the bug 339426 – Deskbar could have a recent-files handler