Above sightings took place at approximately 3pm on Saturday at Union Sq. in San Francisco. All travelers to that area are advised to use caution when dealing with the locals.
]]>As we're going into the holiday season, we're leaving you with a little treat. :-) With a ton of help from Martin Stransky, we now have Firefox 3 Beta 2in rawhide (branded as Minefield). Please help test it out and as always, your feedback is appreciated.
Happy holidays!
]]>As was pointed out at last year's Firefox Summit, most users of the browsers on Linux get their versions from their vendor, not from mozilla.org itself. As such, we came to an agreement to start letting the distros have more influence on the linux side of things. This list is just one of those avenues. I'll be maintaining the list along with Mike Connor of Mozilla.
What this List IS:
What this List is NOT:
A few weeks ago, I led a session at the Firefox Summit about how to fix this. With input from various people, notably Mike Connor of the Mozilla Corp. and Robert O'Callahan of Novell, in addition to the other members in the crowd, we managed to get together a plan which I think everyone should be happy about.
The big change is that the distros, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell, etc. will now have much more say over what happens with the Linux bits. Key contributors on Linux will start getting more sway. Along with roc, I'll start taking on a bigger role with getting things done upstream and making sure distros are accounted for. This includes making sure we get our patches back upstream, and providing extended support on various branches. For example, Red Hat and Novell are both going to commit some effort into maintaining the Firefox 1.5.0.x line past the current EOL date this spring.
In turn, as more effort is moving into the distro builds, they will start appearing on the download pages. This will require some coordination to do right, but it's a great step I think. Reference builds will still be provided by upstream but they will be less promimently displayed.
Now, some of you may be saying that this solves most Linux issues, but not the Debian issue. I haven't forgotten them. I've also talked to Alexander Sack of Debian, who's put a lot of effort into the Mozilla browsers, about how to make Mozilla upstream be in line with the DFSG and I'm pushing those items back up. So far I've heard positive results, but as all things like this, will take time. Stay tuned for more.
This is a rather short post for now (have to get thru Snowpeak Ruins) and I'll fill in more details when I get some more time to blog. Mike Connor should also be putting some info up on his blog soon, but the message is clear: Linux is becoming more important. Working together with Mozilla, Red Hat, Fedora, and other distributions will bring a better experience to the Linux desktop user.
]]>Scenario two takes place at the Starbucks in Nashua yesterday. I'm working on a few bugs while drinking my Green Tea Lemonade. All of a sudden, someone comes up to me and asks "how are you doing that?" He was referring to my wobbly windows, and other cool desktop effects. He said that looked really exciting, and wanted to know where he could buy it. I reached into my laptop bag and handed him a DVD explaining it was free.
Too bad in both situations, I didn't actually have any FC6 media in the laptop bag I always carry with me. I told the guy at Starbucks where to get it from but he was on dialup still, but he quickly became disinterested at that point. Next week, I'm heading to a conference. Likely without media.
]]>It seems apparent as an outsider looking in that there's an apparent goal to have new icons for FC6. A noble goal, I'd add. You wanted it in by a certain date. It was missed. That sucks. But getting the first batch in wasn't missed by much. Would getting things in a week or so sooner have assuaged your complaints anyway? Magic 8-ball says not likely.
You also say this isn't being tested. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole reason of putting the artwork into Rawhide *is* to get testing. As soon as possible after things get done, they get added to the wiki page or to their respective packages.
The hope is that we get the icons done for FC6. And it is entirely possible, especially with the great contributions that the project has been receiving. We want to do things right. We think we are doing things right. (Apologies to the Fedora Art team for using the collective "we.")
Again, things are not as bleak as you assume they are. People want this to work. We aren't going to ship things exactly the way things are now. That would be silly and I'm not sure what gave you that idea. People are working hard on getting things done for FC6. Scrapping the entire project for FC6 because of a few issues with stars, plusses, and colors on a few icons out of ... hundreds? ... seems rather drastic. File bugs on issues you find, so they can get addressed. There may not be much time, but there is still time for improving things.
Also, for future reference, it's consiglieri.
]]>Is adding a new language translation a feature? It's new, right? The support for using translations was already there, it's just new data to display is all. Would changing the release notes format be a new feature? No, we already have document viewers that can display these things. I can only imagine the sheer amount of firefox bug reports I would get every time someone created a new web site: "RFE: Please add support for viewing xyz.com." What if the GIMP developers had to deal with feature requests: "RFE: foo.jpg works but only with certain contrast settings."
Yes, there is a lot of new art coming through the pipeline. It is also clear you don't like it. Perhaps if you did, your opinion of the so-called "feature" would be more favorable. However, art is perhaps one of the most subjective areas known to man. While some think Monet and Picasso were genius, others (myself included) can not stand the works. Some people complained about the art in FC5; others loved it. Now when trying to change things for FC6, yet more complaints. But there is hope. Help create (or find people you know to help create) art for the project. Help test and report these issues. Don't make it seem as if the new artwork is being done in an attempt to sabotage the release, though. The Fedora Artwork project is important because it is another way for people who might not be able to contribute otherwise (due to lack of desire/ability to code, for example) an avenue for contributing. We should be promoting it, not attempting to stifle it.
/me goes to get some much needed sleep now....
Title quote: M.C. Escher.
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Above sightings took place at approximately 3pm on Saturday at Union Sq. in San Francisco. All travelers to that area are advised to use caution when dealing with the locals.
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What an awesome concert. I had
great on floor "seats" (we didn't actually use them, everyone was standing, rocking out the entire time). Eddie Vedder
came out early, before the opening act and did an acoustic version of Porch,
to a nearly empty TD Banknorth Garden. Then, My Morning Jacket played (not bad, but not Pearl Jam), and after a
brief intercession, Pearl Jam came on stage and holy crap, the place got full in 2 minutes. Their
live version of Even Flow was awesome. Good times.]]>-fstack-protector "fixes" it for
me. Packages at http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/rawhide/vpnc/
for now. Now I'll be able to use this laptop more often for doing
stuff as that was the last major hurdle, so hopefully I'll get to give
64bit some loving soon.]]>* me goes back to minimizing windows...
Update: I have been informed that the X hackers are indeed merry. Apologies for the doubt.
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