On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Do you all remember that we list our contributors in About GNOME? The > list of GNOME contributors is probably outdated: many people contributed > a lot of stuff in recent years and are not there. It's a shame to not > thank them, so we have to fix this!
Haha, neat meme you started. Want to get wild? Post it on planet! (please don't) > It would be really great if all maintainers could take 10 minutes and > check that all of their main contributors are listed in there. To do so, > open this URL and look for the name of your contributors: > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-desktop/trunk/gnome-about/contributors.h?view=markup > > If there are some missing contributors, send me a private reply with the > names of those contributors. I'll make sure to add them before 2.18.0. > > It'd be great to have the non-ascii characters in hexa, so for example: > "Mariano Su\xc3\xa1rez-Alvarez" instead of "Mariano Suárez-Alvarez". Any reason for hex encoding? That's ugly, and we should handle UTF-8 just fine. > I'll ask for a hard code freeze break to get this in (yes, this is code > ;-)). And maybe it's time to make it data instead of code? > Thanks, > > Vincent On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:01 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > > And I'll buy a $BEVERAGE_OF_CHOICE for anyone who makes the dang thing > sexy and less slow in 2.19.0. This is 2007; if our about box doesn't > optionally utilize GL, surely we've failed. :) I suggest we give MacSlow (CC'ed) till the end of the week to come up with something uber sexy. I'll give it a lame try if he doesn't. > Bonus points for making it take less than, ya know, about a million > hours to go through the whole list :) Yeah, one-by-one alphabetical order doesn't sound very friendly. /me remembers the old Win95 contributors easter egg... > [And a full case of $BEVERAGE_OF_CHOICE to whoever goes through the > list of top bugsquad contributors and makes sure they are all in there > for 2.18.0. Unsung heroes and all that.] Others not to forget: - Quim Gil - Carl Worth - The new vte uber-hacker, Chris Wilson > Luis behdad, who is not in the list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list