releasing gtk-doc 1.18

2011-08-31 Thread Stefan Kost
hi, I'd like to make a gtk-doc 1.18 release by the end of the week. Please test git head against your project. Current relnotes below. There are two bugs that need a solution still:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649269 and the one below. Stefan o gtk-doc supports a subset of

3.2 Release Notes time - Help needed!

2011-08-31 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi everybody, it's time to start preparing the 3.2 release notes to tell our users, developers and press what's hot and new in the next GNOME release! This means: We need YOUR help! What new features does your application have? What important bug fixes? What accessibility improvements do we

Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Owen Taylor
The idea of a GNOME Shell extension is to let the GNOME community build on top of the GNOME Shell code base, to tweak, to customize, and to prototype new GNOME features and behaviors. GNOME Shell extensions aren't sandboxed, and sandboxing them is fundamentally hard because shell extensions are

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
(Just a few comments on what's currently implemented) Obviously, this website and its goals have some parallels with the Mozila Addons site. I have been talking to their engineers and we both decided that doing our own thing would be best for both of us. I have been talking to them about how AMO

Re: Confused about the release

2011-08-31 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 15:24 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I noticed that we have Contacts, Documents, and Sushi in the apps moduleset. gnome-documents worries me because of its dependency on Tracker. As far as I can tell, g-d is linked from

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
Of course, Linux users run unsandboxed code with arbitary capabilities every day - applications, for example. So the security question with GNOME Shell extensions is not how we can do the almost impossible job of sandboxing them, but how we can build up layers of social, user interface, and

Re: Confused about the release

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 15:24 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I noticed that we have Contacts, Documents, and Sushi in the apps moduleset. gnome-documents worries me because of its dependency on Tracker. From my

Re: Confused about the release

2011-08-31 Thread John Stowers
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:26 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 15:24 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I noticed that we have Contacts, Documents, and Sushi in the apps moduleset. gnome-documents worries me because of its dependency on Tracker. As far as I can tell,

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Stef Walter
On 08/31/2011 11:16 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Right now you pass the plugin an URL to a manifest file, so it's not hardcoded to seek out the URL based on extensions.gnome.org. The idea here was that if we needed to offload the servers with the extension data to a CDN, we wouldn't have to make