Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-09 Thread Mirco Müller
Hi Thomas! Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 12:50 + schrieb Thomas Wood: 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. I thought this was GNOME we're talking about. We do professional software, not

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:06 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:58 +, Iain * wrote: Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at all the names in it) I'm not sure what the purpose of this

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Kjartan Maraas
tor, 08.03.2007 kl. 01.06 -0500, skrev Behdad Esfahbod: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:58 +, Iain * wrote: Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at all the names in it) I'm not sure what the purpose of this

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:39 -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:06 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:58 +, Iain * wrote: Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:20 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: Another one is put it them only members of GNOME Foundation. It supposed to be integrated by active members in the last two years (4 releases). Also, as a geek thing, it could encourage(?) to contributors to being part of the

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Alan Cox
I think it would be a shame to drop the credits for our past contributors. We're standing on the shoulder of giants. The giants are not the ones it matters to, they have their names tattooed over everything. You are standing on the shoulders of a small army of minor contributors, who probably

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:50 +, Thomas Wood wrote: I thought this was GNOME we're talking about. We do professional software, not pointless eye-candy, right? I'm not saying professional looking software has to be boring, but there seems to be a tendency to go over the top with GL

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:39 -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:06 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:58 +, Iain * wrote: Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 17:01 -0500, Luis Villa a écrit : On 3/6/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread मयंक जैन ( makuchaku)
On 3/7/07, Ronald S. Bultje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not in it. :-). Looking through the past few series and seeing which more-than-once contributors are not in the list, I guess you'd have to add (Including me): Hi :) Though I'm still learning the ropes, I've contributed a few patches to

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas Wood
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, [...] 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:

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
On 3/6/07, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could make it whiz through and get to any specific name I wanted (e.g. mine) rather quickly. Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at all the names in it) I propose

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Calum Benson
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. :) Bonus points for making it take less than, ya know,

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
On 3/7/07, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we really must have a gnome-about dialog, shouldn't the contributors list be kept up to date automatically? If it has to be updated manually then it's only going to go out of date again for the next release. We could use Tracker to get the

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:50 +, Thomas Wood wrote: ... 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

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: Making it accessible would be rather nice too... it hasn't worked well with high contrast themes for years[1], and I'm guessing screenreaders can't do much with it either. Thanks for bringing this up, Calum! Orca definitely has issues with it:

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
On 3/7/07, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we really must have a gnome-about dialog, shouldn't the contributors list be kept up to date automatically? If it has to be updated manually then it's only going to go out of date again for the next release. Perhaps all svn account holders

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:09 +, Iain * wrote: On a more serious note (i know, I'm in shock too) why don't we just have a web page with everyone's names? that way its easy to update, we can make it pretty, and put photos and biographies and what have you on it. I think making each

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:58 +, Iain * wrote: Seeing as this is the only real reason for having this (I mean, who else has ever run the about program and looked at all the names in it) I'm not sure what the purpose of this message of you was, but anyway, I've done that a few times.

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Vincent, I'm not in it. :-). Looking through the past few series and seeing which more-than-once contributors are not in the list, I guess you'd have to add (Including me): Ronald S. Bultje Sebastien Bacher Tim-Philipp Muller - I don't know how to do a u-umlaut Jens Granseuer Wouter

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/6/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Vincent: I've never been included in the Gnome contributors' list. I reckon it's about time! Bill Haneman also Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di\xf3genes Li Yuan Harry Lu David Bolter Padraig O'Briain and if Will doesn't send these himself: Will Walker Mike Pedersen Thanks Vincent! - Bill

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Ronald S.Bultje
Hi all [shame on lips], I swear I thought that the reply-to was already set to Vincent, I'm humbly sorry for spamming your inbox - and even more so with this apology message. Please ignore me for the rest for the rest of the week as punishment. Ronald On Mar 6, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Ronald S.

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Willie Walker
Sure and: Rich Burridge Joanmarie Diggs Lynn Monsanto Thanks! Will Bill Haneman wrote: Hi Vincent: I've never been included in the Gnome contributors' list. I reckon it's about time! Bill Haneman also Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di\xf3genes Li Yuan Harry Lu David Bolter Padraig

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 06 mars 2007, à 17:31, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: 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

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:31 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: snip And maybe it's time to make it data instead of code? I had the same comment: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415516 -- Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 06 mars 2007, à 17:31, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: It'd be great to have the non-ascii characters in hexa, so for example: Mariano Su\xc3\xa1rez-Alvarez instead of Mariano

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Davyd Madeley
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:01:28AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 06 mars 2007, ? 17:31, Behdad Esfahbod a ?crit : On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: It'd be great to have the non-ascii characters in hexa, so for example: Mariano Su\xc3\xa1rez-Alvarez instead of

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Elijah Newren
On 3/6/07, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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... An older