Testing
Matthew Wilson likes doctests.
Community
Lennart Poettering continues to question the usefulness of Planet Fedora.
Paul W. Frields discusses sensible contributions to Planets.
James Morris observes the way different conferences create develop communities around the world.
Metrics
Paul Adams wants to add quality metrics to the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software.
Desktop
Stormy Peters has decided this year is the year.
John Palmieri explores the unlikely scenario of GNOME using Qt as its toolkit.
Miguel de Icaza thinks Gtk+ 3.0 will be a disaster, Emmanuele Bassi summarises an IRC discussion concluding it’s not as bad as all that, Miguel maintains it will be a disaster for independent software vendors.
Havoc Pennington is unsure if Gtk+ 2.0 is as appropriate for newer platforms as it is for the Linux desktop.
Morten Welinder doesn’t want to have to update applications and Martin Sevior says Gtk+ 2.0 does what AbiWord needs.
Jeffrey Stedfast is bothered by the move to break the long term API/ABI stability promise, and thinks ISVs will be too.
Kernel
Ben Collins clarifies Canonical’s upstream contributions.
Sound
Jeffrey Stedfast doesn’t think end users should be doing PulseAudio’s QA.
