Author Archives: Mary Gardiner

Free Software Carnival: 12 – 18 July

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 [...]

Submissions thread: until 26 July 2008

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Free Software Carnival: 5 – 11 July

Big plans
Lucas Rocha gave a talk on GNOME 3.0 plans at GUADEC.
Panu Matilainen annoucnes a new RPM version heading rawhide’s way.
Community
Sure enough, there was more action on the microblogging syndication issue: Mikal Still, Matt Bottrell.
Stormy Peters is the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
Software development
Mukund Sivaraman lists some useful programmer tools he’s come across.
Havoc [...]

Site licensing

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Free Software Carnival: 28 June – 4 July

Attribution
John Palmieri discusses the pros and cons of acknowledging coders in press releases.
Version control
Justin Dugger talks about version control from a packager’s point of view and reviews some of the discussion to date.
Tim Penhey looks at using Bazaar’s loom plugin.
Casey Dahlin can’t stand Bazaar’s shortcomings.
Russ Albery is considering how to maintain a git repository for [...]

Free Software carnival: 21 – 27 June 2008

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Bugs
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) describes how important bug [...]

Submissions thread: until 12 July 2008

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Welcome

I won’t be giving Interstellar Medium any publicity for a week or two yet, so sssh…
Hello out there. This is Interstellar Medium, currently the cold dark space between the Planets, but soon to be a veritable party, bringing you the brightest lights from the Free Software blogs each week, approximately. Posts will be frequent and [...]

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