Category Archives: Carnival

Free Software Carnival: 12 – 18 July

July 19, 2008 – 9:48 am

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 [...]

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Free Software Carnival: 5 – 11 July

July 12, 2008 – 5:32 pm

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 [...]

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Free Software Carnival: 28 June – 4 July

July 5, 2008 – 9:04 am

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 [...]

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Free Software carnival: 21 – 27 June 2008

June 28, 2008 – 1:49 am

Hello, we’re just getting started around here. Find out about us and our editorial policy but remember, nothing is set in stone yet. We’re also not drawing from a very large pool: if you can recommend posts published since 27 June 2008, please suggest them for our next post.
Bugs
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) describes how important bug [...]

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