The Open Sourcerer

Author: Jeff

  • Boston Summit in Not Boston

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    This week-end: Trapped Olivier Crète and Guillaume Desmottes into fixing their stack to make video/audio calls work again in Empathy 3.2 Spoke at length with Robert Ancell at the Collabora party on Sunday. Good to have an elaborate counter-argument to Matthew Garrett’s famous rebuttal of LightDM: it seems that Robert wishes to make it a…

  • Spammers on a Wiki

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    It is no secret that the pitiwiki was the target of a large scale cyber-warfare campaign in the last few months: the amount of spam polluting the wiki history was so ridiculous it prevented me from doing any serious editing in it. During the hackfest in August, we took the time to move the wiki…

  • Mort subite

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    Certains d’entre vous se souviennent peut-être de «Knock Clock», un script de réveille-matin obscur que j’ai publié il y a longtemps. Je l’avais spécialement conçu pour Karamel, un ordinateur portatif n’ayant pas l’Internet, pas l’USB, pas de touchpad et pas de disque dur. La semaine dernière, j’ai constaté avec horreur que Karamel s’était éteint (au…

  • Pitivi's startup time

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    So, since it seems everybody’s been talking about startup time these days, I’ll admit I tend to secretly obsess over that too. Well, it’s not so secret given that I’ve blogged about profiling work on Specto and PiTiVi before… anyway. I believe you should provide your developers with the fastest computers to do the development,…

  • Pre-releasing in New York

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    A pre-release of Pitivi is out. Please test it out and report any problems you may find, and help us make the 0.15 release (due September 26th) a great success! Among the usual round of fixed bugs, niceties of this release include a presets system for project settings and rendering settings (there’s a preset for…

  • Improving GNOME PackageKit on big screens

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    In the same vein as my don’t make me scroll post, I sent a couple of patches Richardwards to, among other things, solve one of the biggest itches I had with gpk: the fact that I had to care about sizing it up constantly on my 1920×1200 24″ monitor. Before, if you started gpk-application (or the…

  • Results from the hackfest

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    I had a fantastic week at the PiTiVi+GES hackfest and desktop summit in Berlin. Over the course of the past few days, we polished and merged some more features and bug fixes in your favorite video editor. Lubosz’s “transformation” branch has now been merged and allows insanely sexy and efficient panning/resizing/cropping of your video clips,…

  • HTML5 videos on Planet GNOME

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    WordPress still doesn’t have a built-in HTML5 video embedding feature, and my previous attempts at using plugins that are supposed to do so failed when either they were unreliable, stupidly hard to use, or Planet GNOME just didn’t seem to like them at all. This is quite frustrating as it has been quite a few…

  • Various performance and usability improvements in PiTiVi

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    I have been attending the Desktop Summit since the opening on Saturday, and it’s been a great experience reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new ones. Tomorrow, the PiTiVi and GES hackfest officially begins, in room “1.308/2” (the building is at 24 Dorotheen Straße). Come join us at any time of the day (and since…

  • Chaos

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    No matter how I try to write this, it will come out wrong. I have basically no chances of improving anything at all, especially since I’m no Shakespeare. I’m good at singing the praise of contributors, but I’m terrible at handling delicate situations. I’ll still try clarifying my thoughts into this post, which I’m quite…