Jon on our OO team wrote a nice article about the usefulness of git workflows (although it would apply equally to any distributed version control system).
N.B. there is an openSUSE GNOME meeting this Thursday at noon EDT, Please add questions and agenda items to the wiki page.
Francis G. aka apokryphos wrote a nice article on GNOME 2.20 and openSUSE 10.3 which will be out in just a couple of weeks.
With 2.20 and the 10 year anniversary of gnome, for nostalgia’s sake I went and dug up what I think was my first patch to GNOME.
There has been a back and forth on formal ChangeLogs vs vcs commit messages via the GNOME mailing lists. Doing the latter exclusively has never sat well with me because I think it weakens good development practices (at least mine). I find many vcs commit messages lack the detail of ChangeLog commits generated by a workflow involving C-x-4-a in emacs for instance, which makes in easier to document changes on a per function basis, and that makes it easier for others to understand the changes that were made. And documenting on a per function basis forces me to review my patch prior to commit (good practice anyhow, but this puts it in my workflow).
Christian, a leak is certainly possible depending on the version and distro you are running. openSUSE 10.2 had a leak that you need to run the updater for. At one point a big problem was also hal libraries leaking (and when you have to poll, this adds up).
For the old Boston 2000-2001 crowd: I resurrected DC in Toronto this year.
Sophisticated, elegant.
There was a lot of blogging about AMD/ATI releasing specs and such over the last week, the was an official press release last Friday. I’m really pleased that Novell could play such a big role in bringing this about. Extra kudos to our X guys Egbert, Stefan, Mathias (and others I’m probably missing) for banging out the driver double quick.