Heh no news since 2007 fall, something went wrong! In fact it was
due to holidays, work overload and some unintended days off I had
to take. Anyway, sorry about that, let's move onto EWN #4!
So, since christmas the Elisa team achieved good work,
polishing Elisa and Pigment for releases which happened on Jan,
15th. Elisa 0.3.3 "Mayfly" got released, Pigment 0.3.3
"Gryffindor" and Pigment-Python 0.3.1 "Slytherin" were
released! As you can see Loïc splitted the Python bindings part
out of Pigment core, both projects have now quite separate
release cycles and it's a lot easier to manage that way,
developers interested only on the C/GObject API can follow
Pigment-core development and Python developers will be interested
to follow both :)
I won't cover details about the releases here, people can read
the release links above. However I'm strongly advising people to
give Elisa a fresh run. The new UI really blows away the end-user
experience, we already got tremendous feedback from enthousiast
users and it looks like we're moving in the right direction,
let's stay in the path now :)
So we are now preparing next release cycle, we already found some
bugs in the 0.3.3 version, but no show-stopper yet. I'm preparing
the Debian packages, unofficial ones are already updated for
Gutsy on i386 architecture, we'll soon support more
architectures (like amd64). Official Debian packages needs some
refreshing too, uploads to debian experimental should happen
soon, next week I hope; followed by a sync request for Ubuntu
Hardy.
The Elisa team recently welcomed Guido, a new Python developer who
will first work on the Elisa Plugins management system to allow
users to easily download and manage plugins from Elisa UI and to
allow Elisa developers to upload new Elisa plugins in the
upcoming community-driven website. That's one of highest priority
tasks for the next Elisa release cycle, users (and developers!)
have been waiting for it, we now have human resources to
accomplish it. I'll most likely help Guido on that big thing.
The windows versions of Pigment and Elisa were not released for this
cycle, we had some issues and no time to fix them properly, sorry for
being vague :)
On the Coherence side, Frank released 0.5.0 version,
congratulations to him! He's planning to do a presentation of the
project at next FOSDEM, be sure to be there, UPnP is getting
more and more interest these days.
That's it for the 3-weeks-weekly news, next round next week with
some progress reports and good news on the Elisa front!
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