Updates From GNOME: Sam Thursfield, Sriyansh Shivam, and Jean-François Fortin Tam
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Sam Thursfield: Quickball media server v2
As a Linux hacker-type I am often searching for some way to apply my rather specialized skillset to a real world problem. And I am always after some sovereignty over my music collection. So I came up with the idea to make some kind of music player using a Raspberry Pi in an old radio case.
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Sriyansh Shivam: GSoC 2023: Final Report
Hello to everyone.
So this is the final report on the work I completed throughout the Google Summer of Code contribution period (May-September). There's a lot to share and discuss, but I'll try to keep this brief.
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Help us make GNOME Calendar rock-solid by expanding the test suite!
GNOME Calendar 45 will be a groundbreaking release in terms of UX (more on that later?), performance, and to some extent, reliability (we’ve at least solved two complex crashers recently, including a submarine Cthulhu crasher heisenbug and its offspring)… and yet, I think this might be “just the beginning” of a new era. And a beginning… is a very delicate time.
If you’ve tried to use GNOME Calendar in the past decade or so, you’ve certainly encountered one of the many bugs related to timezones, daylight saving time, and all of that crazy stuff that would make Tom Scott curl up in a corner and cry. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and in fact, there is a way for anyone who knows a bit of C programming to help us build the tools to solve this mission-critical problem.
Today, I’d like to urge you to help in writing some automated tests.
The sooner our test suite can grow, the faster we can make GNOME Calendar rock-solid.