Right.
So, time to start this stuff up again.
In the past few months since I've been kind of lazy here, basically everything has changed. Well, not really. But kind of none the less. Anyway most people probably know this stuff but I just wanted to write it down here too, or something.
So Helix is now Ximian. Some day I hope to write up something describing the painful journey that led up to this name, and then the suckiness of having tons of people mailing us saying we should change it back. Anyway, I hope the new name has grown on you a bit in the past couple of months.
We finally moved to a new office, too. It's pretty nice, but now a 40-50 minute walk from my apartment. Which is pretty cool cause i usually can listen to most or all of an album on my way there. And there is a kick-ass mexican taco place close where we seem to go every day (at least this week joe & i have).
So I got off the distro team for a bit, working on pretty much the setup tools from thanksgiving until early February. That was pretty cool, but most of the work there is in the backend, and they have enough people who know gtk and guis well enough to do a good job without me.
On the Tuesday of the week of LWE NYC, nat called at like 1 PM saying we were going to announce our deal with HP for doing Ximian GNOME on HP-UX. He said he wanted me to get ximian gnome built on one of the boxes so we could demo it at our (kick-ass) booth the next day. Woot. So I spend that afternoon and night building GNOME on HP-UX (we had only built GTK up to that point). Nat and I drove the box to NYC that night and arrived at our hotel at around 7 AM; pretty much exhausted.
LWE was pretty cool, although I was basicaly exhausted the whole time, so i didn't do anything other than hang out at the booth and sleep at the hotel.
Then, I hacked on bug-buddy for a week or so (to make it work with gnome's bugzilla). I finally got the frontend rework in there, which is nice. Sadly, there isn't the cool backend stuff (didn't have enough time) like using red-carpet for dependencies and other niceties.
After that, I helped get the packages for the GNOME 1.4 Beta 1 done. That was a fun week. Building packages is always fun :)
Then I got reassigned to the Ximian Labs team, working on GNOME 2 stuff. I did quite a bit of research and put together this proposal for gnome-libs 2. After some discussion, we aren't going to be adopting this for the short term, but the long term (GNOME 3) may end up looking more like this plan.
During this time, I also was doing some porting for HP-UX. This was basically getting the login stuff in zvt working. I also started reading a book on COM, which I haven't finished. It's pretty helpful for understanding Bonobo's goals.
Then, it was decided that I should work on getting Ximian GNOME 1.0 on HP-UX. Mike Whitson had done a lot of work with getting our new build system to be able to build sd packages, but I had built GNOME on it for LWE, and very intimately know the GNOME building process. Hopefully this will get done soon because it is not terribly fun.