Open Word

I now have packages in my PPA ready for testing and I’m working with asac to get them included to Ubuntu repositories. If all goes well, we just might see the fruits of my work in the next release of Ubuntu. Exciting isn’t it?

This was for me the last week of Kesäkoodi. There’s still a closing report on it’s way and Openmind conference is coming so I’m not going anywhere. I will push updates through this blog on the Ubuntu inclusion and other important stuff.

I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to, but I’m pretty pleased anyway. Most of my time went to polishing and testing  on Intrepid (new library versions, new trouble) and everything should be working now.

I also made official releases of mobile-broadband-provider-info and libmbca, but I haven’t announced those yet. Packages for intrepid and hardy are available.

Next Week

I haven’t had a lot of time to spent with NM lately. I’ve done the packaging that was scheduled for next week so there’s time to really push NM integration.

I will also start poking the ubuntu people. Hopefully they will poke me back

I missed one week. I’m sorry for that

So what have I been up to..

NetworkManager Integration

Need to say more?

Well maybe a little. My changes are currently only available from mbca branches of NetworkManager and network-manager-applet. I’m currently discussing with Dan Williams about merging my changes to trunks.

My NM branch doesn’t have anything vital for the assistant, but I’ve added some functionality in order to have Nokia mobile phones recognised by NM. That functionality really needs to be added to HAL some later time.

Some Bad News

I have to drop support for Bluetooth and arbitrary serial devices.  Sorry, no can do.

My assistant has the support, but NetworkManager does not. This is propably going to change some day, but for now we just have to seddle for devices discovered by HAL: USB, PCMCIA, ExpressCard and built-in devices.

Your Country Needs YOU!

I got the database repository finally up and running and there’s even one contributor already. Needles to say that’s not enough. Take a look at the instructions and participate! Make the wold a better place

String Freeze

libmbca strings are now frozen. Head your browser to Betawiki and participate.

The Bughunt

I hunted down  GTK bug #546378 and while I was at it I also spotted #545982. Let’s hope 2.12 will also get the translation bug fixed

here’s a nice picture to proof:

Next Week

I’ll provide fresh packages for Ubuntu Intrepid and Hardy through my PPA.

I will write a status report tomorrow (propably), but here’s little something for the brave.

my NetworkManager branch:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/branches/mbca NetworkManager

my network-manager-applet branch:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/network-manager-applet/branches/mbca network-manager-applet

network-manager-applet must be configured using –with-mbca switch to enable Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant.

My son was sick the whole week and I didn’t get much done. But I managed to create couple of SVN repositories with my new and shiny account.

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libmbca:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/libmbca/trunk libmbca

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/mobile-broadband-provider-info:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/mobile-broadband-provider-info/trunk mobile-broadband-provider-info

Packages for Ubuntu Hardy are found from my PPA.

I finally managed to set up a SVN repository for the service provider database. Now it’s time for contributors to start updating the database. Take a look at the instructions and enjoy! Let’s make those patches fly.

PS. I will be lurking at #mbca@freenode, but my son is sick, again , so I might not be imediately available to answer your questions.

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:23:24 +0000 (GMT) (12:23 EEST):

Dear Antti Kaijanmäki,

Your GNOME SVN account will be ready for use in about 1 hour.

–
The GNOME Accounts Team
<accounts@gnome.org>

Now, after 8 weeks, I can say: “Whee!”

I transformed the assistant to GObject and I’ve been working with the database instructions and UI strings. Here’s a messy tarball for the brave. I just created it with ‘make distcheck’ so it’s not polished or anything. I start digging into NetworkManager next week.

service provider database

I wrote preliminary instructions how to update the database. The work flow will change a little when the SVN module is in place, but the instructions should be accurate already and I’m ready to accept patches. It would be nice if some people could go through the instructions and try them out before I really start to advertise the page.

UI strings

I need help with the UI strings. Take a look at UiStrings and please participate. You can comment direclty to the wiki page if you have (or register) an account on live.gnome.org, or you can comment on this blog or send me email. I just want to freeze the UI as soon as possible so that the translations can really blast off.

svn.gnome.org

Dear Antti Kaijanmäki,

Your account request has been approved by the maintainers/coordinators.

The request will be forwarded to the GNOME Accounts Team for a final
check. When this has been completed, the account will be set up. You
will receive an email when that happens.

Note: This is an automated mail. Please do not respond to this mail. You
can send your questions to the accounts team e-mail address.
–
The GNOME Accounts Team
<accounts@gnome.org>

bugs

Bug 543545 – GtkAssistant crashes when gtk_widget_hide() is called inside “apply” signal handler

Fixed gtk is available from my PPA.

Our baby boy was sick the whole week and I dedicated my time to him; hence there was no mentionable progress with the project. He is now feeling better and I’m back on track.

I’ve decided that usability testing will be postponed until the integration with nm-applet is done and the functionality can be tested as whole. I’m now converting the assistant to GObject (YES, I should have done that in the first place..) and try to rush to finish the assistant so that I can start the integration.

There has been some progress on the svn.gnome.org account and the problem is under investigation. I should receive the account very soon Like you haven’t heard that before

Last week I told you I’m going to use Betawiki for translations. If you want to give it a try follow the instructions and get on to it. Be aware that Betawiki is work in progress so don’t expect it to be flawless. If you encounter bugs or other problems join and bitch at #mediawiki-i18n@freenode.

Betawiki makes it really easy to get up-to-date translations:

#!/bin/sh
#########

base_url=http://translatewiki.net/sandwiki/extensions/Translate/libmbca

# fetch the list of available po files
echo “check po.list”

wget -nv -N $base_url/LINGUAS.txt -O LINGUAS

# get the files
for code in `cat LINGUAS`;
do
echo “check $code.po”;
wget -nv  -N $base_url/$code.po;
done

echo “translations fetched”

I’ve tried to get rid of memory leaks, but still many remain. If you feel brave you can grab an alpha release of libmbca (still working on that svn.gnome.org account) and give it a try. There might be some odd behaviour, but if you find something or just want to say hello, please join at #kesakoodi@ircnet or contact me directly. I’m available at least on Monday from 8:00 AM UTC+3:00 onward. And remeber to read the README.

btw, BlueZ patches from last week got accepted.

toys and raincoats

I finally received the hardware I was promised. Thanks Elisa! I now have Huawei E169, Option iCON255, Vodafone VMC HSDPA 3G and Nokia E81. I also received two raincoats that are hot, hot, hot! (in every way) Here’s some cute pictures (little blue, I know):

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