Mathias Hasselmann

Postings by Mathias in December 2007

No Privacy for FOSS Developers?

Benjamin, thank you for ruining this year's Chrismas days for me. I know, you didn't do this intentionally, but I have really bad days since I am aware of the privacy strip each Free Software developer does due ill-considered "services" like ohloh.net.

I don't want anyone to do statistics about FOSS contributions. Those stats make me feel naked. What follows is some longish explaination of my feelings regarding such "services", those not interested should just skip to my proposal.

Also I do not like the stats at ohloh.net, because they draw ...

Aren't Tomboy Notebooks redundant?

Boyd, don't you think that notebooks are redundant for an application that got tags already?

(Sorry, for commenting on PGO, but appearently you disabled comments for people without blogger.com account.)

libepc 0.3 released

A new version of the Easy Publish and Consume Library has found its way on GNOME's FTP servers.

This release has seen many API changes to make the library more versatile. For instance streaming capabilities and support for ZeroConf bookmarks have been added. Also noteworthy is the new service monitor, which provides a very easy method for finding libepc (and DNS-SD) services.

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Totem Playlist Sharing

To test versatility of libepc I've written a Totem plugin for sharing the current playlist.

Screencast of the Plugin

Seems we've got another cool feature now, and libepc is in much better shape. Code is commited to Totem trunk, and also depends - surprise - on libepc trunk.

Disclaimer: Yes, demonstrating ...