OK - so here goes my first plunge into the blogosphere. "Gman":http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/ tells me not to be scared just get in and do it.
So I'm an architect working as part of the Desktop group in Ireland. Enough of the boring intro ... I'll no doubt be rambling on about a lot of different things. Things that are work related and others that just interest me and perhaps a few other weary souls 
*"GUADEC 2005":http://2005.guadec.org/ *
Lots of fun, interesting to meet all the pointy heads so to speak. Will be interested to follow up on a few things:
* Performance: "Robert Love's talk":http://rlove.org/talks/rml_guadec_2005.sxi sparked a lot of interest. Some lads ["Brian Nitz":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bnitz/20050531 ] are already looking into these issues in Sun and there's plenty more work being done around Gnome applications and memory footprint issues. Once the results are in I'll post the highlights here or point to the appropriate blogs. Speaking of which Johan has just posted on some "Bandwidth comparisons between Gnome and CDE":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/johan/20050608#gnome_versus_cde_performance_on Will be a lot of fun with OpenSolaris and use of tools like dtrace to help ferret out the offending code. Robert's main gripe was the lack of tools in the Gnome/ Linux world to really get down and dirty. OpenSolaris and dtrace should really help.
* Autmoated testing: talked with Nagappan who is working on the "Linux Desktop Testing Project":http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/ in Bangalore and was interesting to see how they are using the A11y framework to drive automated testing. Will be interesting to see how we can contribute to help get as much automated coverage of Gnome as possible. Running this in conjuction with regression tests for fixed bugs should really help with overall stability. Now combine all this with benchmark and performance tests on a tinderbox and we should be in great shape - ok not's let get too excited just yet, but you get the picture ...
*"GUADEC 2005":http://2005.guadec.org/ *
Lots of fun, interesting to meet all the pointy heads so to speak. Will be interested to follow up on a few things:
* Performance: "Robert Love's talk":http://rlove.org/talks/rml_guadec_2005.sxi sparked a lot of interest. Some lads ["Brian Nitz":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bnitz/20050531 ] are already looking into these issues in Sun and there's plenty more work being done around Gnome applications and memory footprint issues. Once the results are in I'll post the highlights here or point to the appropriate blogs. Speaking of which Johan has just posted on some "Bandwidth comparisons between Gnome and CDE":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/johan/20050608#gnome_versus_cde_performance_on Will be a lot of fun with OpenSolaris and use of tools like dtrace to help ferret out the offending code. Robert's main gripe was the lack of tools in the Gnome/ Linux world to really get down and dirty. OpenSolaris and dtrace should really help.
* Autmoated testing: talked with Nagappan who is working on the "Linux Desktop Testing Project":http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/ in Bangalore and was interesting to see how they are using the A11y framework to drive automated testing. Will be interesting to see how we can contribute to help get as much automated coverage of Gnome as possible. Running this in conjuction with regression tests for fixed bugs should really help with overall stability. Now combine all this with benchmark and performance tests on a tinderbox and we should be in great shape - ok not's let get too excited just yet, but you get the picture ...
Posted by Alan Horkan on June 09, 2005 at 06:08 PM IST #