Fellow Ubunteros, if there’s anyone out there in Barcelona for Saturday night without any plans, please take this chance. The tickets were €100 each (eTickets, so I can send them over as soon as you want to grab them). You can contact me: phanatic at ubuntu dot com.

On Monday morning I finally met Robert at the breakfast, and got introduced to Aaron, Ian, John and Martin. We went together to Canonical’s office in the Millbank Tower (wow, what an awsome view from the 27th floor!). Many people have joined us during the day, and also Mark gave us a visit. We began to discuss the schedule and topics for the sprint – of course everything was about performance. On the first 3 days all operations were analyzed separately in smaller groups, which was a great opportunity for me to get familiar with the interns of Bazaar (until now I didn’t really care about them, because I was using the API only).

On the remaining days I got into hacking on Olive a bit, because there were several bugs to fix, and some major features to implement. Here’s a list about what I’ve accomplished during the sprint:

• Fixed branch initialization on Windows.
• Put Annotate into the context menu.
• More columns were added for detailed information about files (currently shows: name, status, size and time of last modification).
• File list is sortable by the various columns.
• Bookmarked locations are added to the Get and Checkout history by default.
• Branch -> Status working again.
• On the Get and Checkout dialogs the branch won’t be polled while typing (after losing focus instead).
• Revisions get displayed immediately in the Revision Browser (doesn’t lock the main loop).
• Files are loaded into the file list likewise.
• Brand new location bar.
• Browsing remote branches is possible.
• You can see the state of the inventory at a given revision (History mode).

I plan to blog about the two latest features in a separate post, because they are really neat and deserve it.

It was a pleasure to meet so many great people during the week:

• Some of them I’ve met before: David, Jelmer, Matthew, Robert, Steve, Vincent and Wouter.
• Bazaar folks I haven’t met before: Aaron, Andrew, Ian, John, Martin and Michael.
• SoC students for Bazaar: Alexander, Bogdano and Klaus.
• Canonical folks: Celso, Chris, Claire, Colin, Dave, Jane, Karl, Kiko, Malcolm, Mark, Matt (sorry I couldn’t remember all names).

Finally the group photo of the Bazaar Sprint attendees:

Standing: Alexander Haro, Wouter van Heyst, Bogdano Arendartchuk, Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij, Vincent Ladeuil, Ian Clatworthy, Klaus Hartke.

Sitting: Aaron Bentley, John Arbash Meinel, Martin Pool, Szilveszter Farkas.

See all of you soon! :)

Dear Applicant,

Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code.

This means that in my second year in the Google Summer of Code program I will work on a WYSIWYG-style editor for Mallard documents (codename Foie Gras). Buddhika Laknath Semage was also accepted for this project, that’s why we also had the first meeting with our mentors (Don Scorgie for Buddhika and Shaun McCance for me) – result: the visual editor widget will be developed by Buddhika, and I will work on the application shell (that includes UI design, Subversion support, sending patches for review, translating, etc).

I’m looking forward to working for the GNOME project.

(Note: I will still continue my contributions to bzr-gtk – mainly focusing on items in my GSoC proposal. The Bazaar Sprint in London will be a great opportunity to hack on these features.)

This is the main Tags window you see when you use the ‘bzr gtags’ command or select the Branch -> Tags menu in Olive.

You can select a mainline revision with the help of the Revision Browser. If you leave the Revision ID entry blank, the tag will be set to the last revision.

You have to confirm the removal of the selected tag.

UPDATE: Sorry, I forgot that there is a branch out there you can try. bzr-gtk branch with tags support on Launchpad (you need at least Bazaar 0.15 to get it).

The story. A really surprising thing has happened yesterday. It all begun with an instant message from Kálmán Kéménczy (Novell Hungary fame). He asked me how the Hungarian Ubuntu Community would feel about Novell Hungary hosting the localization weekend. I replied with the question: how would Novell Hungary feel about hosting the Hungarian LoCo’s localization weekend? Kálmán said it would be fine, so did I :) He asked for my patience, because he had to set up a plan, and ask for the directors’ permission.

Happy End. Today I can announce, that the Hungarian Ubuntu LoCo will hold its first LIVE Localization Weekend on the March 31 and April 1 at the Novell Hungary HQ in Budapest.

I think that’s what open source is all about…

PoC (hopefully not Piece of Crap™) code to kick off TortoiseBZR

Right at the beginning on Monday I had a discussion with Robert about TortoiseBZR and how we should get started with the whole thing. He pointed me to a simple example of extending the Windows shell. First a screenshot about the context menu entry:

After you click on the entry, you get a Commit dialog (of course only when the selected file is inside a branch):

The code that’s launched by clicking on the menu entry to display the Commit dialog is available here.

Unfortunately I’m not a Win32 API and COM magician, so I’d welcome any contributions in this area to make Bazaar rock really hard on the Windows platform as well.

Get rid of Glade

After a short discussion with Jelmer, we came to the conclusion, that using Glade from Python is not that efficient, so I’ve began to rewrite several dialogs according to this. That also gives us more power, since the new dialogs can act as real dialog giving us responses (e.g. the file list panel in Olive refreshes itself after a successful commit).

Added ComboBoxEntry with history to the Branch, Checkout, and Push dialogs

Branch and Checkout dialogs will remember all your successfully branched/checkouted locations for you. The same applies for the Push dialog on a per-branch basis.

Revision Browser dialog

Until now you just had an entry box where you could specify the number of the revision you wanted to branch or checkout. I’m proud to present you this nice little thing that makes your lives easier:

You just need to double-click on a revision to get its number filled into the entry box on the Branch dialog:

Experienced users can spot another new feature on the screenshot above: you can specify a branch nick, so bzr-gtk will not decide it for you anymore (based on the branch location).

Some new commands on the command line

We already have a bunch of commands available from the command line (gannotate, gbranch, gcommit, gdiff, visualize), but we’d like to provide a graphical alternative to all core bzr commands. You can now also use gcheckout and gpush.

All these features are available from the trunk.

Have a question or idea?

If you have a question regarding the development, or have an idea, or just want to say hello, drop me a line in the #bzr channel on irc.freenode.net (alternatively you can also leave a comment or e-mail me at phanatic at your-favourite-distro dot com).

Hint: your-favourite-distro should be ubuntu ;)

Presentations in English:

• Jani Monoses: Xubuntu
• Raphaël Pinson: Kubuntu
• Ante Karamatić: Printing in Ubuntu
• Szilveszter Farkas: A Google Summer of Code™ project – Olive

Presentations in Hungarian:

• Török Gábor: Ubuntu aperétif (Ubuntu Introduction)
• Dobi Attila: Ubuntu és a WiFi (Ubuntu and WiFi)
• Mátó Péter: Biztonságos munkaállomás Ubuntu alapon (Building a secure workstation based on Ubuntu)
• Süveg Gábor: Grafikai programok Ubuntu alatt (Graphical applications under Ubuntu)
• Kelemen Gábor: Az Ubuntu honosítása és az ubuntu.hu (Localization and ubuntu.hu)

I’d like to thank again to our sponsors, the speakers and all the visitors for making all this happen (this conference was the biggest FOSS related event in Hungary in 2006). I really hope to see you this year again :)

Footnote: I was proud to read the following from Kevin Kubasik:

This also makes bzr the first mainstream source code management solution that has a functional, incorporated, and incredibly useful Gui. (provided by the bzr-gtk plug-in for anyone who was wondering).

Our next target will be a TortoiseSVN-like shell extension for Windows (bzr-gtk has already got a great Nautilus extension thanks to Jelmer). And of course fixing current bugs.

I’ve been dreaming about getting an own camera for years, and yesterday it became a reality! Bought a Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6MP, 12x optical zoom, image stabilizer and 640×480/30 videos with stereo sound are the highlights). Today we went for a walk with my friend to shoot around the city. Unfortunately the weather was pretty foggy, but I think we did some good pictures. Check out my Flickr page (yeah, I went for a Pro account, so I can store my photos there – also noticed the most recent images on the sidebar?).

My favourite pictures: Sphere, Cross, Foggy forest, Autumn path and Freedom Bridge in fog.

TODO list has grown a lot recently:

• migrate one custom CMS-based site to another custom CMS (in paralell to this, I began to migrate all my custom CMS driven sites to Drupal)
• package Karoly Gossler‘s SaX2 Ubuntu port (stay tuned, X server packages need to be rebuilt too)
• finish my homework for the Java class
• learn for the 8 university papers in the coming 3 weeks

Surprised I don’t have any time to hack on bzr-gtk/Olive? :( Oh, an important thing: if you’re looking for Olive, just grab the latest bzr-gtk release (0.12.0). The two projects were merged (thanks to Jelmer Vernooij for restructuring the code, and Alexander Belchenko for Win32-related bugfixes).

I was happy to hear that people liked the last part of the Linuxportál TV show (FOSS-related live TV programme @ fix.tv), where I presented the features of Ubuntu 6.10, and also gave away some GNOME stuff (2 T-shirts and a bag) I got from Gergely Nagy at the Hungarian Ubuntu Conference.