Python is a interpreted language, so the python code are just text files with the .py extension. For simple scripts it's really easy to have your files located, but when you starts to use dependencies and different projects with different requirements the thing starts to get more … | Continue reading
The new version of the GNOME desktop was released more than one month ago. It takes some time to arrive to the final user, because distributions should integrate, tests and release the new desktop, and that's not something simple, and it should integrate in the distribution relea … | Continue reading
More than a year has passed since I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution, in both, my work computer (for obvious reasons) and in my personal computer and I can say that I'm really happy with the change. Tumbleweed is a rolling release distribution, and in this kind … | Continue reading
We are at the end of the summer and this means that this year Google Summer of code is ending. The recent changes applied now in the main branch include: Remove usage of pkg_resource because it's deprecated. Fix elf binary check with ELF files with a prefix. New check for pyth … | Continue reading
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release distribution, so it's ideal for developers and users that like to have the bleeding edge software. It's also really "stable" to be a rolling release, from time to time you can find a broken package because of one package is updated and ano … | Continue reading
I'm spending some time every week working in the rpmlint project. The tool is very stable and the functionality is well defined, implemented and tested, so there's no crazy development or a lot of new functionalities, but as in all the software, there are always bugs to solve and … | Continue reading
Hack Week is the time SUSE employees experiment, innovate & learn interruption-free for a whole week! Across teams or alone, but always without limits. This year the Hack Week was this week, the last week of January and for my first SUSE hack week I decided to work in something f … | Continue reading
Is the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, so it's the right time to look back and see what great things happened during the year, and also it's the time to plan some new year resolutions. My contribution to GNOME in 2022 I've been focused this year on the GNOME Translation Ed … | Continue reading
The GUADEC is back! This year, the famous GNOME developers meeting event, the GUADEC, gets back to "normal" after the last year global COVID-19 situation. And when I say normal, I'm talking about people meeting in one place to share knowledge and to build a great community around … | Continue reading
GNOME Translation Editor, Road to Gtk4 It's time to move to Gtk4. That could be an easy task for new project or for small projects without a lot of custom widgets, but gtranslator is old and the migration will require some time. Some time ago I did the Gtk2 to Gtk3 migration. It … | Continue reading