It’s already the fourth issue of Flattr FOSS: it means 20 different projects using Flattr that I presented you. Here are the 5 suggestions for November:
- Redshift is a small utility that adjusts the color temperature of your screen to make it less aggressive on your eyes, in particular during evening/nights. It uses the time of the day and the geographic location to know whether it’s night or day. I discovered it this summer and I liked it, although I’m not running it permanently.
- Noscript is a Firefox plugin to control what sites can execute javascript, flash and other plugins. All those are creating supplementary security risks and you browse safer if you allow only some sites to run them. This is the number one entry on Flattr in the opensource category, it recently took the place of dpkg.
- phyMyAdmin is a web interface to manage MySQL databases. If you have such a database on a web-hosting service, you have likely already seen it in action. It’s an award-winning software with a 12 year history, it’s not so common for PHP applications. 🙂
- Chromium maintenance in Debian. Chromium is a rapidly-evolving & complex software and Giuseppe Iuculano has been tirelessly working on packaging it. Almost alone within Debian. He deserves kudos for his work even though he reused work made by Fabien Tassin on the Ubuntu package.
- Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols. It’s an important building block for interoperability between Bazaar and Git: bzr-git (a Bazaar plugin providing Git integration) is notably using it. Given the large usage of bzr in Ubuntu and the popularity of Git world-wide, it’s important to have such gateways.
This article is part of the Flattr FOSS project.
Update: mentioned the work of Fabien Tassin on the chromium package within Ubuntu.
“has been tirelessly working on packaging it for Debian. Almost alone”.. yeah, or how to rewrite history.
most of the revisions come from ubuntu, and all merges since the fork were stolen from my branches with no credits. Makes me sick.
Fabien, sorry for this, I was not aware of it. I’m going to update the blog entry.
(BTW I still remember your name when we were both on Usenet…)
Bullshit.
This is the changelog http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_6.0.472.63~r59945-1/changelog.html
When i merged some your work I always gave credits, if this doesn’t happen please contact me directly instead of writing some random rant in some random blogs.
“most of the revisions come from ubuntu” again, bullshit. See the changelog and debian/patches
Giuseppe, please avoid words like “bullshit”, they serve nothing and only discredit you. You are free to give your version of the facts but please stay polite and constructive.
I’d rather see you both cooperate instead of fighting. Chromium deserves better than this.
Sorry for the “bullshit”, but be accused of not cooperating, or stealing the work (*misrepresenting*) from who only frustrated the chromium inclusion in Debian, is something that really riles me.
Raphael, you shouldn’t advice to send money to NoScript because it already earns money in a weird manner, please have a look at http://lwn.net/Articles/332093/