A drop in the ocean

We were asked by one of the members in our company, how much is the market share for the open-source software which we work on,  Evolution. This was the second time, same question appeared when I was present. As Evolution is the default mail client in GNOME and shipped in many major distros like OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc., we said it should high enough.

But how does one estimate the market share for an opensource software ? Any statisticians who are putting those data somewhere for some popular softwares like firefox, evolution, banshee, open-office etc. after survey?

I have embedded mono into my app (evolution-mono-providers) where I was trying to authenticate to google calendar. Though I had the certificates imported using mozroots, access to website failed.  But then I was able to authenticate through a standalone mono program.

After some debugging with ankit, posted the query on the mono-devel mailing list. Robert’s quick response helped me solve the issue Calling mono_jit_exec with the assembly compiled as an executable fixes the issue. So one has to call mono_jit_exec for certain defaults to be set correctly in the embedded environment.

Here is the mail thread http://go-mono.com/forums/#nabble-to22617142|a22666273 .

Thanks a lot, ankit and Robert!

Just searched for the skeleton generators for GObject. Got couple of useful links,

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2003

http://burtonini.com/cgi/gobject.py

Can we mention these links at http://live.gnome.org/DeveloperUtilities ?

Just found some webcasts at http://www.onenesswebcasts.org/webcastsarchive/index.html

I just completed my first gw mailer fix for bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480091  this week and got the following comment from Dave,

‘Mark reported that for the first time ever he ran all day on Evolution with Chens latest stability patch.  Please, let’s get that merged into the the build so that it’s available in all future released.  Excellent work.’

It fixes some crashes in folder operations such as refreshing folders/moving mails across folders etc. Such a comment, makes me happy to provide more fixes.

‘It is good to have dreams. In fact to achieve something we must have dreams and when dreams do get shattered know that only a dream got shattered. Go ahead and create fresh dreams. We cannot keep weeping on a lost dream.’

Heard this as an answer for a question in one of the recent oneness programs. These keep me motivated.

My first patch to banshee got committed today.  I have been using it for a while.

svn – http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee?view=revision&revision=5126 .

I had been to the oneness temple for a meditation session yesterday. The event was well organized and there were around 300 people out there. I met my mother after a month and was happy to be in the temple after ~4 months. Its always nice to be in this temple.

It has been a while since recession has crept in. I know some of the individuals who have done so well in the past have left now just because they cost high as they are from US or Germany. The truth is, am still working in the same team just because am in India.

To provide justice for the people who have left, I need to start raising my level of contribution. My friend gave me the movie, ‘Revolution OS (Linux Story)’ at the right time which is keeping my motivation running. Am just going to hold on to, ‘learn, share and contribute’.