I'm impressed with libgda so far. It has most of the API I need and the API seems to be sensible and seems to work. I recommend that other projects use it more so that it gets totally rock solid. I have had such bad experiences with other database-access APIs (MySQL, Sybase, the Roguewave tools.h++, [...]

No matter how ridiculous the opposite view is, it always upsets me to argue. One way to aleviate this might be to publically state some things which I consider beyond question and which I won't bother arguing about any more:

Building from source is a bad way to get GNOME for everyday use.
glade-generated-code is a [...]

Updating yesterday's entry, I hear that gtk-list has 1901 subscribers, desktop-devel-list has 937, and pygtk has 599.

Version number scarcity
Version numbers are a crappy way to give information about your modules. Anything more than “even-numbers=stable”, “major numbers=major changes”, and “larger numbers=newer” gets awkward. But it's convenient to keep version numbers more or less in sync, so [...]

I have a theory. Every time I mention the number of gtkmm-list mailing list subscribers, we get 50 more. There are currently 578. I have a fantasy about them all turning up to a GUADEC. I wonder how many are on big lists like gtk-list and desktop-devel-list.

At the very least, I want to put a company name on my current freelancing work, so I have something to build gradually. I spent some time investigating the various types of German companies, and I think I've reduced it to either an e.K. or a GbR. An e.K. is a bit crappy-looking because it's [...]

I'm porting glom from mysqlcppapi to libgdamm, the C++ wrappers for libgda. This should allow it to support a variety of database backends. Also, I have abandoned mysqlcppapi because MySQL changed their C API license from LGPL to GPL. mysqlcppapi is being maintained by Johnathan Wakely now. At some point I might actually make glom [...]

The 2.6.0 GNOME Platform Bindings release happened a couple of days ago. I think it's a success because 3 bindings projects (C++, Java, and Perl) delivered API/ABI-stable wrappers just 2 weeks after the underlying C APIs, with reason to believe they are high quality.
Binding is inherently feature-based so it's difficult to squeeze it into a [...]

After more work and more stress than you'd think would be necessary, gtkmm 2.4 has reached 2.4.0 and API/ABI-stability. And we wrap most of the rest of the GNOME Platform and bits of the Desktop.

This time, maintainership has been more of a shared effort. Martin Schulze is responsible for libsigc++ 2.0 and Christophe de Vienne [...]