Author Archives: Seb

Bugzilla email spam filtering

If you’ve got a mailing list dedicated only to bugzilla traffic, you might find these rules useful to filter out any spam. Since the Subject field of these lists are so rigid, we can obviously tell which emails are spam.
Use the following rules in your mailman config:
Rule 1: Discard any emails flagged as spam

matches? ^X-Spam-Flag: [...]

Amarok October Updates

Amarok 2 is really gearing up to become a great piece of software. We are all are frantically trying to find any time we can steal from our busy schedules of work, study, and good-times to put some of that extra special attention to detail and polish on the application.
This week I finalised the third [...]

Amarok 2 Beta 2 released

You may have already noticed, that we have released Amarok 2, beta 2. This is a very exciting release for us as we have put an incredible amount of effort into features and bug fixes. This release pushes most of the significant work which was discussed or achieved during Akademy, such as changes to the [...]

Roktober returns

A quick service announcement:
The Amarok project has started it’s annual fundraiser campaign Roktober. We’re hoping to raise a staggering €10,000 – for server costs, developer hardware, travel costs, expo and trade show exhibitions, developer meetings.
For every €10 you donate, you’ll go into a draw to win an iaudio7. This year we have two grand prizes [...]

Some clarity, please

I do believe that my recommendations very much match the mainstream of the opinions of the key people in Linux multimedia and desktop audio. Of course I don’t nearly know everyone of the key hackers in Linux multimedia. But I do know most of those who are actively interested in collaboration, whose projects have a [...]