Mono Weekly News: Tuesday, 07 October 2003

Table of contents:

1.1 DiaCanvas# 0.1.0 Released
1.2 Gnunit 0.2 released
1.3 Linux s390 Mono packages available
1.4 New mod_mono (0.5) released
1.5 Mono 0.28 has been released
1.6 Monodoc 0.7 has been released
1.7 Mono Kick Start book available in English
1.8 Monologue, the true Monoers RSS aggregator
2. Mailing lists activity
3. CVS statistics


1.1 DiaCanvas# 0.1.0 Released

   DiaCanvas# 0.1.0 Release Announcement  About DiaCanvas# DiaCanvas#
is a .NET language binding for the popular  DiaCanvas,
 a full featured diagramming canvas.  DiaCanvas# enables
you to program diagramming applications,  in your .NET language
of choice.  Thanks to everybody who helped make this release
posible.  Special thanks goes to: Gonzalo Paniagua Javier,
 Mike Kestner and Arjan Molenaar, who provided valuable
information  and insight into how DiaCanvas and Gtk# works.
 Features      Undo and redo      SVG exporting      C# specific
PlacementTool      CanvasLine, CanvasBox, CanvasText,
CanvasImage can be created      programatically or placed with
the PlacementTool      Zoom in, out and 100%      Select
all / Unselect all      Delete selected      Snap to grid  
   Partial documented API      A sample program exercising the
canvas   Requirements      Mono 0.26     Gtk# 0.11     DiaCanvas2
CVS, (Will work with 0.93, when it is released)   Availabilty
DiaCanvas# 0.1.0  Screenshot here  

1.2 Gnunit 0.2 released

The first public source code release of gnunit  (formerly known
as nunit-gtk) is available here. Gnunit is a Gtk# frontend
for running NUnit2 tests.  If you are willing to start contributing
to mono, one  of the first things to do is writing
tests for those  classes that don't have one already or improve
the  exiting ones. Running tests with nunit-console is
 boring, so... You can Gnunit in action here.

1.3 Linux s390 Mono packages available

Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages  for the Linux/s390.
You can get them from the  download  page. We have to thanks
Neale and other  packagers their effort to make Mono easily
 available for everybody.  

1.4 New mod_mono (0.5) released

Gonzalo announced a new version of mod_mono,  the ASP.NET apache
module. It works together  with mod-mono-server, available
in xsp. You can get it here  and the XSP version you need
is here.  

1.5 Mono 0.28 has been released

A new version of Mono is out. This release marks  the completion
of the SourceGear project to add  web services functionality
to Mono and improve its  reliability.  Since the last release,
1,124 individual commits  were done to our runtime and
class libraries. 144  bugzilla bugs were closed. As you can
expect,  this release features bug fixes everywhere:  memory
leaks plugged, performance problems  solved, performance
improvements and more.  A special area of robustness is the
client-side  web services component: it is extremely robust
 now, as one of the SourceGear acceptance  criteria was a 24-hour
continuous test of their  client library that did millions
of web service  operations. You can get more detailed
 information in the release notes   

1.6 Monodoc 0.7 has been released

MonoDoc 0.7 has been released.  This release  contains tons of
improvements, and tons of new  documentation.  Monodoc now
runs as a GUI  client and also as a web service provider (you
 can see it live here.  The C# spec is now part of the documentation.
 All errors generated by MCS are included with
 samples so you can find out what errors mean. Class library
rendering can now group methods  with the same name (and a
nice page for  overloads is also generated). It supports keyboard
 navigation, etc. Find out more in the release announcement. 

1.7 Mono Kick Start book available in English

The Mono Kick Start book is now available in  English.  Originally
available only in German.  The book technical review was
done by Dietmar Maurer  JIT architect at the Mono team. 

1.8 Monologue, the true Monoers RSS aggregator

One aggregator to find all the monoers blogs,  one aggregator
to link them... Some of the core  Mono developers have started
a new pet project  called Monologue.  Very similar to Jeff
Waugh's Planet GNOME. Both are very good URL's to add to
your favourites.  Monologue code is in Mono CVS for your viewing
 pleasure under the monologue module.

2. Mailing lists activity
3. CVS Statistics


  Author		Commits

  Atsushi Enomoto        91
  Ben Maurer      210
  Bernie Solomon      63
  Dennis Hayes     14
  Dick Porter     7
  Duncan Mak     126
  Employment Now     7
  Gonzalo Paniagua     469
  Hector E. Gomez Morales      21
  Jackson Harper        42
  Joel Basson      14
  John Luke      56
  Jonathan Pryor     7
  Jordi Mas      21
  Lluis Sanchez      140
  Martin Baulig     21
  Martin Willemoes Hansen        105
  Miguel de Icaza     210
  Mike Kestner     231
  Nick Drochak     21
  Paolo Molaro     14
  Pedro Martinez      28
  Philip Van Hoof      7
  Radek Doulik     14
  Reggie Burnett      35
  Sebastien Pouliot        112
  Timothy Parez      7
  Todd Berman      140
  Zoltan Varga        126


  Module		Commits

  ByteFX.Data    1113
  doc/    1498
  I18N    21
  ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib    35
  Mono.Security    49
  Mono.Security.Win32    7
  Npgsql    14
  System/    273
  System.ComponentModel    273
  System.Configuration.Install    7
  System.Data    504
  System.Design    14
  System.Drawing    637
  System.Drawing.Design    70
  System.Runtime.Remoting    70
  System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap    21
  System.Security    203
  System.Web    2345
  System.Web.Services    1960
  System.Windows.Forms    1008
  System.XML    693


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