Hello. It’s been quite a while. I’ve been meaning to post for a while, but I’ve been too busy trying to get GNOME 3.14 finished up, with Wayland all done for you. I also fixed the last stability issue in GNOME, and now both X11 and Wayland are stable as a rock. If you’ve ever had GNOME freeze up on you when switching windows or Alt-Tabbing, well, that’s fixed, and that was actually the same bug that was crashing Wayland. This was my big hesitation in shipping Wayland, and with that out of the way, I’m really happy. Please try out GNOME 3.13.90 on Wayland and let me know how it goes.

I promise to post a few more Xplain articles before the end of the year, and I have another blog post coming up about GPU rendering that you guys are going to enjoy. Promise. Even though, well…

Changes

I have a new job. Next Tuesday, the 26th, is my final day at Red Hat, and after that I’m going to be starting at Endless Mobile. Working at Red Hat has been a wonderful, life-changing experience, and it was a really hard decision to leave the incredible team that made GNOME what it is today. Thank you, each and every one of you. All of you are incredible, and I hope I keep working with you every single day. It would be an absolute shame if I wasn’t.

Endless Mobile is a fantastic new startup that is focused on shipping GNOME to real end users all across the world, and that’s too exciting of an opportunity to pass by. We, the GNOME community, can really improve the lives of people in developing countries. Let’s make it happen.

I’ll still be around on IRC, mailing lists, reddit, blogging, all the usual places. I’m not planning on leaving the GNOME community. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask.

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Cheers,
  Jasper