Development Status

Work on the GParted application is managed by Curtis Gedak.
Work on the GParted Live image is managed by Steven Shiau.

Mission Statement

The goal of GParted is to provide an easy way to graphically manage disk device partitions, without unintended loss of data, through the use of GNU libparted and other free software file system tools.

Releases

Plans for new releases of GParted can be found in the General Development forum.

We strive to create new releases of GParted about every 2 months. Having said that, we will create a new release in a much shorter time frame, especially if needed to fix critical bugs.

Source Code Repository

The source code for GParted is managed under the GNOME git repository.
See the GParted git page for more information.

Communication

The forum is used extensively for communication.

Bugs are reported and tracked using the Gnome bugzilla bug tracking system.

Application Development Guidelines

GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm for the Graphical User Interface (GUI).

GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several optional file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted.

The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible. We strive to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. We try to keep the source code as maintainable as is reasonably possible. We seek to stay true to the GParted mission statement.

Coding Style

There are no hard and fast coding standards for GParted. For now we prefer code enhancements to match the surrounding coding style.