On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 17:12 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > The release team is gathering comments from various teams to get a > proper idea of which of March or September 2010 is more appropriate for > the release of GNOME 3.0. The decision for the release date is following > what we set in the 3.0 planning document [1]: we want 3.0 to be out in > 2010, but we also want to make sure that 3.0 is rock-solid; your input > will help us take an informed decision. > > It'd be great if someone could summarize the status of the work that is > being done in your team (especially for mallard, I guess), and how March or > September would work for you.
Yelp 3.0 should be ready by March, although I should mention that it blocks on WebKit accessibility work. I won't ship an inaccessible help viewer. If we have to, we can use Yelp 2, although I think 3.0 will deliver a much better experience. As for the documentation, there's a lot of work to be done. We will do our best to prioritize our work. My feeling is that the new Desktop Help is essential, including integrating the accessibility help. We can work on application help files incrementally as we have time or as people have interest. By March, I think we could have the bones of the Desktop Help in place, but it wouldn't be nearly as useful as it could be. Based on what I'm seeing, I'll give a wild guesstimate that about a dozen small application help documents will be done in Mallard, not because they're the most urgent, but because they're low-hanging fruit. We can do substantially more by September, of course. I'm particularly interested in seeing results of usability tests and reactions of early adopters for Gnome Shell. This can help us shape what help we provide. See Owen's comments on desktop-devel-list about the feasibility of this. On a side note, I'm concerned about the state of developer documentation for Gnome 3. We have a lot of new technologies and new ways for applications to integrate into the desktop. To encourage uptake from third-party developers, I would like to see a coherant message about what our platform is, and to have it as well documented as we can. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list