Call for help with documentation (2nd try)
Hi, the response to this mail was very small when I sent it to the list a month ago, but I want to give it another try... So, here comes the next call for help: This one is targeted especially at people who always wanted to contribute, but couldn't due to the lack of coding skills. There's some documentation shipped with The GIMP that urgently needs to be updated and checked for correctness before version 1.2 can be released. Here's a list of things that need to be overworked: man-pages: gimp.1 gimprc.5 (generated from gimprc.5.in) stuff in the docs directory: cheat_sheet.txt keybindings.txt ( do we need both ? ) quick_reference.ps (the LaTeX source is in docs too) Additionally gimprc.in from which the global configuration file is generated should be checked for completeness and correctness. All possible configurations should be listed here with useful comments. The Phtoshop-keybindings file ps-menurc has to be updated to reflect the changes in the menu-structure. If you want to take one of those jobs, please announce that you are working on it, so we don't duplicate effort. An additional remark: We have started to document libgimg to provide a useful source of information for plug-in developers. Mitch and me have already done a fair amount of work in this area. Documentation of libgimpui is almost complete and we are right now working out a way to add the information contained in the PDB. However help in this area is of course highly appreciated. I want to encourage especially the authors of code contained in libgimp to add some documentation. There's a README in the devel-docs directory, you will want to read. Salut, Sven
Re: Call for help with documentation
Hello Sven, I and Karin can look into the user documentation if you want. Cheers Olof On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, the last call for contributions was a great success. The list of plug-ins that remain to be gettextized has shrunk down to (assuming that the posted list was correct): MapObject gfli libgck xjt and I`m sure someone is already working on these. So, here comes the next call for help: This one is targeted especially at people who always wanted to contribute, but couldn't due to the lack of coding skills. There's some documentation shipped with The GIMP that urgently needs to be updated and checked for correctness before version 1.2 can be released. Here's a list of things that need to be overworked: man-pages: gimp.1 gimprc.5 (generated from gimprc.5.in) stuff in the docs directory: cheat_sheet.txt keybindings.txt( do we need both ? ) quick_reference.ps Additionally gimprc.in from which the global configuration file is generated should be checked for completeness and correctness. All possible configurations should be listed here with useful comments. The Phtoshop-keybindings file ps-menurc has to be updated to reflect the changes in the menu-structure. There's probably more If you want to take one of those jobs, please announce that you are working on it, so we don't duplicate effort. Before starting to work on one of the files listed here, send me an email. I'll try to coordinate the work. Salut, Sven
