Re: Gnome-Canvas

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 07:29:26PM +1000, Kristoph A. Cichocki-Romanov wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> >Todd Graham Lewis wrote :
> >OK, I know that there are lurkers on the GNOME list who claim to
> >want to contribute, but who lack programming skills.  Well, either
> >one of you should do this, or all of you are liars: this question has
> >been answered several times on the mailing list.  You people
> >should go through the mailing list archives and find the various
> >answers to this question. You should then package those answers
> >up into a semi-coherent form. You should then either publish the
> >resulting document yourselves, or send it to the GNOME doc
> >people, and they will publish it for you.
> 
> This sort of commentary is not helpful and its not civilized. I have been in
> the industry for many years. I do know how to "program". I have designed and
> implemented systems far more complex then GNOME. However, I am not ashamed
> to admit I find working with GNOME very difficult. There is very little
> documentation for the gnome libraries. That makes starting out difficult for
> someone like me, never mind someone who is less experienced. If you do not
> like questions like this, why don't you add your experience to the
> documentation project. At least phrase your answers in a way that makes you
> sound like a member of a civilized society.
> 
> Most importantly, take some advice from my mom, if you have nothing nice to
> say "keep you mouth shut" :o)
> 

Try to read the commentary in the way it was meant to be read. It was NOT
directed towards the person asking for help on programming gnome-canvas.
It was a 'hey you, we need you' call for help towards those who read
this mailing-list, would like to contribute, but lack programming skills.

Ronald