Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

["Alexander Jones" <alex weej com>]

2008/7/7 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
>> We could use context-sensitive help in other applications too... If
>> Yelp is so hopelessly incapable then we should all be moving on
>> together, regardless of whether GIMP is a GNOME application by breed
>> or not.
>
> I've spoken to some of the GIMP help system guys before,
> and I have a fairly clear concept of what GIMP needs from
> Yelp.  There are plans underway, but I've been busy with
> life and such, and Don is busy picking up the maintenance
> slack I leave laying around.
>
> The reason Yelp isn't yet doing what it needs to do is
> that there aren't enough people working on it.  If people
> don't want to work on Yelp, what makes you think you're
> going to find people to work on some replacement?

Well people apparently do want to work on a replacement... quoth Sven:
"We started to use webkit for the GIMP help-browser in trunk". To be
honest, it sounds like NIH to me.