Re: This is pretty weak. [re: getting new blood]

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 20 Apr 2002, Luis Villa wrote:

> -----Forwarded Message-----
> |
> | From: Luis Villa <louie ximian com>
> |
> | BTW, for those without copies of the code,
> | http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html has some good instructions for
> | getting started with GNOME CVS. 
> 
> So, that's the best I could come up with last night for a 'getting
> started with GNOME programming' URL. If we're going to attract new
> hacking blood, as discussed at the BOF at guadec, we've just got to have
> better getting started docs, pointing at stuff like any gtk tutorials we
> have, the HIG guidelines, this CVS page, etc. Unfortunately, I'm

The cvs page should probably also have a paragraph on survival with the
anoncvs setup[1], which looking at the regularity it comes up on irc badly
needs to be there.

> completely unqualified to write such a page myself :/ but I hope someone
> who is will take the time. We badly need new hackers and something like
> this can help make that happen. Or at least that seemed to be the
> consensus at the BOF...
> 
> Luis
> 

[1] Unless large improvements happen

	Sander

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