[gnome-love] No love for docs?

[Kevin Conder <kconder interaccess com>]

        I'm documentation writer fluent in the ways of DocBook. I've been
looking for a way to contribute to the Gnome project. So far, I helped the
programmer of the guikachu project when he posted a direct plea to the
gnome-doc mailing list. I have much love to give...

        However, it seems like you have to "know someone" to contribute to
the Gnome Documentation Project. Their pages on developer.gnome.org are a
mess. It doesn't look like their Documentation Status Table 
(http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/doctable.php3) is being kept 
up-to-date. How can I contribute when I don't know what needs to be done
and who's doing what?

        The GTK+ Reference Documentation Project is an even worse. It
looks like their status page (http://www.gtk.org/rdp/status.html) hasn't
been updated since *late 1999*! I guess they want to keep the information
a secret. 

        What tags do I use to mark-up code for gtk-doc? What tools do I
use to process marked-up code and where can I download them? I'd like to
spread some documentation love to the GTK+ API but I don't know how.

        Do you have to be a close personal friend to someone on the Gnome
Foundation to write docs? Why do the documentation teams fail to document
their own efforts? Makes no sense to me.


-- Kevin Conder, kevin kevindumpscore com