Re: [gnome-love] No love for docs?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 02:44, Kevin Conder wrote:
>       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.
yes, you need friends in GNOME for writing docs :-) but you're lucky,
because I was precisely looking for some new friends to write some
documentation for GNOME-DB :-)

We need a lot of documentation love in GNOME-DB, so if you want friends,
the job is yours :-)

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> - <rodrigo ximian com>
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