Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:46 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:08 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote:
> > 2008/7/6 Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>:
> > > Please remember that GIMP is not a GNOME application. Also I don't know
> > > any GNOME application that would have context-sensitive help similar to
> > > what GIMP provides.
> > >
> > > We considered to allow GNOME users to use yelp as the help browser for
> > > GIMP, but last time I checked yelp did not provide the features we need
> > > (namely telling a running instance of the help browser to jump to a
> > > certain topic).
> > 
> > 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?

It would be good if the plans were made more public, and if possible,
split up in smaller tasks that could end up in bugzilla. It would help
people to nibble at the problem, even if they don't have too much time
to work on Yelp itself.

Cheers