Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation

[Tim <darkxst fastmail fm>]

On 11/02/15 12:28, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 01:00 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
>
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild is the one that seems to be
> > preferred by most docs newcomers and team members so from my point of
> > view it would be good that the final result resembles it and works
> > just as well.
> >
> > jhbuilding applications and even the Shell is not a task which is
> > restricted to newcomers, so it seems a bit odd to chose the GNOME love
> > namespace for the final result.
> >
> > If the myriad of the jhbuild pages is reduced to only one, it would be
> > good if redirects are added at the old locations.
> Not to be difficult, but as a non-newcomer, I'd be okay if the
> frequently updated and minimalistic HowDoI page were used as a reference
> for keeping the GNOME love page up to date.
jhbuild is just a mess on distro's that link with --as-needed (atleast Ubuntu does, but surely there are 
others). If you want it to be easy for
newcomers you somehow need to overcome that first!

> Mike