Second call for help (was Re: What do you want to do for Dia 0.97?)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Am 16.04.2008 18:07, Lars Clausen schrieb:
> I'm very thrilled to hear so many people who want to help develop Dia.  
> Or maybe y'all didn't read Hans' message thoroughly - he asked what  
> you want to *do* for 0.97, not what you want to have done. 
>
I was already wondering if I need to rephrase the question :-)

> There's no lack of suggestions for improvement, but a serious lack of people  
> doing any work (me included at the moment). So please, if you like  
> Dia, and are not afraid of a little C hacking, a bit of effort on your  
> part can go a long way towards a better 0.97.
Even if you *are* afraid of a bit C hacking (or maybe afraid of me getting 
afraid of your hacking capabilities ;)) there are quite some tasks not 
requiring developers skills at all:

 - updating the wiki, so some of the info in the NEWS [0] file gets
   more accessible to Dia users
 - going through open bugs [1] an trying to reproduce stuff which
   currently has not that information
 - going through Dia enhancement request [2] and match them with
   the ChangeLog [3]. (I've got the impression there is a lot of stuff
   already adressed but not properly reflected in the bug-tracking
 - improve/update documentation
 - and last but not least: *read* the information provided and explain
   it to people who do not ;)

Thanks in advance for all you help,
        Hans

[0] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk/NEWS
[1] 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=dia&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
[2] 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=dia&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_severity=enhancement&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
[3] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk/ChangeLog

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