Gnome Developer Documentation: how to make 'some' money

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu_lacage realmagic fr>]

Hi all,

I am currently interested in getting top-notch developer documentation
for the Gnome 2.x platform and I am willing to support financially those
who may be interested in working on this. More precisely, I am
interested in supporting the development of the framework for the
documentation.

Some may not agree with me but to me, the key problem with the current
state of things is twofold:
 - lack of a good developer documentation browser: must be lightweight,
must have indexing, fast keyword search, full-text search, must be able
to browse the documentation in its native form (ie: not the
HTML-converted version).
 - lack of cross-indexing framework. ie: in GTK documentation, you want
to refer to some glib function. in libart doc, you refer to some gdk
function... Ideally, cross-indexing should work in both the pdf version
of the docs, in the documentation-browser version of the docs and in the
html version of the docs (for the Gnome website). I am mostly interested
in a solution working in the documentation browser though.

Whoever might be interested should keep in mind that the solution should
use existing Gnome frameworks as much as possible. ie: scrollkeeper, the
gnome help browser.

Maybe the solution is merely a matter of writing a manual on how to
write docs, how to install them, how to build them. If so, I'd be happy
to pay someone to write the needed documentation.

If you are interested, feel free to mail me mathieu gnome org for any
financial arrangements. I am not rich and I have no real idea of how
much it would cost me but I could pay up to 1000 USD/EUR to get this
done.

regards,
Mathieu
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