GNOME Platform Developers Guide

[Craig Keogh <cskeogh adam com au>]

Hi,

I am considering writing a developers guide for GNOME. I thought I would
first ask here if it is a good idea, or if such documentation already
exists?

The aim of the guide is to make it easier for new developers to get
started hacking GNOME. Topics include building GNOME, whether to build
system services (DeviceKit, PolicyKit, ConsoleKit, PackageKit) or not,
running your built GNOME sandbox (in a window, at login or virtual
machine), how to use your favourite IDE with GNOME whether it be Anjuta,
Eclipse, Netbeans etc, and how to debug GNOME within the IDE, how to
debug 'tough' areas (dbus started services, IPC, nautilus startup, the
window manager, etc). I would like to include real bug fix examples too.

I have been enhancing JHBuild documentation[1] and the JHBuild software.
I could place the details there, but I thought it may get more
visibility in a developers guide.

-- 
Craig Keogh <cskeogh adam com au>

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614957