Re: This is pretty weak. [re: getting new blood]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 15:24, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Luis Villa">
> 
> > If we're going to attract new hacking blood, as discussed at the BOF at
> > guadec, we've just got to have better getting started docs, pointing at
> > stuff like any gtk tutorials we have, the HIG guidelines, this CVS page,
> > etc.  Unfortunately, I'm completely unqualified to write such a page
> > myself :/
> 
> Hey, so am I. However, I've started putting together the skeleton of a
> "GNOME Maintainer's Guide", in the vein of the many excellent guides
> produced by the Debian Project.

I'm thinking less a maintainer's guide and more 'intro to hacking', but
this sounds useful too.

> It will cover stuff like CVS, web publishing (for the *new* site), bugzilla,
> requesting accounts, and other miscellaneous ephemerae. You're very
> qualified to write the bugzilla bit. 

Once you've got a framework set up let me know and I'll be happy to
contribute. Maybe an 'intro to hacking' could also have a 'where can I
find bugs to fix' section as well.

Luis


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