Re: Status report

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

The idea is brilliant! Now, if you both could make it a proper text,
that would rock'n'roll! :-)

A short outline with questions that our readers are probably interested
in:

 // Introduction

 // Background information

  * What is Portland ?
  * How did it came into existance ?
  * What are its goals ? [1]
  * What  are not its goals ? [2]
  * Who's working on it ?

 // Overview on the existing functionality

 * What is available right now ? [3]
 * What is planned for 0.2 ?

 // Status of Portland withing GTK+/GNOME

  * Plans from the GTK+ developers
  * How and when do they think about using Portland?
  * Is there any example source code, maybe?

 // Summery / Outview

[1] This includes a short description of what the problems are with the
old approach.

[2] People seem to be confused whether Protland is a new, common widget
set for GNOME and KDE. Better make clear, it's not.

[3] Usual articles stop here with a reference on what's available for
download. This sucks. Source code is hard to read. As a reader, I'd
like to get things explained, even if it's just the first two steps.


We shouldn't over-use the interview style articles. We're a journal. If
you have the basic text as outlined above, direct speech from real
persons are the cream on the coffee.

If John would write the non-technical part, and Sri does the technical
part, the first draft is written in an evening (for a native speaker,
at least.)

Please! It would rock so much!

Cheers,
Claus


On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:29:46 -0700
Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:

> Well, I could possibly.  The leader of the project (at least the one
> who is going to be speaking about it at GUADEC) is Waldo Bastian.
> Waldo works in the building next to mine and perhaps I could do a
> live interview if someone can help me with questions.
> 
> Alex Gravely is the GNOME person for Project Portland and of course he's easily available on IRC.
> 
> sri
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:11:43PM +1200, John Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:40 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> > > Hi, guys!
> > > 
> > > We recieved two articles so far for the next GNOME Journal release.
> > > Both of them are uploaded to textpattern.
> > > 
> > >  * Behind the Scenes: Elijah Newren by Lucas Rocha
> > >  * Deskbar: A Bar For Your Desk! by Davyd Madeley
> > > 
> > > I'd suggest that John edits the first one, and Laurie edits the second.
> > OK.
> > 
> > > I may be able to finish my own article in time but I'm not sure. Maybe
> > > this is going to be our first edition with only two articles. Sorry.
> > Hmm.  Would someone be willing to write one about Portland?
> > 
> > 
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