Re: Linux Gnome/GTK+ Programming Bible

[Judith Samson <judith samson usaserve net>]

Yikes! I didn't know that you had to be a hacker to be part of the
project. What about the documentation people and bug testers and pr
people ( I wish there were more of them) and, ahem...us users? There is
a lot more to a project than code, especially when the project grows as
rapidly as GNOME.


J Dube wrote:
> 
> >I love the open revolution and fully intend to join it--just as soon as I can
> > figure out how to do it.
> 
> Sorry to sound offensive, but shouldn't you know it before you write a book
> on it?  There really isn't anything to "join" persay, just code for a good
> cause.  If Havoc Pennington wanted to code for something other than Red Hat
> or Gnome, all he would have to do is write code and submit.  If you wanted
> to help with Gnome or RedHat, nothing is stopping you from submitting, which
> is almost one whole aspect about the open source revolution.
> 
> > Anyway, there will be at least one chapter of this book online. And there
> 
> unfortunatly with both the GTK+ tutorial and HP's GTK+ / Gnome Application
> Development (plus a bunch more on developer.gnome.org) I'm not sure how
> much sales a dead tree copy of a book like this will make.
> 
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