Re: How to port applets to GNOME2 (again)

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:03:46PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote:
> > If people really consider it a boring task, I can see that it is
> > unfair of me to suggest that they spend their time with it. But else I
> > don't understand your attitude.
>
> It's not an attitude, just the facts of how open source
> works.
That's definitely the way it works today, but that doesn't mean we 
shouldn't try to change things a bit.

> Everyone does what they consider highest priority.
Well, when releasing development libraries, writing documentation should 
be considered one of the top priorities, IMO. In fact, it is more 
important than to actually implement some of the functionality.

> What didn't
> get done is what no one did. There's no central command & control that
> provides a rationale for the big-picture "what got done," it is simply
> the sum of what people did.
>
> So, the way to be sure something happens is to do it yourself.
> Richard Stallman's answer to "when will foo be done?" has always been
> "faster if you help."
Of course. However, it may also be easier to help/get others to help if 
the basic doc is available at an early stage (it's a lot easier to 
implement something when you know how it's supposed to work.)

Also, documentation written by someone who "figured out how the thing 
works" is really no substitute for documentation written by the people who 
actually designed the software.

> FWIW there's a fairly serious effort to unify all the important widget
> APIs into GTK which has a full-docs-on-all-new-API policy.
Good ;-)

> This is one
> reason some people don't prioritize libgnomeui docs very high.
>
> Havoc
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