Re: [gnome-love] Bootstrapping tutorial

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Craig,

Craig Keogh wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 11:23 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Lennart Brinkmann, a German student, just finished a
> > first draft of a "Bootstrapping a GNOME development environment"
> > tutorial, that he has put online in the wiki:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Bootstrapping
>
> Efforts to produce good documentation are appreciated, but I'm not sure
> guiding developers towards a branch (gnome-2-30) that is in maintenance
> mode is a good idea. Guide developers how to help with the current
> (gnome 3.0) version.

As I said, this is very representative of how a new developer approaches
the project - the reality is that to build master on pretty much any
GNOME software, you have to jhbuild the lot. That's a very high bar to
expect people to pass before they start building their first app.

Plus, it's perfectly reasonable for application developers to build
against a stable platform - now, platform developers, that's a different
matter (and by the time they're building everything from git, we have
them anyway!)

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org