Hi guys,

I don't know how many people are reading this mailinig-list on a regular 
basis by now, but I thought I'd give it a try.

GitX 0.7 is closing in, marking a lot of new features and therefore 
probably a lot of additional attention. One thing that's been neglected 
for quite some time (understandably, because the few people that 
contribute use what little time they have in code ;) is the 
documentation and the GitX-homepage (gitx.frim.nl). What needs to be 
done are the following things:

- Bring the User-Manual up-to-date. This means rewriting parts that are 
obsolete, describing new features (a lot of GitX's feature are hidden 
unless you've read the code or really tried clicking everything on a 
hunch) and supplying new screenshots.

- The homepage could be reworked a little, especially the "Home" page 
could use a small screenshot or in some other way quickly show what GitX 
is about (and show that it's still actively being developed).

- Pieter did some screencasts showing common features. I'm not a fan of 
those but a lot of Mac-OS-folks seem to be, so it wouldn't hurt to have 
updated versions of some cool features of GitX that can best be conveyed 
in a video, like:
  - Line-wise staging
  - Staging/Unstaging/Discarding changes, ignoring files, 
  - Collapse/Uncollapse commit-list/diff-view
  - Checkout branches from UI

All the code you need to get is in the Gitx.git repo in the Site dir. 
Neither Pieter nor I are native english speakers, so feel free to bitch 
about those mistakes as well (bitching is best done using patches ;) And 
since the changes will be in Site/ they won't collide with any other 
development so you don't have to rebase constantly and/or lose work.

Greetings,
Jojo

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