On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 07:44 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Hi, > I am a newbie to this list. I want to help out with the GNOME > documentation project > Last few days i have been reading that many people have been > "committing" changes to some packages (eg evolution). > I would like to help out the community in this regard too. > > Could a kind soul please tell me (or point me to some online resources) > on how this is done? Do i have to learn to use CVS? And how do i use > this "bugzilla" thing? > > It would be nice if someone could point me to some "doc writer guide" > like stuff
To contribute to Gnome, you really will need to learn CVS, at least the basics. CVS is where we store all of our revisions for all of software. Without it, your work is just bits isolated to your computer. To be able to commit to CVS, you need to have a CVS account, and it usually takes some amount of work to get one. The good news is that you don't need to have a CVS account to contribute. You can write some documentation and send it directly to us. We can commit. We have a handbook for documentation contributors. It could use some work, but it will answer many of your questions. Read it here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook/gdp-handbook/ Bugzilla is where we track all the work we need to do. Basically, if somebody thinks something is crap, he can file a bug in bugzilla saying so. We can then add comments, change various metadata, and so on. It helps us keep track of everything. You should jump onto IRC some time. It's a lot easier to get people up to speed on things in real-time communication. We're on irc.gnome.org in the #docs channel. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
