--- Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As one of the maintainers of gnome-games, I > promise > > that we will involve > > the GDP as much as possible. > > That's great to hear. > I wasn't in any way picking on gnome-games, it was > just an example :)
Actually, let's pick on gnome-games :) You've replaced my comment on the wiki page with this: 'The new game will be committed to gnome-games CVS when the feature freeze of GNOME 2.18 has started. At this time, translations and documentation of the new game can begin' The 'you'll know on the day of feature freeze' approach is exactly the problem -- the GDP ends up with an impossible mountain of work to do in a very short time. Here is what I suggest should happen instead: 1. You currently have a list of suggested new games. I image you'll be making a shortlist for the survey fairly soon and the developers of these will be contacted. 2. The developers of these games write to the docs list, saying something like this: "Hi. My game is being considered for GNOME. Please could you take a look at the docs I have / help me write a manual from scratch." 3. I strongly doubt that any of the games under consideration would *completely* rewrite their UI between now and freeze. Most devs would have at least a vague idea of a roadmap, and could say to us "features a b and c will change, but the rest is stable". EVEN with an app due for a complete UI change, we'd be able to help them get a user manual template into their CVS, and add to it an introduction and overview of the rules. With existing manuals, we can convert what's already there to docbook, and help them get into shape for GDP style. Looking at the manual for Hearts for example, http://www.jejik.com/hearts/users/, it falls into the trap of doing a listing all the menus instead of focussing on tasks the user wants to accomplish. This might work out as a little bit more overall work for the GDP, but it would be work that can take place during the quiet part of the cycle. It would also give you an indication of which developers of the proposed games are serious about getting their projects up to gnome standards :) ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
