Hi all, I already let gnome-love know about this - but this list seems even more relevant.
For the GCI run this year, I added a couple of documentation tasks for beginner type documentation I felt was missing from the GNOME "getting started" story. 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 I would really appreciate people from this list having a quick glance over it, help fill in any gaps in the tutorial, and build on Lennart's work. I think it's pretty good (the stated goal was: "get someone with a fresh Linux install to the point where they can compile GNOME software as quickly as possible, and explain each step along the way, pointing to further documentation if it's appropriate"). This tutorial is thus, for me, a good idea of how new developers meet GNOME, and perhaps can help us identify easy ways to lower the barrier to entry? In particular, Lennart found the constraints of building master excessive on his stock Fedora, because he would have had to compile all the dependencies. Something to bear in mind for newcomers to the platform! Also, if there are similar GCI tasks you can think of, Andre is still looking for mentors & tasks: http://live.gnome.org/GoogleCodeIn#GNOME_Community:_Getting_Involved Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
