Here at Sun we build our man pages from SGML, and we have invested a lot of time putting together SGML versions of the various GNOME man pages. Because it is a Sun ARC (Architecture Review Council) requirement to have man pages for all programs installed to /bin or /sbin, we have spent a lot of time updating the community man pages so that they are more complete and accurate and also supply man pages for quite a few programs that aren't documented by the community.
Most of the community man pages are in NROFF format. The SGML can be converted to NROFF, but it might be nice if the community moved towards XML Docbook. One advantage of doing this is that it would be easier to include copies of the man pages in the User manual that gets displayed in yelp.
To date, Sun's improved man pages have not made it back into GNOME community CVS because these issues have seemed to big to resolve and there are not enough SGML/manpage experts at Sun who can dedicate their time to this project. I'm wondering if there might be some people out there comfortable with this sort of work who would be willing to work with me to help get these man pages into the community CVS.
Secondly, there is a real need to cleanup the user interface in GDM. If there are any developers who have GUI experience who would be interested in improving the usability of GDM, then I could use some help.
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