Curious regarding the role fulfilled as spearhead. Apart from a flurry of e-mail activity heretofore not seen in scribus list, provoking consideration to unsubscribe same, what does Kunda bring to the table as self-appointed Spear Head?
On June 5, 2014 12:36:08 PM EDT, Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com> wrote: >Hello folks, >So just wanted to give a heads up that I'm spearheading some efforts to >help 'soup up' more participation when it comes to testing and >compiling >multi-platform builds of Scribus by more folks in the community (and on >the >periphery which includes LibreGraphics peeps, OSS in general, Mac OSX >world, and the crossover Adobe Indesign crowd who can't afford it >anymore >:P ) > >The key to this entails making insanely good documentation to help >inspire >and empower. So first I want to really appreciate efforts that have >been >done by so many before me. > >Most recently: JLuc's great work on >http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_file_a_bug_report This is a >critical >first step to help inspire, by inviting and allowing people to have a >voice >and express it. Greg Pittman on using Scribus and Github. Really good >practical information there for people to exponentially learn both >Scribus >and Git at the same time. a.l.e for outlining/writing a lot of the >information on the topic of participation already that I can draw from >on >his github repos. BTW, if you're not on this list it doesn't mean that >I'm >forgetting you or not aware of your efforts (which possibly may be the >case), it's because I want to get to the point :) > >Great developments in Scribus have happened pre-peri-post LGM2014. So >in >the spirit of riding the wave of those efforts I'm inviting folks to >help >pretty up some of the wiki documentation in conjunction with my >spearheading efforts. This includes: > >+ http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Building_SVN_versions_with_CMake >(making >this super readable and fun) >+ >http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_apply_a_patch_to_scribus_sourcecode >(same principle as above) >+ Participation on the topics discussed in >http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Needed >+ Help educate volunteers using the above resources and/or guiding them >step-by-step. Example: http://goo.gl/vkmrFD >++ Especially we need people who are interested in helping to build >1.5svn >for LInux, OS X and Windows: on a bi-weekly basis or whenever a certain >revision is committed, or to test patches etc... >+ Help to create documentation that will facilitate all of the above >Better >and help progress the effort. > >Also want to send a very thankful regards to the Devs for their >continued >work. Thanks everyone for your attention. Lets continue to get a kick >out >of this continued momentum! > >Cheers, >/Kunda >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140605/efb97faf/attachment.html> >___ >Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >Edit your options or unsubscribe: >http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >See also: >http://wiki.scribus.net >http://forums.scribus.net -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140605/58872f6e/attachment.html>
