[Gramps-devel] Call for help...

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

There are several items where we need some help. Alex and I have been 
swamped with support of STABLE and the development of the 1.1/1.2 
branch. If you are interested and could help us out, please contact me. 
Below are a few areas that little to no programming experience.

1) i18n. Currently, we are using a very non-standard method of 
generating the template files for translation. I'd like to see us move 
to intltool instead of the home-grown scripts that I've written. If 
someone could get the build environment using intltool, it would be a 
big help.

2) Installation. The 1.1 installation needs some work. Newer versions of 
  automake/autoconf seem to want to force python files under the python 
site-packages directory. I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, 
since GRAMPS is a full blown application, with a lot of support files 
(images, XML files, glade files, etc.) If someone could come up with an 
installation proposal, and then adapt the configure/makefile structure, 
it would be greatly appreciated.

3) Collect a set of "tips", so we could provide a "tip of the day", 
similar to what the GIMP does. There are a lot of little features that 
GRAMPS has of which many people probably aren't aware. If you want to 
get learn a little python and gtk, it would be a nice project to take 
these tips a develop the "tip of the day" dialog.

And as always, programming help is always appreciated. Just contact me 
or Alex.

Don