Re: [Java-gnome-developer] volunteering to translate documents]

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

Hi,
  Sorry for not responding to the website for a long time - we have been
very busy preparing the code for the gnome bindings release. It is clear
that we need to keep the website more updated. Your work on the website
has been absolutely fantastic - it looks really great and professional.
I was hoping that perhaps you would consider staying on as webmaster.
Since you might not follow java-gnome development as closely as us, I
will send you detailed information about what updates need to be made
each time. In addition to updating the site, could you possibly
coordinate the translations too? we have quite a few people writing
translations at the moment. One suggestion was to have a "team" page on
the website which gives details of everyone in the java-gnome team. This
could also be used to keep track of the status of the translations.

Please do edit my changes to make them sound better - english never was
one of my strongest abilities.

Current updates:
  
Front page - add a new paragraph
Java-Gnome is committed to providing a reliable API for GNOME to be used
in real applications. As such, we are part of the official <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings">Gnome Bindings
Release</a>. This commits us to high quality releases and a release
schedule closely following the main gnome release schedule.


News:
It might be best to replace this page with a link to cvsweb. Then it
wouldn't require as much work to keep updated. 
CVSweb is down at the moment, so I can't give a url. The file needed is 
java-gnome/common/NEWS

Roadmap - please change to:

We will follow the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings">Gnome bindings release
schedule</a>. This includes making stable releases which change API
every 6 months followed by a number of bug fix releases. When gnome
start work on their next version, we will also start work modifying
java-gnome for it. During this developmental period, we will make
developmental releases of our latest code roughly every two weeks.

Version numbers will always follow GNOME/GTK version numbers - i.e.
a.b.c where b being odd indicates a developmental release and even
indicating a stable release.

Throughout all releases, we ... + last paragraph from current roadmap

Supporting New Libraries
As we get time, we also hope to provide support for new libraries. These
will be released when ready and will not follow the schedule until they
become reasonably complete and stable. Current plans for new additions
include:
gnome-panel-applet
gtkhtml
libvte
Work has already started on some of these, but they are not yet of good
enough quality to enter the gnome bindings release.


Download:
Stable Releases
The current stable release series is 0.8.x. This provides support for
gtk 2.0 / gnome 2.2. The current release includes tarballs for each
individual module, plus an all-in-one java-gnome tarball. Most
developers recommend using this tarball. 

Sources are available from <link>sourceforge</link>

Precompiled Debian packages are available in the main distribution.
<code>apt-get install libjava-gnome-doc libgtk0-java libgnome0-java
libglade0-java</code>

RPMs  -- is anyone creating these?

If anybody creates precompiled binary packages for other platforms,
please send us a link.

Developmental Releases
Current developmental releases are available in the gnome bindings
release at ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/Java/. The all-in-one
tarball is available from link:sourceforge.

The very latest code is available from <link>cvs

Support (new section in download)
We are more than pleased to help new developers get started with
java-gnome. Please send your queries to
jav...@li....

Applications:
please replace the top two paragraphs with:
The following is a taste of some of the applications written with
Java-Gnome. If you would have written an application in Java-Gnome,
please send a link to your website (with screenshots) and we'll add it
to the list.

Related links:
Please add the gnome bindings release.

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