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

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il mer, 2004-01-07 alle 10:51, Mark Howard ha scritto:
> 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?
Me.


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Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>