[Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome Changes

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

Hello,

A lot has been happening in the java-gnome world over the past week, this email
will hopefully let you all know about it.

Java-Gnome developers have unfortunately been too busy in real life lately. New
developers wanting to help out have had their questions left unanswered and 
some confused java-gnome users have been getting even more confused due to our
lack of good up to date documentation and replies to their questions.

We want to change all that. And we are doing. We're making a number of changes
to make life easier. So, the changes so far:

Bug tracking moved to bugzilla.gnome.org. 
This gives us a far superior tool for tracking and dealing with bugs in
java-gnome. It also makes it easier for gnome developers to get involved. We're
going to move all existing reports from the sourceforge system to bugzilla over
the next few days. If you have an open bug report, please move it over yourself
so we might have more time to answer the report.

New website: http://java-gnome.sf.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/
This is still very much under development, but we really would love to hear your
views on it - if you think something is missing, or could be said better, please
let us know, or just fix it yourself. The website is a wiki, so we would really
like everyone to contribute -- please consider giving something back in return
for the java-gnome bindings.

Binary Packages
They're coming. The website will now keep up to date info about them too

Release status
2.8.0 has been released, but we didn't make an announcement. We have some big
fixes to the build system in cvs and they will be in 2.8.1 release, which will
have a release announcement.

HintsAndTips
A new section to the website. This is where we really want your help. We want
any hints and tips for java-gnome newbies and also experienced developers.
Absolutely any topic you think is useful. Please give us your tips. If you need
advice on how to do something, add it to the hintsandtips section so that
someone will tell you how.

JavaGnomePrimer
Our tutorial at the moment tells you how to write java-gnome apps using our api
alone. With tools like glade and eclipse, there are far better ways of
developing applications with java-gnome. This primer will perhaps replace the
tutorial, telling new users how to do these things. The primer is still very
much in need of work -- please consider sparing a few moments to write a section
of it, or just review what's already there. Add your comments to the primer
itself. That's why we made it into a wiki after all

I look forward to seeing lots of changes in the website RecentChanges page and
hope that in the future java-gnome can be even more useful for you.

http://java-gnome.sf.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/

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