Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: New releases and maintenance branch created

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

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 02:13:23AM +0000, Sean Coughlan wrote:
> what is the current tactic to build awareness / user base out there?
Most of the users will use our stable releases. I'm not sure if I understood
this question correctly.

> why can't we have direct links to packages for some of the major
> distros on the website?
We do. Having more packages is certainly something we want to have. Any help
would be appreciated


> is there a person dedicated to documentation? 
No. Previously it was just all done by developers. Now we have a wiki anybody
can join in and we would really like more people to do this.

> are the core maintainers
> spread too thin? 
Yes. And the developers have varying amount of time from week to week. For
example, I might find a few hours one weekend but then no time for the next few
weeks.

> is there a concrete list of stuff that be made up and
> then delegated to willing people on the list? 
The top priority list is bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org
Then we have the list of API changes for the new upstream releases. We will be
updating this on the wiki so we can keep track of what is done.
Finally we have new libraries to be bound.


> is java-gnome mature,
> stable and complete enough for a slashdot or equivilent post?
Absolutely

> If there is anything i can do to help out... i'm game, able and have the tim
What are you interested in doing? If it's development, then there's plenty to
do -- just ask on java-gnome-hackers and we'll try to help you get started. 
If you have time to test the libraries, find out how they work and then write
documents, or example apps to help new users, that would be really useful. I've
started a JavaGnomePrimer page on the wiki which will hopefully be like a new
user tutorial in the future. You're free to work on that if you want -- one area
in particular where we need more documents is about glade.
I'm sure there are lots of other things you can do to help too -- It just
depends on what you're interested in and able to do.

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