Re: really attracting developers

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:05:48 +0200, Rogelio Serrano  
<rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:

> Whats keeping other developers from gnustep?
One thing might be that GNUStep-related stuff is somewhat disorganized.  
Documentation, for example, is scattered across the normal homepage, the  
wiki, http://gnustep.made-it.com/ and maybe others, and is sometimes even  
incomplete. The wiki feels kind of empty, underattended and stump-y. The  
application page references the GWorkspace guide but not the one for  
GNUMail (http://gnustep.made-it.com/Guides/GNUmail.html). There's no quick  
link for SVN access in the developers section, something that stumps me  
every time. Bug reports are stored at savannah.gnu.org, including the old  
but still intact CVS repo, while the new SVN repo is at gna.org. And so on.

Some of these might be minor annoyances, but they add up, at least for me.  
Why not move everything, except the SVN repo and bug reports, to the wiki  
and make that the actual homepage? Additions, updates to, and discussions  
of guides and other information would be greatly eased, since people other  
than the maintainers can contribute quickly. A very quick look at the  
build guide suggests that it could be split up nicely to fit in. Snapshots  
of the documentation could then be included in releases and with some  
scripting work, you could possibly synchronize the API documentation in  
the wiki with the source and maybe vice-versa. Plus, a wiki is searchable  
without Google.

Oh, while I'm day-dreaming about documentation, Yavor Doganov brought up  
"Project Mallard" (http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/quack/mallard.xml) on the  
GNUMail ML. This would get along nicely with wikis me thinks.