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GNOME Love Day

Submitted by shaunm on Mon, 2004-11-15 15:18. GNOME

Sunday, November 21st is a very special GNOME love day dedicated to spreading the love for Yelp, GNOME's own rocking help browser. Our freindly and experienced hackers will be on hand to help bring new developers up to speed.

Development on the 2.9.x series has been rapid, and there are plenty of tasks suitable for new developers. Here's a partial list of the fun and excitement you can expect:

- Polish the man page converter
- Implement bookmarks
- Implement multi-level history
- Implement title pages and cover pages
- Make the contents pages prettier
- Dig into accessibility issues

Also, Danilo Šegan and Shaun McCance will be on hand for work on xml2po and gnome-doc-utils. We'll attempt to switch some projects over to using the new documentation build utilities, documenting our adventures and fixing the tools as needed. People who know python, XSLT, shell, make, or autotools can find plenty to do on Sunday.

The love begins on November 21st at 10:00AM CST and will continue to 9:00PM CST, or whenever I fall asleep. That's 16:00 UTC to 03:00 UTC. Join us on IRC in #gnome-love.

And remember, every day is a good day for GNOME love. Whether you want to hack Yelp or not, whether you can make it out on Sunday or not, you can always come to #gnome-love to get started.

See the thread on gnome-love@gnome.org for more information.

Yelp looks good, but ends up being mostly useless

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-02-20 21:08.

I have to say: Yelp looks great!, but I've only got a few applications -- gnumeric being the most notable -- for which the help files are installed correctly out of the box. I've sat down and tried to debug a few others to get them working, with some success, but if I have to debug my help system then instead of getting help I'm helping help, instead of help helping me, which is just silly.

I wish people would just write man pages, they're more useful to me because they're simple and they work. Everybody wants to do help their own way, now I've got a system with multiple competing help systems, and I hate it. I wish I could just delete all this stuff, it's more than useless if it doesn't work.

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