[Gimp-web] Help needed for the gimp web site

[Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris]

Hi Raphaël and others,

Unfortunatelly I am out of time to follow up gimp-web /9and even gimp lately) 
development.

But one thing that would be very important to the site, as I had pointed out 
once in the devel-list, is a straight link to the windows binaries downloads 
page.


Currently one have to follow through 6 or 7 pages, all in English, making it 
an impossible journey for a non-English speaker to go from www.gimp.org to 
the sourceforge download page of the binaries.

Regards,
	js
	-><-


A Wednesday 10 October 2007 14:30:14, Raphaël Quinet escreveu:
> GIMP 2.4 will be released very soon.  It should be a matter of days.
> However, the new web site for 2.4 is not ready yet.  It would be nice
> to get some help and have the web site ready for the release.
>
> As you may already know, a temporary web site has been set up at
> next.gimp.org (please do not publish links to that site outside the
> GIMP lists!).  I am looking for volunteers who could contribute
> contents for the following pages, in order of decreasing importance:
>
> Required for the 2.4 release (blockers):
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html
>   The release notes for GIMP 2.4.  Several sections are incomplete.
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/features/
>   List of features presented in a graphical way.  See the FIXME
>   message near the top of that page.
>
> Optional improvements:
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4-cm.html
>   A description of color management as an addition to the release
>   notes for GIMP 2.4.  Still incomplete.
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/about/introduction.html
>   The original introduction and list of features, partially redundant
>   with the new list in /features/.  Maybe both could be merged?
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html
>   The user FAQ should be updated.  Some sections are obsolete (Xinput,
>   MIT-SHM, ...), the sections about fonts and file formats date back
>   from the GIMP 1.x times, most of the troubleshooting section should
>   be rewritten, etc.  Some answers could be shortened by linking to
>   other parts of the site or docs.gimp.org (e.g., the list of books
>   should link to /books/).
>
> * http://next.gimp.org/about/history.html
>   History of GIMP releases.  I'm not really sure about what to write
>   in that page (compare with prehistory.html and ancient_history.html)
>   or how to make a pretty timeline as a simple image (without using
>   JavaScript). So maybe this can be left for later.
>
> If you want to help for any of these pages or improve some other
> parts of the site, please contribute directly in SVN.  If you do not
> have SVN commit access, you can also post bits of improved text to the
> gimp-web list and someone will take care of committing them for you.
> If you have SVN access to the gimp-web module, please use the branch
> "gimp-web-v2.4" instead of the trunk, which is only used for the old
> site and will be replaced soon.
>
> Several people have reported that they experienced difficulties in
> building the web site from SVN or setting up a web server, etc.  If
> you only want to check that you did not break anything before doing a
> commit, then you do not even need a web server to test your changes:
>   make DocumentRoot=/tmp/wgo
> This will build and install the generated HTML files in a temporary
> directory /tmp/wgo without requiring you to set up anything special.
> If this works, then chances are the you did not break anything.  You
> will not be able to see the correct style sheets and included files,
> but at least this will check the basic syntax of your pages.
>
> -Raphaël
>
> P.S.: This message is also cross-posted to the gimp-developer list, but
>       please send replies to the gimp-web list only.
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