Hi There
I was hoping to write the Gimp GAP manual. Unfortunately I have found
myself in a bit of a "catch-22".
I do not know the GAP side that well. I was hoping the developers would
tutor me and I could write everything in a manual. I have volunteered
hosting space for the project too. I have used Gimp for about 3 years
now. I have spent many hours learning it, yet I am still consistently
finding new features and new things that can be done with those features.
I am sure that GAP will provide many pleasant surprises for a long time
to come too.
I can only program in Python but I took a peak at the GAP source code.
It must have taken a long time to do all that work.
Having said that, there is very little documentation. It seems like such
a shame that so much hard work has gone into it but it remains difficult
to get started with(at least for me) due to the lack of documentation.
I am new to the Gimp mailing lists, please don't flame me but how do
manuals(or sections) get written without assistance from the coders?
I want to help, please let me know how.
-Patrick
Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:46:44AM -0400, Patrick wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> This is my first post here. My programming skills are still a little
>> weak but I was hoping I could contribute by helping to write the Gimp
>> GAP user manual. With a 1 1/2 year old child and a 1 1/2 year old
>> business I don't have too much time. Things will go slow. I can however
>> provide hosting space and indeed a dedicated website for the project.
>>
>> If the GAP developers/users can help to tutor me I can post my work
>> online. I should also be able to do so in a Wiki format so others can
>> correct my mistakes or clarify ambiguous statements.
>>
>> Please feedback as to whether or not this is a good idea, and if it is,
>> any comments on the best way to achieve this.
>>
>>
> Please contact the gimp-manual team. Perhaps it could be a good idea to
> just add a section on the online manual (that could have the side effect to
> enable the much useful "F1" key contest open help browser).
>
> bye
>
>
