Hi,
Luke Lollard via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment
wrote:
I'd like to create applications using GNUstep, but finding accurate and
up-to-date information on it is taxing. Documentation is extremely
lacking, there are multiple GNUstep websites, much confusion exists in
the public perception about what GNUstep even is, many links on the wiki
are broken, etc.
One day I hope to be a contributing developer, but I'm currently limited
to helping with other needed aspects.
Who is responsible for GNUstep evangelism that I can work with on
documentation, branding, the website, etc.?
since this is an open source project run as a commodity, there isn't a
Marketing manager or a Documentation Team or whatever.
Everything is more organic. Even less there is a "Brand Manager" and the
topic often heats up discussion... but we stick to our classic logo and
name for now!
If by documentation you refer to the reference documentation, I just
regenerated at the new release and with the updated tools, so if there
is something broken, it would be of interest to me and Richard.
Are you limited in your work by time? by the lack of information or by
the perceived issue?
As Patryk hinted, the Wiki is always a good place to start from - now
that it is restored to full functionality. It needs almost 2 years of
"gap" to catch up again.
Information on the website is often taken from what has been "baked" on
the wiki and stabilized.
If you find broken links... well the best thing is to look and fix the
information. See if it is internal or external.
Find the new address and fix it yourself or ask it to be fixed.
The issue is when it is an external resource and it is gone, the best
would be to find a mirror, host it, copy it over, look for
archive.org... or similar. Just removing it might be a loss of
information, it needs to be thought for.
I did quite some work on the Website and the wiki after they came back
online, but especially the wiki is huge and non-linear, it is not easy
to check and external URLs that continually mutate.
Riccardo
