{"id":4466,"date":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=ad0bc95faeca81b4c0d636f44da2ac57"},"modified":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:00:00","slug":"call-for-gimp-2-10-documentation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4466","title":{"rendered":"Call for GIMP 2.10 Documentation\u00a0Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the upcoming <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.10 release we intend to finally close the time gap between releases of source code, installers, and the user manual. This means that we need a more coordinated effort between the <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> developers team and the <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> User Manual&nbsp;team.<\/p>\n<p>For the past several months we&#8217;ve already been working on <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> mostly in bugfix mode. It&#8217;s time to start updating the user manual to match all the changes in <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.10, and we would appreciate your help with&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-needs-doing\">What Needs Doing<a class=\"headerlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2016\/05\/23\/gimp-2-10-docs-update-call\/#what-needs-doing\" title=\"Permanent link\">&para;<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Updating the content.<\/strong> There have been a lot of changes since 2.8. For quite a while, we&#8217;ve been maintaining a structured <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.gimp.org\/wiki\/Release:2.10_changelog\">list of changes in 2.10<\/a> specifically to assist technical writers in updating the user&nbsp;manual.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translating the content.<\/strong> At some point we&#8217;d like to &#8220;freeze&#8221; the documentation so that translators could start updating localized versions of the user manual. Since <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> is <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-help-2\/\">hosted at <span class=\"caps\">GNOME<\/span><\/a>, you would have to contact your local <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.gnome.org\/TranslationProject\"><span class=\"caps\">GNOME<\/span> translation<\/a> team to get&nbsp;involved.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resurrecting <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> builds.<\/strong> Years ago we chose DocBook\/<span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> as a way to build both web (<span class=\"caps\">HTML<\/span>) and printable (<span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span>) copies of the user manual from a single source. Unfortunately, there appear to be some issues with building <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> files presently. Someone would have to investigate, what&#8217;s causing this, and act&nbsp;accordingly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adding Search to the Online Docs.<\/strong> We&#8217;ve heard a number of requests to add basic search to the online docs. If you have an idea how to do that, please contact&nbsp;us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-contribute\">How To Contribute<a class=\"headerlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2016\/05\/23\/gimp-2-10-docs-update-call\/#how-to-contribute\" title=\"Permanent link\">&para;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Technical documentation on hacking on the user manual is <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-help-2\/tree\/HACKING\">available<\/a> in the respective Git&nbsp;repository.<\/p>\n<p>The primary communication environment for all things documentation in the project is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.gnome.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/gimp-docs-list\">gimp-docs@<\/a> mailing list. We encourage you to talk to fellow team members publicly about which part of the documentation you are hacking on. This is because efficient collaborative effort requires full&nbsp;transparence.<\/p>\n<p>If you have technical questions about features in <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.10, you can use either gimp-docs@ mailing list or join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/irc.html\"><span class=\"caps\">IRC<\/span> channel<\/a>, ask your question, and stick around for the&nbsp;answer.<\/p>\n<p>We do not yet have an estimated time of arrival for <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.10, but there&#8217;s only so much time we can spend on completing this release before we can move to the next development&nbsp;cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the upcoming <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.10 release we intend to finally close the time gap between releases of source code, installers, and the user manual. This means that we need a more coordinated effort between the <span>GIMP<\/span> developers team and the <span>GIMP<\/span> User Manual&nbsp;team.<\/p>\n<p>For the past several months we&rsquo;ve already been working on <span>GIMP<\/span> mostly in bugfix mode. It&rsquo;s time to start updating the user manual to match all the changes in <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.10, and we would appreciate your help with&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n<h2>What Needs Doing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/#what-needs-doing\" title=\"Permanent link\">&para;<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Updating the content.<\/strong> There have been a lot of changes since 2.8. For quite a while, we&rsquo;ve been maintaining a structured <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.gimp.org\/wiki\/Release:2.10_changelog\">list of changes in 2.10<\/a> specifically to assist technical writers in updating the user&nbsp;manual.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translating the content.<\/strong> At some point we&rsquo;d like to &ldquo;freeze&rdquo; the documentation so that translators could start updating localized versions of the user manual. Since <span>GIMP<\/span> is <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-help-2\/\">hosted at <span>GNOME<\/span><\/a>, you would have to contact your local <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.gnome.org\/TranslationProject\"><span>GNOME<\/span> translation<\/a> team to get&nbsp;involved.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resurrecting <span>PDF<\/span> builds.<\/strong> Years ago we chose DocBook\/<span>XML<\/span> as a way to build both web (<span>HTML<\/span>) and printable (<span>PDF<\/span>) copies of the user manual from a single source. Unfortunately, there appear to be some issues with building <span>PDF<\/span> files presently. Someone would have to investigate, what&rsquo;s causing this, and act&nbsp;accordingly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adding Search to the Online Docs.<\/strong> We&rsquo;ve heard a number of requests to add basic search to the online docs. If you have an idea how to do that, please contact&nbsp;us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How To Contribute<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/#how-to-contribute\" title=\"Permanent link\">&para;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Technical documentation on hacking on the user manual is <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-help-2\/tree\/HACKING\">available<\/a> in the respective Git&nbsp;repository.<\/p>\n<p>The primary communication environment for all things documentation in the project is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.gnome.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/gimp-docs-list\">gimp-docs@<\/a> mailing list. We encourage you to talk to fellow team members publicly about which part of the documentation you are hacking on. This is because efficient collaborative effort requires full&nbsp;transparence.<\/p>\n<p>If you have technical questions about features in <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.10, you can use either gimp-docs@ mailing list or join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/irc.html\"><span>IRC<\/span> channel<\/a>, ask your question, and stick around for the&nbsp;answer.<\/p>\n<p>We do not yet have an estimated time of arrival for <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.10, but there&rsquo;s only so much time we can spend on completing this release before we can move to the next development&nbsp;cycle.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4466\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1a2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}