Help needed for the gimp web site

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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 niceto 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As you may already know, a temporary web site has been set up atnext.gimp.org (please do not publish links to that site outside theGIMP lists!).  I am looking for volunteers who could contributecontents 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 otherparts of the site, please contribute directly in SVN.  If you do nothave SVN commit access, you can also post bits of improved text to thegimp-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 oldsite and will be replaced soon.
Several people have reported that they experienced difficulties inbuilding the web site from SVN or setting up a web server, etc.  Ifyou only want to check that you did not break anything before doing acommit, then you do not even need a web server to test your changes:  make DocumentRoot=/tmp/wgoThis will build and install the generated HTML files in a temporarydirectory /tmp/wgo without requiring you to set up anything special.If this works, then chances are the you did not break anything.  Youwill 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
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