On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:46:13AM +0200, Jehan Pagès wrote: > Hello all! Sorry for the late reply... > Some efforts is being made to improve a bit the documentation process: > > 1. A Python 3 port is being worked on right now by Jacob Boerema (see > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-help/-/merge_requests/50). He nearly > finished. I don't think anyone is against this since Python 2 is EOL, but > if anyone has any comment, please feel free. Also Jacob has some issues > with the `xml_helper.py` script so we wondered if this one was actually > being used by anyone actually contributing to the documentation (because if > not, and it is not considered useful anymore, maybe some time can be saved > by dropping this script). > In any case, feel free to test the associated branch and make any remark. It's ok for me. > 2. We are considering branching the tree (to `gimp-help-2-10`) so that the > `master` branch will be used for preparing the documentation specific to > GIMP 3, whereas any work specific to the 2.10.x series can continue on the > new branch. Ok I'll finish updating the Italian translation presumably tomorrow. > We feel like these 3 plans could be done in about 2 weeks (so let's say the > weekend of June 5/6), but if anyone feels like this is wrong, or that > things should be done differently, please tell us before we merge the > Python 3 port and branch the `master` tree, please. It's ok for me. > Róman Joost, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Marco Ciampa, Julien Hardelin, Michael Natterer > and Michael Schumacher (all in BCC) in particular, you are the > co-maintainers of this repository (if the `MAINTAINERS` and .doap files are > still up-to-date), so we'd appreciate your input in particular. Any other > contributor is welcome to give an opinion too of course. We don't want to > do any mistake. 🙂 > > The third plan we have (not within a 2-week schedule, but hopefully at > least before GIMP 3 release) is that we wonder if a better process for > releases of the documentation (on the website in particular) could not be > done. Maybe we are wrong, but it feels like the release/update into the > wild could be improved, couldn't it? > What we are thinking are things like tagging the tree leading to automatic > (or at least easier) build then publication of the documentation online, > probably through the Continuous Integration pipelines (we have been > improving GIMP release the same way lately, by generating source tarballs > automatically, and these days, we are doing the same with the Windows > installer). I would appreciate (=volunteer to translate) a multilanguage site... > So same here, if anyone has any opinion or wishes on how the documentation > process should be improved, we welcome the ideas and propositions. I have one for the future... I'll explain after the branch... > Thanks all! Thank YOU! -- Saluton, Marco Ciampa _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
