“Welcome to the first issue of the GNOME Documentation Project
Status Report. The GNOME Documentation Project Status Report
will be a (roughly) biweekly report describing the recent events of
the GDP (GNOME Documentation Project) and the status of various
documents. I hope that these reports will be useful for GDP
members, translators, developers, and potential GDP
contributors….“
“The goal of the GDP (GNOME Documentation Project) is to provide
a complete documentation system for GNOME. The main part of this is
writing and maintaining application manuals for all applets and
applications in the main GNOME distribution and GNOME Office. The
GDP also writes other user documentation such as application hints
(a la gnome-hint), pop-up help (coming soon), the GNOME User FAQ,
and the GNOME User’s Guide. The GDP also writes and maintains
developer documentation such as API documents, White Papers, and
developer tutorials. These developer documents are generally
written by developers who work with the GDP since it requires
technical expertise on the particular topic. And lastly, the GDP,
along with various GNOME hackers, is responsible for designing the
different components of the GNOME help system, such as the
tutorial/demo wizard (coming soon), pop-up help (coming soon), and
the documentation browsing system.”