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 nice to 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As you may already know, a temporary web site has been set up at next.gimp.org (please do not publish links to that site outside the GIMP lists!). I am looking for volunteers who could contribute contents 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 other parts of the site, please contribute directly in SVN. If you do not have SVN commit access, you can also post bits of improved text to the gimp-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 old site and will be replaced soon.

Several people have reported that they experienced difficulties in building the web site from SVN or setting up a web server, etc. If you only want to check that you did not break anything before doing a commit, then you do not even need a web server to test your changes: make DocumentRoot=/tmp/wgo
This will build and install the generated HTML files in a temporary directory /tmp/wgo without requiring you to set up anything special. If this works, then chances are the you did not break anything. You will 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

P.S.: This message is also cross-posted to the gimp-developer list, but please send replies to the gimp-web list only.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:11:41 +0300, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote:

Just to be clear on release notes: not only cheap lens can have vignetting. Some expensive zooms have it at wide angle.

Yesterday, I changed the sentence about vignetting to read: "[...] when using cheaper lenses or expensive lenses pushed to their limits [...]"

By the way, I see that you sent your message to both lists (gimp-web and gimp-developer) but it looks like your message never made it to the gimp-web list. You must subscribe to the gimp-web list before you post to it, otherwise your message will be dropped. Do not believe any automatic reply telling you that your message will be reviewed by a moderator or something like that: if you are not a subscriber, your message will never reach the list.

-Raphaël