[Glade-devel] may I please join the glade 3 project...

[David Hoover]

> > At this point, I'll point you at the current glade3 bugs
> > ( http://tinyurl.com/67msj ); skim through that and see if anything
> > leaps out at you.
> 
> Not sure about this link (it takes me to HP Customer Care)... but I'm
> aware of the bugzilla.gnome.org site...

Odd; for me it blows up into (the extremely ugly)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=glade3&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=anywords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&namedcmd=GnomeICU+Bugs&newqueryname=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&order=bugs.bug_severity,bugs.bug_id

> Certainly, I will start with just that.
Great, thanks

> - getting the source to build properly and reporting bugs if it doesn't
I'll probably be checking in some changes in a little today to help
clean up some of the compile warnings, so hopefully soon things will be
clean enough that it's just a matter of beating people up if they
introduce any new warnings

>  perhaps I can even learn about autoconf etc...
That'd be handy; I've got a passable understanding of the stuff, but if
someone could really get a good grasp of it, it'd probably be handy.

There's also the question of how that stuff all works on win32; I saw
you're doing some building there. I personally have no experience with
gtk et al. on win32, so if we could build up some knowledge with that,
it'd be good

> - attempting minor user interface fixes whenever I think I can do it right
>   (maybe I could start working on some easy-fix low-priority stuff just to
>   get my hands wet with it before I jump right in) ?
Yeah, as soon as you file those bugs :P

As I said, the stuff in bugzilla is a little anemic right now (and
what's in there already probably needs some triaging, since lots of it
is fairly old...although probably still valid)

> - checking out intltool compatibility (since the manual does not know
>   whether it is working it seems).
Well, I saw your stuff about that; have you tried with the latest
intltool from cvs? It looks like the last real release was ~2 weeks
before the code for the comment handling and whatnot went in. It could
just all be in flux until the next real release of that

> - testing, testing, and testing
yes, please

> - ah, and I'd really like to test the new "Tree and List Widget" implementation.
>   I've heared it's somewhat complex, and I would like to be there to make sure
>   that it works properly and make suggestions etc... I need to learn about this
>   myself since I plan to use zillions of these in a project of my own, so, I can
>   check it out and see what I can do with it.
yeah, I've never particularly liked dealing with them, but some of
that's because I don't entire grok them. Getting a good way to edit
columns and the like in glade would be really handy, but it's probably a
fairly big headache, will require a bunch of new stuff in libglade, etc.

There's a bug (131382) open for the issue right now, but I don't think
anybody has yet put any serious time & effort into figuring out what
will be required.

> I don't know whether this sounds reasonable. I also don't know what patch
> and CVS policies you have.
Yeah, it all seems reasonable. And policies are sort of up in the air
right now; things are in flux with us new guys, and who knows what will
happen when/if Joaquin comes back & sees what's gone on.