dev FAQ?

[John Dee]

Oh, and of course mozilla too :P

John Dee wrote:

> If ya'll want a release engineer, tinderboxen, arborist (tree work), 
> etc. I'd be glad to give my services. I worked at netscape on the 
> clients, both 4.x and 6.x, and would love a new challenge.
> 
> Up to you guys though.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Tuukka Mäkinen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> ok, we really need a dev/4.2 FAQ.  if i have to answer "will xfce 
>>>> have support for desktop icons?" one more time, i may be forced to 
>>>> commit homicide.  and i mean that in the nicest way possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> toc. I think that is such a drastic action that it should be 
>>> discussed with other developers before you commit homicide to cvs.
>>
>>
>>
>> hehehe, but perhaps you haven't noticed - i b0rk CVS on an almost 
>> daily basis.  though resurrection is possible...
>>
>>
>>> Seriously, I think a developer FAQ would be a great idea. The problem 
>>> is just to find someone dum.. brave enough to take an ordeal of 
>>> writing it. Of cource with time FAQ would write itself but I would 
>>> still suggest thinking of a structure for it instead of having 100 
>>> disorganized question-answer pairs.
>>
>>
>>
>> good point.  though i'm sure later i'll regret taking this on, i'd be 
>> willing to coordinate this with the other devs and accept questions 
>> and try to organise them as coherently as possible.
>>
>> my initial idea would be to organise it by component.  well, but 
>> instead use "friendly" names, like "Desktop", "File Manager", "Window 
>> Manager", etc., since it may not be immediately obvious to some users 
>> what "xfwm4" or "xfdesktop" is.  i think this is simple enough to work...
>>
>>     -brian
>>
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