GNOME lack of documentation

GNOME lacks documentation. Everyone knows it. Sure. But we are in 2007 and there are still people starting to learn GNOME by starting with CORBA.

Moreover, the book about GNOME the most pointed out to learn GNOME is “The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s guide”. I’ve just learned today that this book uses a (mostly) free licence: it uses the Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 licence. However, it seems there is no online version of this book (p2p excepted, I heard). This means no one can correct the book that is beginning to become a bit outdated, thanks to project Ridley and other things. Also, I’ve bought this book, but I don’t have any electronic version to search information in it, which is also quite a bit annoying.

I just hope that the upcoming library.gnome.org project, and that the www.gnome.org revamp that Quim Gil is leading will help newbies with that, so that they can easily know where to start, what is up to date, and what is updated….