How to contribute to this effort?

Correct and improve the existing documents

You can re-write some parts of existing documents in order to make these part more clear or to correct mistakes. This can be done by modifying the source file, or by sending a mail to the author. If you plan to change the source file of a document on this site, please contact the author in order to make sure he is not working on the part you want to modify. Once the modifications are done (after the cvs commit), inform the author and me (see the Contributors section for the addresses), in order for us to update the web site.

Translate a document

We need translators! If you want to write a new translation for the FAQ or the manual, go ahead! The best to do it is to manage your own source file under the cvs tree (it means less work for me). Get an account on sourceforge (see the Tools section), send me a mail so I can add your name to the list of the allowed developers, download the source files (cvs checkout), under the doc sub-directory, create a new directory named by the code of the target language of your translation (two letters code, the same as the TLD suffixes), and start translating!

The reference version is always the english one (sounds obvious but it does not hurt to repeat it).

Write a new document

You want to share a little piece of your great experience with Sylpheed, you want to write your own "HOWTO"! Fine, go ahead!

First of all, read the Tools section (for a complete description of the tools we use to write tranform and publish the documentation), download a template or use any existing file, write your document and make it available.

To publish your work, you can add and commit your file to the source of the project (see the sourceforge documentation regarding this topic), or send me the source file.