dotplan or d.g.o as a whole needs a developers start here page which is
a list of up-to-date and relevant links to stuff new developers need to
know.

I have entered a series of bugs on docs which need writing from scratch.
This bug should only be closed when they are closed (see "depends on"
list).

The start here should contain:

linked bugs (cvs howto, developer faq, portability guidelines, 
profiling howto, possibly we should add sysadmin guide, but not
sure this is a developer thing)

links to:
  mail archives.
  irc page: what server, relevant channels
  schedule
  roadmap beyond
  bugzilla, ideally with some preset queries which are useful
  "how to write an i18n-able application" (nakai's doc for .jp)
  perhaps the advogato article about this too (will find, it was
  early on)
  X basics, particularly that clipboard and selection.
  freedesktop.org
  glade tutorial
  HIG
  "who's who"
  toolchain you need 
  standards documentation:
    OMG for ORBs? (guessing) etc
  
  pointer to page detailing all the gnome build scripts in use:
  someone could take the list I have at
  http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-August/015489.html
  and update it. (I don't think linuxchix could stand a slashdotting:
  they pay for bandwidth.) that's a list that was current as of the
  time I wrote it, with the aid of #gnome.