[Qgis-community-team] Changes in the current manual trunk

[Jacolin Yves]

Le Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:07:40 Otto Dassau, vous avez écrit :
> Hi community,
>
> during the hackfest we decided to split the current english QGIS manual in
> trunk. This will not change the current tagged 1.0 version which is already
> partly translated, but will be used for documentation of version 1.1, ...
>
> The reasons are, that usually people are interested in using or in coding
> and compiling QGIS. Therefore it made sense to split the manual with its
> already ~270 pages and hopefully make it even more attractive for
> translators to either translate the user guide or the coding and
> compilation guide.
>
> So at the moment we have:
>
> 1) QGIS User Guide with 167 pages
> svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide
>
> 2) QGIS Coding and Compilation Guide with 124 pages
> svn co
> https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/coding-compilation_guide
>
> For the future we would like to add a third documentation part for GIS
> beginners in general. This version is planned to focus on solving general
> GIS tasks with QGIS and not on available functionalities as the User Guide
> does.
>
> Maybe we can provide this for a QGIS Version 2. If there are people
> interested to join this effort, we can discuss it here on the list.

Hi,

For the french translation we aims to release the user guide in three times: 
first: only  functionnality chapters (may be for april)
second: plugins chapters
Third: coding chapters

so I should say that it is a really good idea :)

Y.
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