[Qgis-community-team] Release date for manual 1.1

Anne Ghisla a.ghisla at gmail.com
Mon May 4 13:45:49 EDT 2009 

Otto Dassau ha scritto:
> Hi, 
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> maybe the others Anne, Werner and Stephan can give us a short "report" about the
> status and what is left and if you need some help. 

On my side, I updated the first chapters with new features and some
links, basing on the list and the commits.
There are some features that I really don't know, therefore I wrote few
words about pointing to the relative sections. Hope it is not a nuisance :)
What about screenshots of QGIS application? When I run self-compiled
QGIS, the title of the main window is 'QGIS 1.1.0 Pan (Unstable)'. Shall
I wait for official packages to update those screenies?

> 
> I don't know, if Tim will announce the release tomorrow? But anyway we should
> try to finish the manual the next days. 

Ok. I'll be available for the meeting and further work on the manual.

regards,
Anne

> 
> regards,
>  Otto
> 
>> Claudia
>>
>> On May 4, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:
>>
>>> Otto Dassau wrote:
>>>> Hi Claudia and Carson,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:05:16 -0700
>>>> Claudia A Engel <cengel at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Otto and Carson,
>>>>>
>>>>> I edited the changes for Postgis SLL mode, improved handling of   
>>>>> postgis layers and the map units/pixels addition and committed  
>>>>> those  to svn.
>>>>> These edits are reflected on the Manual Task page. I tested to  
>>>>> make  sure, and it all seems to compile fine here. I hope this is  
>>>>> all ok,  but me know if I should do something differently, as I  
>>>>> have never done  this before.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also added the headers for the following subsections as  
>>>>> discussed,  but they need to be written:
>>>>> -Spatialite Layers
>>>>> -Diagram overlay tab
>>>>>
>>>> I added the diagram overlay section with an example. I also added a  
>>>> new vector
>>>> shape layer to the qgis sample dataset and updated the files and  
>>>> the readme.txt
>>>> on the server.
>>>>
>>>> http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you can check if it is ok, especially with the language. It's  
>>>> great to
>>>> have native speakers in the new team :).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -Working with the attribute table
>>>>>
>>>>> Lastly, the new Vector Load dialogue needs still to be added in. I  
>>>>> can  probably do this, plus another of the chapters above, this  
>>>>> weekend.
>>>>> So if anyone can help out with the other chapters, that would be  
>>>>> great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Claudia
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi team,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I saw that Carson already did something here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carson what was your idea when you created the   
>>>>>>> "plugins_diagram_overlay_images"
>>>>>>> folder? Do you plan to add an extra subsection for this plugin  
>>>>>>> in  the plugin
>>>>>>> chapter?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well for starters I needed an icon for the core plugins chapter ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But yes, I will be adding a section to the plugin as well. It  
>>>>>> would  be nice to see what Claudia has done as well, so that we  
>>>>>> don't end  up duplicating each others work... Claudia, have you  
>>>>>> committed your  edits yet?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or should it work as for the SPIT Plugin. It is listed in  
>>>>>>> section  12 "Using Core
>>>>>>> Plugins" but there doesn't exist a SPIT plugin subsection. The   
>>>>>>> description can
>>>>>>> be found in section 5.2.4 together with the PostGIS stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> hmm, now that I think of it, this might be the best route to  
>>>>>> take...  this adds more work to Claudia's list, so Claudia if you  
>>>>>> need help  just let us know... I imagine that in the future the  
>>>>>> vector overlay  stuff will become completely part of core, so  
>>>>>> putting it in the  working with vector layers section now might  
>>>>>> save some hassle later  on as well...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this case, I think I'll add two new subsections for SPIT and  
>>>>>> the  Overlay stuff in the Using core plugins chapter, pointing  
>>>>>> the user  to the sections in the working with vector layers  
>>>>>> Chapter...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the diagram_overlay plugin this would mean, we add it to  
>>>>>>> the  list of core
>>>>>>> plugins but the description would go into  
>>>>>>> working_with_vector.tex  and we use the
>>>>>>> folder diagram_overlay plugin_images/ for the plugin icons and   
>>>>>>> screenies. Is
>>>>>>> that correct?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> see above
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Changes in attribute table
>>>>>>>> I could not find any description of the attribute table in the   
>>>>>>>> manual,  but maybe I looked in the wrong place. If there is  
>>>>>>>> none,  is it  necessary to have one? Add another subsection?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yes, I haven't found anything, too. In the other email I  
>>>>>>> suggested  to add a new
>>>>>>> subsubsection to 5.4 Editing \subsection{Working with the  
>>>>>>> attribute  table} just
>>>>>>> above the Query Builder?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would be good. We should at least mention that there is an   
>>>>>> attribute table somewhere... also, the attribute table is  
>>>>>> relatively  fast compared with other GIS, so this should probably  
>>>>>> be mentioned...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Improved handling of postGIS layers.
>>>>>>>> I did not look around very thoroughly, but at first glance I  
>>>>>>>> could  not  figure out what this exactly refers to.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know either? Carson, do you know? Otherwise we can ask   
>>>>>>> Jürgen, I guess
>>>>>>> we did those improvements.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeh, Jürgen would be the one to ask... the SSL mode change is   
>>>>>> probably one of the bigger changes, and increases PostGIS access   
>>>>>> speed by up to 5 times in some cases!
>>>>>>
>>>> thanks  Otto
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Sorry for my silence the last few days, I have been unexpectedly out  
>>> of town for the past 4 days :-(
>>> I'm back now, and will have a look at the changes above... I did a  
>>> bit of work on the road, so I will try to commit these tonight when  
>>> I'm settled back in. I will keep you all updated with that, and  
>>> hopefully we can make this deadline!
>>>
>>> As Otto mentioned in a previous email, I think it is really  
>>> important that we have an IRC meeting when this is finished to  
>>> debrief, and talk about what worked/didn't work for people etc.  
>>> (I'll also make sure I show up this time!).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Carson
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Carson J. Q. Farmer
>>> ISSP Doctoral Fellow
>>> National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
>>> National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
>>> Email: Carson.Farmer at gmail.com
>>> Web:   http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
>>>      http://www.ftools.ca/
>>>
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