[Qgis-community-team] User manual complete!

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:57:10 +0100
Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey team!
> 
> I have just now made the final (at least for now ;-)) tag of the QGIS 
> user guide for version 1.1.0. I have also copied the pdf version to the 
> server and updated the link on the documentation page, so we're ready to 
> rock when the latest version is officially released!

great job from all of you - very good to have the manual ready for the release!

> I have also created the translation branch for this manual, so we can 
> probably make a call for translations any time now (Otto, is it ok to go 
> ahead and put out a call for manual translations?).

yes you can. I will think about a nice procedure to integrate the new/updated
parts into the 1.0 manual on the basis of the translated german 1.0 user guide
and maybe we can have a short IRC meeting about this soon (tomorrow afternoon)?

> If you happen to be going over the manual and find some glaring mistake, 
> please don't hesitate to let me know, as we have a bit of time before 
> the new version of the software is released. On that note, I'd like to 
> schedule an irc meeting sometime in the next week or two so that we can 
> discuss what went well, what didn't, and any other thoughts for the future.
> 
> I am going to be spending quite a bit of time various planes and trains 
> over the few months, and so will have a tone of time to nit-pick the 
> manual. As such, I am going to do a complete grammar check on the 
> manual, moving from start to finish. I didn't have time to do this for 
> the current version, so any changes I make will have to wait for the 
> next release... I also have some other thoughts I'd like to share 
> regarding the manual, so I will really be pushing for a meeting before I 
> forget them all ;-)

very good idea. I also have some ideas and we can use it to integrate Bishwarup
Banerjee and Micha Silver into the documentation team.

> Cheers, and nice work!
> 
> Carson

thanks!
 Otto