[Qgis-community-team] Documentation repo

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:52:54 +0100
Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Otto, all,

> first step is done - the qgis-docs is set to read-only by SAC and we
> have all parts of the documentation migrated to git - thanks to Tim!
> 
> You find the content of the qgis-docs repo split up in 5 new repos
> here: https://github.com/qgis/
> 
> next steps: 
> 
> 1) within this week I want to update the wiki with the new procedures
> and howtos.
> 
> 2) Add write permission for users who want to work on the english
> manual update for 1.8. This is the current list from subversion. I
> think we will have to clean up a little. Please have a look and
> write, if you are still interested or not.

I am still interested in helping with documentation!
/me still has to properly learn to use git :)

> 3) Add write permission for translation leads, so they can create
> forks and organize translations with other translators.
> 
> 4) For release 1.8 I assume that we will still use latex to write the
> manual, so people can get used to work with git for now. After we
> released the 1.8 manual, the plan is to start to migrate the latex
> sources to rst, which will allow us to more easily edit the
> documentation online within github, provide html, pdf, odt, ...

best,
Anne
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