[Qgis-psc] Bugfixing for documentation

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

That sounds fine (setting up a separate fund for maintaining API docs) - my concern was more that we don’t reduce the allocated bug fixing money for API docs - I think it should rather be used for the original budgeted purpose.

Regards

Tim

> On 26 Sep 2019, at 07:29, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Hm - We always had a separate budget for documentation - totally separate from the grants.
> 
> Personally, I would prefer if we could find a pragmatic solution so that work, that wasn't planned ahead, can still be financed. Grants are only issued once a year - for one-time work - not for repeated maintenance work.
> 
> I think our Python devs would appreciate a complete API documentation. This seems to be repeating work - isn't the API constantly changing a bit? Mainly for major releases, but also some additions, fixes, clarifications, etc. in betweeen?
> 
> I think, in the future, we should declare API documentation as part of the documentation budget and increase the documentation funds accordingly.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2019-09-25 09:11, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 
>> Hi Denis
>>  
>> For me I apologise for being a party pooper here but I think it is better we spend our bug fixing time on actual QGIS bug fixes. If we are going to spend more time on the docs I prefer if we work through the grant process.
>>  
>> Regards
>>  
>> Tim
>> 
>>> On 24 Sep 2019, at 21:11, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com <mailto:denis.rouzaud at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Dear psc,
>>>  
>>> I would like to know if it is possible to spend some bugfixing time on the pyqgis documentation bugfixing.
>>> This is mainly to bring missing parts of the API (processing and missing core additions like qgis.core.edit and so). The required time is max 1 day.
>>>  
>>> Thanks for letting me know.
>>>  
>>> Denis
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