[Qgis-user] Defining the SEXTANTE roadmap

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 05/12/2012, at 19:32 , Andre Joost wrote:

> Am 04.12.12 22:56, schrieb Victor Olaya:
>> Many people mention documentation. As I said, we are interested in
>> documenting how to develop with SEXTANTE, which is a great priority in
>> order to keep the project alive.
>> 
>> However, I guess most people are talking about user documentation. Do
>> you mean algorithm documentation? Documentation about the SEXTANTE
>> framework itself?
>> 
>> GRASS algorithms are all fully documented, since we use the original
>> GRASS docs. SAGA ones are not... That is clearly a huge amount of
>> work, probably beyond what can be achieved in the short- or mid-term,
>> but suggestions about this topic are welcome.
> 
> From the user side, a sophisticated algorithm is useless if he does not know what effect the parameters have. And if the user does not find any documentation or tutorial, he will not use it.
> 
> And native language documentations are most wellcomed.

In support of André's comments, this is a large part of why I've haven't really dived into Sextante.

(Time is the next one.)

-ramon.