[OpenLayers-Users] [work] Best practices

[Tara Athan]

 From my perspective as a struggling user, this is a GREAT idea! I will 
be happy to contribute to maintenance, and eventually to content, 
although at the moment I think my practices are better characterized as 
"worst" rather than "best".

Along this same line of thought, I am wondering why OpenLayers doesn't 
have a Documentation Team (distinct from the developers). There is a 
need to provide more help to the lower-level users, and documentation 
written by the developer tends to be difficult for these users because 
the developer is so familiar with the application that they tend to 
leave out or gloss over a lot of details that are obvious to them, but 
not to the rest of us.

Tara

Emmanuel BELO wrote:
> Dear Lists,
>
> doing OpenLayers and MapFish project with a growing team of coworkers
> and users, we came to the question: how to involve new staff fast and
> efficient in the project.
>
> The learning method, trying by yourself and studying examples is
> possible, but leads to ask yourself and resolve problems already solved.
>
> So we think, a wiki page that contains best practices would be useful.
>
> I started a draft page, that will contain central information for
> MapFish project. This page will contain display tips, map server tips,
> caching tips, database tips, infrastructure tips and so on as everything
> is related.
>
> I would like to know, if you would find an interest to put on OL wiki,
> OL specific best practices. The 2 pages would then be linked for easy
> access to all the information. Help in maintaining this wiki page would
> be nice.
>
> See http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/HowToOptimize
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emmanuel
>   


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