[Qgis-community-team] A couple of comments about the manual

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Otto

Great work! I am going to take a copy with me on holiday and start going
through it! I'll be in contact again around the 27th only and start
compiling release announcements etc.

I'll put out the call for packaging tonight.

Regards

Tim

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 13:47 +0100, Otto Dassau wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:48:30 +0100
> Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:16:26 +0200
> > Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > > One they have done that  they should get the feeling 'ah this GIS stuff
> > > is not so hard!' and then dive back into the manual for more technical
> > > details.
> > 
> > yes - I agree
> 
> this is now done in chapter "getting started" and after that it goes on with a
> "Feature at a glance" chapter before it dives into detail... 
>  
> > > Hopefully the above is just a simple matter of rearranging some content
> > > (I havent got very far through reading it in its current incarnation
> > > yet), if not we should probably leave this suggestion for a future
> > > revision of the QGIS manual.
> > 
> > we will see what we can do, but the manual is not finished yet. I think friday
> > evening I can say more...
> 
> ok, I updated and reviewed chapter 1-10,14,15,17 and Appendix A,B. Appendix D-M
> was copied and adapted from docs/INSTALL.t2t and docs/CODING.t2t. It is just
> the status from 16th December. Appendix N (GPL) hasn't changed and should be ok.
> All these chapters are ready for proof-reading by native english speakers.
> 
> I will go on with the other mssing chapters until monday. Maybe we know then
> already which external plugins will be part of the official QGIS repo. Anyway I
> am now sure, we will have a manual or at least a preview ready for the release.
> 
> regards,
>  Otto
> 
> > > Regards
> > 
> > regards,
> >  Otto
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