[Qgis-community-team] weekly report on user guide update

[Otto Dassau]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:33:33 -0700
Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:

> Dear User Guide Writers:
> 
> In our last IRC meeting, I said I would send out a weekly reminder every 
> Monday for you to post an update on your progress and any needs you may 
> have.
> Since our meeting, much has happened. The developers are coming around 
> to the realization that the GUI will be rather drastically changed 
> between v.0.11 and v1.0 .
> In particular, Tim has recommended that we not attempt to update the 
> content until after the GUI freeze, which is not expected until Sept 1.

yes, I agree. It is already a lot of work and we should not do things twice.
Before we start to work on a specific chapter it would definitely make sense
to ask on the developers list, if there will be feature/GUI changes before 1.0,
if you are insecure.

> In addition to any information on your progress and needs, would 
> everyone please give their opinions on the schedule and tasks in light 
> of this new information?

I would like to proceed with our checklist as far as possible and leave things
like creating images for later, when it the GUI is freezed for 1.0. I know there
are also other chapters we need to wait for branch merging, before we can make
screenshots and add/adapt features and examples:

- advanced_printing_branch -> map_composer.tex
- grass-tidyup-branch -> grass_integration.tex
- diagram-branch -> working_with_vectors.tex

are there more branches? Tim, is there a list available which branches will
be merged before 1.0 release and which not?

Anyway, in my opinion this does not (much) affect our task list before feature
freeze (planned on 25. August). And we should then see, what is there and what
needs to be done.

regards,
 Otto

> Thanks, Tara
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