[Qgis-community-team] Release date for manual 1.1

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Claudia and Carson,

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:05:16 -0700
Claudia A Engel <cengel at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Otto and Carson,
> 
> I edited the changes for Postgis SLL mode, improved handling of  
> postgis layers and the map units/pixels addition and committed those  
> to svn.
> These edits are reflected on the Manual Task page. I tested to make  
> sure, and it all seems to compile fine here. I hope this is all ok,  
> but me know if I should do something differently, as I have never done  
> this before.
> 
> I also added the headers for the following subsections as discussed,  
> but they need to be written:
> -Spatialite Layers
> -Diagram overlay tab

I added the diagram overlay section with an example. I also added a new vector
shape layer to the qgis sample dataset and updated the files and the readme.txt
on the server.

http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/

Maybe you can check if it is ok, especially with the language. It's great to
have native speakers in the new team :).

> -Working with the attribute table
> 
> Lastly, the new Vector Load dialogue needs still to be added in. I can  
> probably do this, plus another of the chapters above, this weekend.
> So if anyone can help out with the other chapters, that would be great.
> 
> Thanks, Claudia
> 
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:
> 
> > Hi team,
> >>
> >> I saw that Carson already did something here.
> >>
> >> Carson what was your idea when you created the  
> >> "plugins_diagram_overlay_images"
> >> folder? Do you plan to add an extra subsection for this plugin in  
> >> the plugin
> >> chapter?
> > Well for starters I needed an icon for the core plugins chapter ;-)
> >
> > But yes, I will be adding a section to the plugin as well. It would  
> > be nice to see what Claudia has done as well, so that we don't end  
> > up duplicating each others work... Claudia, have you committed your  
> > edits yet?
> >> Or should it work as for the SPIT Plugin. It is listed in section  
> >> 12 "Using Core
> >> Plugins" but there doesn't exist a SPIT plugin subsection. The  
> >> description can
> >> be found in section 5.2.4 together with the PostGIS stuff.
> >>
> > hmm, now that I think of it, this might be the best route to take...  
> > this adds more work to Claudia's list, so Claudia if you need help  
> > just let us know... I imagine that in the future the vector overlay  
> > stuff will become completely part of core, so putting it in the  
> > working with vector layers section now might save some hassle later  
> > on as well...
> >
> > In this case, I think I'll add two new subsections for SPIT and the  
> > Overlay stuff in the Using core plugins chapter, pointing the user  
> > to the sections in the working with vector layers Chapter...
> >> For the diagram_overlay plugin this would mean, we add it to the  
> >> list of core
> >> plugins but the description would go into working_with_vector.tex  
> >> and we use the
> >> folder diagram_overlay plugin_images/ for the plugin icons and  
> >> screenies. Is
> >> that correct?
> >>
> > see above
> >>> - Changes in attribute table
> >>> I could not find any description of the attribute table in the  
> >>> manual,  but maybe I looked in the wrong place. If there is none,  
> >>> is it  necessary to have one? Add another subsection?
> >>>
> >>
> >> yes, I haven't found anything, too. In the other email I suggested  
> >> to add a new
> >> subsubsection to 5.4 Editing \subsection{Working with the attribute  
> >> table} just
> >> above the Query Builder?
> >>
> > This would be good. We should at least mention that there is an  
> > attribute table somewhere... also, the attribute table is relatively  
> > fast compared with other GIS, so this should probably be mentioned...
> >>
> >>> - Improved handling of postGIS layers.
> >>> I did not look around very thoroughly, but at first glance I could  
> >>> not  figure out what this exactly refers to.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't know either? Carson, do you know? Otherwise we can ask  
> >> Jürgen, I guess
> >> we did those improvements.
> >>
> > Yeh, Jürgen would be the one to ask... the SSL mode change is  
> > probably one of the bigger changes, and increases PostGIS access  
> > speed by up to 5 times in some cases!

thanks 
 Otto