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

[Carson Farmer]

Otto Dassau wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Hi guys,

Sorry for my silence the last few days, I have been unexpectedly out of 
town for the past 4 days :-(
I'm back now, and will have a look at the changes above... I did a bit 
of work on the road, so I will try to commit these tonight when I'm 
settled back in. I will keep you all updated with that, and hopefully we 
can make this deadline!

As Otto mentioned in a previous email, I think it is really important 
that we have an IRC meeting when this is finished to debrief, and talk 
about what worked/didn't work for people etc. (I'll also make sure I 
show up this time!).

Cheers,

Carson

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National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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