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

Mon May 4 13:33:55 EDT 2009

Hi, 

On Mon, 4 May 2009 10:14:05 -0700
Claudia A Engel <cengel at stanford.edu> wrote:

> I committed the remaining pieces of Chap 5 last night - hope I got it  
> all right.
> I won't have time now until later in the week.

thanks Claudia! 

I also finished my sections according to the table at: 
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/index.php/Manual_Writing#Document_Maintainers

maybe the others Anne, Werner and Stephan can give us a short "report" about the
status and what is left and if you need some help. 

I don't know, if Tim will announce the release tomorrow? But anyway we should
try to finish the manual the next days. 

regards,
 Otto

> Claudia
> 
> On May 4, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > -- 
> > Carson J. Q. Farmer
> > ISSP Doctoral Fellow
> > National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
> > National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
> > Email: Carson.Farmer at gmail.com
> > Web:   http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
> >      http://www.ftools.ca/
> >