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

Otto Dassau otto.dassau at gmx.de
Mon May 4 14:02:15 EDT 2009 

On Mon, 04 May 2009 19:45:49 +0200
Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Otto Dassau ha scritto:
> > Hi, 
> [cut]
> > 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. 
> 
> On my side, I updated the first chapters with new features and some
> links, basing on the list and the commits.
> There are some features that I really don't know, therefore I wrote few
> words about pointing to the relative sections. Hope it is not a nuisance :)
> 
> What about screenshots of QGIS application? When I run self-compiled
> QGIS, the title of the main window is 'QGIS 1.1.0 Pan (Unstable)'. Shall
> I wait for official packages to update those screenies?

no - I built from the tagged tar.gz and also have 1.1.0 Pan (Unstable). That
seems to be ok, I guess, because stable is 1.0.
 
> > 
> > I don't know, if Tim will announce the release tomorrow? But anyway we
> > should try to finish the manual the next days. 
> 
> Ok. I'll be available for the meeting and further work on the manual.
> 
> regards,
> Anne
> 
> > 
> > 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/
> >>>
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