[Qgis-community-team] adding martins document to the manual

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Carson, 

ok, then I wait with putting something in the wiki and wait for you and
Borys.

Regards,
 Otto

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:29:20 +0000
Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This 'best practices' document that you are talking about was
> discussed at the hackfest, and will be implemented as a devel list
> discussion.
> Borys and I will be putting together 'our thoughts' on plugin
> development, along with some of the suggestions from the hackfest,
> these thoughts
> will be articulated in an email to the lists, at which point we would
> like to get a discussion going (based on experiences from plugin
> developers, core
> developers, and the community). Once we've reached some sort of
> consensus (or at least close to a consensus), we will put together an
> official
> 'best practices' document which we will likely release along with the
> manual, or possibly as part of the wiki... eventually this might
> become a 'QGIS
> Python development guide/manual'...
> 
> Carson
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Micha and Carson,
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:57:09 +0000
> > Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Otto,
> >>
> >> > I almost added the vector analysis parts from Martin's document to the
> >> > manual trunk. Most of the topics are about plugins (topology, postgis
> >> > manager, osm, etc.). What are we going to do with that?
> >> Well the OSM stuff is now 'official' and in core, so we'll have to add
that
> >> one (I'm going to try to finish this tonight or tomorrow night).
> >
> > ok, sounds good. The vector tools described in the
./material_wonder/user.odt
> > are now all included. There are only some parts that are still in trunk
for
> > qgis 1.4 and the plugins.
> >
> >> > Do we still want to describe only core plugins?
> >> In the manual yes I think so, otherwise we'll never be done ;-)
> >
> > yes, that is true and I also really want to finish the 1.3 :)
> >
> >> > But it would be nice of course, if
> >> > we can put have a central place, where people find documentation about
> >> > external plugins as well, or a link to a webpage, as for Carson's
> >> > fTools.
> >
> >> Maybe on the Wiki for now, until we have a few more how-to's/plugin
> >> manuals,
> >> and then at that point, we can think about maybe creating a dedicated
> >> plugins
> >> howto page on the website?
> >
> > yes, a good idea. I will prepare something in the wiki and announce it to
the
> > devel and user list the next days. As suggested by Micha with some "best
> > practices" hints for plugin authors, including instructions of where to
> > place manuals and help documents.
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Otto
> >
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Carson
> >>
> >
> 
> 
>