[Qgis-community-team] Is releasing QGIS Documentation still in the plan?

[Alexandre Neto]

I think we need to put this conversation at least in the devs list, not
everybody is in this community list, so we probably end up talking to
ourselves.

I believeThis conversation should be happenin gin the

DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> escreveu no dia sexta, 13/04/2018 às 11:21:

> Hi Yves,
>
> 2018-04-13 11:47 GMT+02:00 Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am more pessimistic. My opinion is just that documentation is not fun
>> (at least not as feature development is), boring and not valuable from a
>> skills point of view (I don't mean valuable on the project side).
>>
>> I would like to disagree. Documentation may not be fun for devs, but QGIS
> community is not all about devs and we should stop using this argument;
> there are teachers, trainers, blogposters, users... people who are used to
> communicate about QGIS features and this is an area that should be of
> interest to them or should be within their reach.
>
> Also, maybe because I'm not a dev, working on docs made me learn some
> python, git and rst things that are not part of my daily work so yes, I
> developed some skills (and interest) I think.
> Now related to my daily work, writing the docs teaches me a lot of
> features and subtleties in using QGIS. And I'm not sure I'd have found them
> if not doing that. Sidenote: bug reporting comes also with that.
>
> All in all, people could be tired to work on such a tasks in the long
>> term. This is what I feel from Harrissou email and from my own experience.
>>
>> Actually, I'm not tired (or maybe I'm not conscious of that) but at the
> beginning, for the fun, I was wondering how many pull requests would be
> opened before any review begins and now I think that it's not worth
> spending (wasting?) time in some(community)thing if no one seems interested
> in it. There are many other things to do out there.
>
> H.
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't have time the previous year and can't go to the
>> haskfest which doesn't help to contribute.
>>
>> Sorry for a so pessimistic email.
>>
>> Y.
>>
>>
>> Le 13/04/2018 à 11:39, matteo a écrit :
>> > Hi Harrissou,
>> >
>> > thanks for raising this. I would say we really need more people working
>> > on the documentation. I don't know how to find other contributors but we
>> > have.
>> >
>> > Just run
>> >
>> > git shortlog -sn --after="2018-01-01"
>> >
>> > and you can see that there are a few contributors for this repo.
>> >
>> > IMHO now that images preview are visible in github there is easier also
>> > for other people to contribute.
>> >
>> > I cannot understand if there are some people out there that want to
>> > contribute but the system "complexity" (git + sphinx + ...) blocks them
>> > to do that.
>> >
>> > Just thinking aloud: do you think that a short video tutorial could be
>> > useful? We have a nice documentation for who wants to step in, but a
>> > short and explicit video maybe is more sexy?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks again for raising this
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Matteo
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