[Qgis-developer] proposal for migrating QGIS documentation to reST/Sphinx

[Otto Dassau]

Am Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:55:39 +0100
schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:

> Il 09/01/2012 17:53, Otto Dassau ha scritto:
> 
> > I guess 2.0 is more realistic. There is some convert tools, but it will
> > still be much work to migrate all styles or if that is not possible, to
> > create a new nice looking manual. The speed depends on the number of
> > people working on it. At the moment we don't have too many people
> > writing or working on the documentation, that's why I think it will take
> > a little longer.
> 
> Understood. I'm pretty sure is we'll have a nice interface, without the
> need to learn new tools (latex etc.) many more people will be available to
> help. At least our Italian community is ready. That's why I was suggesting
> to migrate ASAP, and put in place simpler tools for translators.
> Of course if the migration itself is very heavy, this is a real problem.
> Could we start from simpler pieces?
> All the best, and thanks a lot.

Migration is one thing and the other is that we are on the one hand lucky to
have so many people who help us translating the manual but on the other
hand only a few people are interested in updating the englisch master
document. So before people can start to translate, we need to update the
manual. Maybe we can encourage more people to update the manual. now that we
have the latex sources in git, if they can use the online tools via github.

I hope I will soon have some time to help and work on this topic/problem.

Regards
Otto