[QGIS-Developer] Processing Help system

[Nyall Dawson]

On 9 February 2018 at 03:01, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 08/02/2018 13:57, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
>
>> my 2cts: try to fix it either by fixing the code that creates the url
>> for the  1. Help system URL (even if that would need a switch from
>> native->qgis or so)..
>> OR by just plain renaming those directories in the manual (2. doc URL)
>> (as in Sphinx the links are never the the real html names, but to those
>> ref-id's). Note that renaming files or directories means changing
>> paths/resourcenames for transifex too.
>>
>> only if all fails I would start to create redirects, as in my experience
>> these are very hard to maintain, especially when they need to work
>> between different kind of QGIS versions....
>
> agreed fully. as agreed upon during latest PSC meeting, the matter
> should better be solved before Q3 release: it's such a pity having help
> and not being able to display it to users.
> I would ask Richard, who is familiar with the structure, to decide for
> the best solution, and ask the most appropriate person to implement it.
> QGIS:ORG has some limited resources to implement it if necessary.
> Thanks again.

PR at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/6298

Feedback on this approach is welcome, but I think fixing in the code
is correct vs fixing via redirects.

Nyall