[QGIS-Developer] Processing Help system

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 13/02/2018 16:53, DelazJ ha scritto:

> For me, processing help system is fixed but the help system itself is
> not. It still suffers from suffers obstacles which it puts on the
> capacity of the writers to update the user manual without complications:
> section URLs are currently hard coded in application and changing a
> section title (hence the url) breaks the help button. With a living doc
> like the user manual, with all the new features and improvements QGIS
> gets, it would be hard to keep same titles at same place forever (either
> because it no longer describes new features of the dialog, or the dialog
> gets renamed, or features are moved to another place, or we find a
> better, more appropriate wording, or...) and documenters should not care
> about that. For information we have pending PRs in docs that will break
> some of the already connected links.
> 
> Developers improve the application, documenters improve the manuals and
> we find a way to keep links working as long as possible without anyone
> stressing. Please, let's do something more sustainable!

Agreed, your approach sounds reasonable to me.
Do you have a specific proposal? This could be a reasonable topic for a
next QGIS Grant.
All the best.
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