[QGIS-Developer] Processing Help system

delazj at gmail.com delazj at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 12:30:17 PST 2018


Not me but this has been discussed a couple of times and the latest discussion began at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pull/2258#issuecomment-352246124 (some ideas/plans after). 

H. 

Le 18 févr. 2018 8:02 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> a écrit :
>
> 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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