[Qgis-psc] Processing Help, what next?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,
I (rather obviously) support Matteo plea. More generally, I think
documentation is aa area we should take care of. What happens to
documentation team? Should we help it to be more active?
All the best.

Il 06/03/2018 10:11, matteo ha scritto:
> Hi PSC,
> 
> I'm forwarding a crucial IMHO mail sent to the dev list.
> 
> I think this point is crucial for the next QGIS release and not loose
> the big effort made till now.
> 
> Just to give an example, there are already 4 (or 5?) new algorithms for
> QGIS 3.2 that have not a description. The system is ready and it works
> fine, so I'll suggest to use all we have to maintain the documentation.
> 
> as I say in the mail, I'm available to take part in this effort
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matteo
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Processing Help, what next?
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:09:54 +0100
> From: matteo <matteo.ghetta at faunalia.eu>
> To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> as you know, after big efforts from lots of people (both devs and doc
> writers/reviewers) QGIS Processing algorithms have been well documented
> on the website and they are available with the Help button of the dialog.
> 
> https://docs.qgis.org/3.0/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/index.html
> 
> IMHO we have to set up some points to not loose this work for all the
> future development, next a list of ideas/wishes/..:
> 
> * [doc side] open an issue with the label "Processing Help" when
> something changes for a Processing alg, or if a new algorithm is
> created/removed
> * [doc side] assign this issue to someone (I'm available to handle this)
> * [doc side] I'm going to add a more specific section of the
> Documentation Guidelines for Processing Docs
> * with many people I've spoken, the current layout of the docs is
> "ugly": lot of white space through the sections, changing some colors?..
> some suggestions are more than welcome
> * currently, clicking on the Help button points to the correct algorithm
> because I've manually added the sphinx anchor = algorithm unique name.
> So it is **mandatory** to have information (or better an automatic
> mechanism?!) that writes the correct anchor in sphinx if the name changes
> * other ideas?
> 
> Thanks to all the people that worked on that, I think that having a
> documentation bucket is really a good news for users!
> 
> Cheers and thanks for any feedback
> 
> Matteo
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