[OSGeo-UK] Geonetwork users?

Tue Jun 11 09:50:24 PDT 2019

Hi Joseph,

That's really good to hear- thanks for getting involved!

Jo

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:43 PM Joseph Leach <Joseph.Leach at london.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> having had some pull requests merged already, i'm pleased to report that the maintainers worked really well
>
>
> github, despite not being foss, also worked well and managed the whole process seamlessly
>
> ________________________________
> From: Joseph Leach
> Sent: 11 June 2019 10:05:32
> To: Jo Cook; jonathan-lists at lightpear.com
> Cc: uk at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-UK] Geonetwork users?
>
>
> hello
>
>
> i made a couple of pull requests to fix a typo - will focus on the harvesting geoportal page first (starting this thursday)
>
>
> joe
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com>
> Sent: 11 June 2019 09:19:46
> To: jonathan-lists at lightpear.com; Joseph Leach
> Cc: uk at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-UK] Geonetwork users?
>
> Hi Jonathan and Joseph,
>
> Many thanks for your responses!
>
> It sounds as if an important first step would be to highlight the fact
> that you can bypass the whole "install git locally just to fix a typo"
> merry-go-round in a lot of cases because github allows you to do and
> edit and pull request within the browser. For information, if you do
> that in the geonetwork docs, I can approve the change :-)
>
> Joseph, would you be prepared to submit some issues at
> https://github.com/geonetwork/doc/issues for larger changes?
>
> Jonathan- your point about licenses is interesting and it's not one
> I'd thought of with regards to documentation contributions. Is this
> something that you've come across, as opposed to code contributions? I
> can see some licensing "delicacies" in the case of training materials
> or similar, but if there are cases of licensing problems for
> straightforward documentation then that's something that should be
> explored in more detail.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Jo
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Moules
> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jo,
> >
> > Good stuff!
> >
> > Personally I've always thought the need to do GIT pull-requests to
> > update documents was onerous.
> >
> > Documenters are less likely to be familiar with git and version control,
> > and of course git is nothing if not unintuitive (there's a reason many
> > of the highest scored and most viewed stackoverflow questions are git
> > related). If someone's a serious documenter then the considerable time
> > required to get familiar with and install all of the tooling is
> > burdensome but do-able. However if someone just spots a few minor
> > things, they're unlikely to make the effort.
> >
> > For my part this certainly applies to me - my version control system of
> > choice isn't git so I don't have it installed and I'm not interested in
> > getting it, going through the checkout dance, etc, just to correct a few
> > typos.
> >
> > Fortunately this is already a solved problem with wikis, ideally of the
> > sort that don't require accounts, although I appreciate that presents
> > its own problems.
> >
> > There's also implications regarding licensing and contributor agreements
> > which projects may require. Reading and signing 1000 words of legalese
> > is rarely fun even if unfortunately necessary -
> > https://www.osgeo.org/resources/individual-contributor-license/
> >
> > Just my 2p,
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> > On 2019-06-07 12:46, Jo Cook wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm involved with Google Season of Docs this year
> > > (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_2019). The main focuses
> > > for us are QGIS, OSGeoLIVE and Geonetwork.  We will be getting a paid
> > > technical writer for a few months to work on the OSGeo projects
> > > collectively, but the main aim is to get more community engagement in
> > > contributing to documentation.
> > >
> > > I'm heading up the Geonetwork team, and part of what I'm trying to do
> > > is lower the barriers for users to contribute to documentation, and
> > > figure out where information is missing, or how the documentation can
> > > be improved in other ways.
> > >
> > > So this is really a call out to fellow UK Geonetwork users- let me
> > > know what you think could do with improving in the documentation, and
> > > also if you're interested in getting further involved with the
> > > project. Any level of experience in contributing to documentation is
> > > fine- if you're a beginner and have previously been put off
> > > contributing or correcting a typo or something, then let me know what
> > > it is that put you off and we'll see what we can do to help. Contact
> > > me on or off list!
> > >
> > > If QGIS and/or OSGeoLive are more your thing, then head over to the
> > > Season of Docs mailing list at
> > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/seasonofdocs as there are
> > > some active discussions going on about training materials and such
> > > like.
> > >
> > > All the best
> > >
> > > Jo
> > >
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