Hello again Knapp, I am sorry that you where never able to get that working on your end. In the future I would try talking to Campbell Barton about such issues along with other issues on the #blenderwiki on IRC using freenode.net [1] You can also use the documentation mailing list [2]
As for the your opinion on the wiki Vs. the manual these are all know issues add are addressed in the manual. [3] One of the reasons the Manual is in such disrepair is it was a copy of the old wiki, and due to the Cons of that It also grew out of repair and outdated. More information can also be founded on the bug tracker. [4] 1. https://www.blender.org/manual/getting_started/about_blender/community.html#irc-channels 2. http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard 3. https://www.blender.org/manual/about/migration.html 4. https://developer.blender.org/project/profile/53/ On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been working on making a video about the VSE. I thought it would be > easy but it turns out not to be because of a lot of factors including my > computer. > > To get to the point, the VSE documentation is quite bad. I know it is being > worked on by someone and I thought I would help him since I was rereading > everything anyway. But it turned out to be very hard to do. > > I thought it would be like Wikipedia, you edit it and it is done. That is > NOT the way it is. You must first be signed up. You must download a copy of > the source document code and then you must change that in a funny editors > language and then you must compile it on your computer. Then you have to > submit it as if were were writing C code. > > Guess what? I could not get it to compile on Sabayon Linux. I don't have > time to fight with it but I did ask and got a nice reply that he would just > take my ideas and do it for me. All (not the nice guy) this results in me > being VERY put off from helping with the documentation. I am sure I am not > the first to run into this big wall. > > I am good with computers but this was WAY too much for me to go through. > Think what it must be like for the computer phobic artists? It is just > simply to hard for the average person to bother with. It is no wonder that > the documentation is so bad. We need to do something to make this light an > easy. > > Ton said that we need someone to interface between the users and the > developers to let them know about new stuff and how it all works. This is > the job of the manual and if the manual were as great and cool as the 2.4 > manual then I think we would not need someone to do this so badly for us. > We need to improve the "new" manual a LOT. It needs to be easy to do. > > I think it would be a great idea to move to a system like Wikipedia. > > Sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I did not find > another place. > > Let's make working on the manual as easy as helping with Wikipedia! > > Thanks, > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
