I agree completely. Pointing to the ChandlerFAQ on the wiki is only
intended as a temporary placeholder in alpha4 and certainly needs to
be replaced with the beginnings of real Help and other end-user
documents by the time we get to 0.7. IMHO.

Pieter

On 8/31/06, Brian Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an aside, I think this is fine short term but won't serve us well when
we do ship localized releases since users will want the FAQ / Help
to be in their native languages.

Wiki is also not really the best place for localized content since it
is decentralized from the rest of the Chandler i18n framework.

Each localized FAQ would have to be manually kept in sync when
the English FAQ changes.

For the long term, I would like to propose shipping Help documentation
with the release. It serves i18n better and also meets the use case where
Chandler is off-line but help is needed.

-Brian


Pieter Hartsook wrote:
> At this point in time, I would favor "Chandler FAQ". I think our
> current target user will understand what FAQ stands for and will be
> familiar with the format.
>
> Pieter
>
> On 8/31/06, Grant Baillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Aug, 2006, at 15:04, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
>>
>> > Even now, we could certainly point folks to the Chandler FAQ on the
>> > wiki < http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/
>> > ChandlerProductFAQ
>> > which also has a link from the nav bar on the Chandler landing page
>> > site.
>>
>> I'd be up for adding that to Chandler. What should the title of the
>> menu item say? "Chandler FAQ ..."?
>>
>> --Grant
>>
>> PS: I have a slight ulterior motive for doing this: It would allow me
>> to move the "About Chandler" menu item to its standard place on the
>> Mac, without leaving an empty "Help" menu in the menu bar.
>>
>> > On 8/25/06, Sheila Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Jared,
>> >>
>> >> We have a couple of stickies currently scheduled for 0.7a6 (probably
>> >> 0.7/Beta) which involve overhauling some of the menus. We weren't
>> >> thinking of help specifically but I suspect we could add a few
>> >> additional menu items that at least point users to info on the wiki,
>> >> launch pages etc. All that content won't be ready until very close to
>> >> the release since it's very dependent on the branding stuff. Fancy
>> >> full-scale help is a post Beta item right at the moment.
>> >>
>> >> We haven't started to talk about the non-code release items for Beta
>> >> yet but I expect to start this up at the beginning of Alpha5.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Sheila
>> >>
>> >> On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Are we going to launch a 0.7final with something in the Help menu
>> >> > beyond the
>> >> > single "About Chandler" popup currently available?
>> >> >
>> >> > If so, is the target 0.7a4, 0.7a5, or 0.7rc for Help menu
>> >> > enhancements?
>> >> >
>> >> > -- Jared
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