On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax ) <[email protected]> wrote: > 2. How is the documentation process managed? I picture some sort of draft, > review, and finalization process (whether simple or composed of many stages). > How does one enter this effort and what mechanisms need to be used? >
I'm going out on a limb here because I am not an "official" member of anything, However I have been using GnuCash (mostly) very happily and successfully for several years. Plus I have filed several bug reports and have responded to several messages on the lists, so maybe that makes me a part of the "team". (Think of me as a weak link if you like.) ;-) My observation is that ALL one has to do to be a part of GnuCash is to contribute. That includes documentation. If you can learn to produce documentation in a way that integrates properly and easily into the existing structure (or I presume, do all the work required to create a new structure) then the existing folks are much more likely to accept your changes and updates quickly. I do say all this (again) as an active user, but also as a person with years of experience writing software documentation BUT too busy with the "business" tasks to contribute much to GnuCash at the moment. You would think that I of all people would be horrified at the substandard documentation, but believe me, there are plenty of paid commercial products having worse. > 3. Since the actual development of the product has exceeded the pace of the > documentation, where do I find a list of features not documented and a brief > statement of the purpose of these features? There must be some sort of notes > that established an agreed goal that the programmers used to guide their work. > I believe you will find most of what you are looking for as links from wiki.gnucash.org -- the design documents are in svn, though I should let others comment on the up-to-date and "agreed goal" parts. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
