(Again I removed gnucash-user. No need to cross-post) On Monday 22 February 2016 18:32:03 Pedro Albuquerque wrote: > Hi Geert, all > > I'll think about a way to contribute more widely as soon as I solve my > "local" problems. But I most certainly don't want to raise a huge > discussion about the merge. > Don't worry. I value new opinions (though I may not always agree). Your merge proposal actually lines up with a discussion we already had in August last year. I wrote more about it in my other reply
> I'm trying to follow John's advices, after what I'll translate my idea > and submit it as a bug. Starting there, we'll see how (or if) can I > be useful. > > Thank you for the encouragement. > I'm looking forward to it. Geert > Regards, > Pedro. > > Seg, 2016-02-22 às 10:11 +0100, Geert Janssens escreveu: > > On Sunday 21 February 2016 08:21:16 Pedro Albuquerque wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > > > > > > > I read the bugs you mentioned David, and all other bugs and > > > > > > attachments related. And the wiki articles, and several Internet > > > > > > pages John, thank you for pulling my ears. ;-) > > > > > > Of course, I'm not aware of the new platform discussion, nor > > > should > > > > I > > > > > worry about that, according to Geert Janssens. Makes sense, for a > > > > non > > > > > developer. > > > > > > > > > > > > So, not being neither a developer nor an experienced Gnucash user, > > > > and > > > > > not even an accountant, I can only speak as a regular computer > > > user. > > > > > > Hope I'm not bothering to much. > > > > > > Platform independently speaking, I would rather have the help > > > manual > > > > > > and the guide merged into one single document and then split in > > > two > > > > > > again, one for personal finances and another for business > > > finances. > > > > > > > > > > > > One reason for this choice of mine and following up on a recent > > > > > > discussion on the users list, there are countries where GC can't > > > be > > > > > > used for most businesses, so a separate document for businesses > > > > would > > > > > make sense to me, living on one of those. > > > > > > > > > > > > As for the merge, I think we all know that users seldom read the > > > > > > documentation (me included), so having to jump between two > > > documents > > > > > > could eventually discourage them even more. > > > > > > > > > > > > Either way, thank you for this excellent software. Took me some > > > time > > > > > > to choose it but I'm glad I did. It's now fully translated into my > > > > > > language and I will finish just saying that I can spare some time > > > to > > > > > > help, if you want. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > Hi Pedro, > > > > > > > > Thank you for your great contribution. I'm very happy it is now > > fully > > translated in Portuguese. > > > > > > > > And of course it would be great if you are willing to help out some > > more in the spare time you have. > > > > > > > > Several people agree with you that merging all documentation into > > one > > would be a good thing. Perhaps you can contribute to this goal (at > > any level, like: coming up with a strategy or effectively doing the > > work). > > > > > > > > Other than that there are several documentation bugs which you may > > be _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
