That sounds reasonable to me. From what I recall of his message on the list, it seems like he might be interested.
However, I've just rediscovered another guide that I knew about a long time ago, but had forgotten about. http://sugarpillstudios.com/wp/?p=142 So now with 3 potentially helpful, but "unofficial" guides, will it be reasonable to ask all 3 authors to contribute to the website? Or maybe I will discover more? I certainly don't mind contacting them and asking...or inviting them to help with the official guide (especially since I've been "pushing" to get a guide written). But I'm not sure if it would be appropriate. Kind of like making "cold calls" an old telemarketing term, meaning to sell something to strangers who have no previous interest in the product. I'm guessing they might offer to let us quote from their guides, rather than find the time to do it themselves. I mean, I don't mind trying to contact them, if that's what we decide to do. Who knows? Maybe they would want to work together on it? Or maybe someone who is more familiar with writing extensions could use the info from these 3 guides, to add to the official one? It's all just a little beyond my reach, to be able to do that myself. When I read these guides, I get through the first 3 or 4 paragraphs, and then I'm completely lost. Anyone else with ideas? (or offers :-)) brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <docto...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 4:04 PM To: "Brynn" <br...@frii.com> Cc: "Inkscape-Docs" <inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] more on writing extensions > Hi Brynn, > > What would be a really good outreach is if you contact the author of the > medium.com article and ask him if he'd like to improve the inkscape.org > extension guide with the information he's written on his blog. > > that way we don't have to link to something that might disapear for > information we should certainly have the best of on our website and we > potentially invite a new contributor to help out on the official pages. > > Thoughts? > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 15:22 -0700, Brynn wrote: >> Hi Friends (Maren, Martin), >> I've been wondering whether it might be a good idea to have a >> link >> to the guide to writing extensions, which recently was mentioned in a >> message on the dev list >> (https://medium.com/@xaviju/inkscape-extensions-by-non-developers-for-non-developers-a-primer-b272dda360fe) >> somewhere on the website. Maybe either on the Develop page, or on the >> new >> Extensions page? >> And since I just came across another less technical kind of >> guide: >> http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/write-inkscape-extension-create-multiple-duplicates/, >> I'm motivated to bring up the issue here. >> Should they be listed/linked? I think they both serve as simple >> examples, which potentially could help new extension-writers. Or would >> they >> just be in that category of more links that are prone to bitrot? >> Just a thought. I'll be glad to make the edits, if everyone else >> agrees. >> >> All best, >> brynn >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-docs mailing list >> Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
