On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Dirk Stöcker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: > >> There was a post just yesterday where some people agree that they just >> push the buttons at random until the conflict is either resolved or the >> changes completely messed up. > > Users always request better documentation, but when there is a good > documentation it is not read usually. > >> So please would those people who implemented conflict handling give >> detailed explanations in [[Help/Dialog/Conflict]] which currently is >> simply not helpful? > > You really need no programmer to write documentation. > > A good way to reach that goal would be to start writing that documentation > and ask the developers to fix or continue wrong or missing parts only. > Most of the docs can be written without knowing how the things work in > detail: > - describing appearance and situations > - making screenshots > - showing different situations and ways to handle them > Asking specific questions here like "what does that button do" can help to > solve troubles and the explanations can be copied into a doc. > > Till now I was not able to convince one single person to really update > JOSM online docs (with more than typos), so it seems doing that work is > not worth the effort.
Perhaps it would help if there was a way in JOSM to link from each dialog / logical part of the UI to the associated documentation page. Then you could always click "Help (for this dialog)" to get at the documentation. It's not easy just to *find* the docs so more exposure might help things. _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
