Hi Giuseppe, thank you for your very interesting suggestions.
In the past we could change the manuals *after* the official release was provided because the nightbuild could change every day. I agree that we need a deadline not to change menues or functionality to have time for changing the manuals too. But I think we should fix bugs in the official version too and not only in the nightbuilds. If there is a bug in the official version and it its fixed why can we not update the official version (with a new build-number)? So the official version would be always bug-free. New features should be for a new release in the nightbuild. What do you think? Regards Uwe Am 23.01.2012 18:41, schrieb Giuseppe Aruta: > Hi all, > I am very busy in these days with my job so excuse me if I do a > cumulative answer. > > I think we should leave all things as they are for OJ 1..5.1 without > modifying anything. > But we can leave a general common discussion and open a page for an > up-to-come version of OJ (1.6? 2?) where we can define all the radical > and non radical modifications of menus and plugins. > > The points. > > 1) As Uwe pointed it's hard to modify manuals if we have a software that > is modified every version (modified in a better way, I say). That's why > I gave up on upgrading the on-line manual/list of tool. > On the other hand OpenJUMP evolves and we need to change. It is probably > time to migrate to ELML/docbook or similar that make things more easy > and fast to do. > > 2) To come close to academic needs, we can define a specific official > version of OpenJUMP not only when all modifications are approved by the > community but also when a basic manual, at least for Uwe's lessons, is > prepared. Better if before September (the beginning of academic lessons, > I believe). For instance: > - we can freeze to add plugins or make modifications in February 2013 > for the official realize (1.6) > - on this time we modify the manual for 1.6 > - the official realize can happen between August and September > - of coarse only corrections of bugs will be allowed between February > and September. > On the same hand a the programming process goes on a 1.7 NB (to come on > 2014 or 2015). The only problem will be that people who correct bugs > between Feb and Sept hve to make corrections on both lineages (1.6 > up-to-come-official and 1.7 NB) > > Now the other points, possibly under point 2, if approved. > > 3) I think that the zip discussion can be included into Larry Baker's > proposal to add to OJ SkyJUMP tool that saves also the project file into > the zip folder. > > 4) I don't use a lot delete all layer items tool. When I was studying OJ > and made may Frankenstein OpenJUMP Jufre I also realized the rescue to > have this tool close to other like toggle visibility. I would vote to > hide it > > 5) I think we should improve menu descriptions, using icons but also > changing names. I worked more with Kosmo SAIG and I found it very easy > to use and very flexible, also because everything is well described and > easy to understand, even for newbies in GIS. As Stefan pointed out, > being so far away from OJ community, probably helped to see things in a > different way. Let us leave open the discussion. > > 6) +1 to group Buffer tools under a submenu. > > regards and excuse me for a long mail > > Giuseppe Aruta (ex-academic) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
