Am Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:37:01 +0200 schrieb Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>:
> Il 14/10/2015 01:55, Alexandre Neto ha scritto: > > > I believe the answer to your original question, "why it seems to be > > attractive to write about QGIS there (in books) and not within the > > project (oficial doxumentation)?", is given by the early testimony. > > Writting good updated documentation takes lots of time, effort and > > patience, things that people don't seem to be willing to give for free > > (at least not the desirable quantity). > > > > While adding ad hoc non sponsored new features are fun and give their > > authors some prestige and recognition, Writting documentation doesn't. > > I think money is not really an issue here: compensation for writing > books is usually ridiculous, and not worth the effort. Want people wants > is recognition: having your name in print, on a book thousands of people > read, is the driving force. > Unfortunately this is difficult to achieve for a cooperative effort, but > perhaps we should giving due and appropriate credits to authors more > clearly (maybe a page with names and statistics: number of lines > written, number of commits?). I'm sure this may motivate some people. > All the best. I also thought that money is most important. But it seems to be only a (minor) factor. Giving people recognition seems to be very important, too. I agree with Paolo and maybe we can improve that. Another thing I thought about is, if writing the official documentation in QGIS is still too complicated? We tried to make it as simple as possible, but I am not sure, if it is easy enough. Maybe not explained good enough? Regards, Otto _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
