Tom, I agree with you that not having a documentation uptodate is a big fail of the project. But I think it would not be that big if users were aware of any strategy about documentation. I think that: - if we can release a doc concurrently with the application release (and that's a huge target!) - AND if users are aware that only LTR releases will be documented - AND that there's a testing doc for non-LTR release we would cover some gaps.
I'm not sure that the release cycle is a big problem. QGIS has gained maturity and many features with this system. However I recall few years ago discussion about integrating documentation as a part of any new features from sponsors. Was that rejected? Is it followed? Anyway, would be nice if a grant proposal could come on this side of the project... _Harrissou dreaming..._ Harrissou 2017-03-06 14:01 GMT+01:00 Tom Chadwin <[email protected]>: > A quick, sweeping, unhelpful but important opinion from me (non-dev, > non-doc-writer). > > Please don't think that retrospective documentation, and lack of docs for > current release (not master, but current non-LTR release) is good, just > because that's how it is now. This is the *biggest* failing of the QGIS > project when stacked up against commercial alternatives. Can you imagine a > professional software package being released without full docs? > > I know that we just don't have the resources to improve this to where it > should be, but perhaps this would be an argument to slow down the release > cycle. > > To make it absolutely clear: that fact that current latest release of QGIS > doesn't have docs is a huge failure. > > </tuppence> > > > > ----- > Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon > -- > View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6. > nabble.com/3-0-Documentation-and-branching-tp5306770p5310924.html > Sent from the QGIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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