Hi all again, really nobody has some feedback to give on doc topic?
Cheers Matteo On 1/10/19 7:25 PM, matteo wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to raise some proposal for the documentation process of QGIS. I > think that we can all agree that the documentation is our weak part: no > matters if we have some budget or not, but even with sponsors, docs are > months away to be up to date with the code. We have an endless list of > issues that grows and grows. > > BTW: this is nobody fault, we are just to few doc writers, that's it > > Furthermore there are some PR stacked from months [0] (with and without > reviews). > > What I want to propose is a system similar to the coding one: a kind of > stale bot that closes PR automatically after a while. Actually I'd like > to go a step further: if the PR is made by a person with writing rights > than the PR is automatically merged (if the Travis is happy) while if > the person has not commit rights, then the PR is closed automatically to > prevent really ugly docs (not sure if this is achievable). > > I think we spent a lot of efforts on "appearance" of the docs rather > then contents (again, nobody fault, just me that prefers contents than > appearance). > > Personally I'd prefer to have updated manuals and correct all the rest > in a second moment. With the fix me button on each page and with > Alexandre's features that allows to see images directly on the repo it > is definitely more easy also for not skilled people to correct some > mistake than to add new text from scratch. > > I'm repeating again: this is not an attack on anyone, it is just what > came into my mind: AKA my 2 cents ;) > > Hoping to start a discussion > > Cheers > > Matteo > > > [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pulls > _______________________________________________ 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
