Hi, It's me again. Just want to introduce myself properly and say how I intend to help with the documentation.
I'm 66, retired from the North Sea Oilfields and never done any never done any programming. Documentation would seem to be the best way for me to contribute to the scid project. For many years I would not touch Windows and used Debian based systems and then OpenBSD so I was delighted when Brian Callaghan ported scid to OpenBSD. His first port was when had not been progressed for some time and was still using the 3rd generation database system i.e. ".si3" index files etc. I was finding it difficult as a user restarting chess after 27 years away from the game. So I switched to Windows and the fork Scid vs. PC and 4th generation databases. I'm well chuffed you've taken up development again and I can move back to OpenBSD. (I keep my databases on a FAT32 drive so that they can be read and written by both operating systems.) In the OpenBSD project a lack of proper documentation is considered to be a serious bug. Everything there defaults to very carefully crafted and kept up to date man pages in the base operating system. External ports are another matter. I know very well that lagging documentation is par for the course in all Linux systems. So it is splendid that you folks have got Scid under development again. I think what I should do is to offer suggestions for updating the in-built help system to reflect the present situation and perhaps give the same in the wiki but add annotated screen-shots. Must go. I am summoned. I'll be back either here or on a wiki page. Cheers Moss _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
