Re: [Qgis-user] New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets

[Michael Goldstein]

Thanks for reaching out to me.  I did spend some time yesterday on 
GitHub trying to puzzle out how to get started. There's a fairly 
daunting set of editing conventions and mark-up codes to learn, though I 
imagine it's easier than it looks once you get going.


A bigger issue for me is that I couldn't figure out where to start, i.e. 
I didn't find a list of topics or chapters or sections that the 
QGIS-team has prioritized as needing updating.  Also, while I've been a 
member of GitHub for years, I've never used it as a contributor, only as 
someone who was downloading code (typically JavaScript libraries from 
developers). Another thing to learn


I'm also trying to figure out the best way for me to "fit in".  My 
background is a little unusual in that I have no formal training in GIS 
or cartography, and am totally self-taught, which means I've been an 
avid consumer of QGIS documentation over the years.  So I'm probably 
better suited to work on introductory materials than 
cartographic-intensive ones.  The good news is that I still remember a 
lot of the issues I dealt with.


In May, I started using Postgres with QGIS.  I installed it using 
PostgreSQL 12, and pgAdmin 4.  Frankly, I thought the documentation 
could have been a lot better, especially working on a Mac.  Still, I 
managed to get everything running in about a day until I started 
defining multiple Schema instead of dumping everything into the Public 
schema.  It was mystifying why these views and tables would show up in 
the DBManager but not in the browser.  After 3 days of frustration, I 
nearly abandoned PostGIS.  Then, purely by accident,  I noticed that the 
PostGIS  connection dialog has a checkbox specifying "Only look in the 
'public' schema", checked by default.  Unchecked the box, and my schema 
appeared!


If improving that aspect of the documentation is of interest, it's 
something I would love to work on.


That said, I'm open to suggestions.

Regards,
Michael




DelazJ wrote on 7/11/20 3:38 PM:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for offering your help. Happy to welcome more experimented 
writers.
Documentation sources are available at 
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation, with a list of features to 
document at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues. You can 
find some contribution guidelines at 
https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/documentation_guidelines/index.html 
but feel free to ask if anything is unclear.
As Andreas mentioned, you can also join the qgis-community-team list 
(https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team) where 
we sometimes hold "meta" discussion on the future of the documentation.


Greetings,
Harrissou

Le ven. 10 juil. 2020 à 16:05, Andreas Neumann > a écrit :


Hi Michael,

Or you could buy a used Intel Mac that is only 1-3 years old. I
would assume that many Apple afficionados are eager to jump to new
hardware and would give away the old Intel stuff for a bargain. If
QGIS is important to you, that might be a better deal than
becoming an early adopter of arm hardware and suffer from all the
early problems. Over the years - after all the major problems are
solved, I would agree that a more energy efficient processor
sounds compelling.

About documentation: documenter are always welcome. The
introduction can be found at
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/document.html - there is
a dedicated mailing list for documenters and you need a github
account.

Thanks in advance for your efforts in joining the documentation team!

Greetings,

Andreas


On 2020-07-10 15:51, Michael Goldstein wrote:


Thanks to everyone who responded to my email.

I'm currently running a 27" late-2013 iMac, whose life I extended
by upgrading the boot drive to SSD.  While it's still a capable
machine, I don't think it has 2+ more years left in it.  Sigh. 
So I may be forced to make the ARM transition sooner rather than
later, unless I decide to upgrade to an Intel iMac instead (which
is not so desirable given my other commitments to the Apple
eco-system)..

I've been running QGIS on Macs since 1.x.  Over the years Mac
support has been spotty even into the 3.xx era.  For example, a
few months ago I had to run the Windows version in a VM to export
a georeferenced PDF. That was a python issue, I think... QGIS 3.8
needed a later version of phython which didn't then exist for
Mac.  That said, a sincere thanks to kyngchaos making it possible
to run on Mac at all for many of those years!

Good news that the port to ARM should be straight-forward.  I do
hope it becomes a priority because the inherent energy efficiency
of the ARM chipsets should make for some compelling hardware,
particularly for laptop users.

Finally, I would like to volunteer to write some documentation. 
What's the best way to do that?

Michael



  

Re: [Qgis-user] New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets

[DelazJ]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for offering your help. Happy to welcome more experimented writers.
Documentation sources are available at
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation, with a list of features to
document at  https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues. You can
find some contribution guidelines at
https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/documentation_guidelines/index.html
but feel free to ask if anything is unclear.
As Andreas mentioned, you can also join the qgis-community-team list (
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team) where we
sometimes hold "meta" discussion on the future of the documentation.

Greetings,
Harrissou

Le ven. 10 juil. 2020 à 16:05, Andreas Neumann  a
écrit :

> Hi Michael,
>
> Or you could buy a used Intel Mac that is only 1-3 years old. I would
> assume that many Apple afficionados are eager to jump to new hardware and
> would give away the old Intel stuff for a bargain. If QGIS is important to
> you, that might be a better deal than becoming an early adopter of arm
> hardware and suffer from all the early problems. Over the years - after all
> the major problems are solved, I would agree that a more energy efficient
> processor sounds compelling.
>
> About documentation: documenter are always welcome. The introduction can
> be found at https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/document.html -
> there is a dedicated mailing list for documenters and you need a github
> account.
>
> Thanks in advance for your efforts in joining the documentation team!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
>
> On 2020-07-10 15:51, Michael Goldstein wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to my email.
>
> I'm currently running a 27" late-2013 iMac, whose life I extended by
> upgrading the boot drive to SSD.  While it's still a capable machine, I
> don't think it has 2+ more years left in it.  Sigh.  So I may be forced to
> make the ARM transition sooner rather than later, unless I decide to
> upgrade to an Intel iMac instead (which is not so desirable given my other
> commitments to the Apple eco-system)..
>
> I've been running QGIS on Macs since 1.x.  Over the years Mac support has
> been spotty even into the 3.xx era.  For example, a few months ago I had to
> run the Windows version in a VM to export a georeferenced PDF. That was a
> python issue, I think... QGIS 3.8 needed a later version of phython which
> didn't then exist for Mac.  That said, a sincere thanks to kyngchaos making
> it possible to run on Mac at all for many of those years!
>
> Good news that the port to ARM should be straight-forward.  I do hope it
> becomes a priority because the inherent energy efficiency of the ARM
> chipsets should make for some compelling hardware, particularly for laptop
> users.
>
> Finally, I would like to volunteer to write some documentation.  What's
> the best way to do that?
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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