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. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
