In line with your note, perhaps you could suggest a few items (or a few topics) that you especially feel would be important/critical/useful to develop (what were you unable to find documentation about). IMHO one of the biggest issues facing the adoption of OSS is the lack of documentation and as a result one of my major objectives to support the OSS effort is to attempt to provide or at least assist with the development of (I am capable of at generating content quickly, I'll let someone else be the judge of it's usefulness) documentation; however, in order to be most useful, I think the effort should be driven by the community (as to what to develop).
In short, while you could develop the documentation yourself (as has been suggested), there is also the option of assisting or collaborating with someone (me?) to help improve the documentation. Anyone else with any documentation requests would also be welcome. (I know, be careful what you wish for...) Lance Dan Winslow wrote: > > So do I. Track hacks is a OK place to get plugins from, but not > information on how to do things. In general there is a crippling lack > of information all across the web about TRAC. I have spent two weeks > trying to understand various aspects of TRAC, and I am just now > starting to get a vague idea. I am not a python programmer, nor do I > have any wish to become one. All of the documentation I can find about > a specific subject is usually only a few terse sentences, maybe a > **very** short example, and then they all trail off with ‘ .. and of > course, you can always write a plugin to do anything more.’. I don’t > want to write plug-ins. I don’t want to have to read through bunch of > alien-looking code to try and figure out what it means. I’m not > faulting the developers in particular, they’ve done a fine job and > it’s a huge amount of work to maintain decent docs. > > I was so frustrated that I tried to get management to let me write my > own system, but they declined. I think a collection point for trac > recipies would be a greta idea. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ariel Balter > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:59 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Trac] Re: Trac Recipies > > I disagree. > > Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > > Trac-hacks is that site. > > --Noah > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of abalter >> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:52 AM >> To: Trac Users >> Subject: [Trac] Trac Recipies >> >> >> I would like to help put together a site of recipes for using Trac. >> There is a ton of great information in this email list and forums and >> out there on the web. I think it would be great to take a sort of >> "best of" of the actual solutions and organize them into a set of >> recipes such as "You want to do XXX...Do this:". >> >> Not surprisingly, I thing the best way to build this recipe book is >> with a Trac site. The first thing I would need would be a place to >> host it. Perhaps the folks that run Trac-hacks would be willing to >> give me some space. Or, perhaps edgewall.com. I'm open to >> suggestions. >> >> I'd love to hear feedback on this idea. >> >> Thanks, Ariel >> >> > > > > > > > > -- > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > > Ariel I Balter, Ph.D. > Postdoc > Biological Monitoring/Modeling > Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate > > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > Mail: > PO Box 999, MS P7-58,Richland, WA 99352 > Shipping: > 790 6th Street, MS P7-58, Richland, WA 99354 > > Tel: 509-376-7605 > Cell: 509-713-0087 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.arielbalter.com <http://www.arielbalter.com> > www.pnl.gov <http://www.pnl.gov> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
