Thanks for the features list wiki reference. It should be a good starting point for me to draft something.
Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Stimming [mailto:stimm...@tuhh.de] > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:34 AM > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > Cc: Thomas Bullock; Geert Janssens > Subject: Re: Documentation for the 2.4 release > > Am Friday 08 October 2010 schrieb Thomas Bullock: > > Hi Geert, > > > > Sorry to be slow in responding. > > > > I have been thinking about your remarks. I am comfortable making a > draft > > of such documentation. But to do that I do need a list of features > that > > are new to 2.4. I figure once I could put words to the features, > > developers involved in creating the features could react to the draft > by > > pointing out what I got wrong or what was omitted and should be > included. > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Feature_Checklist_for_2.4 > .0 > Indeed not very much user-visible new features, but that is correct. > Sorry for > that. > > Regards, > > Christian > > > So far I am acquainted only with GC 2.2.9 and have not attempted to > install > > 2.3.15. So you can see I am the least likely person to be writing > the > > documentation. Up to now there seems to be no one else, so I am > proposing > > the above just to get something started. This would be my > contribution to > > the idea you propose for a formalized documentation update process. > > > > I would also like to suggest that once the 2.4 release is actually > > released, the developers help focus on at least the initial draft of > this > > documentation. There should be install instructions (if needed) as > well > > as the general overview and database specific commentary. > > > > Once that would be prepared, user questions would quickly disclose > what had > > been omitted. When that round of development had been completed, > then > > there would be time for adding new features beyond 2.4. > > > > Do these thoughts resonate as a way to get started? > > > > Tom > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-ge...@telenet.be] > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:35 AM > > > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > > Cc: Thomas Bullock > > > Subject: Re: Documentation for the 2.4 release > > > > > > On Monday 4 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: > > > > Developers, > > > > > > > > What plans are you making for the documentation when the 2.4 > release > > > > > > become > > > > > > > official? > > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > > > The silence you get as an answer already hints that there is not > really > > > a > > > plan... at least I don't know of a formal one myself. > > > > > > I wonder if it would be useful to have some more formalized > > > documentation > > > update process, which includes calling on interested writers when > > > GnuCash is > > > stabilizing. > > > > > > > Due to it having the use of 3 types of databases, it seems to me > that > > > > > > would > > > > > > > entail a significant documentation update involving a general > > > > > > description > > > > > > > of how GC would then work and specific sets of instructions for > > > > > > using each > > > > > > > of the 3 data bases. And I suppose there could be impacts on > how > > > > > > reports > > > > > > > are prepared by GC. > > > > > > > > Am I thinking along the right lines? If so, when would those > > > > > > enhancements > > > > > > > be written and incorporated into the current Guide and Help > manuals? > > > > > > All of the above suggestions would be very good additions to the > > > GnuCash > > > documentation. > > > > > > As to when ? Now would be a good moment. As far as I can tell, most > > > developers > > > are focussing right now on squashing the last remaining blocker > bugs to > > > get > > > 2.4 ready. There are no new features planned anymore until the > stable > > > release > > > and I expect no or only very small interface changes until that > time as > > > well. > > > > > > Which means that GnuCash as you can play with in 2.3.15 minus some > > > internal > > > bugs will be what you get in 2.4 and hence can be used as a > reference > > > to > > > update the documentation. > > > > > > In any casy, I hereby invite everyone with some writing skills and > some > > > time > > > on his hands to join us in updating the documentation with the > latest > > > and > > > greatest new features that have been added in the 2.3.x development > > > cycle. ;) > > > > > > I'll try to contibute my part if and when I find some time. The > next > > > couple of > > > weeks will be very busy for me outside of GnuCash... > > > > > > Geert > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
