[Bf-docboard] Plans for the Future

[Jasper Mine]

Hi,

I think this is total artificial bias to OO, I like the way it is,  
its EASY, obtain cvs, obtain xml editor, goto work, F~ Open Office,  
it's not as open as you think! Get the cvs, get the XML editor, and  
make the docs... what is the problem???

jsplifer


On May 30, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Stefano Selleri wrote:

> Well,
>
> I've exchanged some thoughts with people at BF. We need to think of  
> what the BF-docboard is doing.
>
> The current workflow ha strength and weakness:
>
> Strength:
> - Centralized process, everything is checked twice :)
> - Reliable standard, with easy translation to html, PDF (?) etc.
>
> Weakness:
> - Hard to use (at best) new contributors are scared. Time spent in  
> making things work is
> a non-negligible percentage of total time.
> - Centralized process (yep, this is a drawback too), this leads to  
> dead times, within submission, evaluation and pubblication
> - Akward pubblication. To change something online I have to upload  
> all stuff from scratch. THis is a hundred of Megabytes or more.
>
> We are thinking about changing standards.
>
> One possible is wikimedia, the one used for wikipedia (NOT the one  
> for the wiki at blender.org). This allows an easier contribution,  
> since anyone can commit changes, and it is possible to roll back if  
> something bad happens. It is anyway a standard one must learn to  
> write in. I've been told that images are not that easy to handle.
>
> Another possibility is OpenOffice, this ies easier to use, since it  
> is offline, but harder to manage, since it is offline :), and  
> harder to have an uniformly styled output.
>
> I would like to have opinions from boarders on these two, and  
> possible suggestions of other approaches within this week.
>
> Next release (2.37) is close Kenneth has indeed just finished the  
> PET doc for 2.37. He is actually one of the few people actively  
> writing. Many others are working on translations too, but this does  
> not add new stuff ;)
>
> So we are lagging a lot with respect to developers. I think we need  
> to fill the gap! And to do this I think we really need to let  
> people collaborate seamlessly, without CVS restriction bottlenecks.
>
> Happy Blending
>
> Stefano
>
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