<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks Luca,<div><br></div><div>I'll do some digging through the Sandbox to get a better feel for the structure of the documentation and how to go about making contributions.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 2/8/10, mindrones <i><mindrones@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: mindrones <mindrones@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Bf-docboard] Proposal to postpone documentation start to beta 2.54 (means september)<br>To: "Blender Documentation Project" <bf-docboard@blender.org><br>Date: Monday, 2 August, 2010, 13:54<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi,<br><br>On 08/02/2010 09:10 AM, Louis du Pisani wrote:<br><br>> Or maybe I can make screenshots that correspond to 2.49 functionality?<br><br>Just making screenshots without actually writing docs is a bit pointless
:)<br><br>> They can always be replaced.<br><br>OK, read the orange banner in manual pages: the plan is to keep the 2.4 <br>manual as well as the 2.5 and next ones, hence we don't remove images or <br>pages.<br><br> > (for instance we can put a little v2.53 label in the right bottom <br>corner?)<br><br>Better don't put labels in the image itself, because a screenshot can be <br>ok for next versions too, less work: to me the best thing is put the <br>version in file names.<br><br>Also, as soon as time will permits, we will start some automatic <br>screenshotting procedure, so I'd wait a bit with screenshots.<br><br>If you have time and will you could look at the todolist<br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks</a><br>and provide some documentation in the sandbox, here:<br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Sandbox"
target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Sandbox</a><br><br>You'll find guidelines here:<br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide</a><br>and<br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Luca<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>><br>> --- On *Thu, 22/7/10, Ton Roosendaal /<<a ymailto="mailto:ton@blender.org" href="/mc/compose?to=ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>>/* wrote:<br>><br>><br>> From: Ton Roosendaal <<a ymailto="mailto:ton@blender.org" href="/mc/compose?to=ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [Bf-docboard] Proposal to postpone documentation start<br>> to beta 2.54 (means
september)<br>> To: "Blender Documentation Project" <<a ymailto="mailto:bf-docboard@blender.org" href="/mc/compose?to=bf-docboard@blender.org">bf-docboard@blender.org</a>><br>> Date: Thursday, 22 July, 2010, 16:10<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> 2.53 is going to be out today.<br>><br>> You can already quite safely start documenting now... but only if you<br>> feel confident with the area you write about. If you don't, or when<br>> you can't find out if you encounter a bug or a missing feature, you<br>> better stay away from it :)<br>><br>> Obviously, and that's what Luca points out, some things will change.<br>> But these changes won't be much more intrusive than the
usual<br>> development project.<br>><br>> -Ton-<br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation <a ymailto="mailto:ton@blender.org" href="/mc/compose?to=ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a><br>> </mc/compose?to=<a ymailto="mailto:ton@blender.org" href="/mc/compose?to=ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>> www.blender.org<br>> Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands<br>><br>> On 20 Jul, 2010, at 10:42, mindrones wrote:<br>><br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > I see that the plans are to release a beta 2.53 this week and soon<br>> > after, like september or so,
release another beta 2.54 with bugfixes.<br>> ><br>> > I'd really like that we ask people to start documenting from 2.54<br>> > instead of from 2.53, because:<br>> > 1) more bugs will be fixed,<br>> > 2) also, to be honest, I'd need some time to prepare some new<br>> > templates<br>> > for the wiki (my old plans but never had time to do it properly)<br>> ><br>> > Would it be ok for people here?<br>> ><br>> > Especially, if this is agreed on, Ton it would be nice to tell this<br>> > very<br>> > clearly when beta 3 goes out, so we can prepare things in summer<br>> > time :)<br>>
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