[Bf-docboard] Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the very enthusiastic response! I'll note down your offer to 
be "Manual editor" for coordinating work there, that's very welcome. 
Are there more candidates, speak up now! :)

The 2.5 project will indeed mean an even bigger challenge for you 
guys... forgot to mention that, and I can imagine it paralyzes a bit. 
Does still make the need for more clear navigation layout evident.

I recall someone had a proposal for it... have to to dig in logs. Back 
later!

-Ton-

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On 10 Nov, 2008, at 15:34, Roger Wickes wrote:

> Hey, great to have you back! I would like to be responsible for the 
> Manual pages, (which just broached 1,250,000 hits!) and have the 
> authority to control content changes. Skin changes I could care less 
> about. I keep a list of what needs to be done in the To-Do list at 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Wiki_Tasks as you awesome coders 
> keep adding features.
>
> I have long wanted to beef up the Reference and keep doco on each 
> panel updated in there. An example of that is the new Stamp panel. 
> However, I have not really bothered with Reference as I think with 
> 2.50 that whole panel organization will re-boot.
>
> At this time I am entering a very busy period for the next 3 months, 
> with a book and video deal, so I will be in quiet mode and just build 
> a list and concepts and sandbox any changes, rather than actually 
> making changes. I also don't want to put alot into something that will 
> need a drastic overhaul (reference manual).
>
> Tutorials has issues with organization, but I havent really spent any 
> time on it. The issue is that Blender is an integrated, full featured 
> tool, so many tutorial are not about modeling or just about texturing, 
> but span many functional areas. I envision a venn diagram kind of 
> presentation, with application/use on one side (architecture, game, 
> outdoors, CG scenes, compositing) and functionality (modeling, 
> animation, rendering, post-pro) on the other axis.
>
> I cannot comment on BlenderDev. I have read reference manuals on 
> software internals for applications my company has developed, and api 
> docs for applications like websphere. Both of those are something like 
>  90% different from what we have for Blender, so I cannot even begin 
> to compare or comment.
>
> Scripts are core to Blender's extensibility and contains a very rich 
> set of functionality that is sadly overlooked largely because the doco 
> is disperate and poorly advertised and scant. Migius and Meta have 
> done an incredible job there getting from nothing to 1.0, and I will 
> do what I can to help them get to 2.0 level.
>
> Game Engine wiki doco is sad, and as i have said earlier, people just 
> need to buy the new book. I make the comparison to the wiki pre-my 
> involvement to what we have now, where just whole entire concepts and 
> topics need to be written.
>
> As a separate issue, everyone keeps saying 2.5, and not 2.50. oh well. 
> If it is as dramatic as everyone says, you might want to consider 3 
> and be consistent.
>
> I am surprised at all the questions i get on the forums caused by old 
> tutorials and such due to relatively minor UI changes that have 
> occurred. The UV unwrap from edit mode, for example. I'm thinking we 
> need to archive(?) the pre-2.50 info somehow, or have an active 
> search, if the UI of 2.50+ will be drastically different, since that 
> material is already out there to stay.
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