[Bf-docboard] Being involved In documentation

[Abuelo S. B. Chdancer]

Campbell Barton reminded...

"While this is subjective, we have had contributions submitted via our
project page:

https://developer.blender.org/tag/documentation/ "


Guys, someone who USES Blender may not know the first thing about coding,
someone who can write simple prose explaining to another person in clear
language how to DO something artistic may be totally useless when it comes
to installing software or plugging in a USB plug.

I bet a lot of possible contributors give up when they read this....

"We have migrated the content over to reST format, so that the manual can
be built with Sphinx. A good amount of work is still required to complete
the migration (learn more about the open tasks in Phabricator).

If you want to start contributing or want to have a look at the new manual,
here we have some instructions.
How to build the docs locally

   - Checkout the Subversion repository svn checkout
   https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual/trunk
   - Move to the location where the repo was cloned
   - Run pip install -r requirements.txt (Windows user make sure you are
   using Python 2.7, not 3.x)
   - Build a section of the manual (for example make render)
   - Launch the contents_quicky.html inside of the html folder and browse
   the freshly build render docs


That is a hundred times worse than trying to  use the wiki manual. It is
mindboggingly offputting and not just incomprehensible but presents such a
hurdle that most people will stop at that point and forget being involved.

What it should say is.....

Read this (hopefully well written and elegantly presented) webpage which
explains how you register what you would like to do.

If worried about 'no nothings' writing drivel, that is why we invented
human editors. Also it is technically possible to have peer reviews of
submitted entries prior to making the entry official.

I was in the middle of working on my latest animation.....
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