[Bf-docboard] Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 141, Issue 2

[Pragati Jain]

Hello everyone!

I wish to be a contributor to blender documentation. Do we have a list of
any active projects? Please help me get started..

 Also, do we have any upcoming calendar meetups.

Regards
Pragati

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>    1. Re: Add-on documentation in wiki or in manual ? (Julian Eisel)
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> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:02:01 +0100
> From: Julian Eisel <eiseljulian at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
>
> Think it's fine to leave general pie usage documented in manual since
> they are natively implemented in the source code. The pie menu add-on
> is just a predefined and ready to use collection of pies. The Grease
> Pencil uses pies even if the pie menu add-on is disabled.
> However, we kinda abuse the Add-on system here a bit in that we use it
> in place for a user preference option. Maybe we should add a UserPref
> option for pie menus instead of having it as an Add-on. On top of
> that, you could still have add-ons for custom pies (or eventually a
> pie oven!). Thought of it before and it makes more and more sense to
> me.
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> Notice this is kinda off-topic, sorry for that :)
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> Cheers,
> - Julian -
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> On 5 November 2016 at 16:07, Gaia Clary <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi, Tobias;
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > However i suspect there is a misunderstanding here.
> > I do not refer to documentation of individual Add-Ons.
> >
> > I refer to documentation about "Scripting in Blender":
> >
> > https://www.blender.org/manual/advanced/scripting/index.html
> > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Py/Scripts
> >
> > cheers,
> > Gaia
> >
> >
> > On 05.11.2016 15:53, Tobias Heinke wrote:
> >
> > Hello Gaia,
> >
> > There's the policy that add-ons are not doc. in the manual.
> >
> > Add-ons currently in the manual:
> >
> > Cycles :)
> >  Import/Export files (just a list)
> >  Pie Menu (my fault)
> >  Im-/export UV layout (on by default)
> >
> >  Groups: Official/community, On/off by default
> >
> > Still covered are official on by default add-ons.
> > The reason I added pie menus was, because the  information about it in
> the
> > wiki was scattered.
> >
> > The  reasons I see  not to add them:
> >
> > The manual already has over 1000 pages. (10 official on, 13 off, ~70
> > community add-ons),
> > Quality Assurance: the add-on author should be  responsible for doc. and
> > maintenance.
> > The wiki has personal pages, online editing.
> >
> > IMO the upgrade to the new wiki is the best solution.
> > Or a separate repository for end user add-on documentation (probably
> > impossible).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobias
> >
> > Am 05.11.2016 um 13:03 schrieb Gaia Clary:
> >
> > hi.
> >
> > Yesterday i realized that we have Information about Add-ons on the
> > wiki and in the blender manual. I believe this is not so cool because:
> >
> > - 2 places to be maintained and kept up to date
> > - 2 places to point users to
> >
> > So what about migrating the addon related stuff from the wiki to the
> > docs instead of improving the wiki pages? After all the manual
> > meanwhile seems to be much better supported so it makes more fun
> > to work there anyways (besides that it looks better)
> >
> > I am working on the wiki pages anyways at the moment so i could
> > do the migration by cherry picking :)
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Gaia
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Pragati Chaplot Jain
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