> It has been almost a year since the change, I think. How has the rate > of editing changed? It the quality better? Is it going better now? Do > we have any stats?
Since the start of the documentation there have been 96 bugs fixed and about 1275 edits have been made. And I think right now there are about 300 edits a month. Meaning about 10 a day which is pretty good considering there are only a few big contributors. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Knapp <magick.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > The cost of entry IMOHO is way to high. With Wikipedia I don't even have to > be logged in to edit. They do semi protect and protect some areas of > Wikipedia meaning you do have to log in or have right but most of it is > open. I have on many occasion thought I would like to fix something in > Blender's manual but there was no way I was going through all that just to > fix one mistake. I am sure I am not alone in this. > > BTW I want to clearly state that Aaron Carlisle (sorry I forgot your name > before) was and is a great help but I should not need him to do this. I > should not need to install software to do simple edits or learn a new > markup language, even if it is easy. > > So no point beating a dead house. I think it needs to change. We are > certainly losing a lot of help by it being so complicated to chip in. > > I read over the other conversation and found this quote. I think it sums up > the problem, as I see it, very well. > > "koil: > > I've reviewed the ideas posted on this topic, and given the matter a > good deal of thought. My reaction is mixed. In theory, I wouldn't have > any problem with porting the User Manual for Blender to the Sphinx > platform, (or some other one, if it be deemed reasonable and proper to > do so). However, since Blender is open source, and community developed, > I think it that it is imperative that there be mechanism for maintaining > user development of the documentation, too. And, unless I totally > misunderstand the new platform (and that's not an outlandish > possibility), moving the whole manual to the proposed new platform is > going to reduce the contributions to the documentation by members of the > community by a couple of orders of magnitude, and unless there is a > sizeable cohort of documentation waiting in the wings, I'm loathe to > disenfranchise a significant number of contributors to the documentation." > > It has been almost a year since the change, I think. How has the rate > of editing changed? It the quality better? Is it going better now? Do > we have any stats? > > Douglas > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
