Thanks so much for the summary Matteo, it is really nice to see a summary of 
the current status list this!

I hope soon someone van figure out how to document the SAGA processing tools!

Regards

Tim

> On 18 Feb 2018, at 16:30, matteo <matteo.ghe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing here a brief summary of the current situation of the
> Processing Help system.
> 
> Currently all the QGIS algorithms have been described and all the PR in
> the doc repository have been merged (kudos to Harrissou for all the
> reviews!).
> 
> Right now the Help button of each Processing dialog will open the
> related page of the algorithm, BUT:
> 
> * if the name of the algorithm is made by only ONE word (e.g. clip,
> intersection...), the help button will open the browser to also the
> correct section (that is, the user will see directly th description of
> the related algorithm)
> * if the name of the algorithm has >1 words (e.g. split polygon with
> lines, lines to polygon, ecc.) the Help button will open the correct
> page (so the algorithm GROUP) but is not able to go to the correct
> algorithm anchor. This is because sphinx converts "split with lines" in
> "split-with-lines" while QGIS system will always cast the words
> "split-with-lines" in "splitwithlines". Not a big deal, but IMHO a pity.
> We are really too close to the solution.
> 
> So Processing Help system right now consists i:
> 
> * QGIS algs -> documented
> * GDAL algs -> documented
> * GRASS -> documented (own docs)
> * Orfeo -> documented (own docs)
> * SAGA -> nothing documented
> 
> Thanks to QGIS Grants to provide this chance to give a big improvement
> to the Processing framework even if not in a coding way.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matteo
> 
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