Pascal, Alexander, Michael & alii, We could agree that there are those important questions to settle before embarking upon a FAQ :
What format ? ~~ We shall one day use UTF-8. If it's something Scid could easily do, we'd rather start now. As for myself, working with vim/cream at the job (PC) or textmate (home) does not pose any difficulty. If that's not what we do, we would be at some tr or sed scripts away from it anyway. (As an aside, I wonder if it would only be for help files, or all the code.) Where to put that ? ~~ The FAQ could in faq, I mean in fact, very well be a subset of the help files. (Imagine a first topic named **Scid for Dummies**.) That could entail some rewriting of the whole help files, which would be a nice idea. I may be interested in that job at one day, maybe next year, say. But the FAQ I was thinking about could reside only a page on Pascal's site, or Scid's, or whatever, and still be of value. In fact, the whole idea came from two events that came up on the same day : editing the Wikipedia page for Scid and having the simple question about renaming, and more to the point, the two very valuable answers. Maintaining both web pages and help files may hinder development, but can also improve reactivity. Where to start ? ~~ The first thing would be of course to build some preliminary sketch. For this, I will skim the mailing list archives, while reflecting about my usual use of Scid. I am glad to have a reason to indulge in reading back the whole archive. The main objective would be to decide upon the first few things to know. That should give an idea about how all the topics will fall and the depth of treatment. So I guess that sums what needs to be said in this mailing list. Maybe that would be better if I only report here about results from now on. I am asking the question, in fact : is it usual to keep the discussions between project members open to the readers of the mailing list ? If not, as I presume (without any experience whatsoever as to what the good manners are in freeware development conversations), I will continue the conversation regarding specifics only with those interested. This message contains the adress where I can get contacted. Anyone who is willing to give advice, feedback, help is most welcome, as long as they're not trolls. Trolls will be crushed to bits, body and bones, and tossed out into the cascade, as a big Billy Gruff would do. More generally, I am willing to put some effort on the project where is a need for documentation. I am no good at programming yet, though I will learn by studying Scid's code, both in C++ and Tcl/Tk. For now, I sure can write better I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and can write faster than anybody who can write better, except perhaps A. J. Liebling. Kindest regards, Benoit St-Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
