On 01/30/2011 11:57 AM, a.l.e wrote: > dear scribus manual authors, > >> On 01/30/2011 12:26 AM, Ken Springer wrote: >>> As I mentioned to John Jason Jordan, the book is on the list. :-) >>> But, I should wait for the manual for 1.4 if it's due out in a few >>> weeks. >> >> Just to be clear, version 1.4 of Scribus may be out in a matter of >> weeks. The second edition of the manual is expected to take months >> from that to complete and be available. We have what you might call a >> head start with first edition material, but there are a LARGE number >> of changes, so it may end up being close to a total rewrite. > > i'm a bit worried about the perspective of a scribus manual being published > one year after the stable release is out. > > i would feel much comfortable if i knew you were targeting the next stable > release (1.6 / 2.0) and have a manual ready for the time it will be out. > > this imo also help the whole team to keep an eye on the release cycle of the > stable releases...
Let's just say there were differing opinions on this, and this is what we ended up with. In partial defense of this waiting, I would point out that Cedric's book misses some features which came out after 1.3.5svn -- some of the rationale for waiting until 1.4 was fully baked. Greg
