While some developers may be aware of the bugs you comment on; I simply
was not ... I would rather have you both involved and contributing.
So how can we handle this ... my worry is the wiki will talk about bugs
even after they are resolved (as you point out the developers cannot
keep up to the user community).
I best link to the documentation pages you are writing from the bug
reports (so when the bugs are closed we know to clean up those pages).
And would still ask that we hunt down the specific bugs you are
referring to - I wont have time today (or tomorrow) but perhaps someone
else can.
Cheers,
Jody
I've tried to modify the "Running uDig" page to clarify some of those
issues and problems, hoping you'll see those changes as constructive.
While I appreciate the developers' focus on the bug-tracking system,
I think you will get significant benefit by improving the end-user
documentation as well, and the tools you're using to build that are
quite good. So unless you strenuously object, I'll attempt to
contribute in this way.
My own experience (with metadata processing tools) tells me that real
users provide a lot of testing that you couldn't pay people to do even
if you had the funding. So I'd like to encourage the uDig developers
to let this part of the software process happen, and to observe what
the users say. You'll probably see things that we're confused about
and can clarify for us, but we may also see things that you will want
to know ;-)
Peter
Andrea Antonello wrote:
Hi Jody,
I didn't see it that way probably because I'm not (yet!) very used to
the bugtracker. I assume that everything I wrote on the page has already
been noticed and reported by others, since some people use linux and the
problems are very "visible".
I just wanted to create a page for non developers were this issues are
described in a simple way and were possible solutions are also
described.
I see, Cory already linked the cursor thing to the entry in the tracker.
Probably some other things can also be explained.
Andrea
Jody Garnett probaly wrote:
Did you actually have bug reports for the problems you mentioned on the
page? Some of your questions seems to be from a lack of information
(you
talk about disabling advanced graphics for linux ... can you tell me
anything more? Or does that mean something to people working on linux).
Cheers,
Jody
If possible can we keep the page for documentation about stuff we
know?
And use the bug tracker to answer the other questions. My concern
is this
page may not be touched again before the next release.
Jody
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