Re: Git is great! Re: Documentation

[Bob Crandell <..hidden..>]

Hi Marjan,

Thanks for the link, though with David's idea we may not need it.

I think I sould change his example from:
An example URL would be https://wiki.ledgersmb.com/1.5.2/$HelpID
to:
An example URL would be https://wiki.ledgersmb.com/$Version/$HelpID
that way you could pasted the question mark on every screen of every
version back to the dawn of time without having to make special edits
for every release and nobody would be left out.  ... unless that goes
without saying, then never mind.

Thanks
Bob

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 12:31 +0200, Marjanw wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Git is a version control system developed by Linus Torvalds.
> It helps you to maintain a collection of files.
> Git is targeted to program source files, but you can use it for any
> collection of (text) files.
> Read the Git Book at: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
> 
> Once you know Git, you'll using it for just everything!
> Large binary files can be managed with git-annex.
> (But first start to learn plain git.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marjan
> 
> On 2016-05-18 02:47, Bob Crandell wrote:
> > They all need help of one kind or another.  :)  I guess we should decide
> > on what order to do them.  I suggest we do Preferences and System first
> > then Contacts and HR.  After that General Journal and Goods and
> > Services.  That should give the new guys a foundation.  From there we
> > just work our way down the list.
> >
> > What's Git?  With a little help getting started I should be fine.
> >
> > Is that what you had in mind?
> >
> > On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 11:51 +1200, Paul Bolger wrote:
> >> The first thing to do would be to draw up a list of pages which need
> >> help. How's your Git? Mine's not great...
> >>
> >> On 18 May 2016 at 11:42, Bob Crandell <..hidden..> wrote:
> >>> Hi Paul,
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what help I can be but I'm willing to try.  What do you
> >>> want me to do?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Bob
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 10:48 +1200, Paul Bolger wrote:
> >>>> Hi Bob and Erik,
> >>>>
> >>>> My apologies for my extended absence...
> >>>>
> >>>> If you remember around January we were discussing doing something like
> >>>> this using an external stylesheet. Help could be added in
> >>>> pseudoselectors (before:). Very easy to add, wouldn't mean any
> >>>> application code changes, and also very easy to get rid of for users
> >>>> who don't need it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bob: Are you interested in collaborating on getting this going?
> >>>>
> >>>> Paul Bolger
> >>>>
> >>>> On 18 May 2016 at 09:57, Bob Crandell <..hidden..> wrote:
> >>>>> That's even better yet.  Some software I've seen over time had little
> >>>>> pop ups that was to be their help system but those pop ups only repeated
> >>>>> the label to the field so they were annoying and useless.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 09:52 +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Bob,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          I hope it's alright to make a suggestion or two.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sure is! Thanks for taking the time to mail us your feedback!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          For the documentation put a question mark on each screen
> >>>>>>          describing what
> >>>>>>          the screen is for with examples of what could go in each
> >>>>>>          field.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I like the idea, a lot. Thinking about it a bit more, I think we don't
> >>>>>> have any current
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> documentation that we could put in the docs there. Maybe it's an idea
> >>>>>> to link the
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> question mark to a wiki where everybody can help out writing this help
> >>>>>> content,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> making it a community project? What do you think?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          The PDF [manual] would be more procedures like how to
> >>>>>>          reconcile the check book,
> >>>>>>          how to pay an invoice, how to conduct inventory adjustments,
> >>>>>>          how to set
> >>>>>>          the silly thing up in the first place.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Workflow documentation? Sounds good. That's something that's
> >>>>>> cross-screen indeed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          This way the docs for the
> >>>>>>          screens can change as the program matures without having to
> >>>>>>          mess with
> >>>>>>          the manual.  The manual can grow with "How do I" stuff.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sounds sane. The problem we're currently having is that writing those
> >>>>>> docs is possibly
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> more work than writing the application :-) Which is why I came up with
> >>>>>> the wiki idea
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> above: making it a community project *could* help spread the workload.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          Thanks for all the hard work.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for the feedback! Keep it coming!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Bye,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Erik.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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