[udig-devel] Re: Info view oddities

[Jody Garnett]

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
>