[Kde-pim] kmail handbook

[thorsten at staerk.de]

> On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Burkhard L�ck wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009 21:59:13 schrieb Ingo Kl�cker:
>> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Tomas Straupis wrote:
>> > > 2009-12-22 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
>> > > > At the time that userbase started it was expected that
>> > > > "official" documentation would continue to be written, in
>> > > > docbook, and hosted at the kde help center.  Things didn't
>> > > > quite work out like that. Now there definitely is some
>> > > > "official" documentation there, and I had forgotten to edit
>> > > > that out. Thanks for commenting on it.  It will be removed.
>> > >
>> > >   So I should stop translating documentation .po files and write
>> > > wiki instead? Will information from wiki (userbase) be copied
>> > > into "ApplicationQQQ handbook (F1)" and distributed with KDE
>> > > packages?
>> >
>> > This is the wrong forum to discuss this question. The discussion
>> > needs to happen on the mailing list of the documentation team
>> > (kde-doc-english).
>>
>> I don't aggree with you as translator/doc writer.
>>
>> Tomas Straupis raised a valid question, which I had in mind since
>> thorstens mail saying "user documentation should go to
>> userbase.kde.org".
>>
>> So here is my "official" question from kde-i18n-doc at kde.org:
>>
>> Is it true that "user documentation should go to userbase.kde.org"?
>
> It makes no sense to discuss this question on this mailing list as this
> concerns all of KDE and not just KDE PIM. Moreover, developers are the
> wrong people to ask because we have almost no idea about how
> documentation (in particular with regard to translation) is handled in
> KDE.
>
> I'm not sure, but I don't think Thorsten has the authority to speak for
> KDE PIM. As far as I'm concerned, Thorsten speaks for KTimeTracker
> only.

This is correct, please keep this in mind.
>
>
>> Does that mean no documentation in kdepim/docs anymore?
>
> I don't think so.
>
>
>> Should the docs in kdepim be removed in favor of userbase?
>
> I don't think so.
>
>
>> Should the translation teams stop working on the translation of
>> kdepim/docs?
>
> No.
>
>
>> I'd really like to her an statement from the kdepim devels on this
>> isssue, I hate to waste the time of our translation teams.
>
> As far as I remember, the idea w.r.t. userbase was to use it for
> improving KMail's documentation resp. for rewriting it from scratch.
> The reason for using userbase for this instead of svn was that's it's
> much easier to use. The finished document (or a snapshot of it) was
> supposed to be added to svn. At least, that's how I remember it.
>
> Regardless of this, I don't think that userbase (or any other online
> resource) will be an alternative to offline documentation in the
> foreseeable future as being "always online" is pretty much restricted
> to people living in first world countries.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
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